# Career after maternity leave

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/career-after-maternity-leave/672874>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 1, 2013, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/career-after-maternity-leave/672874 "2013-11-01T21:06:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![smaje1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@smaje1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smaje1)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/career-after-maternity-leave/672874/1 "2013-11-01T21:06:31Z")

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I’m back at work after a (blissful, kinda) four-month maternity leave. Baby smaje jr. is in daycare right now with her big sister, baby smaje, and I am DONE having kids. (Knock on wood.)

I feel just the slightest bit lost, being back at work, but I blame that partially on lack of sleep. 😛 Even so, I really want to throw myself back into my career and put myself on the path for promotion.

Any advice for someone trying to rev up her career post-babies?