What up, Mom? Put down that coffee and grab a wine. Get ready for another episode of Nursing and Cursing, a parenting podcast that covers more shit than your baby's full diaper. I'm Kate. I'm a stay-at-home mom of three living in Brooklyn, New York. Hi, I'm Christine. I'm a freelance video editor living in Los Angeles and mom to a toddler. Allie here, podcasting from South Kona, Hawaii, where I live up in the mountains with my husband and two sons. Hey, I'm Molly. I live in Los Angeles, California as a mom of a toddler and a teacher. And I'm Sarah, your in-house expert on all things mom and baby. I'm a nurse and a doula with a PhD living in Brooklyn, New York. Between five busy households, it's a miracle that we make it on the mic at all. But trust me, we need this as much as you.
Tonight we're going to talk about something that a lot of women have to do, a lot of women choose to do, and that is going back to work after kids. That could be after baby or after your baby goes to kindergarten or whatever it is you choose or have to do. It's a tough one. It is a tough one, and sometimes it's something to celebrate. You definitely hear the spectrum, don't you? Yes. Absolutely. It's fresh for me. I know it's fresh for me. Sarah, you are also.
dealing with that transition i know yeah you're preparing for that transition and already have your toe in it's and i'm definitely in that transition too sort of on a different spectrum my kids are now both in full-time school so that means here i am having to go back to work right so it's interesting i'm there too where a lot of us are there and kate can certainly speak to it hugely Um, yeah, I've done it. I've done it every, I've done it all different ways. Every couple of years you go back to work. I've got, I've got, I've never quit work. I've had a baby where I've never really quit working. I've gone back after my baby's a year old and then I've never gone back. Wow. Wow. Okay. So that is, I love that Kate. That's very cool. So you've had it all. Um, so right now when you say you, you've had a baby where you've never gone back.
So is that like, does that make you nervous at all? Like I'm fully retired at 31. Oh my gosh. If I say that, I feel sick. I feel, I feel like, oh my God, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. So what did you do before you decided this last time to be home working? I would. So when I had Wawa, I had Wawa right before I was born in August and I was in a grad school program that started in September.
And I didn't know I pushed it out until a little bit later, but they would only let me start not even a full semester later. Otherwise, I'd have to reapply for the next year. So and I wish I had actually just waited a year and done that. But at the time I had it in my head, like if I have this baby now and don't go to grad school, I'll never go to grad school and I'll have just like wasted. my life like i'll be blowing it and people will be disappointed in me and whatever so i felt tons and tons of pressure to go straight to grad school after he was born um and it was just a blur it was totally fine i went to school for social work so it's a very very supportive setting it's they have to be it's not like i wasn't what the fuck are you doing there yes i wasn't in medical school i wasn't in law school i don't want people to be confused i wasn't i was in a social work grad school program and everybody all my mentors all my classmates were very supportive water came to me to my internship he came to me um he came with me to class I was pumping around the clock but still like it was there's still like papers and work and hello statistics I was taking a statistics class a graduate statistics class with a newborn no how how baby nursing yeah that one that one I just I just rigged it just like you would in high school I got together with a real smart group of kids and basically was like um yeah no whatever yeah I was like you know what um this isn't like my strong suit but I'd be happy to write the cover page when we submit all this work so just keeps you seeing me on those emails brilliant
Design a really cute cover. Exactly. I would get emails and the subject line would be like SPSS. I was like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. And so that was fine. And then I had – I went straight from grad school to working and, you know, whatever. We transitioned Wilder from Annie to a really, really shitty daycare that we hated and felt horrible about to finally like a really great place that we felt good about. And then I had Edie.
And I just knew I didn't want to do it the same way. I was like, I can't. I just can't do it the same way. I can't go straight back this time. Because I had a toddler and a newborn. And I took a year off. My job was really cool. I was working as a social worker at Legal Aid. And my job was cool. They didn't pay me for the year, obviously. But I had a year. And then I came back. And they were totally fine about it. Very cool. And that felt really good. That felt good. Because I felt so. I didn't feel any anxiety in the year. Because I knew it was.
