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19-09-2010, 12:39 PM
Hi everyone.
This is a bit of a funny (strange - not ha ha!) one but wondered if anyone has any advice for me.
My LO is nearly 2 and was born 2 months premature and severly growth restricted (IUGR if anyone knows anything about it!) having stopped growing at 28 weeks. It was, as you can imagine, a problamatic and stressful pregnancy. Anyway, we're weighing up the option of having another baby although ny consultant has said it would be a high risk pregnancy with risk of the same thing happening again. I haven't spoken to her about work yet but last time I was off an awful lot and had to take early mat leave. I ws teaching at the time. My gut instinct tells me working would be really uwise, not least because of the stress and lifting. However, when mentioning teh possibilty to a parent, who is also a friend, she wasn't very forthcoming and had the attitude of 'what are we meant to do then?'
I feel so stressed about it as it's obviously not an ideal situation to have to think about all of this before even TRYING for a baby but I don't want to let people down any more than I want to say I will continue working only to find out that I have to take loads of time off for scans, monitoring and time off ill. I already know I will need weekly growth scans from 20 weeks.
What you you all do and how would you deal with it?
xxx
This is a bit of a funny (strange - not ha ha!) one but wondered if anyone has any advice for me.
My LO is nearly 2 and was born 2 months premature and severly growth restricted (IUGR if anyone knows anything about it!) having stopped growing at 28 weeks. It was, as you can imagine, a problamatic and stressful pregnancy. Anyway, we're weighing up the option of having another baby although ny consultant has said it would be a high risk pregnancy with risk of the same thing happening again. I haven't spoken to her about work yet but last time I was off an awful lot and had to take early mat leave. I ws teaching at the time. My gut instinct tells me working would be really uwise, not least because of the stress and lifting. However, when mentioning teh possibilty to a parent, who is also a friend, she wasn't very forthcoming and had the attitude of 'what are we meant to do then?'
I feel so stressed about it as it's obviously not an ideal situation to have to think about all of this before even TRYING for a baby but I don't want to let people down any more than I want to say I will continue working only to find out that I have to take loads of time off for scans, monitoring and time off ill. I already know I will need weekly growth scans from 20 weeks.
What you you all do and how would you deal with it?
xxx