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Working exclusively from home since mid-March has certainly made some aspects of pregnancy easier - if I was tired, I could cross the hall and take a short nap in a proper bed, and had my whole house of food to choose from at any time, the quality of which is more under my control than what happens to be in the company canteen or vending machines that day, and wasn’t killing 1.5-2 hours a day getting to and from the office.

Also, I wasn’t exposed to all the other random illnesses besides Covid-19.

If this wasn’t our first kid, I probably would have been more stressed due to childcare problems, though.

This being Germany, I’ve been off work since I hit week 34, pandemic or no pandemic.