On the good days, I was like, oh, my God, this is great. I'm loving it. And on the bad days, I didn't have to feel like this is going to go on forever. I was like, okay, just four more months. And then I'll be eating a donut at my desk. I'll be doing what my husband does every day, just taking super long.
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A-I-N dot com slash nails, capital N-A-I-L-S, to try the kit and enter nails at checkout for free shipping. Thanks, Chris. Thanks, babe. So then I went straight back to work after a year. I worked. It was great. And you know what happened? My office mate, who I love dearly, got pregnant. And I think I got, like, jealous or contagious. I don't know. But Jay and I were like, you know what? Fuck it. Let's do it again. Let's have one more. Oh, my God. And we never – the thing is, is that Jeremy and I – and I was talking to Sarah about this the other day. Jeremy and I can never – we're just one of those couples who –
We're not always communicating on every level, but we, like, get like that. Like, sometimes we just can't explicitly say what we need to say. And, like, we never, ever, ever, ever discussed during my entire pregnancy the fact that I was not going back to work after Mavis was born. We never talked about it. Never discussed. Was it just known or was it just kind of understood? Yeah, it was just basic. It was kind of understood. We would, like, dance around it. Like, one of us would be like, well, you know, if you go back.
Or like, yeah, I mean, when she's a year old, like if you're back at legal aid, like every sentence was if and open-ended. But there was never any concrete. We never concretely talked about this. We never talked about transitioning to one paycheck. We just never discussed it. So maybe it's still open-ended and Jeremy's just waiting for you to be like, okay, that's what. Jeremy's like, this maternity leave has been six years. Exactly. And then like, so I just never went back. But it wasn't, in some ways, it's a great feeling. It was 100%. I'm not going to, we've talked about this before, so I don't need to go over it a million times.
100% better for our family. I don't know if it was always 100% better for me, for my, as Molly would say, my mentals, but my mentals took a hit. Molly is, you're back this year, Molly, after your second child, you went back pretty right away after Augie, a few months deep, right? And then you took a year with Marigold, which was amazing. I watched how much you just really loved and enjoyed that. And now you're getting back into work as a teacher. Is that...
Because, like all of you, I'm just so interested, and our listeners probably are too. You took a year because you had the two and you wanted a different experience. And are you back now because financially that's the way it needs to be? Or because you really need to get back? Or is it for your mentals? Right. It's episode title, For Your Mental. Yeah. Right. So, yeah, exactly, Allie. With Augie, I was back three months into motherhood. And that felt...
like way too soon and but I was going back into a workplace like a situation that I was really comfortable in and I really adored and I had a community that was incredible teaching me how to do it all um and I I said I think I've said this on the podcast before but by the time he was about one I was like oh yes I'm so glad I'm here I'm so glad I'm working he settled I'm settled I'm loving this um and that was at the time I was saying that it was because I had to But I think deep, deep, deep, deep down, I wanted to. Cool. Because we never had the conversation of, like, how can we make this work if I don't want to? It would have been a stretch. But this time around, it's clear as day. What do you mean, Molly? Like, what was it that you wanted? Go back to work. I really love my job, Sarah. No. Yeah. I love it. Sarah's saying, like, what about going back to work? It sounded good to you, right? Right. All of us are like, what the fuck? No, just that. No. You didn't at first, Sarah. Like, I went there crying for a long, long time. Like I said, three months old. You want to show that you can do it?
I remember you were terrified, Molly. Yes, it was such a hard transition, especially those first four weeks were so dark, which they can be, right? first time mom goes back to work it's so hard and you're questioning everything you're doing right but um you had this fear too of losing yourself and what would you do home alone with a baby and that and you had it with marigold too right like i can't be a stay-at-home mom i can't do this i'm gonna go insane i don't know how to do this right so at first it was three months sarah because that's how it was at my work at that time that's what the expectation was and that's it changed actually recently and now it's much longer but um and i think it changed in california in between my two kids But so the second time, right, I was like, oh, well, here we are. I get a redo. I definitely had regrets. I loved being back at work with Augie. But again, like I said, between three months and a year, it hurt very badly. I felt a lot of guilt and I felt a lot of sadness and I it didn't feel natural until about a year. So with Goldie, that's so hard to get in some ways. I feel like especially first baby, it's so hard to know Molly because you could stay home and still feel like, fuck, it took a year to feel normal. I feel like it takes a year to feel normal. Totally. For sure.
