Very emotional since returning back to work...

[sandilion]

Is this normal?

Since starting back at work I am so incredibly emotional when it comes to my LO. I feel like i can easily cry so easily as of late and i have been easily crying. I worry about bad things happening to him all the time. When i hear about babies that have died it completely destroys me.

I am just worried that maybe i am developing some sort of PND since returning back to work? Things are also getting to me a lot lately, things that normally wouldn't.

Has anyone else experienced this? Could it pass? As the days go on i feel like I am getting worse.

it didn't help that right when i returned back to work i heard on facebook of a woman losing her baby boy to SIDS at 14 months old. Its all i can think about now, and i feel some sort of separation anxiety forming with my LO (me being the one with the anxiety)

Anyone get like this too? I thought returning to work would actually prevent anything like this happening...

 

[erikab922]

You know I will admit that I was going to post something along the lines of 'I cannot *wait* for LO to go to the childminders 4 days a week from next week!!!' and I didn't because I reckoned you were still having a hard time with it and didn't want you to feel weird that you were still struggling with it. So I've obviously just gone and done it anyway - d'oh! Every mother's journey (sorry I usually hate that word but it fits here) is unique and whatever you are feeling regarding going to back to work is perfectly valid and totally natural. Especially since he's been vomming, I'm sure that doesn't help.

My friend down the street went back to work two days a week at the beginning of the year, at the end of Feb she'll be going three days a week and at the end of March she'll be back full-time. She still struggles really badly being without her LO and he's at her mother's house half the time he's being watched so she knows he's having a great time. She's the one full of anxiety and worry and she's one of the smartest, loveliest and most capable people I know, so you are in good company with other great mothers who miss their LOs terribly.

 

[sandilion]

Oh hun you post whatever you want! i wouldn't ever get annoyed with you or weird about it i promise! I don't expect everyone else to be as looney as me haha!

But yeah you are so right with what you say - thanks heaps i actually feel heaps better now and not so unstable!

 

[Twinks]

Hun you sound like a lovely caring mother and although I'm not back at work yet I think I will feel similar. I love my LO to pieces and the thought of leaving him makes me feel very sad. Just keep thinking of all the positive reasons why you've gone back to work an hope you feel bette about I all soon :0)

 

[Aoifesmum12]

I'm really glad uv posted this....... I've just been thinking the exact same. I go back to work 3 days a week next month and I keep getting really upset about it. I can't stop thinking that lo's gonna have some kind of accident or something bads gonna happen to her (grim- I know!) I'm presuming its because we're not used to being away from our babies. I just keep trying to tell myself how I have to work if I want her to have nice things..... The thoughts are still there though.

 

[LuluSS]

I was like this the first couple of weeks. Then again, my baby was only 7 weeks old when I had to go back to work. I am in the U.S. and we have only 6 weeks maternity leave.

I am still having a hard time. But it is getting better.

 

[ericacaca]

I'm going back to work full time next week and really have no idea how I'm going to feel about it. It felt ok for a day last week when I went in. I loved picking Oscar up from the childminders though - he was all I could think about when I was driving home.

He adores his childminder. And she is lovely. She picture messaged me a photo of him on the swings and I got a bit emotional and jealous that she was spending time with my baby whilst I was 20 miles away at work. But I guess the bills need paying!

I'm just going to plaster the office with pictures! xxx