Mum guilt

[Rkay2]

I went back to work this week and DS is 8 months old.
I feel awful that for the last two days I’ve left him asleep and only had about an hour after getting home with him before he went to sleep for the night.

Currently just cuddling him as we woke for his morning bottle and I’ve now gotta get up to get ready and go to work.

I’m not working full time but every day that I work will be like this. It’s so hard. I feel so awful for leaving him for so long.

Does it get better? How did you manage if you went through the same?

It does get easier I promise OP. It's just a fact of life that most people need to work. Your baby won't come to any harm. Just enjoy your times together and make the most of being out of the house. It's very hard at the beginning.

It's so hard for some when you first go back. I found it got easier over time. The positive here is that you're not full time which means you get more than some people and will still have time together. Personally I found that I really valued the time we did have together so much more and eventually I wasn't so sad about it. I also became quite good at strategically planning my annual leave to maximise it.