Physically sick when away from my baby.

[BabyDarlingDollfaceHoney]

Hi,

I am just wondering if I am alone in this or if this is the way other mums feel...

My baby is 9 months old. I have left her a handful of times to go out with friends, for dinner etc and been out for around 5 hours before fairly locally to my house and managed pretty well. However on Saturday I went to a show with a friend which I had been excited about and planning for months. We made a day of it and it was quite a long way away so I was gone from mid afternoon til midnight.

As the day wore on I was just missing my baby so much I actually started feeling ill. By the time the show started I had to leave to throw up in the toilets and I had a banging headache. To be honest missing my baby that much pretty much ruined the evening for me. She was with her dad who is wonderful and was sending lots of pics so it's not like I was worried about her.... I just hated being so far away (about 1 hr 45 mins journey away). I felt gradually worse and wosras the night wore on until I got home and then I was completely fine.

Has anyone else felt this way? I am going back to work soon (part time) and just hoping that because I'll be much closer to home I won't feel as bad as I did on Saturday....

As you’ve left her before with less issue, do you not think it possible the banging head and vomiting were coincidental to you missing her? I sometimes get sick headaches, also migraines. If you attributed it to missing her it could have catalysed anxiety and made everything worse.
Had you had wine earlier? That can trigger me I think, even just a glass. Other times I’m fine.
Fingers crossed for when you go to work, you will be busy in a different way, and as you say, closer to home.
Limited, brief texts without pictures might be less likely to make your heart contract, - with the assurance that her caregiver will contact you immediately any issues arise.

I hadn't been drinking... I did consider the possibility that it wa something else but I felt better as soon as I got home. Also I know that I am prone to physical responses to stress... Often I don't mentally feel stressed but will break out in a rash / start being sick etc etc. Thanks for the response, maybe no pics would be better.