Months and years later, as I re-visited my perspective on work and what it meant to me, I could really grasp how much becoming a working mom had altered what work meant for me, mostly in these seven ways: It wasn’t until I left my first baby with the babysitter the first time around to head back to work after my maternity leave that the reality of this change started dawning on me. Yet what I wasn’t expecting as much was how motherhood was going to change my career in some of the deepest ways imaginable. I still smile thinking about how little went according to plan, and how pretty much everything else just happened. Needless to say, nothing happened as planned, from emergency surgeries to being late for every doctor’s appointment thereafter. How I was planning on giving birth, what I would do during my maternity leave, when I would return to work, my schedule after baby, etc…. As I sat in the doctor’s office a few weeks before each of my babies made their world entrance, I had specific plans laid out. As much as I made sure to have the main logistical components covered, from the paint on the nursery to the babywear colors, there was still (and still is) a huge component that was left to chance, although I didn’t quite know it yet. I didn’t realize how much my independent life of an ambitious career woman would be thrown upside down before my babies came to the world. Nothing is ever the same again, in a good way. Your entire existence, from your schedule to your life plans, not to mention your surroundings, changes in the most drastic way. There is no doubt that becoming a mom is a life-altering event.
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