It’s official, my maternity leave is coming to an end very soon NO NO NO NO!!!! π I have 5 weeks left and then I have to go back to work. First 3 months I will work 4 days a week. After the first 3 months I will be back at work full time; that is 5 days a week, 40 hours a week, 2400 minutes away from my precious little girl every single week. This means that I won’t see her in the morning, I won’t get her dressed, I won’t give her her breakfast, I won’t be playing with her, cuddling her, kissing her until 5pm when I will be back home from work…. Just thinking about it makes me cry! How will I do it? How will I cope with it?
This week we start settling in sessions at the nursery which Chloe will attend 2 days a week. We also will start teaching grandparents how to look after Chloe and slowly start leaving Chloe with them. I know that I have to do it so Chloe gets used to being without me but isn’t it ridiculous ? Isn’t it ridiculous that I am expected to leave my baby when the only thing I want to do is to have her next to me all the time so I can enjoy every second that I have left of my maternity leave?
I am trying to make the most of the 5 weeks left …There seems to be way too many things that I should do while I am still off, and every day things that I have to do …
My mum had 4 kids and was working full time and she has done an amazing job bringing us up… Everyone keeps telling me that after a few days back at work I will be fine …. I know that this is life and you just get on with it and make the most of what you have … But right now I don’t know how I will do it…. This will be up there with one of the hardest things that I have had to do in life …
NEW YUMMY MUMMY 
dont worry Aga….going back to work really isn’t that bad….I too felt just like you but I now LOVE being back at work….I really feel that I have the best of both worlds….being a Mummy and being a career women…..you will still be the best Mummy Chloe can have and the time you do have with her will be even more special….βΊοΈ hope to see you back at work soon.x
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you Maggie! I do hope so, its just very hard to imagine that this will be the case. I am back in 5 weeks time so i will see you then π
LikeLike
I go back soon too, I’m going back 3 days a week until the New Year then I will be back to full time hours. It does get easier (this is my second time of going back after maternity leave), especially if you get them into a routine of going to nursery/grandparents etc before you go back to work. I’m going to cherish the next few weeks and take lots of pictures/videos for those moments at work when you just need a little person smiling and doing something funny π
LikeLiked by 1 person
Glad to hear that it does get better… Is it any easier second time round ? Photos and videos that is exactly what I am doing, I might just hide somewhere in the corner and watch Chloe’s photos for 8 hours π
LikeLiked by 1 person
I haven’t gone back yet but I think knowing what helped me last time – the videos/photos makes it less daunting. Also if grandparents are helping out get them to send you texts of silly things said/done I have a message from my parents when son was little telling me they’d gone to see peacocks but he was calling them peacods still makes me smile π
LikeLiked by 1 person
π
LikeLike