‘I immediately quit my job, completely in emotion, and I deeply regretted it’

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Care arranged and flexible working hours agreed: Naomi was ready to get back to work after her maternity leave. Until she couldn’t stop thinking about it.

Naomi (30): “After my maternity and parental leave, I would return to work part-time at the advertising agency where I worked. We had arranged shelter for our little man for four days, at a nature-friendly crèche, where his nephew also went. I had agreed flexible working hours with my employer, whereby I didn’t have to start until ten o’clock and could stop before the traffic jam. Ideal on paper.

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Doom-mongering

Only, a few days before I had to go back to work, I started whining and hyperventilating. What if he needed comfort or missed his mommy? Or if they would shake him? I couldn’t stop thinking about it. Probably still maternity hormones, but I couldn’t place that at the time. My husband didn’t know what to do with me either.

Canceled immediately

In the end, completely in emotion, I quit my job with immediate effect. The first weeks I was overjoyed. But when Milo turned a year old, the walls came down on me. I missed colleagues. I wanted to crawl back into the labor process. Unfortunately. My position has now been taken by an ambitious newcomer. So far I have not been able to find another job that is just as great.”

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