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I would have been offended, except they knew me better than I knew myself.
要不是他們比我還了解我自己，這種做法肯定會惹惱我。
I was back on e-mail from my hospital room the day after giving birth.
生完孩子當天，一回到病房我就開始上網查看郵件了。
Over the next three months, I was unable to unplug much at all.
隨后的3個月，我根本就不可能對工作完全撒手不管。
I checked e-mail constantly.
我總是在查看郵箱，
I organized meetings in my living room, during which I sometimes breast-fed and probably freaked several people out.
在起居室里開電話會議，這期間還可能要給孩子喂奶，一些人很可能會因此崩潰。
(I tried to set these gatherings for times when my son would be sleeping, but babies make their own schedules.)
我試過在兒子睡覺的時候開會，但小孩子可不會乖乖地遵從你的時間安排。
I went into the office for key meetings, baby in tow.
重要的會議我會帶著孩子去辦公室開。
And while I had some nice moments with my son, I look back on that maternity leave as a pretty unhappy time.
盡管我和兒子也一起度過了一些美好的時光，但回憶起來，那段產假休得并不開心。
Being a new mother was exhausting, and when my son slept, I worked instead of rested.
初為人母真累人，我兒子在睡覺的時候，我則在工作而不是休息。
And the only thing worse than everyone knowing that I was not sticking to my original commitment was that I knew it too.
每個人都知道我沒有信守最初的承諾，比這還糟糕的是，我心里也很清楚這一點，
I was letting myself down.
我正在損害自己的威信。
Three months later, my non-leave maternity leave ended. I was returning to a job I loved,
3個月后，我所謂的產假結束了，我又回到了我熱愛的工作崗位。
but as I pulled the car out of the driveway to head to the office for my first full day back,
但當我把車倒出車庫，正要去辦公室開始回歸工作的第一天時，
I felt a tightness in my chest and tears started to flow down my cheeks.
胸口突然出現了一種重壓感，接著眼淚就順著臉頰流下來。
Even though I had worked throughout my "time off," I had done so almost entirely from home with my son right next to me.
雖然“休假”期間我一直在工作，但那時兒子基本上一直都在我身邊。
Going back to the office meant a dramatic change in the amount of time I would see him.
而回到辦公室則意味著我和他在一起的時間會急劇減少。
If I returned to my typical twelve-hour days, I would leave the house before he woke up and return after he was asleep.
如果我還是和從前一樣每天工作12個小時，就得在他醒來時離家、在他睡著時到家。
In order to spend any time with him at all, I was going to have to make changes ... and stick to them.
若要保證陪孩子的時間，我就必須調整工作時間，而且要堅持下去。
