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so the supposed date of apr 3rd earlier mentioned turned out to be apr 9th instead.

what happened?

the day i was s’posed to report back to duty, got me down with a cold.. the doc prescribed me with the mc required and told me to rest. hah! rest? when u have a newborn and a toddler to boot?… that word don’t exist in me vocabulary.

suffice to say i took longer than the requisite one day of rest to get well. so the day after, was given another mc. anaqi’s 2nd month check-up and immunization appointment was scheduled that week too - hence the decision to just extend my leave to last friday.

update on how i got thru the first day back at work

• woke up @ 5 am just so i can get everything in readiness (for work, pumping session, anaqi’s feed for the day etc)
• anaqi woke up early today and just gave me a quiet stare for roughly 20 mins - methinks he sensed something amiss when mama’s not lounging beside him at those wee hours of the morning
• kakak had a short bout of separation anxiety (i was on leave for nearly 2.5 months you see…)
• i had a bout of separation anxiety when i drove out of the porch of our newly rented place (that’s another post in itself)
• arrived at work by 8:00 am and realised i had no idea where exactly my team mates had relocated to.. i just knew the generic floor.
• after 3 calls, found out where we were at and headed to my new workplace
• was happily informed of all the worries of the world (that project world) within the first 20 mins of arriving
• spent nearly the whole day reconfiguring everything required to make me a functional member of the team
• managed to execute two pumping sessions… IN THE LOO (!!) as i couldn’t locate an appropriate secluded area on the floor (managed to ferret out the info later in the day after my 2nd pumping session whilst cleaning the equipment in the loo)
• saw a mother with a baby roughly anaqi’s age while leaving the office and felt like flying back home
• drove like a maniac (i wish..) home
• bagi salam at the gate and managed to eye anaqi waving his arms and pumping his legs frantically at the sound of my voice.
• salam-ed and kiss-kissed with amir and kakak - stored the milk in the freezer and had a quick drink
• finally gave anaqi his evening feed - i felt mucho mucho better afterwards (anaqi’s sighs of pleasure after finishing his feed attested to that too)

i think we’ll do alright…

on the note of changing job responsibilities - have yet to sit down with the div head… dun think i will until i’ve sussed out the situation with the project.