Baby is 5 weeks today! Measuring about the size of a sesame seed. :] Finally starting to get some symptoms. My chest, shoulders, and back are a war zone of tiny little pimples. They don’t itch or hurt but they’re everywhere. It’s not one of the symptoms I would have hoped for, but it’s something.
The heartburn is back as well. Woke up this morning and had to drink a giant glass of mango juice just to keep the acid down. That was not fun.
I’m starting to get a little nervous. I have my OB intake on Thursday with the NP at the OB GYN. A week from today is when Little stopped developing last time around. I’m praying like hell that it wont end up like that next time around. I’m trying to stay positive.
In other news, I got some INCREDIBLE news today. My husband and I went out to run a few errands this morning and I had my phone on silent. When we got home, I realized I had a missed call from the hospital I work for. Upon listening to it, I discovered that it was a return call for the application I put in for a 40-hour unit secretary position on the psych floor. Naturally, I called her back.
For those of you who read me regularly, you know that I work as a nurses aide at the hospital. A concern I’ve had has been working as an aide when I’m 7 or more months pregnant. It’s not safe. My job (currently) is incredibly physically taxing and once I’m farther along wont be safe for me to work. I have been trying to get 40 hours as a secretary for over a year now, but for several incredibly unfair reasons, I haven’t been able to.
Until today.
When I called Melissa (the woman who left the voicemail) back, she basically handed me the job over the phone. She told me that she knows me, so she didn’t feel I needed to be called in for an interview and that it’s Monday-Friday. I’ll FINALLY have weekends off. EVERY WEEKEND OFF. And it’s only 37 1/2 hours now because I don’t have to be there stupidly early! I have to be at work for 3 and I get to leave at 11. I’ll be working STRICTLY as a unit secretary because they don’t have nurses aide’s on the psych floor. I am ECSTATIC.
They’re not going to be happy when I tell them I’m pregnant in 2 months, but that’s fine. They can’t refuse to hire me because I’m having a baby.
I’m not looking forward to going into work today, because I’m going to have to face my boss and tell her, but she’s known that I’ve been looking for 40 hours. This is just something she’s going to have to deal with.
Oh well! :D
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