Feeling bleuuuuururrrggggghhhh

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I feel horrible. I am so tired, lazy and nauseous. Good thing is I don't have those cramps that I have been experiencing for nearly 2 weeks. I just feel bloated. Plus that horrible metal taste - yuk. I know it's normal and it's my 1st so never experienced anything like this. I don't know how I'm going to cope when I go back to work next week, I'm a teacher. HELP x

No real advice but lots of sympathy

I'm also a teacher at a secondary school in lancashire, I go back Monday and have spent all half term thus far in bed unable to do anything. I'm 8 weeks ATM and literally willing the gods of time to cut me some slack and make the next month fly by, feel like I'm in purgatory, so freaking miserable.

Feel your pain, I plan on leaving as soon I can and sleeping as soon as I get in. I've also already planned where I'm going to hide in the morning away from my office of six, their disgusting stinky food, constant gossiping and general intense ability to irritate me right now.

Thankfully a lot of my sixth form classes have left so I'm going to start planning modules for next year and making some creative resources. Other than that I will cry like a baby and it's going to be a serious struggle.

Will remember I'm not the only one x

Another teacher here. Only 5+3 and suspect the reason I'm not feeling the tiredness is cause I've been napping daily throughout half term. Primary here, so no let up from a class of 30 very lively kids! Dreading it going to tell my TA as soon as I get back so she can support me/ not judge me for being crap.

And we're expecting Ofsted which I'm trying very hard not to think about.

Roll on the summer.

Oh how I sympathise. Fellow secondary school teacher here. I am 7+3 and nausea has arrived in full force. I can handle working at a desk, but I am dreading having to stand in front of my class and pretend to be my enthusiastic usual self! You may have, like me, to be gentler on yourself for a while: organise more pair-work, try not to move too much (I feel less sick while seating!), set them a project and work in the computer room with them, etc.

I have a feeling mine will be doing a lot of text book stuff this half term. Thank heaven for peripatetic PE teachers!

RetroHippy Silent reading

silent? What's that?! Someone needs to come and explain to my class

I'm loving all the ideas. My favourite is to give them a topic and resources, half an hour to plan a twenty minute lesson they need to deliver on the topic and half an hour to create an interactive resource to hand out as they give their lesson.

The rest of the week is taken up by them giving their lessons, great for revision this time of year. I sit at the back enjoying the good life. I used this for my last appraisal OB and was given outstanding by the head, so they definitely progress, reflect and retain.

The last two weeks I've also had relaxation lessons where I play some god awful whale music I found on youtube for revision. I told some sixth formers when they're truly relaxed they can hear an eagles call.... They sit in silence determined to hear this eagle and genuinely think they have by the end. It's hilarious.

I have lost all morality, but it's this or signed off with sickness.

Do what you gotta do to get by, so long as they're learning it's all good.

Donkie think my secondary English teacher did something simular when doing my GCSE, saying it'll give us inspiration to write Romeo and Juliet essay to listen to a classical cd now I know better crafty teachers

Mwahahaha!! May the eagle be with you.

Gotta get my kicks some how! :)

I LOVE that eagle idea. Pregnant or not, I bet it works really well in calming them down after breaks.

I have also done the pupil-led lessons (with a framework of course) and even incorporated some peer-assessment. It is an excellent exercise to strengthen long term retention...and is a God sent for pregnant teachers!

We are full of ideas, hehe.

It's what Geoff Petty would want, we're not lazy we're revolutionary!

m.youtube.com/watch?v=savCAd6RyPI

aww..the best condolence at this time is...don't worry! it will pass as soon as you enter your second trimester things will get better. for now try to keep busy and thinking about other stuff...one cannot do much for the nausea
but at times chewing non-sugarfree gum helps. don't make it a habbit though. wish you the very best ahead.

I'm also a teacher so I feel your pain.

I'm 12 weeks and have been off work for the last 5 weeks as I'm just too ill to work.

Am on anti sickness medication, have low blood pressure and problems standing up for too long so don't think I'd be much use in school at the minute.

It's awful and I really hope your sickness passes soon.

Is it really bad that I'd rather be signed off for sickness than go through ofsted?

I teach Reception, I think it will be lots of CIL (learning through play) when I get back - lol. Thinking of also telling my TA so that she doesn't think I'm lazy. I've also been spending the week sleeping on the sofa. I'm so tired from the moment I wake up. My home is a mess but I have no energy to clear up. I'm going to make sure I have lots of crackers as they seem to be the only thing getting me through. I am knackered. Lol. 2nd trimester couldn't come quick enough. I want to feel good about being pregnant, but for now I feel shit. At least when my child is a teenager I can say to him/her how sick I was when carrying them and how grateful they should be!! Lol

I am 8 weeks and a secondary teacher. Not my first pregnancy though. Only way through is a bottle of squash on desk, sweets sneakily eaten and chewing gum. I also have regular bowls of cereal, loads of fruit and carb heavy lunch also helps with all day nausea.
In the classroom, lots of group work, independent learning, and pupils taking the lessons.
Still dreading next week though.