Last Day of Work

JChandlerJBates

Tomorrow will be my last day of work before taking leave.  I am having some bittersweet feeling about it.  On one hand I am very excited, because I will be meeting my babies in a week and my parents will be here, but and I know this sounds crazy but I am going to miss work.  I think I am going to miss the people at work more than the work, but I think I will still miss getting up each morning and doing my job.  Plus my fill-in stinks at my job and I feel really bad for my boss because its just the 2 of us in the office.  I keep just telling myself not to cry tomorrow, but with these hormones who knows what will happen.  Just had to vent.  Thanks for listening.

CMW

Poor thing!  I can totally understand!  I have the EXACT same feelings.  I can't wait to meet my babies, but part of me is almost resenting the the fact that I'm having them (which is RIDICULOUS because we tried so long and hard for these babies) because I LOVE my job and I hate having to not work for so long.  I think part of the feeling is because I feel like I'm going to miss something.  I also think because of the market and everything else going on right now I'm afraid they will decide the don't need me while I'm gone.

I don't have any good advise really, I guess just let them know how much you love your job and how much you are going to miss them.  That's what I've tried to do.

Skatcat

Man, good for you for making it to 37 weeks!  I stopped working at 34.5 weeks and looking back I sort of regret it. The time off has been wonderful, but I've been so antsy not being able to work. I've been trying to tell myself to enjoy all this downtime to nap and read and just veg, because it won't come again for a long time. Still, its so anti-thetical to my nature that its been odd.

Looks like we'll be having our babies around the same time..good luck! And don't sweat it. 

april062604

congrats on the last day of work. ?i had a hard time leaving too, but i was pulled out suddenly at 19 weeks due to PTL. ?trust me when i say that once the babies get here work will be a distant memory.