So I have a meeting on Friday to discuss going back to work. My daughter was born prematurely mid August. She was in hospital for the first few weeks and when she did come home she was such hard work. She had colic and spent weeks and weeks crying for 5/6 hours every night. She eventually started settling down and now sleeps a lot better at night but she can still be a bit difficult during the day. She will get grumpy and upset go no real reason and I find I have to hold her a lot of the time. I’m hoping once she is able to sit up on her own she will be a bit more content.
Anyway, I was going to go back to work in June but decided I wanted to take the full year off as we had such a rough start and people keep telling me you won’t get this time again. I’m being made redundant at the end of the year so need to try and go back full time so u get my full redundancy. I’m hoping Work will agree for me to work 4 days a week and taken a days holiday each week.
I’m now considering going back a little earlier though as I think that maybe it will do me some good. I do love my daughter but still find her quite challenging too. If I go back as planned mid August I could take a days holiday each week and would still have about 5 days holiday to take when ever. If I went back early I would have enough holiday still do the one day a week but wouldn’t have much extra do the odd day off. I’m torn about what to do. I know when I go back to work things will be harder work at home as I will still need to get all the house work/shopping etc done.
Anyone else torn about when to go back to work and what best to do for them and their baby? Anyone been here and wished they had done things differently?