What I Wish Someone Had Told Me Earlier About Parenting

But also about work, career, and your thirties & forties.

Parenting upended how I work in so many ways. If you're a new parent still trying to work the same way you did before, it might be a struggle. So much of the myth of the “ideal mother” and lean-in feminism says that we should be able to keep driving forward, just with a baby on our hip.

More specifically, we should be able to do it all with a quiet baby—…