How did you ladies deal with work?

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I just found out about my loss and will probably have to take medication to help my body along to miscarriage. I’m going to need a few days off for myself. To me it’ll make my loss even more unbearable and feel like getting my heart broken all over again. At work I don’t have a HR or even an office manager, I work for a small office with 5 people and my boss is male. I’m not sure how honest I should be with work? How did you ladies handle time off? I have severe anxiety and this just one things that feels like it’ll set me off.

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I told my bosses, one is female and one is male. They were both understanding and told me to do what I needed to do to get through the miscarriage. I didn't take any time off though, and worked through my miscarriage (my own choice). The distraction helped me.

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I ended up off for almost two weeks but worked from home for one of those weeks. I had told my male bosses about the pregnancy only about two weeks before, it’s a small office so everyone was excited for me and very understanding when it came to the loss. I was very lucky in that way.

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I know what you're going through. I lost my baby at 14 weeks 7 weeks ago. I took full maternity (8 weeks), but I had complications in the pregnancy and I was out a month before the loss. Now I have to go back to work this Saturday and I am anxious because I do not know how I will feel emotionally with everything. In total I was out of work 3 months. I know we can achieve it with a lot of determination.

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The first mc, I told my female and male bosses. They were very understanding and I ended up taking 2 weeks off and I had a natural mc. This time, I didn’t tell anyone and had a d and c. I worked from home the next day and went to work the day after that.

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Because of the nature of my work by boss knew the day after I got a positive pregnancy test that I was expecting. When I was miscarrying I texted from the hospital what was going on and that I would be out the following day. She was amazingly supportive. My dr wrote me off for two weeks, but I only took one. Hindsight I wish I had taken more time. My drs note said nothing about what was going on, only that I was under her care and needed the week off. I would just tell your boss it’s an unforeseen medical situation or emergency and you will be off for x amount of time and provide a drs note if you are uncomfortable telling him what’s going on.

How did you ladies deal with work?

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