Hello,
My DS will be 6 months old when I return to work in May, Oh taking 3 months shared parental leave.
As much as I am very excited to go back to my career, I'm only 24 so have really just got my foot on the ladder I feel like I am being very selfish.
I am going back to work 42hrs a week but with me and my partners shifts DS will only be in childcare 3 days from 11-3.30pm. He will be with either of us any other time.
I realistically could be a SAHP but I feel that as I am so young I want to go back and further my career yet feel very selfish.
We just bought our house and paid for our wedding prior to him being born.
In an ideal world we would have waited before having children but wouldn't change that for the world now.
I am worried that I am going to miss a huge amount of his baby years but I'm hoping before he goes to school I would have progressed far enough in my career I could be around for school pick ups etc.
My mum thinks I'm ridiculous going back to work but she is very old fashioned and I don't want to lose my career.
I'm just very confused about what to do.