First day back at work tomorrow - moral support needed!

[loolop]

Am very scared! Going back after 6 months mat leave, DD going to grandma tomorrow and friday and nursery weds and thurs. Am dreading leaving her - think am all cried out and nerves are now kicking in. Anyone fancy sharing their experience of going back to work? Hope she still loves me and knows i'm not abandoning her and hope I still remember how to do my job

I went back today - was lovely!

That was really really unhelpful.

Ben off 7 months. DS 7 months old (had him even before started mat leave )

He is with daddy on a Monday, CM tomorrow and MIL on a Thurs.

I really enjoyed being 'me'. I dodn't miss him too much until about 3.30pm when I was desperate to get home.

Remembered my job in great detail (surprisingly), feels like I was never away!

Thanks Wilkie - part of me like you is looking forward to being 'me' - did he react any differently to you when you got home?

Nope. Turned around, grinned, went back to blowing raspberries on my patio doors

He obviously pined for me all day

good luck loolop, I'm sure you and dd will be fine

Are they still at the out of sight out of mind stage at the mo? Hope so, don't like the thought of her looking for me all day!

thanks mercy!

Good luck Loolop, it is a horrible feeling, waiting to go back. I've just begun my 2nd week back at work (DD 8mo) and am torn between loving being back at my job and missing her horribly. Have to be honest, it's proving tougher than I'd feared, but DD is very sensitive to change at the best of times, so it's no surprise she's taking it hard. I just keep telling myself that every day is one day closer to a point where we will both be very happy with the arrangement; she loves other children and will get on very well with our CM. Really hope it all goes well; best to just get the first ay over with now!

Yes defo out of sight out of mind! Maybe not for a couple of minute - they may cry if you leave - but they soon forget!

I went back about 3 weeks ago, part time after 7 months off. I was a bag of nerves about leaving dd!! I just couldn't imagine being without her for any length of time and knew that she would be fine - it was me that was the 'needy' one!
I had a blub in the morning but when I got to work I was fine, phoned home a couple of times to hear that she was doing great and then at the end of the day I drove home like the clappers and burst through the fron door - I was so excited about seeing her!
I still don't like leaving her but she is absolutely fine and happy as larry, and it is good for her to spend time with others as well as being good for me to spend time doing something else too.

Good luck loolop - before you know it you will have adjusted to a whole new routine and you will be fine, you may find that the time that you spend with dd is more quality time too. It is so easy to get lost in the comfortable little bubble that is maternity leave - I think I would have stayed in that forever but it wouldn't have done either of us any good, besides I spent far to much time on mn

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