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The history of this blog...

When I started this blog it was to express the frustrations involved when you have to work, and still balance being a mom. I worked an eight to five job that left no room for kids and their schedules. I had three sleep disorders which just seemed to aggravate the work situation as well. Life was fine as a professional woman until I became a mom. The very first week I returned from maternity leave, I faced a female boss, who resented women that had children. As she couldn't have any, her mission was to punish those who could. She took me out of my outside sales territory, that was near my son's daycare and put me in a far south territory, that held lower-income areas and much further distances for breastfeeding. Instead of being fifteen miles from my child for a lunch break, I was over fifty miles. Not only did I put more miles on my car, but by the time I was ready to breastfeed or pump...I either had to pull over in 'the hood' to pump and hope no one would