high stress job and pregnancy

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My husband and I have been waiting to conceive until after this summer. Now it's come to the time that we are ready to start trying but some changes at work have made me question what to do. Im a teacher in a primary school which includes children with serious behaviour issues. For the last few years I have been given the most difficult kids which is fine as I enjoy working with these classes the most however for obvious reasons it can be really stressful. This year was no exception and I was given a class with the most violent child in the school as well as another child who can also be violent. Both of these children have a history of attacking teachers and adults in the school on a more than daily basis. We have now been back at school for 3 weeks and I have structured our days in a very specific way and put in place a number of supports which have meant we have not had one violent incident since starting and I have felt very confident we can maintain this so was still happy to TTC. This week I had a pupil from another class moved to mine as a result of outbursts in his previous classroom which the teacher was struggling to manage. In the days that he has been in my class we have managed to keep things relatively calm and had no big issues so far however I feel like I am constantly on high alert watching for every sign of a situation in order to de-escalate it before it blows up. I have been able to do this so far but I can actually feel this having a physical effect on my body already and at the end of each day I feel mentally drained.
Now my worry is if I were to get pregnant, would this kind of constant stress have an impact on the baby in anyway? I feel confident that these children would not attack me if I was pregnant however due to their history of attacking other teachers I also know that if I said that i didn't feel comfortable in that class when pregnant they would move me. However I also know that there is only one other teacher in the school who would be able to manage this class, and they already have an equally challenging class so I worry about what would happen to the kids if I were to leave them.
I'm at a bit of a loss as to what to do. Does stress impact on pregnancy? I'm almost 32 and don't want to put off trying any longer but I also don't want to leave these kids.

P.S. I know some will say that they would leave the class whilst pregnant due to the risk of violence but this is really not a worry and I have only mentioned it as because of this I know if I wanted to be moved out class whilst pregnant I would be. My issue is the raised stress levels during pregnancy.

Apologies for the huge block of text!

Up until last year I was a teacher too in a very high pressured environment. I had to make the choice to put ttc-ing a priority after having three miscarriages while on the job. I do think the stress had a big part to play as well as a very unsupportive senior management team at work.
It’s up to you, what are your senior management like? Will they support you when. Things get tough.

Senior management are funny- they can flip between being incredibly supportive and incredibly unsupportive depending on how they are feeling. I'm also in middle management so I'm privvy to conversations that others aren't which probably adds to the stress of the job a lot, they will complain and say things about teachers who will likely have no idea what's being said by SMT about them. It makes me very nervous about putting a foot wrong with them.

Put yourself and your personal life first. I don’t think the stress will help when TTC but you may be lucky and fall quickly.

I was in a position last year where a child have physically threatened me twice. He had pushed me before I realised I was pregnant and had been physical with other children within my class. As part of my risk assessment, my head said I was to call for SLT if he was getting aggressive (we all had radios in the classroom). Whenever he did, I radioed and he was taken out. If I get he wasn't calm enough, I refused to allow him back in. I'm not at that school as of tomorrow so I'm lucky but it's such a difficult position to be in and I hope your SLT are supportive.

I'm a teacher too and am currently pregnant. I'm not in the same kind of situation at school as you but I had stress affect me earlier in this pregnancy. It was enough for me to end up in maternity triage where I was advised to keep out of stressful situations so I didn't go in the next day for Ofsted inspection. At the end of the day you have to decide to put yourself (and baby) first and being a teacher is simply a job not your whole life.