Making sickness and work

[Dimpous]

Hi all I am approx 7wks pregnant with my second, my DD is 3. I suffered with HG in my first pregnancy and it's definitely back with several more food aversions for this pregnancy! I can't believe how much I forgot how awful I would feel.

I'm looking for advice regarding managing sickness at work, I am working from home still which helps but I've had to take the morning off after being sick 7 times in 2hrs this morning, I am hoping to work this afternoon, but really just want to sleep! Does anyone have any experience with taking hours/half days sick, did this work out well? I'm trying to weigh up resting with keeping work manageable whilst I'm so poorly!

Have you informed work?

@peachypetite yes I have and they are really supportive, just unsure on where I stand taking sickness hours instead of whole days really.

When I was working from home with pregnancy sickness I had the flexibility to take an hour out (provided I caught up later in the day) to have a lie down /wait for Antisickness meds to work. If I still didn't feel up to working at the end of the hour I would message my boss to say I wouldn't be working that morning and would try later in the day if I felt up for it. Some days I did some days I didn't. If I did I would message my boss to let him know I was back... Usually about half an hour after starting in case it was a bad idea.

On good days I could get by with a 5 minute lie down after being sick and then get back to work. I took it day by day.