I feel like I can't complain too much because I only work 3-4 days a week. My days are 12 hour days though so it adds up to full time and a whole lot of time away from my family since I also work Saturdays!

I am stressing BIG time and don't know how I am going to cope with being away from DD so much all the sudden. My sister is going to stay with her while we are at work so atleast she is with somebody I trust. I just worry because A) She is changing so much right now and I feel like I am going to miss out on so much! I know what DH has missed out on while he has been at work and I know it is hard on him. B) Though my sister will take good care of her, it isn't the same as what I do. She will do things differently and I worry that DD will have a difficult time coping with me not being there as well. And C) I will just plain miss her!

I also worry about getting enough sleep. She fights bed time so hard and it can take an hour or two to get her to sleep, she is still waking once or twice a night to eat, and I have to be up at 4:30. I can't drink coffee because I don't want it in my milk and the caffeine affecting her later. Ugh...

Add to this the stress of managing pumping while at work in a work environment that doesn't exactly make it easy. (I work in a very busy and understaffed jail where I will be the only female working on that shift so its not like I can just shut my office door during lunch. Heck, we don't even get lunch breaks!)

How did you guys cope?