And I want to point out, too, with my first kid, you know, I had that really traumatic post-birth experience where I had the tear that got infected and I was like down for seven weeks or something and I couldn't even get out of bed. I feel it felt like my maternity leave was robbed from me. And then there were things like, you know, like I'm asking the government to pay me for my disability, but I had a vaginal birth. So I only got something like six weeks of partial pay. When a C-section, you can you can get another something like two to four weeks. But they didn't want to hear any of the in-between gray area. But I was like, but I.
I can't even walk. You don't understand. Wow, that's so interesting, Raleigh. It sucked. That's really fucked up. Wow, yeah. But I do remember calling my aunt and being like, I'm going to U-turn. I'm going to U-turn. I'm going to U-turn on the way to work. Like, I can't do it. It felt awful. It was so sad and dark. But so, yeah, fast forward to my second kid. And I knew that this time I was going to have a baby. I was going to go back to work at this time. I think it was four and a half months. And then, but I only had seven weeks to go till summer. That's like nothing. That is seriously nothing.
So I just had seven weeks to go and then we were moving and I knew I was taking the year. So those seven weeks are a blip. No problem. Pumping had like it just it was much easier because I knew it wasn't forever. But here we are.
In Florida now. And exactly, Allie. It was not easy to get into my maternity leave. I remember the first few months texting you guys being like, um, it was not comfortable. I didn't know what I was going to do with the year. I had my value. My self-value was so skewed. And you guys, this is only taking a year off. This is not me saying this is my new thing. I think that self-value, we can all speak to that. Although I'm going to take a quick sponsor break, you guys. Just pardon me for a minute. And Molly, we're going to get right back to that same topic.
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You know, and like you've heard it before, teachers, I was not able to plan this exactly ever, but teachers plan their pregnancies so that they can max out taking the maternity leave. During summer and your break and whatnot. Right after spring break. So you take your spring break, cruise through that, boom, start taking the maternity leave right after that. It takes you through summer. It's just there's a way to max it.
teaching even though it was only a year off you lost confidence and in what you were doing because i know like when i got pregnant i was working in tv and i was producing at the time and i just knew as soon as i got pregnant whoa this lifestyle of traveling from hawaii is not going to work out with a family and that idea of doing that kind of work just became further and further and further from reality and critty you're probably feeling some of that too you literally lose contacts and some of your confidence of just being in a specific field I don't know. Can any of you guys see that? I would assume that's so huge for women. My license has lapsed. That's really scary. That really, really, really freaks me out. To go back to work as a licensed social worker in New York State, I would need to re... I don't have to retake the test, but I have to take 30 hours of graduate school education again. I can do it, but wow. It feels like the world shut the door on me. I thought I was taking a pause, but everybody just keeps moving on. It's scary. How am I going to jump back in?
So guys, I'm going through that right now. So when Levi was born, I took one year off. I chose a year just randomly like want to be there for the first year of all the big things and then I'll go back. I went back part time. I lucked out with a job part time and it was right next to a daycare. It was really kind of perfect. But when I got pregnant with Matilda and that was originally a twin pregnancy, I just freaked like, OK, there's just no way there's no way I could go back to work with three kids for a long time. So hormonally made some decisions. We moved to Oklahoma, obviously did not have twins.
I love how you're slipping that in. Like, I just need to secretly let everybody know. It's like, yada, yada, yada. I mean, that's just what it is. I totally know that now. I totally know that now. I was just going through so much. But anyway. You had so much on your plate.
