End of mat leave sadness
Hi ladies. I’m about to return to work after 13 months off with my little one. I know I am so lucky that I was able to have so long off but I’m actually waking up at night in pure panic that I’m going back. Do all mum’s feel like this? I didn’t really like my job anymore when I left to have my daughter and I know I’m going back to it in a worse state than when I left it. If I could afford to leave I would but I can’t. How does everyone cope going back to work? The thought of leaving my daughter makes me feel constantly sick.
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i went back to work when my little one was 7 months, not much choice I had to. I did find it hard at first but my lo is with family the two days during the week and with my husband on a Saturday, I always looked forward to coming home to them as seeing her face when I walked through the door made it so much better. I was definitely hard the first couple weeks
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No advice as I’m not going back until April, using up all the accrued holiday but I feel a bubbling anxiety about going back to work and leaving her with family and strangers at nursery. She’s so attached to me and is only happy with either me or my partner in the room. I’d take a year’s sabbatical if it were offered and don’t want to go back full time. I can’t imagine being away from her more days than with her. My meeting with work isn’t until next week