Going back to work: any advice? I'm dying on the inside!

Question

My little guy was born in February and I took 12 weeks off. I am a teacher, so at the end of May I went back to school for 10 days - just enough time to send my 8th graders off to high school - while my husband took off to stay home with our son and for some male bonding. Then summer came and I have been fortunate enough to spend a whole 6 months with my first little love. I have to go back to school on Monday, and I feel like I am on the brink of an emotional breakdown. He's going to daycare (one I previously worked at) three days a week, and will be at home with my mom the other two days. I know I have been extremely fortunate at how all of this worked out, and he will be in good hands, but I'm still not looking forward to this. Any advice to get me through? What did you do?

Answer

I went back to work after 2 months. I cried the day we came home from the hospital because I didn't want to leave him to go back to work even though I still had 8 weeks off lol. I am fortunate enough that my mom takes care of my son while my husband and I are at work. I cried so much the days leading up to me going back, I cried on my way to my mom's, when I dropped him off & when I got to work lol. It gets easier but you miss them every second you're away from them

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I went back to work for 9 weeks and quit to stay home with my daughter and focus on school 😂 I thought I could do it but I just really needed more time with her.  I know this doesn't help you, I'm sorry!  For what it's worth it should get a little easier once you get into a routine.

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I took 12 weeks off and have been back part time for the summer. I'll be going back up to full time in a few weeks. One of the things that helped me was being able to spend some time with my son in his daycare classroom. I also found my anticipation was worse than actually going back. The first few days were really hard-- my son was a NICU baby so I have a really tough time leaving him anywhere, but now it's so much easier. I make sure to have tons of pics and videos on my phone of him that I can look at while I pump and his daycare teachers and my inlaws send pictures of him during the day as well. :)

Going back to work: any advice? I'm dying on the inside!

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