 Hi guys and welcome back to my channel. So I wanted to do a quick little video because I know a lot of you were interested in hearing these videos when I announced my pregnancy but I want to do a first trimester kind of summary nursing update for you guys on how being pregnant in my first trimester has been going at work and I plan on doing like a second trimester in third trimester update for how it's going with in relation to being a nurse but if you're interested in more like in detail pregnancy updates my other channels will be linked down below for that but anyways I kind of just want to talk about how being a nurse and being in my first trimester has gone. I am almost out of my first trimester I've got like two and a half weeks left so I'm pretty much almost there but honestly I could sit here and complain all I want but I really can't complain too much because one I know a lot of women are way sicker than I am. I have always thrown up a couple of times and I just you know I've had the nausea I've been tired and gosh my hair's everywhere but my work has really been super accommodating with me as far as like they've given me great patient assignments they're not giving me people who are very intensive labor wise or really heavy weight patients and they've really just been looking out for me you know if I'm going to go lift something you're like oh no no no let me switch you sides or let me you know let me do that and you do this instead so that's been super helpful they also are very like accommodating if I'm like hey I need to run down and grab something to eat really quick everyone's been like okay no problem go down take your time so that's been awesome and also like as far as scheduling goes that's never really been an issue my work has always been very accommodating with my schedule but they also have been continually continually throughout this first trimester so some things that I've been doing for work that I guess I haven't done before one I haven't been scheduling myself for multiple shifts in a row because I had been scheduling myself for like three four shifts in a row and it's just too much like I just I can't do that many shifts in a row anymore I need to work like two on one off one on and then have my three days off if I'm going to go on a vacation then I may like schedule myself to work more days in a row but other than that I'm not getting myself that many shifts in a row I'm just too tired the shifts are really long it doesn't matter like if I'm busy my during my shift or I'm sitting around more of my shift I'm still tired after at the end of my shift like physically mentally I could be sitting at home and take a nap three times a day and I'm still tired so that's just being pregnant I've also been trying to bring lots of snacks drink a lot I know it's difficult if you're working a really busy job and you need to eat a lot or take a lot of bathroom breaks you're just going to have to communicate with your work because honestly like my job they're very like accommodating with that but if you're in a job where you're not able to do that a lot then it's going to be very difficult to have that job while pregnant if you're feeling sick a lot or having certain symptoms otherwise I've still been able to do everything at work besides take care of like they haven't given me flu patients or TB or CMV or any like weird viral or weird respiratory patients um but I'm still able to take care of most patients I still am lifting and boosting and squatting and all of that and my doctor said that's totally fine he said when we get later on in your pregnancy then we could talk about some more modifications for things but otherwise right now you're totally fine and as long as you're at high risk or having any issues then I'm good to go so I've still been doing those things I've just been careful about doing them and making sure I have good body positioning and if I can avoid doing certain things then I definitely am I've also been really just and you should always be cautious of this but let's be real here like sometimes we pop open pills or give medications draw them up and we don't have gloves on and I mean we've washed our hands and stuff but still like you just don't and you're even if you don't touch any of the medications sometimes you know it just happens like a medication squirts on you even if you do have gloves on you it may squirt on your arm and um so I just been really careful with washing my hands wearing gloves more consistently and I know people are going to be like oh she doesn't wear gloves oh that's gross or you're breaking rules but like I'm just trying to be honest here every time you drop a medication do you have gloves on no so um I've been really careful about just making sure I'm not being exposed to things um through my skin and just obviously washing my hands a lot yada yada all those normal nursing things honestly it's like nothing's changed but everything's changed all at the same time um I'll talk in my next video probably more about how I'm planning for um what's it called taking time off work and all those things I've been like so tempted to call off work so many times because I wake up and I'm so tired but I'm just like no I can't I need to save up my pto days and my sick days for when the baby's here because I know it's gonna be more worth it than and it is to call off now just because I'm feeling nauseous so that's all I really have to say not really a whole lot but again like a whole lot and um yeah if any of you are pregnant or have any tips or tricks or things that worked for you um just keep the comments positive I'm very sensitive lately all the hormones so um keep the comments positive thank you guys for watching if you have any other questions or anything leave them down below and honestly most information as far as how my pregnancy is going the gender names announcements all that fun stuff is going to be on my channel so I'll have a link down below so make sure you're subscribed to those if you want to see all that fun stuff but otherwise thanks for watching and I'll see you my next video bye