Craig Robinson

She's who you would have been.

Yeah.

Well, I talk about this a lot with young staff who have just had kids and, you know, because that is the dilemma.

You know, you don't know how you're going to feel until that baby shows up.

You know, you can have whatever plan you had.

I'm going to stay at work.

I'm going to go home.

And until you get through it and you get through all the things that come with being a new mother, like postpartum, I mean, you've talked about

your experience with postpartum.

You don't know what that's going to feel like and how to get through that.

So I'd first say, give yourself a minute to just right-size yourself.

And how old is the baby now?

A year.

I mean, like our maternity leave policy is ridiculous if you have to follow one because most of it is three months, four months.

I mean, that doesn't even give a woman's body time to fully heal.

Even if you've had a natural childbirth, let alone let your hormones stabilize because your body is still saying, I am feeding this child, literally breastfeeding.

So your hormones are telling you to do one thing

And the societal structure is telling you to do something else.

It's not supporting the mother in the way, you know, what her biological needs are.

And I think we first have to understand that that is actually going on.