Pregnancy can be a long nine months. And as any mum-to-be will likely testify, the last little stretch can be the longest yet.

Not only are you anxious about when baby might make an appearance, you’re also running through your check-list to make sure everything is ready. And of course you’re tired. Oh. So. Tired.

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So the last thing you want to be worrying about is work.

View photos A woman has posted to Reddit to vent about her boss contacting her while she's on maternity leave. Photo: Reddit More

But that’s exactly what one pregnant woman was forced to think about when her intrusive boss refused to stop texting her with work queries even though she’d already started her maternity leave.

Taking to Reddit, the woman explained that her boss had texted her on the first day of her leave to suggest she comes to work in the afternoon “if I’m bored".

“Yesterday and today, my boss has been texting me like crazy. Yesterday she text and said if im bored I can come in and work the afternoon,” she wrote in the post entitled “boss won’t leave me alone.”

She then explained that when her parents then arrived she forgot to text back, but woke up to a snippy text from her boss the following morning.

“Today I woke up and with a text along the line of ‘Thanks for not texting back yesterday- totally cool,’” she continued.

“A few hours later she text me about something that happened on Tuesday. She couldn’t find something that I put in a cabinet and was pissed about it,” the user continued.

“I specifically remember putting it there, so if it’s not, someone must have moved it. What am I supposed to do about it?”

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“She’s left me aggravated and every time my phone makes a notification, I panic that it’s her. I don’t go back to work until October.”

The mum-to-be explained that she had been so looking forward to going on maternity leave because she wouldn’t be expected to come in or answer any work queries.

Though she doesn’t mind being kept in touch about some goings on at work she feels as if her boss was going a little “overboard.”

And the Internet was keen to agree offering messages of support to the mum-to-be.

“The only response warranted in this case “I am on maternity leave”. Repeat as necessary,” one user wrote.

“You’re on leave, she shouldn’t me messaging you about work stuff anyway. Tell her you’re on leave and can’t help,” another offered.