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This includes education in advance to help you become informed and aware of your options and preferences, as well as time spent building our relationship and establishing trust, comfort, and familiarity. https://www.lizdaher.com/blog/origin monthly 0.5 2025-04-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67c5a8c183549528805be2b5/def357e7-b02a-4bbe-aa37-27c85528082d/Little+Liz.png Blog - An Origin Story I really did dream about going into space. Or, at the very least, working on space-related things. As a teen, I had the opportunity to meet Roberta Bondar – the first Canadian woman astronaut – and naturally, asked how I could follow in her footsteps. She suggested that I start with getting an engineering degree, and so I did. I already enjoyed and excelled in math and physics, and came from a long line of engineers, so it was actually a natural progression. But I’ll be honest. Engineering was hard. As I moved through that degree, often struggling to make it from one term to the next, space started to seem farther and farther away. I made peace with that, and after graduating, I traded my dreams of donning a space suit for the reality of a hazmat suit, which I did in fact don and doff numerous times while working on-site and inside of a nuclear reactor. (You could say, I traded one vacuum for another. Get it?). Over the next decade, I built a solid career in the nuclear energy sector, specializing in failure analysis and maintenance optimization, then moving into management and eventually technical projects, communication, and even executive suite support. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67c5a8c183549528805be2b5/60c32857-9345-4272-b706-b6cff839cc09/Work+Life+Balance.JPG Blog - An Origin Story - “Work-life balance” At the same time, I was reflecting a lot on my pregnancies, birth experiences, and postpartum periods. I have a supportive partner and immediate family, and I was still blown away with how much help we needed in those early days. It was hard. I struggled a lot, especially with breastfeeding. After my first birth, it took me months to get my bearings again and feel like I could go out into the world without it being a whole production. And once I did start to feel that I had some things figured out, I felt compelled to share my experience with other new parents. I’d find myself late at night, nursing a baby, hanging out in Facebook mom groups, offering my lived experience, accumulated knowledge, and encouragement to other new moms who were struggling. My husband and I started to dream about the ways that our life could look different. We were looking ahead to when our kiddos would be out of daycare, knowing that the routine we’d settled into wasn’t going to align with the vision we had for when our kids started school. (We both worked in the same industry with similar schedules and professional commitments, and we could see that as a family, we needed more flexibility). Based on our own individual strengths, temperaments, dreams and goals, we agreed that it was natural for me to be the one to make a change. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67c5a8c183549528805be2b5/b11da899-fc63-420c-99ab-534092d9d22c/Liz+Pregnant+with+D.JPG Blog - An Origin Story During that time, I had my own two babies. Each time, I took maternity leave, then returned to work, and soon I had 2 little ones, 2 and under, who I had to leave each morning before they even awoke. (As an aside, I’m very grateful to have been able to take 12 and 16 months respectively – I recognize that for the privilege that it was!). Then I’d rush home from work to catch the train and make it to daycare pickup just in time. Get them home, eat, sleep(ish), and repeat. It started to feel unsustainable. 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