maternity leave

I’ve been back at work from maternity leave for about 2 months now. It’s been a journey coming back to work, to say the least. First of all, I’m SO HAPPY to be back at work! I took exactly 3 months of leave, and will save the rest of the baby-bonding leave for a family trip to Taiwan for 4 weeks. For me, the first month of leave was necessary for the body to recover, and the second month was more of a getting-to-know-the-baby time, and the third month was the real baby-bonding, mainly on sleep training the baby, learning to get out of the house and travel a bit, and that was when I started to crave for human (adult) interaction and when I started to write this blog :) [Read More]

To be honest, I didn’t know what to expect going into maternity leave. I had never been the “mom-type”, and just the idea of stay at home all the time with a newborn kind of scared me. I thought it would be very isolated, very exhausting, and very desperate. I asked a lot of friends for help, and usually they told me: “Oh, you won’t have time to worry about this. [Read More]

The anxiety Months before I even started my maternity leave, I felt very anxious about that “break time”: what would it be like? Would it be just me and the baby sitting at home, me slaving away, desperately waiting for anyone to come rescue us? I started asking people questions about what they do at this time. Friend A: Don’t worry, you’ll be SO BUSY with the baby, you won’t even worry about what to do. [Read More]