This is my first pregnancy, before this i was a full time P.A. so i was always busy doing something. As soon as i found out that i was pregnant i stopped working thinking that maybe working too hard would be bad for the baby but now im sooo bored all the time wish i was back at work.

Can any1 recommend something productive to do in all this spare time I find myself with?! PLZ xx

I stopped at around 32 weeks as it had been quite stressful and my boss had been making my life really difficult. I have absolutely no regrets about going so early and I've not found time to be bored yet.

Have spent time:
Getting house ready
Meeting friends
Sewing
Reading
Yoga

Is it possible to find a less stressful job?

to finish work and i've still got til 22nd of august!!!
havin said that i'll probably end up bored stupid waitin for baby to arrive to, mind you i'm bored flamin stupid at work as we all know the housin market is pretty much dead and i just sit in the sales ofices sellin nothing!!
so to be honest i don't know which is worse.
will be glad when baby here to keep me busy, then i'll be wishin for some peace and quiet.talk about fickle.
just thought i'd put my opinion in
love laura 22wks+2day wriggly blue bump

I finished work at 34wks I had 4wks hols to take and was then due to take 1wk mat but Ellie arrived 9days early. I didnt and still dont miss being at work. I am looking for work \i can do from home so I can bump up mat pay and then maybe continue doing it from home so I can stay with Ellie.

Zoe and Ellie (5wks today)

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I gave up work at 34 weeks due to having lots of holiday oweing, I am now in my 3rd week off and really bored. I don't know how anyone can not work and not go stir crazy - although sure once little one is here my days will be much fuller.

I have completed all of the little things I needed to do around the house/garden already so I now have 3 weeks to try and fill.

I think I read on another thread that you were only 20 weeks - so my advice would be to go back to work for a bit. Up until 34 weeks I was working full time in a busy job, looking after my horse on a DIY basis, plus had my usual household tasks to do and a dog to walk - I have to say I was a lot happier when I had a million things to do - plus I was no doubt an awful lot healthier too.

Julie 37+2 and very bored!!

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i really do want to go back to work but i work in a highly stresssful environment and im scared that it wouldnt be good for the baby.

but sitting at home bored out of my brain has turned me into a clean freak, now i have nothing else left to clean!

.....I'm still working!

I couldn't imagine finishing work so early. I'm sssooo not ready to finish at all. I'm coming into my 32nd week and am hoping to work right up until a couple of days before my due date (21st Jul) I don't feel any different in myself (apart from the babies head stuck under my rib cage which isn't too comfortable)

I will be gutted when I finish. It will feel like the end of being a carefree career minded woman.....giving the Audi TT back and taking the car allowance whilst I'm off instead (so I should be better off money wise for a bit as well) and then when I do go back I'll end up picking a "practical" car that can take car seats, bugaboo's and baby sick, what a pleasing thought!

I sold my horse 3 weeks ago (gutted) my trailer is on e-bay, freeing up some cash for baby things.....in my moms words she said I've "finally grown up"!!

How long have you got left? Couldn't you go back to work for a bit?

Jen x

Some days I so busy my feet don't the ground and others I'm so bored!!.
There's only so much house work you can do, and I'm not a TV person, but I console myself with the fact that in less than 14wks, I'll be a fully fledged mother on speed!!! and I will look back on these times and think why didn't make the most of them, so thats exactly what I'm trying to do, with out being to bored of course. Making the most of these quiet times, because lord knows I don't think I'll be experiencing them any time soon after the wee man is born.

Hugs
Mrs Moo xx
26+2wks

um...

- write a book
- make your own baby record book
- go and buy loads of baby stuff
- watch neighbours??

don't know what else! ooh i know what about learning a language and teaching yourself using books, tapes etc? i don't really know what you're into so it's hard to say what else!

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im not really into much i jus used to throw myself into work all the time but learning a new language seems really interesting.

But too far on to do the things I'd like like serious spring cleaning, go for a swim and going round the shops is getn hard too but if your not so far on you could do anything. I used to love having a day off work and going to the cinema in the morning when theres only 3 or 4 folk there. My OH (who wouldnt have the confidence to do this on his own) used to say did we all sit together and have a chat afterwards? Cheek. I always visit library when I'm not at work and catch up on loads of books, some trashy and some more productive.

Jen x