While other eager new associates were hustling to impress the partners, I was trying to figure out how to tell them I was pregnant with my second child and that after my maternity leave I wanted to work part-time.

 It gets easier. You worked hard to get where you are professionally. You will have to work hard to get to where you want to be as a mom.

Beyond the stress and difficulty of answering the question, “Who will take care of my baby when I go back to work?”, the real question for me was, “Why can’t I care for my baby?”

When another mom lets her guard down around me; when she lets me see her messy house, it is one of the sincerest forms of flattery.