Is anyone else feeling overwhelmed/stress about going on maternity leave?
For background, I would describe myself as career-driven and work in a project- based job, I oversee a number of projects at one time and all of them have specifically been granted to me to lead on the basis on my experience and qualifications.
I don't think I'm in anyway that i'm indispensable, but the nature of my work means that no one else could really take proper ownership of the projects whilst i'm on maternity leave. There is a person who will be allocated to minimally cover my projects whilst i'm on leave, but they will only really be a named point of contact to troubleshoot any major disasters- they won't actually progress or lead the projects forward very much whilst i'm off as they don't have the topic knowledge.
All of this means i'm very stressed about trying to get everything up to speed prior to taking maternity leave in a months time. Trying to write a handover list taking ages as the person covering is not familiar with any of the computer systems. On top of that most people are on holiday for the next two weeks and i'm trying to work compressed hours to spend sometime with my son. Everything just getting in top of me! Thought I would be on the wind down by now and relaxing but it's just stressful and causing insomnia worrying.Also people asking when i will be back to work (with the expectation that this will be sooner rather than later!). Just need to switch off from work but it's hard