Going Back To Work After Twins: The Struggle No-one Talks About
A personal piece centred around matrescence, personal identity and post partum depression. This was published on my Medium writing account by the sub-publication ‘Parenting Portal’.
“I gazed up in disapproval at the colourful array of frumpy maternity dresses that had infiltrated my wardrobe since becoming pregnant. I still remember the day I’d gone rifling through my things with gleeful abandon, plucking out all my sensible, slim-fitting workwear — useless to a rapidly expanding pregnant woman. Now, I mourned their loss as I stood in front of my impractical wardrobe, mentally calculating the cost of new workwear.
After learning the news of our growing little bean, my first reaction was relief. I thought pregnancy was the one and only ‘get out of jail free’ card to finally slow down and step away from the career-trailblazing woman I’d strived so hard to be. At the time I’d been relentlessly working; on the launch of my own business, taking on freelance writing jobs, running a blog, and all while simultaneously working for a criminal lawyer.
Workaholics Anonymous would have welcomed me with open arms — had I possessed enough self-awareness to commit myself in the first place…”