Skye Vadas. 🌻

Finding the right moment to tell anyone you’re having a baby – especially your bosses – is a big deal. The nerves in the lead-up to this moment are only further fueled by the hormones, relentless nausea, inexplicable and endless fatigue and of course the uncertainty and excitement of the 12-week scan – is this definitely happening? Is everything ok? Am I in the clear to be sharing this news?

So you can imagine the immense surprise when, in the week before my planned ‘big reveal’, I was called in for a ‘quick catch up’ with the leadership team, and my bosses shared a company update that was a little different to the ones we’d heard before.

“We wanted to share some exciting news with you, we are having a baby!”

Last week I wrote a think piece for @womensagenda on navigating pregnancy in the workplace, the transformative journey that is becoming a working mum and the need for Australia to better support pregnant and parent workers - the link is in my bio for anyone who’d like to read it ☺️

Thank you to my fellow mumma and confidant @nicxo for sharing this journey with me… right down to the same due date ha🌻

EDIT: this is not another pregnancy announcement! 😅 sorry for the confusion gal pals 💛