Anyone else find themselves getting extremely stressed at work during pregnancy? It’s like my emotions are just off and I get so stressed so easily. I want to be calm for baby but it’s hard to not get worked up!

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🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️ trying to keep my emotions in check and it’s just hard these days

I don't necessarily feel more stressed than usual, but I do feel more outspoken.

If I show any opposition or strong opinions, my coworkers are already making comments about "it must be the pregnancy hormones" (just told them a week or two ago). Which sucks and devalues my message. So I'm trying to go out of my way to say things in THE most calm way ever 😮‍💨

I don’t know how things are at EY but I’m finding that my coworkers are extremely on edge due to these market conditions. It is not good for me to be in this type of environment while I’m pregnant but I need the benefits so I am sticking it out and meditating when things get too bad.

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you have to set your boundaries as well as let your team know if you are getting stressed. Oh and wait till you hit post partum - stress increases many folds due to hormone stabling and sleepless nights. breastfeeding and couple these with work... for me I set my boundaries and I have clearly communicated that.

Ugh me 🤦🏼‍♀️. I’m having to set some really strict boundaries with people so that I don’t go totally insane with stress. Which is empowering in its own way but also could be resolved by people not being short-sighted and dumb.

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