Can you be a Mum and still Dream BIG?

When you're a mum sometimes life can become a little repetitive, wonderful and incredibly rewarding but a little repetitive. As a working mum, life is incredibly hectic and a constant juggling act. More often than not I feel that it's a juggling act where sometimes I drop the ball and I feel like I'm failing. Even though life can be overwhelming, I have a huge desire to still pursue my own dreams.

Ideas for Returning to Work After Maternity Leave

Planning a return to work after maternity leave can be a daunting task, during a period of big change in both yours and your family’s life. Just getting back into the swing of working life can be hard, time away from your baby also, can be emotionally challenging, despite all the support from your employer, it might feel like it will take ages to settle back in to your working role again.

More and more often, women returning to work from maternity leave are choosing new paths, and opting for new beginnings. The wish for more flexible hours, or to be able to spend more time at home, combining the new adventure of raising a child with the possibilities of a different, and much more suitable career path might seem daunting, but has never been more practical.

Working from home is a plan that sounds ideal to many women, offering the peace of mind of being at home with your new baby, with the less stressful, more familiar environment of home. Not to mention a far greater degree of control over your working life, many women use the existing skills they have gained, but in a different, and potentially far more fulfilling way.

My 7 Month Old at Nursery

It's currently just gone 2:30, I've finished my first day back at work after the Easter Holidays and I'm patiently waiting to go and pick my two little munchkins up at 5pm. It's Henry's first full day at nursery and I'm anxious to see how he handled the day. We decided to keep them at Nursery till 5pm because that is Darcie's normal hours, so it seemed pointless changing it. Plus it gives me a little time to do any work that needs doing at home or for the blog, yet all I'm doing is clock watching and resisting the urge to hop in the car and pick them up early.

Work & Breastfeeding

As most of you will know I head back to work on Monday after being off work since the middle of July. Whilst I wrote a little a while ago how I was feeling about my return to work after maternity leave, I wanted to write a dedicated post about returning to work and breastfeeding. Can they go hand in hand?