Looking for advice on leaving my daughter at gym daycare
Hi ladies, I am looking for some advice or guidance. For the first two years of my daughter’s life we lived in a new city with no village or support. I am a full time stay at home mom and my daughter is very attached to me and has never really been without me other than my mom watching her for a short time when she was in town visiting. Her dad works 80 hours a week and whenever I leave she gets really upset. She adjusts after about 10 minutes or so, but I have never left her with anyone she doesn’t know.
I just signed up at the park district gym to start working out because my mental health is not doing well. I know I need this and also deserve some time to take care of myself but I am absolutely terrified of how she is going to react to me leaving her at the daycare. I don’t go to church often but we went twice to my brothers church and even there she did not want me to leave. I try to explain it to her but she doesn’t want to accept that I am leaving and I feel bad if I sneak away. Any suggestions on how to go about this? I don’t know if the daycare will be overwhelmed if she is really upset either. I have social anxiety so going anywhere is really hard for me but I have to make a change and do something to try and help myself feel better.
My family basically tells me I made her this way because they tell me I don’t know how to separate from her. But my daughter and I were all each other had in a new city and as a first time mom these things just don’t come easy for me..