If you have the internet at home and work maybe get some web cams and download skype? My husband was working really long hours last year and we would "skype daddy" each night, also my parents live in Queensland and we skype twice and week and my DD knows them as well as if they were round the corner. It costs nothing and you could do it for 5 minutes in your lunch break.
I also think sometimes time away can rejunvinate you as a mother, I don't work but I put DD in occasional care and when I pick her up I can give her my best again.
I felt no end of bad feelings when I was about to go back to full-time work when DD was 4 months old. For me though, actually doing it was not as bad as the thought of it.
For the first week I rang our family daycare lady once or twice a day. But in all honesty, I was too busy at work - learning a new job to have time to worry.
I try to separate myself from work when at home and from home when I'm at work.
i can say that the feeling doesnt go away. i went back to a FT job when DD was 3 months old. Now at nearly 12mths, its easier but there are days where it is hard. i 'talk' to DD every lunchtime and i have to remind myself that i amworking for her as much as for me
Good Luck and i hope that it has gone well.
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