Encouragement...

My 1 year old didn’t as act happy as usual to see me when I picked him up from daycare today. When I scooped him up for a kiss, he fussed some then reached back out for his teacher. He gave her hugs and snuggled with her and acted like he didn’t even want to come to me. It absolutely crushed me. I already have had a very hard time being away from him, returning to work these past few months, and have been dealing with some PPA. This has set me into Negative Nancy overdrive...feeling like he doesn’t love me, if only I had stayed home with him he would love me more, etc, etc. I can’t get it

out of my head the way he hugged her...of course he hugs me, too but I feel like he was just SOOO excited to be with her. I want him to love other people and my friends keep telling me this is a good, healthy sign of him forming social relationships. It’s nothing against her at ALL. She’s amazing and I’m so happy that he is happy with who he spends his days with...But that exact thought crushes me, that she is the new woman in his life...We have worked so hard to find a good daycare and I feel blessed with where he is...but this has set me back so much and making everything so much harder related to being away and being a working mom. Staying home was never an option and still isn’t...

Has anyone had this experience and what can I do?