Backroads Posted October 7, 2015 Report Share Posted October 7, 2015 So, I'm due to have a baby in 5 weeks. I'm pretty much working up until the moment (the other teacher currently on maternity leave comes back the Monday after the Friday I leave and we just have this one lady hired to cover everyone's maternity leaves this year). I'm at the point where I have lots of midwife appointments. My school also has these regular meetings. Now I know most work meetings are soul-sucking black holes of time, but these are crucial meetings involving lots of discussion and thought that I personally find extremely useful in my teaching. However, they keep moving them! I try so hard to avoid them, and yet it seems by scheduling around them something goes wrong and I find my appointments coinciding with the meetings. I've already missed one and shrugged it off as one of those things (this was after several reschedulings and my midwife being called on delivery and all of life's oddities) and I just found out that due to some surprise rule of these meetings, I have another bad scheduling. My appointment, already rescheduled to avoid when they said the last meeting would probably be held, is already two weeks behind where I ought to be. This has happened about 4 times so far this school year and I feel like the fates of schedules are out to get me. So, I know I'm growing a child, but I also want to give my sub some decent information to work with from these meetings and they're very participation-oriented... so I just can't copy someone's notes or anything like that. Thoughts on what to do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 7, 2015 Report Share Posted October 7, 2015 This sounds so familiar. I got myself a new job while I was 26 weeks pregnant. I spent the rest of my pregnancy trying to organize a team. My baby came 2 weeks early because the doctor won't let me go home during an appointment... I was going through pre-eclampsia and they had to take the baby that minute and I still had meetings set up at work... It was crazy. What I learned is that my OB was very flexible with my appointments. As long as I show up before 5PM, he took me in even if my appointment was at 8AM. Oh, I was 30+ weeks pregnant when my OB decided to leave the practice that he had and moved to a different practice. I'm not supposed to have a specific OB dedicated to me. I was supposed to see whoever was the OB available that day. But, I did not trust any other OB - I will only see that specific one. So, I only set up appointments on the days that he's working at the office. So, when he moved, I had to figure out how to transfer all my insurance stuff and all my medical records and such because I had to transfer to the new practice with him. And I had to get to know the front desk people to make sure they don't set me up for an appointment with another doctor. It was crazy. But my OB was very sympathetic (he realized I was going through some kind of anxiety or whatever psychotic thing it was and he was awesome enough to work with it). My work was a lot more rigid. And being new, I didn't want to cause too much ruckus. It was bad enough I showed up on my first day with a big belly making everybody in the team (there were only 2 females in the team) uncomfortable. In any case, it all worked out because my OB was awesome. If he wasn't flexible, I am sure I would have rather sucked at my job than sucked at having a baby... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mirkwood Posted October 7, 2015 Report Share Posted October 7, 2015 I'd tell the school, "you realize I am pregnant right? I have doctors appointments and you keep changing the times one me and I can't change my doctor appointments so I miss out on important information." Most likely they just don't think about it. I run into this a lot with my family. After 18 years on graveyards and 5 now with the same days off you would think everyone would catch on to my schedule right? You'd be surprised how many times some of my family are shocked to "learn" I work at night. *smh* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mordorbund Posted October 7, 2015 Report Share Posted October 7, 2015 I'd tell the school, "you realize I am pregnant right? I have doctors appointments and you keep changing the times one me and I can't change my doctor appointments so I miss out on important information." Most likely they just don't think about it. I run into this a lot with my family. After 18 years on graveyards and 5 now with the same days off you would think everyone would catch on to my schedule right? You'd be surprised how many times some of my family are shocked to "learn" I work at night. *smh* My mistake. When you said you work graveyards I assumed you played whack-a-mole with a shotgun and rising zombies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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