Give me some advice if you have

Yes, I'm pregnant. But I just graduated from college two years ago. Is it too early for girls?

I worked at a fast-paced foreign company as an assistant of manager or English translator, to be more specific. But I have to resign about five months ago considering the company's benefit and my own health because of my serious pregnancy reaction. That is, I didn't have any desire to eat and vomited many times a day, which made me feel so dizzy and feeble that I need to lie down and rest for a long time.

Therefore, I don't have solid income as well as medical insurance now, but my husband insists that I need to do regular antenatal care (I thought about not doing any health check) and buy some nutritional food from time to time to support my body as the doctors always say that I'm too thin and the baby is too small. So, you can see, all of these have cost quite a lot of money, and both my husband and I are under great pressure worring about not have enough money to raise our child in the future. By the way, my husband doesn't come from a rich family, and his parents are all illiterate farmers who will never understand the importance of doing regular antenatal care and cannot provide almost any help in our life. We have to work really hard to make money and save some to buy a house hopefully instead of renting all the time. But my husband is the only breadwinner now. What's more, I don't want my mother-in-law to help take care of my child, as the first several years is so crucial to a kid, but my own mother passed away two years ago, so we need to bring up our baby by ourselves, which makes me distressed further about my later career. What can I do to make my life and work balanced in the future? Hah, I even thought about working at an early education center where I could bring my baby together.

My pregnancy reaction has gone now, but it's impossible for me to find a job at this moment. I have inquired some HRs, but no company would like to accept a pregnant woman who may take maternity leave four months later. And I also tried some part-time translation work, but those companies are really not reliable.

Hence, I get bored, exhausted and anxious at home feeling helpless to my husband.

It is said that pregnancy makes a person dull. I...kind of have that feeling gradually. As I don't use much English like before, I'm trying hard not to make my English skill become rusty. I still keep the habit of reading, like some newspaper or novels, but thinking of not making money makes me restless so that I often get behind in my daily reading schedule.

1984  by George Orwell

And I will recite some vocabulary everyday (usually I don't think reciting words is of much help, but since I'm not occupied at present, so...). I'm not sure what type of vocabulary is proper for the present me, please give your recommendation if it doesn't bother you. I passed TEM-8 in 2015 and BEC-Higher in 2014, but obviously I'm a little falling behind now.

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And sometimes I will do some drawing to kill time. I'm not an expert, so don't judge please.

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There was a time when 《Love O2O》this TV series went viral. Thus, I'm even trying to translate this novel.

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At last, I intended to start my own translation business online, and due to my perseverance, I finally won some clients from undergraduates to Masters to PHD. But maybe the AI is getting more attention nowadays, they didn't think that I translate those articles or documents all by myself and cut the price even down to 20 yuan per thousand words, which made me absolutely disappointed and desperate. I can't see my value at all. Am I like a teenager? You know, I sometimes had to take their orders even at the midnight but with a really low price...And then my husband stopped me, for it's harmful to both my baby and me.

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All in all, please give me some advice if you have any. I'm getting a bit lost.

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Sophie