You dropped it on the podcast. I'm not sure. But twins changes everything. And that's what you thought you were faced with. And that makes so much sense to go get the support you needed. Yes. Twins change everything. That's with a toddler. For sure. So, you know, I was just looking at logistics of like daycare. All the things. All the things in a city like Los Angeles where you're in the car, you know, minimum 45 minutes. Minimum. Truly. I don't have family. And no family. No family there. So we come to Oklahoma anyway. Hormonally. Hormonally. Just in case anybody missed that. And I don't know. Kind of the same thing. We didn't really talk about what my plan was going to be per se. But I do love working. And it is like.
I love, I like what I do a lot. Um, and you are so good at it. It's my creative outlet and thanks girl. And there's just a lot of like, you know, self-worth that goes into that, but definitely wanted at least a year with Matilda. Well, year comes along and okay, there's not a lot of work in Oklahoma. Freelance is not a thing here that I'm struggling with. So yeah, Allie, like I'm feeling like, Oh my God, I'm not, not only am I not in my state, you know, where I made my career, but I'm now in a state where it's not like a thing here. So I probably spend two hours a week emailing all my old contacts. Hey, can I work remote? What do you got? What's come down the pipe? And the way, the way things come at me are like,
For example, Friday night, I got a phone call. Hey, I have this commercial. Can I ship you the drive right now? You'll get it tomorrow. Can you work tomorrow? No. And just right now. A kid's birthday party. Exactly. Honestly, exactly, Allie. I was like, shit, I have two birthdays tomorrow. Sure, I can miss them. But like, fuck, I need to mentally prep. I can't just like throw myself into that mode tomorrow.
Yeah, exactly. There's a mood. And then it stops because I feel like you say, I feel like, I don't know about you, Chrissy, but like I was doing freelance reports for a while, social work reports for a while after Mavis was born. And I had to say no so many times that I kind of got the feeling that like, okay, I said, I've had to say no. Okay. They're done asking. They take you off the radar. It's a blow. It's a blow to yourself. And they don't, they don't, all they, all they're thinking is like, well, kids always have straps. You can actually never do anything. That's true. I don't tell them that I, um.
that there's like a kid I don't bring up that I'm a mom with kids because I know it's like a turnoff so I think I said something like I'm out of town I'll be back Sunday evening how about Monday and of course it didn't work out but I never want to say unfortunately I just know if I said I have obligations with my kids they're going to be like okay bye she has kids that's where her mind is that is how it works considered not legitimate totally not legitimate excuse totally and on top of that editors now like know all these additional things that a few years ago I didn't need to have as a skill set and now I kind of need to have it It's stressful. It's stressful. So like now I'm like, okay, cool. If I want to roll with this, I got to learn this program and that program. And that stays with my normal rate. Like shit, it's moving so fast. Because you're in the technology field. Sarah and I ran into a friend of mine from grad school the other day and she had got an additional license. She has three kids too. She has a totally different setup. Her kids have a 10-year age gap between the two older kids and the baby. But she has got an additional social work license. And she was like, are you working? And I was like, mm-mm. And then we sat down at lunch. I was like, Sarah, I'm spiraling. Kate was literally like, maybe I could go back to work. And I was like, what the fuck? You just.
Like you just ran into a friend. Don't face your next huge life move because some lady makes you feel insecure. Right. Totally. You're going to get over this feeling in about 15 minutes. I had to change career paths, right? It's like, I, this might sound terrible, but I did not go to bed at night as a little girl. And I did not.
You know, waking up dreaming that I was going to be a real estate agent. Not that there's anything wrong with it, but I didn't go to journalism school to be a real estate agent. That was never my dream and never my path. Here I am and I do have a wonderful life, but there's so many things like learning a new skill set and it's scary and there are moments of really low confidence and it's like I've been out of it and just with one foot in with two kids for a couple years now. It's just the confidence of moms going back to work. It's really, really hard. And we're so guilty of this ourselves.
