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I’ve Never Felt Guilty About Being a Working Mother
Said no mother ,ever…this includes the stay at home moms because what they do it’s called work too
I was 33 when I had my daughter. Being ready for kids, for me, had a lot to do with moving countries, and reinventing myself, finding out who I was deep down.
I had always wanted to move to UK, and I finally came here when I was 27, and meat my know husband a few years later. Once I got to the U.K., and I realized we weren’t going to go back to my birth country.
But the timing of the actual baby wasn’t ideal for my career.
Having young kids is such an intense experience, and I would hate to be prescriptive for other people. But, based on my own experience, here are a few lessons I think young parents should know.
Don’t feel pressured to take a certain amount of parental leave
Parental leave is incredibly low as is, and I found myself restarting work 3 months in to my journey of being a new mom. I wish my return to work would have been few months later then that, and the regret I feel for letting others influencing me to work faster then either of the three members of our family was ready.
