In response to my good friend Lesley’s very valid comment question about how on earth I get any work done with the baby in tow, I’ve decided to do the post that I’ve wanted to write for a while. I am, in fact, attempting the impossible for the next four months: working as close to full-time as possible while not putting the baby in day care. (Edit: I wrote this really long, flowery, idealistic post below, but the short answer is that I work - poorly - while the baby sleeps. So I also do everything in my power to help her sleep in long chunks, which is perhaps instilling bad sleep habits, which I will also probably pay for later. And that's about it :)) Over the course of my world travels, I have always been inspired by the women in less industrialized societies than ours. They truly bring their babies everywhere with them as they go about their daily business. They simply strap the babies to their bodies in some kind of carrier and go, nursing whenever...
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