Going back to work

Hi! I’m not going to sugar coat this for you. Going back to work was one of the hardest things I had to do. Unlike you, my husband and I didn’t have anyone to help us. So we had to drop him off at daycare, with someone we didn’t know. The first day killed me. I cried all the way to daycare and all the way to work. Trying to do my job and focus was hard. But, it did get better, I paid attention to my child and his cues when I dropped him off. I also made sure to have the daycare send me updated throughout the day, and pictures. Yes, I am sure I missed some milestones here and there. But I tried not think about that. I instead spend as much time as I possibly could with him. Lucky for me, I witnessed his first steps and first words. One thing that I did with my second was EFT (Emotional freedom Technique). I would practice that often and use it when I felt the most nervous. It helped a lot. Good luck moms! You got this! 💪🏼

For me it was a bit different, I worked, but at home 24/7, running a low income daycare w/pre k curriculum & I helped my ex open his own business too, then I did all the customer service & management of said business & weekends at my old job. By the time I went back out to work, well let’s just say that I felt guilty about how excited I was to finally only need to work 2 jobs(got a divorce) & to get adult time, omg it felt amazing to let someone else clean up the kid mess every day & just spend quality time w/my son when I was actually off work, I worked a lot still, days, nights & weekends, but when I was off work I was off, not running phones or touched out. This time is different, I became disabled 10yrs ago & have been home since, my kids are now 16y & 4y & I am so ready to go back to work or school or just anything, but I’m waiting until my hubs retires, should be about a year, but we haven’t started the countdown quite yet, but I’m pushing hard. 😂