Telling people I was returning to work full-time after a year of maternity leave prompted a range of responses. There was the anguished “Oh, you poor thing”, accompanied by some mild hand-wringing. Then there was “Could you not drop down to three days?”. Then there were the tales of other mothers who went back to work full-time and crashed and burned by Christmas, completely clapped out in the way only a working parent can be.
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