there's this like we use this language like we're so old and so much self-abuse right and I feel like like we're just kind of like screwing ourselves by going back into the workforce with this mentality that like I'm old I'm like saggy self-fulfilling prophecy right and we're just I mean you're right obviously society tells us those things too but think of what we've become as mothers how much more confidence do you actually have on other levels where something can happen in your life and you're like I don't give a shit whereas in your 20s you would be all freaked out by it right you can take the day-to-day highs and lows you can ride the wave for so much longer than you ever could before kids oh my god in my most stressful day at any of my old jobs pales into comparison of an average day raising two fucking kids now that's the other thing being home my old stressors at work me too this summer my dad was like are you gonna go back to work i was like um dude what do you fucking think i've been doing this is work exactly yeah i was like you were checked out for my childhood but this is fucking work exactly
You know, just to make the point, if we were not raising the kids, you guys are in the moments when you're not there with your kids. Guess what? Fill in the blank. Somebody else is and they're getting paid to do it and they're getting paid to hopefully do a really great job because it's hard fucking work. It's literally work. If you're not doing it, somebody else is. Yeah, it's such a mind fucker for me to pay somebody to take care of Francis. You know, especially if I'm working at home, that feels really, really awkward. But like it feels classist, you know, because I'm paying for this person to take care of my.
kid and um you're in the other room working yeah Sarah Sarah where are you you are like in it pretty thick you're you're you're working things out where are you and you went back to work so soon after Franny was born and you've been working so hard since she was born and worked so hard your whole pregnancy too PhD I am in a postdoc and I went back to work three months after Francis was born and you know I I mean, it's I could get into a whole conversation about, you know, scientists and, you know, this is why female scientists have such a it's just like a shitty position to be put in because you have to publish, you have to get.
work out, you have to be consistent because nobody applying for a grant wants the people who are grading you on this grant application. They don't want to hear about how, oh, I had a kid and I had some postpartum depression. So I really wasn't all that productive during my postdoc, but I'm back now. And here's my research idea. Give me some money.
Like that doesn't fly. But you're also encouraged to have kids during your postdoc. Like, oh, it's such a great time to have a kid. And that's what I was told. That is not fair. That is not fair. That's so hard. So, you know, I did that. I had a baby during my postdoc. And so I had a fairly unproductive postdoc. And, you know, now I'm sort of like deciding on whether or not this is the right career path for me anyway. Which is terrifying. It's so terrifying. But you know what? Like, I don't know.
My question has been, since I went back to work, my question for myself has been, is this thing that I'm doing for my job to make money, is this worth missing the early years of my child's life for? Sarah, that's where I am too. I feel that so deeply. Every mom's question. I think every mom who's back at work is going to think that, right? And every mom who is at home, which was me, is going to be like, damn it. I'm just fucking withering away over here. That's how I'm feeling right now. It's funny because Sarah and I are going through that together.
cool to hear the flip side too it's yeah this time around for me you know i thought it would be easier second kid and it's extremely painful and it still is and i'm on week 12 of the back every week you're not sure of the answer to that question of like is it worth it you never will be then you're just like constantly second guessing yourself and that is that's not a good way to be approaching at the day so like maybe i'm asking the wrong question and listeners if i am and you have a suggestion i'd love to hear it um actually there's that there's a book the um the fourth trimester have any of you read that book no but it sounds like we probably should be yeah yeah we definitely should be reading it that could be our first nursing and cursing book club book oh my god i just feel pretty strongly like I think the grass is always greener, but the answer to that question for me is no, it is not worth it. But I kind of wish that I had gone back to work when they were all babies and that I had just been dropping out of the workforce right now because I'm seeing bigger kids or bigger problems. Like a lot of what I did when they were little, I'm thinking like, I'm like, actually, maybe a really solid nanny that I loved and respected could have done this just as well as I could. Then I could have been working and keeping my skills sharp. And now that they're older and they're actually out in the world, not just like in the safety of their home, they're out in the world. Now I could step away from the workforce.
take that journey with them so interesting i don't think it's very common although i have a friend who just did it her son entered middle school and this is when she's stepping away yeah i'm like i would have given myself 10 more years in the workforce and but i also wonder like okay but i could have i mean there's flips to everything then i also go back to thinking well you know maybe if i hadn't been the one home maybe my kids would have turned out totally differently and i wouldn't i don't know i wouldn't be staying i don't know anyway it's You can really make yourself crazy with this topic. That's what I'm trying to say. That's so true. You really, really, really can. There's no right way, ladies. Only so many wrong ways. I feel so down on this episode because I'm still in the leaves. I could just cry about it. Oh, Molly. Okay, she keeps trying to jingle. I know. I could just keep going so hard on this episode. That's how hard. Well, we can skip nail fails if you just want to. Oops, sorry. We can keep going if you have anything else to say. I draw inspiration from each of you girls whenever I'm feeling down about any choice. I'm like, well, so-and-so did blah, blah, blah. And she's the person that.
