WFH in first trimester

[gem90xo]

I am 9 weeks pregnant and have a long commute to the office (around 2 hours door to door, which includes a busy train and a busy tube). My office requires us to attend at least 2 days per week and they are quite strict on this.

I’ve been suffering with sickness and nausea and ended up telling my manager that I was pregnant around 2 weeks ago because I couldn’t face this journey or being in the office all day feeling so awful.

She was understanding and advised me to WFH whilst I’m feeling so unwell but I am a bit of a worrier and I’m still not feeling any better and too scared to make the journey - I’ve barley left the house in around 3 weeks.

I will take it week by week but did anyone else WFH for the majority of their first trimester? I’m hoping that once I reach 12 weeks when the placenta kicks in I will feel a lot better, but obviously I don’t know for sure.

I just don’t want work to think that I’m “milking it” to not go in 😭 but just being at home is so much easier as I can be sick, lay down, try and eat whenever I want and not have to hide feeling so rubbish.

I genuinely have no idea how women do this who don’t have jobs where you can WFH! I would have had to have gone off sick

Thank you

Congratulations on the pregnancy!

Are you on any anti sickness meds? Xonvea saved my life last pregnancy, I went from vomming 10 times a day to hardly vomming at all. Still felt nauseous, but at least I was able to leave the house.

I WFH all the time so it didn’t impact my working schedule. If they’ve said that it’s ok for you to WFH then I’d just keep doing what you’re doing until you’re able to go in. They can’t sack you for morning sickness! If they tried to force you into the office when you’re not well enough to physically make the journey, you’d have to just get signed off.

I WFH’d three days a week when I was pregnant. In the end I fully worked from home as was a long journey etc. they have to make reasonable adjustments for you from what I understand cx

I was signed off for most of my first trimester both times.

And I know someone who had horrible sickness who managed one day in the office the entire pregnancy. She wfh the rest of the time.

I felt better by about 13/14 weeks. At 9 weeks you really really should be at the peak. 9-10 weeks are statistically the worst ones.

Wk 13/14 was when I started to feel a bit better- sounds like you have an understanding manager as well No-one will think you are taking the piss WFH. If you can do your job in comfort I'm sure they would rather you were still working than off sick. Look after yourself.