Motherhood is never easy. Now, add a job on top of all of that? Geez.
Michela Barcella
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I have a 22-months old and a 4 months old and I haven’t adjusted to the lack of sleep yet. I’ll get back to work in the next weeks and I haven’t decided if it’ll be from home or from the office (luckily, I get to choose). If I work from home, I may get disturbed quite a lot by the kids. If I work from the office, I will need to stop breastfeeding starting from day 1 (at least during the day). In both cases, despite the huge support of a nanny and day care, I know I’m going to miss one of my babies' firsts or other milestones.
I wanted to work and I wanted to be a mom. Now that I have both things, I struggle to find a way to do everything right. I have thousands of work-projects in mind and so little time to do them all, without subtracting time to the boys. Balancing work and doing all the mom-things and all the home-things and all the husband-things is crazy. Are you familiar with that constant feeling of never doing quite enough? There is always work to do, emails to send, meals to make, laundry to fold and most of all kids that want (and deserve) our full attention.
For me, it's nearly impossible to feel ok all of the time about all the decisions I make and I know that the working mums who are reading this can relate.
I’ve thought a lot about this and I’m sure that there is no golden rule, but just one universal solution: to feel confident in the decisions we make for our families and for ourselves. We are doing the best we can with the resources we have. Let’s support each other. It’s all good.