She's a mom that I admire. So yeah, that's so true. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Let's do some nail fails guys. This has got, this got real suicidal. I just want to say I'm proud of all of you. I think that each one of your decisions is slightly different and I admire all of you. I have a pretty, I have a pretty good fail. It's about the cat. Let's skip it. If you say Wednesday, Molly's going to hit a buzzer. She's going to cue the music. She hears, she hears you.
OK, so the other day I was getting ready to leave for work and I heard my nanny reading a book to Francis. And this is I'm going to read an excerpt from this book. One Saturday morning, the Krupke family went to the supermarket to do their dreaded weekly food shopping. They drove in silence until Sally said quietly without looking up from her book. Someone farted. Everyone took a whiff. What is this book? It wasn't me, said Vinny. The parents denied it was them. Everyone looked at Sally who finally said, it definitely wasn't me. They all rolled the windows down, but the smell kept getting worse and worse. Whoever it was was still farting. This book goes on and on, and the book is titled Someone Farted. My nanny was reading this.
To my daughter in front of me. And I'm sure that she had no idea where it was going when she opened it. And I feel so bad about that. That's pretty funny. Great book. Yeah, it's really funny. I love it. I'm going to read that right after I read Fourth Terminal Star. I have a nail, Sarah.
Do I have a nail? Okay. No, I'm going to skip it. Okay. I have one. I took the boys out to gelato and we met some friends with us that have kids. They have two little girls and we have two little boys. And we got our gelato and the boys were sitting at two different tables. It was one boy, one girl, one boy, one girl. And they were having cute little double date, whatever. We were just watching them and they were talking. And then I heard the little girl say to Phoenix, and she's a little bit younger than him. She's like, Phoenix.
I have a crush on you. And he just goes immediately. He did not skip a beat. He did not think about it. He goes, yeah, I really don't have a problem with that. I'm a really likable guy. Oh my God. Oh my God. Wow.
Immediately. Immediately. I nearly spit out my gelato. And I was like, oh, my God. I just turned to the other parent. We were laughing so hard. I'm going to call that my nail because my son's got great confidence. Definitely. That's a huge game. Mad game. That is awesome. Yeah, I really don't have a problem with that. I'm a really likable guy. Okay. So my fail is I was at the farmer's market with my family. And I met a friend of Peter's who I've met, like, maybe once before. And he was like, talk.
Small talk, chatting. Oh, I hear you've got a podcast and I really want to check it out. And I was like, oh, this was a dude, right? And he was actually with his girlfriend. And I was like, yeah, I mean, you're not really our target demographic, but heck yeah, buddy. Like, whatever. And he was like, I mean, yeah, what's it called? Like, Angry Moms. Oh, my God. Angry Moms, you guys. Angry Moms. Well, a lady approached me yesterday and she goes, I heard you have a podcast called Badass Breastfeeding Bitches.
And I was like, could be the name. I was just like, oh, I laughed. And I was like, really? It's actually nursing and cursing. He was like, oh, yeah, same thing.
Oh, man. Well, we made it through that one. I totally was bracing myself. I'm not going to cry. I'm not going to cry. And I didn't cry. And I love you guys. And to all the moms out there working in the home and at the office and in the classroom and every which way, we love you. And we know it's hard, but we also know it's fulfilling. And we also know it's a million other words. And you can do it. You can do the transition because this is back to work, right? And this is some self-talk now. Your kids are okay. That's so true. The kids are okay.
The kids are okay. All right, you guys. We'll see you next week on Nursing and Cursing. Good night, girls. That's it for now. Check you guys next week for another Nursing and Cursing where you won't tell your husband that you accidentally let your kid eat a cat turd.