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nealbl
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The dreaded day is coming and I am so sad
nealbl
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I go back to work March 1st and am having severe anxiety about leaving LO. I totaly trust who will be watching her but I am so afraid she will be upset with me. We have spent everyday together since she was born. We have a routine and I play and talk with her all day long and read her books. Now she is going to an in home daycare where she will most likely not get near as much one on one attention like I give her. I feel absolutely sick to my stomach thinking about it. I knwo there is nothing I can do. We can't afford for me to stay home. It just makes me so sad. Someone tell me it will get easier 
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Re: The dreaded day is coming and I am so sad
It will get easier.
But before it does, it will really suck. Leaving DD at daycare on my first day back was the hardest thing I have ever done. I cried on the way there, I cried when we left her, and I cried at work while putting her pictures up all over my desk.
Now it's okay though. I still miss her terribly, but it's not nearly as hard. Just enjoy the time you have for the next couple weeks and try not to worry too much!
I'm actually looking forward to daycare in a strange way. Don't get me wrong, I love being at home with my daughter. Even despite the sleep deprivation, missed/skipped meals, sore nipples, colic, and everything else, I love taking care of her.
But in a way, I'm looking forward to broadening her horizons at daycare, too. Maybe part of it is because she will be at a fantastic facility that is close to our house ... a Goddard School. And I know is that I'm not a good teacher, and I think I'm comforted at the thought that she will be taken care of by a professional with a degree and experience in early childhood education. That LO's learning will continue, possibly even better than it would be at home.
Even though I know she's an infant, and she wouldn't really be 'learning' anything at daycare, at least not at first, I do believe that she wants to learn, (she's very inquisitive), and she may learn better from someone who is trained in the field, instead of mommy, who has to go to the bump or open one of the many parenting books that she ahs to figure out what comes next on the learning curve.
Like I said, in a strange way, I'm looking forward to daycare, but I'm not necessarily looking forward to being away from LO.
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Seriously?!
OP - I went back this Wed. DS starts daycare 3/1 so W and H he was with my girlfriends then F with DH. Honestly - I love being BTW. Tues I was pissed off and freaked out to go back, but I am a better Mom with adult conversation and alone time! DS gets crabby about 1.5-2h before I get him, but he's consolable and is just not used to bottles all day.
It'll be okay, I promise!!