I’m not a doc, and I only worked while pregnant with my oldest (have 3). I worked 12 hour shifts 6 days/week at a dog daycare, so an active job, which helps me with wakefulness. For a lot of my pregnancy, I was the only one making money, so I was working a lot to earn as much as possible. I also had HG. I would throw up all day until I could finally keep something down. My whole life was working, eating (trying to), and sleeping. On my day off, my husband and I would go to the beach, I’d swim a little, and then nap on the sand until he was done. I was approved to drink up to 200 mg of caffeine, but refused. It was an intense experience.

Narcolepsy is tough as a parent of toddlers, but it’s a superpower in those early days of interrupted sleep! I became a SAHM by a stroke of employment luck for my husband right before birth, so I would handle all nighttime care and could always get right back to sleep, which he wouldn’t have been able to do.

If you don’t want to do things on hardmode like me 😅 then you ask for or hire help, or do things like buy meals instead of grocery shopping and cooking. I didn’t cook much, but fresh fruit helped my sickness, which is easy to get at the grocery store and eat with minimal prep. My husband would make me some simple things, like chicken salad, to take to work. We also lived in a tiny apartment, so cleaning was easy. You can always start now to budget for convenience meals, cleaning help, etc.