The Call of the Desk
May 9, 2006 by kate baggott
Filed under Baby Care, Finances, Mental Health
My friend Anne is the modern amazon. I’ve thought of her in legendary terms ever since her brother told me she was back at work a week after the birth of her third child by Cesarian section.
Her maternity leave was actually only four days long.
It got me thinking about the contemporary equivalent of our mother-ancestors who lay down in the field, gave birth, strapped the babies to their backs and got back to work.
Anne’s tale of her rapid return to work is not a tale of an abandoned infant. In a recent email she told me about taking the baby …read more
