Telling Work

For some reason I cannot cut and paste the code for this ticker, my favorite, into the screen so I have to hand enter it. That is why it does not appear in a lot of screens--I am lazy:)

I have my first ultra sound on Friday (right before my first recruitment trip this weekend!) and am very excited. I think after the ultrasound I will tell work (my boss and co-worker specifically) that I have a bun in the oven.

I am a little nervouse about telling. One, you never know what someone's reaction is going to be no matter how well you think you know them. I am pretty sure they will be first and foremost happy for me and then there will be a lot of freaking out about what will happen with my job when I am gone. I know everyone is replaceable but with all of the new stuff I have to do at work now that no one else here currently knows how to do it will be harder than it was for them 'covering' for the last person. Plus there is the whole April event that I will likely miss thing. Oh well.

I am also nervous that their feelings will be hurt because I didn't tell them sooner. They are 'friends' as well as co-workers so it is hard not to tell. I am just really worried about all the OCD worrying that is bound to take place once they know I am pregnant and want to delay that.

However, I think I do need to tell them soon. I am starting to feel sick much more frequently and had to leave a meeting yesterday to try and 'feel better'. I also have a lot of trips scheduled in the near future and want to make sure they know that I might need more recovery time from the trips than I got last year (I needed more last year too!). I can't fly in at midnight and then be here at 8 a.m. or work an entire weekend and do the next week at status quo. This is something I was working on negotiating anyway but I may find that it is even more important now. And I may not, we'll see as we go! I also have a few trips with other people and if this increases my motion/plane sickness the cat will be out of the bag anyway!

Finally, it would be nice to just be 'openly pregnant' so I can talk about it--someone asked me about a week ago when I planned on starting a family and I just wanted to jump up and down and say 'I AM pregnant!' but I couldn't. Soon though--wish me luck!