Begin Your Journey With The Milk Memos Authored By Cate Colburn-Smith Provided As Electronic Format

one of a kind guide to balancing motherhood and work is based on actual journals kept by a group of IBM women during their visits to the company's employee lactation room It all began when IBM manager Cate Colburn Smith sat down in the company's employee lactation room shed a few silent tears and wrote the following on a paper towel I'm a new mom and today is my first day back at work Is anyone else using this room Right away women responded and the paper towel was eventually replaced by a series of notebooks in which women offered one another advice and support on juggling work and a newborn Based on the original notebooks The Milk Memos is a heartwarming encouraging and often hilarious guide to working motherhood It's one of the most existential moments any woman will face sitting in a small room tucked away in the bowels of your company pumping breast milk for a child so close to your heart yet at that moment so far away The Milk Memos records the voices of mothers who while struggling with the difficulties of blending their two lives prove that women don't have to choose between work and family Their thoughts on how it can be done will inspire women everywhere This invaluable book weaves the actual Milk Memos journal entries with information packed sections on such topics of great concern to working moms as finding a private place to pump breast milk at work and establishing a routine that you can maintain despite your busy workday establishing the right daycare solution getting a decent night's sleep with a new baby so

that you can shine or at least glimmer during business hours and negotiating flextime part time or a job share with an employer The ultimate gift for any new mom who will soon return to work The Milk Memos is destined to become a classic on the parenting shelf.