It sure has not been easy going back to work. I was scheduled to go back to work last Monday and so I did all my preparations on Sunday, left C at my cousin's place and reached my workplace at around 10 am. Not bad for the first day.
On tuesday, I took C to the immigration to collect his PR status. Yup, yup, C is a Singapore Permanent Resident like his parents. Anyways, it was such a long wait that I was afraid I brought too little milk out with me and was afraid that C was going to be hungry and start crying. Anyways, I ended up not working cos by the time we came back from the immigration and by the time I pumped and sterilized my pump, it was really late.
On Wed, I left for work and had to come back at noon because I was hit with a bout of fever. Yes, what happened was that the previous night, I tried not pumping at night because I was too sleepy at work in the morning. So, there was a 7 hour lapse between pumps which caused my breast to be realy engorged and I got Mastitis. How do I know the fever was caused by Mastitis? Cos my right breast was sore, had a lump of milk that did not go away and I do not have any cough or flu to go with my fever.
On thursday, I rested at home to try and get better.
On friday, I took the day off to clear the house and rested.........
So, the first week of work has me in the office for less that 8 hours.......but I am happy to report that through adjustments made to my pumping and feeding schedule, these two days has been quite ok for me. I still feel sleepy, either due to the rainy weather or just the bad air condition in the office but at least, I was able to work some.
I hope it gets better for me. I am slowly trying to extend the time in between feedings and cutting down on the number of pumps.
On tuesday, I took C to the immigration to collect his PR status. Yup, yup, C is a Singapore Permanent Resident like his parents. Anyways, it was such a long wait that I was afraid I brought too little milk out with me and was afraid that C was going to be hungry and start crying. Anyways, I ended up not working cos by the time we came back from the immigration and by the time I pumped and sterilized my pump, it was really late.
On Wed, I left for work and had to come back at noon because I was hit with a bout of fever. Yes, what happened was that the previous night, I tried not pumping at night because I was too sleepy at work in the morning. So, there was a 7 hour lapse between pumps which caused my breast to be realy engorged and I got Mastitis. How do I know the fever was caused by Mastitis? Cos my right breast was sore, had a lump of milk that did not go away and I do not have any cough or flu to go with my fever.
On thursday, I rested at home to try and get better.
On friday, I took the day off to clear the house and rested.........
So, the first week of work has me in the office for less that 8 hours.......but I am happy to report that through adjustments made to my pumping and feeding schedule, these two days has been quite ok for me. I still feel sleepy, either due to the rainy weather or just the bad air condition in the office but at least, I was able to work some.
I hope it gets better for me. I am slowly trying to extend the time in between feedings and cutting down on the number of pumps.
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