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Morning lovely mammas

I've started back at work last week and I feel absolutely awful for leaving my daughter. She's nearly 8 months old. She 2 days with dad and 3 half a days at nursery. But I'm feeling very guilty that I've had to go to work and leave her. I never imagined it would be so hard. I'm constantly telling myself it's so I can get some money to buy her presents for her birthday and Christmas but I can't seem to shift this feeling.

Anyone else feeling like that?

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I’m the same! I’ve not long gone back to work (about 2 weeks now) and my daughter is close 8 months old.

I’m in a very lucky situation where both me and my partner work at the same place so our manager is willing to work our shifts so that it’s always one of us looking after her.

I felt so guilty at first, and my first day back I started at 5am so I left the house at just gone 4am. By the time I got home in the afternoon to look after her I was so exhausted and she was just being grumpy and miserable. I got so irritated and mad about how she was acting that I must’ve walked away at least 10 times before I finally put her to bed. But it eventually for a lot easier to manage working and taking care of her.

Just remember that you’re doing this for her, and you’re doing an amazing job at looking after her. You’ve made sure that she’s always in a safe and loving environment even if you’re not there. Unfortunately with the economical crisis, this is what we have to do. You got this ❤️

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Morning lovely mammas

I've started back at work last week and I feel absolutely awful for leaving my daughter. She's nearly 8 months old. She 2 days with dad and 3 half a days at nursery. But I'm feeling very guilty that I've had to go to work and leave her. I never imagined it would be so hard. I'm constantly telling myself it's so I can get some money to buy her presents for her birthday and Christmas but I can't seem to shift this feeling.

Anyone else feeling like that?

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