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Girl you just have to go, enjoy your new baby and new life. The world will keep turning. This is good for you and good for your team. Your POV may not be represented. Who’s to say that was the only right POV? Or that letting someone else do it there way won’t benefit the business and their career? Letting go of control is a lesson that you will have to embrace as your life as a mother evolves.
When I returned from leave... I came back to the same exact situations and big projects. Let it go. Time at work stands still.
Agree with ACD1. You will be shocked how little is different upon your return.
A second this!
My biggest regret with my maternity leave for baby #1 in hindsight was caring what was happening in the office. I even came back from leave 10 days earlier (fomo was the issue). 3 years later I see clearly how ridiculous that was...the world will turn without you and it’s an amazing thing! Being out if the mix will allow you to come back and have even more value in tow. Let it go & enjoy your leave. You won’t regret it.
Alexa, play High School Musical’s “We’re All In This Together” 🙃☺️
Things will get done. If you can accept that they may not get done exactly how you want, but will still get to the finish line, you’ll be ok. Your team will have a good chance to prove themselves and you might even be surprised at who steps up and maybe who doesn’t. Also- you might know this already but if this your first, you’ll most likely give zero shits for awhile. Everything turns upside down and priorities reshape. However, if you still need to know what’s going on, set some boundaries and expectations. For example, a standing once a week check in for an hour, or twice a week for half an hour. Maybe no email. You set those restrictions though. Also pls don’t worry about your value at whatever company you’re at. When you get back more projects will be there. You’ll need to readjust but you’ll come back with a ton more perspective and even more value to add to the work. You’ve got this
You can always do new projects and more work, but you can never, ever get this time in your life back. Once it’s over, it’s over forever.
Thanks eveyone. Appreciate the feedback. This will be one heck of an adjustment! Will have to keep telling myself let it go, at least for a while.
Hopefully you will give zero shits when you meet this little soul that will change your life. This moment in time at work is very trivial in comparison.
Just returned and I can attest to the fact that I give zero shits. Okay maybe not zero, but honestly, priorities have definitely shifted. I do want to do well at work, and feel like a great mama who is also badass at work BUT NOT at the detriment of family time. Enjoy your baby, you don’t get these moments back. Good luck!!
You don’t! You trust your team and be present with the baby and yourself!
When you meet your little one you won't even care about work. Puts things into perspective. Enjoy this time!
Trust your team (if you hired them it’s because you think they can do the job, right?) Maybe a different POV will be represented if you have a maternity cover, but that’s ok. Just enjoy the time with your baby... Honestly, you’re in for the most exhausting, amazing, emotional, and mind blowing time, so try to just focus on that and worry about work when you go back. You got this. x
Agree with everyone else. You just have to trust your trained them in your accounts well. I found that they reached out as needed but honestly I was so wrapped up in baby world that I honestly didn’t care what was happening and just enjoyed my baby. It also puts things in perspective when you do go back to work. You care about your work but you now recognize there are so many things you can’t control...like kids and what other people do.
Know some things will be a mess when you come back and not everything will have been handled the way you would handled it, but people stepped up and did their best. I came back to new big projects and overall nothing burned down.
Screw work! Enjoy your time off with baby. Unless you are getting 100% paid leave you’re not being paid to care. And even if you are, you should only care enough to make sure your paychecks are still coming.