u/teachergirly

I feel so lost and lonely. I haven’t had a great pregnancy, I have suffered with HG for most of it, haven’t had many friends reach out and then a lot of issues with work. I currently feel so lost and alone, I pretty much finish work each day and go straight to bed am cry myself to sleep. I am trying my best to be excited about at things (decorating the nusery, buying the pram etc) but I just feel so numb to it all.

My husband is trying his best to support me but I feel so guilty burdening him with all this sadness.

Is this a normal feeling? Does it subside when the baby comes? I am so scared once Bub is here I am going to fall into an even worse post natal depression

Does anyone know of any service to help available in ACT?

I am wondering if anyone has had a similar experience.

I am currently pregnant and suffering from HG. I was told by work I can access flexible working arrangements (standard under our EA) to help with managing symptoms. Since then there has been a range of things happen (listed below) that I believe could be considered pregnancy discrimination. I have flagged this with HR multiple times and they seem to brush it off and have the standard line of ‘we are trying to support you’.

They hired an additional member for our team, I was told this person was to fill a lower level role with the plans he would step into my role when I commenced maternity leave. I found out from other team members that infact this person would be stepping straight into my role and I would be moved into the lower level role and then have the responsibility to ‘find enough work’ to justify making the lower level role at the same level as mine or I would be downgraded. When this happened I question if it was to do with a performance issue to which I was told it was not.

I have been told today that I am either to be working in the office or if I am not well enough to be in the office I will be required to take leave. I questioned if this was to do with an issue with my performance but was told no and this is simply expectations of my role (for context everyone in my team including my manager have access to flexible working arrangements).

I feel very lost at what to do as HR really aren’t helpful and I feel like they’ve over extended their budget and are wanting me to leave. I only have a few months left at work till I have a year of mat leave but it’s causing me so my stress already I worry how I am going to manage.

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Feeling more and more worried I am making the wrong career move. I know teaching won’t be sunshine and rainbows every day but would love to hear peoples positive experiences in the job. Particularly anyone based in Canberra