WHAT AGE WAS BABE WHEN RETURN TO WORK?

[loopyredangel]

I am supposed to be back in work next week but my DS is only 18 weeks old, still exclusively breastfed! I had to leave work early because I had SPD, still sore with it now and using crutches, I have been so anxious about how we will cope financially and about leaving him so soon that DH had to call doctor out this morning, I had am assive migraine attack - felt like I was dying!!! I know if I went back so soon, I would be stressed out to the max, and exhausted!

Cant you extend or go sick for a while?

Hey, LRA - get signed off, please, sweetheart. You're still not well. Is your GP sympathetic?

I think I will have to go on the sick for a while! Pelvis isn't in A1 condition yet!

Hi hunkermunker, still no sign of baby yet? I am going to see the doctor on Friday, still feeling a little down but then having theat attack today didn't help!

You must get signed off sick if your pelvis isn't right.

Don't rush to get back to work, your health (and that of your baby) is far more important than anything else.

11 weeks had no choice, went back to work parttime and juggled childcare completely between anyone who'd help! It felt so awful at the time, and dd was soley breastfed also. My life was chaos and i lived for expressing, freezing and defrosting milk.

BUT this was all prior to my starting work . The first day ( in a new job ) i felt sick driving there, cried, felt the world was about to end. And then i met my new colleagues, got chatting an hour passed and i had an awful pang of guilt that in that hour i hadn't thought about dd once!! . From that moment on i realised that work, was allowing me to be the 'old' me, not the nappy changing, milking cow me, the 'old' me. And at the end of my working day, i had the wonderful reward of cuddling and breastfeeding my dd snuggled on the sofa.

I hope this makes you feel better . Of course you have guilty feelings a lot in the early days, but then what mother doesn't? about every single little decision you make and action you take with regard to your baby?

BTW dd didn't give up breastfeeding until she was 2 despite my early return to work. I expressed until she was 6mths, then used to leave formula when i wasn't there and gladly disgarded the breastpump.

I hope all turns out well for you!

ooops sorry posts crossed with everyone else .

Ahem, yes get signed off sick!

and... i killed the thread! [sigh]