Mom calls out the 'cruel standards' pregnant women face at work in viral LinkedIn post

In an eye-opening and vulnerable LinkedIn post, a woman who is pregnant with twins shares the heartbreaking reality of what the first trimester can be like—and how hard that is when you’re an employee, too. Being pregnant at work isn’t easy, after all. Leena Yousefi, lawyer and CEO at YLaw, shared a powerful reminder that pregnancy is a very serious health condition and should be treated as such. Currently pregnant with twins and still in her first trimester, Yousefi perfectly describes the impossible situation many pregnant employees find themselves when working while pregnant. “For the past 2 months, I have been forced to lay on the bed in my work clothes before work in the morning, unable to move, think or function,” she begins. “I wake up in a constant state of chronic depression, nausea, aversions to everything, disabling migraines, a numbness to the world and lack of happiness that at times is one of the scariest things I have ever felt.” In the accompanying photo to her post, Yousefi is seen lying on her bed in a state of distress. “Being pregnant with twins has been the hardest physical challenge I have ever gone through my life,” she writes.…
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