Autumnal Equinox

New season. New routine.

I’ve enjoyed having the summer to be with my babe exclusively. I’m ready to integrate as a family into our outer world a bit more. The Great Creator knows what we can handle.

I’m ready to get back to work albeit with nerves & anxiety. So much has happened in these 16 weeks in our little cocoon. When I paused my career I was not a mother, & now I am. I wish companies in the United States would honor this transition from an ancestral wisdom standpoint. I wish they would give 4-6 months to both mothers & fathers to transition into parenthood first. How many citizens they would retain & how many employees would be loyal to them upon their return.

At 6 weeks postpartum I wasn’t going back. I couldn’t imagine being disconnected from my newborn (hormonally it’s meant to be this way). I would’ve been willing to make an extreme life change in order to stay with her. Another experienced, intelligent, profitable female employee bites the dust. Yet this is the timeframe for short-term disability for vaginal delivery before you’re expected back to work. Legally. It barely honors medical recovery for the mother & does nothing to acknowledge the child who is 100% dependent on their mother for nourishment.

But then, through a series of fortuitous events, I was given 16 weeks. by week 14 postpartum I am ready to go back. An experienced, intelligent, profitable female employee stays.

She prepares for the transition with her babe. Explains through actions & words that we are getting ready for an adventure. One that affects the entire family. it’s important we take good care of one another, little one.

Let us be intentional in our preparation.