https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:20:16 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/going-back-to-work-monday#post-796010 Mon, 20 May 2013 14:47:38 +0000 Crisark 796010@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bamblm: Thanks so much for asking!! I have an hour and 15min left of the shift and aside from feeling like I don't know how to do my job anymore lol it's not been too bad.<br /> @regberadaisy: It's been so much easier on me emotionally knowing that she's home with my DH. He's sent me pictures and has made it a lot easier on me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/going-back-to-work-monday#post-795982 Mon, 20 May 2013 14:42:03 +0000 regberadaisy 795982@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It is so hard leaving her. All along I thought my mom was staying till LO was 3 months, the thought of placing her in daycare at 7 weeks was too much. When my mom brought up leaving a week before my maternity leave ended I literally started crying. I told her I really needed her to stay till M turned 3 months. She did and it was such a source of comfort knowing that she was in able hands when I started back at work. It was still hard but it got easier!</p> <p>I would be so psyched knowing grandparents were watching her! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/going-back-to-work-monday#post-795963 Mon, 20 May 2013 14:37:00 +0000 bamblm 795963@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Pumpkinspice: How's your first day back? Hope your commute home today is awesome! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/going-back-to-work-monday#post-793159 Sat, 18 May 2013 16:10:14 +0000 Crisark 793159@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>She just smiled at us for real for the first time yesterday which was amazing. So I'm excited to start coming home to those for sure. And the peeing alone and eating with two hands thing sounds pretty good too lol </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/going-back-to-work-monday#post-793063 Sat, 18 May 2013 13:47:37 +0000 bamblm 793063@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think it was hardest the first week back. Try to focus on the nice things. I remember thinking, "wow, I can pee all by myself" LOL or even enjoying something like being able to eat my lunch and take more than thirty seconds and use both hands to do it. Also, our nanny sends one or two pics daily, which helped alot, especially at the beginning. You can have your family do that.</p> <p>Now I really enjoy being a WOHM. I catch myself starting to smile during the drive home. I love the drooly ear to ear smiles I get, and when I get home and LO sees me, he gets so excited (flaps his arms and legs wildly and lunges toward me) it's awesome! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/going-back-to-work-monday#post-792992 Sat, 18 May 2013 12:40:19 +0000 Crisark 792992@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thank you for the honest answers. I am for sure dreading it but there is for sure that small part of me that is kinda excited to see everyone and kinda be 'me' again. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/going-back-to-work-monday#post-792313 Fri, 17 May 2013 20:14:01 +0000 katsupgirl 792313@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Beehive: the big smile is totes the best! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/going-back-to-work-monday#post-792303 Fri, 17 May 2013 20:10:27 +0000 katsupgirl 792303@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>To be completely honest it sucks. I went back on Wednesday. LO is 7 months. I cried the week leading up and the morning. I couldn't sleep the night before. </p> <p>It did get better as the day progressed but I really miss her. It does get easier. Plus she was super excited to see me and that's cool. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/going-back-to-work-monday#post-792280 Fri, 17 May 2013 20:02:54 +0000 Beehive 792280@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It's been a lot better than I expected. I was on maternity leave for 6 months, so I had really gotten used to spending all day, every day with LO. And there were a few tears when I read him his naptime story before putting him down for his nap the day I went back to the office. But once I was back at my desk, I kind of felt like "me" again - like part of me I wasn't really using while on maternity leave was back. </p> <p>What really helped was being happy with my childcare arrangement - we found a nanny we really like, so I know LO is in good hands. We also set up a camera in the living room and his nursery (which we told the nanny about, and she's completely cool with), so periodically during the day I can peek at LO and see what he's up to. There's no better feeling than taking a look at a little sleeping baby while at work! Actually, the only better feeling is the huge smile I get when I come home at the end of the day. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/going-back-to-work-monday#post-792266 Fri, 17 May 2013 19:57:57 +0000 Crisark 792266@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm hoping since I've done this twice with my older lo's that I will do ok but I've been having a hard time leaving her for just a couple hours here and there. So, I just don't know what to expect. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/going-back-to-work-monday#post-792197 Fri, 17 May 2013 19:22:40 +0000 MsLipGloss 792197@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I cried the week before I went back because I was so anxious about leaving LO. The first couple days I was just kinda numb. After that, there was a physical ache from missing her so much. But that has gotten better. Sometimes I tear up a little at work or on my way home because I miss her so much. I love our reunions at the end of the day! It makes me appreciate every minute I get to spend with her. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/going-back-to-work-monday#post-792189 Fri, 17 May 2013 19:17:05 +0000 Smurfette 792189@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I am interested too. As much as I am ready to go back I can't imagine leaving her and her in day care. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/going-back-to-work-monday#post-792164 Fri, 17 May 2013 18:55:38 +0000 Crisark 792164@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>....And I have mixed feelings.</p> <p>If you saw my last post, my DH and I had decided that he would be a SAHD to avoid placing our 6 week old in daycare. Well, my inlaws caught wind of this plan and decided they would help watch her and then my mom volunteered as well.<br /> So, he didn't quit and I officially go back Monday morning. </p> <p>The stress of her being placed in daycare at 6 weeks with strangers is now gone and not having to worry about him and emotionally handling being a SAHD but I don't know how I feel.</p> <p>I've been on Maternity leave for 10 weeks exactly on Monday. I was placed on bed rest at 33 weeks and Baby girl was born exactly a month later.<br /> Part of me is kinda looking forward to some adult interaction and of course contributing a paycheck again but then I have the mommy guilt and the tugging of my heart to leave her for 8hours a day. </p> <p>Idk, it's just all becoming undeniably real that I have to go back and I can't ignore it anymore. I'm just getting kinda sad.<br /> For those that really didn't want to be a SAHM but still didn't want to leave your LO, how was it when you went back? Or honestly, how was it for anyone that had to go back no matter the reason. </p>