https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 12 Apr 2026 23:40:22 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-feel-like-work-is-such-an-inconvenience#post-736042 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 08:05:28 +0000 Foodnerd81 736042@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm right there with you! I can't concentrate and I just want to stay home and plan the nursery (when if i stayed home I should be finishing unpacking and cleaning!) but I have to go to stupid work. Then I'm distracted all day and get farther behind, so going in the next day is even worse. I'm probably not coping so great! I just keep telling myself "less than three more months!" I will most likely be a sahm do I really just have to try and power through these months. Thankfully I'll go out two weeks bf my due date. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-feel-like-work-is-such-an-inconvenience#post-736012 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 07:55:28 +0000 mrsmate 736012@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would tell myself that getting my ducks in a row and going on leave in great terms with my office was the most important thing I could do to get ready for baby. Good luck, I didn't have a job when I was pregnant with DD, but I was way too tired by the 3rd trimester to do much shopping. We had just bought a house so we were pretty broke, too. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-feel-like-work-is-such-an-inconvenience#post-735999 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 07:50:29 +0000 Bookish 735999@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Haha I'm there with ya. 11-ish weeks to go and my head is in Baby-land! I wouldn't say I'm coping because really, I spend a lot of my day browsing baby sites and making to-do lists and looking at my budget! I don't feel too guilty though because we've hit our slow season and there's plenty of time for the internet :p </p> <p>All I want to do is leave and go shopping for baby!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-feel-like-work-is-such-an-inconvenience#post-735933 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 06:59:55 +0000 kml636 735933@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was/am the same way lol. Once my due date came I started "working from home" and they let me, but I just couldn't focus on work... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-ever-feel-like-work-is-such-an-inconvenience#post-735929 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 06:57:12 +0000 Cherrybee 735929@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Argh! Work is driving me mad at the moment!!! </p> <p>I mean, I like my job and I know how lucky I am to have it - I can work from home frequently, I plan my own days and I get to actually do some good in society. My boss is really flexible and has been so supportive of me over the last year, particularly while my father was very sick.</p> <p>But..... the fact is...... my heart just isn't in it at the moment!! All I want to do is nest!!! My mind is jam packed full of jobs that I want to be doing at home - cleaning out the kitchen cupboards, decorating the spare room where I will be breastfeeding at night... not to mention everything I need to buy.... nursery curtains, rugs, a cot mobile.... I agree to do things (work related things) and then completely forget - there is just so much going on in my head at the moment, competing for space!</p> <p>I'm working from home today and so far I've managed to: </p> <p>1) Answer three work emails<br /> 2) Revise my baby shopping list in the light of recent purchases<br /> 3) Write a hospital bag list<br /> 4) Email my BFF for hospital bag advice<br /> 5) Look at Hellobee<br /> 6) Eat some lunch. </p> <p>It's now 12.45pm..... </p> <p>Yesterday, I left work early so I could swing by Ikea and buy some storage boxes for organising my bottles and pump parts. I couldn't think straight until they were out of those cardboard boxes and organised into plastic ones! Yeah - that happened! *Blush*</p> <p>So my boss has just emailed me about something he needs me to do - and I've just had a right temper tantrum to myself. I mean - how can he expect me to work when I have important baby related things to think about?!! </p> <p>This is not good. I need to get my head screwed on straight!! I still have 9.5 weeks before I go off on leave!!! Besides, the more I throw myself into work, the quicker time will go!!</p> <p>Has anyone else ever experienced this? How did you get through it? </p>