Ladies, I commend all of you who are pregnant and lawyering on the daily! I am 10 weeks pregnant and haven’t been working much since I left my firm in March. I tell my husband every day “IDK how anyone is pregnant and practicing law at the same time.” After a morning in court last month I was totally out of commission for the day. If you are still working as a lawyer full time and growing a human it is something to be proud of!

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Thank you! I wasn’t working much in my first trimester, but I got my groove back in the second and have been riding it ever since. Some days I feel winded at like 3 pm, and other days I can stay up late with no issue.

I think with WFH it’s so easy for our bosses and clients (as well as ourselves) to hold us to the same standards as before we were pregnant. I have to work on that!

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Same here but being pregnant has reminded me that there is more to life than billing and I am not my job and would not compromise my baby’s health for my employer/client.

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