Stress at work during first trimester

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Hi all

I am a PA to somebody quite important and have found work to be increasingly stressful during pregnancy so far. I'm in my first trimester.
The person I support is great and not an issue at all, but senior managers under them and workload are a problem for me right now. I want to crawl under my desk and cry with the way some people are speaking to me.
I have spoken to my manager about tiredness and went down to her crying yesterday about one colleague but feel like it's too early to start complaining about stress. I'm not sure if it's just my hormones but it can't be good for baby.

Any advice? Is it unreasonable to be like this so early in? Colleagues do not know, other than my manger and the person I am a PA for.

Well, stress can be an issue in pregnancy but for employers and colleagues to take that into account you do have to tell them. Kind of a catch 22.

@MemoryofSleep yeah I know what you mean. My difficulty is telling these people would mean about 60 people find out, and having had a miscarriage previously, I would prefer not to have 60 people talking to me about it yet

Honestly, stress won't harm the baby at all. Women have healthy babies every day in truly awful conditions and work stress really isn't high on the scale of stressful events in general.

It isn't fun but it won't bother the baby at all. You just need to manage it as you normally would to protect your well-being.