We've had several women become pregnant while working for my company. I suppose that's what you get when an office of 50 has about 7 men.
One woman had tried for about a year or so to get pregnant. Her sole goal was to start a family and at the age of 23 she was very discouraged that it was taking so long and would lament about her difficulties.
Then one day, she came to the office excited that she had a doctor's appointment that day. She thought she was pregnant, but wanted it confirmed with her physician. She came into the office very chipper and bouncy. As she left to go to her doctor's appointment, she fairly flew out the door.
She returned to the office later that day and announced that she was indeed pregnant. What was interesting was that she was now very happy, but her walking had changed. Instead of being light on her feet, she now waddled and held her back due to the newly acquired back pain. In the space of a few hours, her pregnancy affected her ability to walk and sit.
As her pregnancy progressed, she was very vocal about her symptoms of nausea, back pain, ravenous eating, swelling body, etc. One afternoon, another lady returned from lunch. As she began to pull her chair out of her desk to sit down, she noticed that there was something under her desk! Lo and behold, preggo girl was so tired at her 10th week pregnancy that she had to take a nap. She chose to sleep under a cow-orker's desk instead of her own!
When asked, preggo said that the baby was making her exhausted and she chose the cow-orker's desk since it faced away from the hall and no one would disturb her.
That happened several years ago, but whenever someone at work complains of fatigue, we simply suggest crawling under their desk to nap--it worked before.
1 comment:
One of our adopteds is due in about 3 weeks... She has had similar symptoms since she learned she was expecting, and has been practically unable to function due to a backache that started at 7.5 weeks... Most of us (those who know and love her...) will just be glad with the baby arrives... [wink] I had some very difficult pregnancies (3 miscarriage/stillbirths, premature labor with my last 2, and daughter being delivered almost 8 weeks early, and almost losing her...) so I understand difficult pregnancies... unfortunately many of the young people I see today think heartburn is cause for a sick day... [okay I am rolling my eyes while laughing]
Post a Comment