Any ladies not working during pregnancy?

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I put in my notice this week... I was waking up in tears or coming home in tears, high stress and miserable environment (strictly due to mngmt) so hubby and I decided it wasn't worth it. 
I'm lucky enough to where I don't NEED to work...but wondering what other non working woman did during pregnancy. I've never not worked and I don't want to get lazy...but not sure if getting another job is worth it bc I was planning on becoming a SAHM for the first few years. 
Just curious what other woman did while home during pregnancy to stay busy! I'm only 13 1/2 weeks so I have a while ☺

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Me. I haven't worked since I was 3+ months. I'm now 34 weeks. It's depressing.

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I am a nanny and have been for 8.5 years, I love it so much, but my first trimester has been pretty hard on me so far (I'm 10w3d) so nauseous I can't eat, super tired and hormonal. As much as I love my job and the kids I care for, part of me really wishes I could afford to just stay home during the pregnancy or at least the first trimester.

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I didn't have the luxury of stopping until 36 weeks, and that's eating into my maternity leave. I'm the primary breadwinner in my household and not working just wasn't really an option. Had I the option, though, I would've stayed home. I had a lot of pain and sickness with the pregnancy and my job being very physical. I understand starting and ending the day in tears.

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Stopped working the day I got my bfp. And thanks I did. This pregnancy is nothing like my breeze of my last with my son. I'm barely holding myself together everyday going through something. The past 3 days has been nonstop debilitating migraine.

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I haven't been working since we started ttc (we got pregnant the first month), and I'm almost 30 weeks now. I have two kids that are in elementary school, so during the day I'm home alone unless DH is off. I get up and get my kids to school, then I will either go back to bed until mid-morning or do errands or housework for an hour or two. Then I have lunch. If I didn't go back to bed that morning, I take a nap until it's time to get my kids from school. If I slept in that day, I tidy the house/laundry/whatever until it's time to get my kids. Once I get home with my kids, we do homework and afternoon snacks. Then I start dinner. After that, I just hang out with DH and my kids until bedtime. I'm lucky that DH is reallyyyy understanding about my lazy lifestyle at the moment lol. I'll go back to work when this baby is a year old or so. Yeah, sometimes I get bored but I've never been a SAHM before this, I was always working and wishing I could be home and nap when I wanted to, so I'm trying to appreciate it now while I can.

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I haven't worked since i was around 2 months im 23 weeks now and im dying. Its so boring.! To be fair im in a new state so i dont know many people here. I want a job but i haven't applied cause i knew wed be going on vacation for two weeks this month and just didn't want to start a job asking for two weeks off right away knowing id only be able to work for a couple months.

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I plan to keep working as long as it's comfortable, but if I were you I would take some exercise classes to get in the best shape for childbirth :)
Or you could get a low-stress part time job like Starbucks or something just to stay busy.

Any ladies not working during pregnancy?

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