Exhausted with work/life

Hi, Im in my 30th week now and i feel very tired with work and life overall. It sometimes affects my mood and makes me cry out of nowhere which is very unusual for me. My whole pregnancy has been a positive journey up till now. I have upper back and lower back pain, feet pains and often cramping on my calves during night time. I'm working retail, standing quite a bit for 5 days a week although its not a 12 hour shift. My maternity leave only starts on november but i really cannot take this much longer. Any advice on what I can do? Is hospital leave possible and if yes how do i go about it? Sorry I'm a first time mom and doing all this basically on my own.

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I totally understand how you're feeling at 30 weeks, especially when you're on your feet in retail and managing everything alone. The tiredness, mood swings, and physical aches are really common in the third trimester, but combined together they're taking a real toll on you, and that's worth getting checked out. I'd suggest bringing this up with your KKH doctor or PD at your next visit because hospital leave (or MC) is definitely possible if there's a medical reason, and they can advise you on what documentation you need to apply through your employer. In the meantime, see if your manager can give you more sitting breaks or lighter duties if possible, even just for a few weeks until November. You're doing an incredible job managing on your own, but you don't have to push through pain and exhaustion like this when professional support is available to you.

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what you can do is tell the doctor about this and maybe just add in that you're in pain sometimes to a point that you can't work. you can ask for hospitalisation leave and the doctor would definitely give you. I'm not sure if they'll give you a long hospitalisation leave but try asking for as much as possible. remember to add in that you're in pain. maybe it's cramps or just lower back pain.

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10mo trước

Thank you so much