Karmin is excited to return to the baby and mother unit so that she can help support other mothers.

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Interviewer: And how do you feel about returning back to work? Do you think it would – [unintelligible] it’s hard to say perhaps now. Some people describe it when they start going back to work, they start feeling better.

Yeah, so I kind of feel like – I obviously feel a bit anxious and sad that, like, I’m not going to be spending all – like I’m not going to be spending as much time with my child, as well as, like, being anxious about missing out on all her firsts and stuff like that. But I’m excited to kind of not just be a mom anymore, but actually be Karmin again and, you know, putting my degree to use [chuckle]. And also, like, starting to get, like, financially ahead, because like I had mentioned there’s some financial stress with only being on Employment Insurance. So I’m looking forward to that. I’m just getting forward to – looking forward to just like, finding a routine, a more consistent routine. And I’m going back to a new position, so I’m excited to be learning. I’m going back to – I’m going to be working on the mother baby unit. So that is post partum– I’m going to be working on the postpartum unit. So, with my experience that I’ve had I hope to help mothers through their journeys, or their initial, if their initial, their initial days of their journeys, so –

Interviewer: How would you –

I’m looking forward to it.

Interviewer: Yeah. And based on your experiences now, how would you feel you could offer them support? Would you do it differently?

I think validating the mother’s experience. Like, I didn’t get a lot of that validating. But then also, too, I really want to look into what supports the unit is providing to the patients and what resources there are. And I want to see if there’s any on there that I became aware of that are missing. So I would like to do that. And, yeah, I guess a lot of it honestly is just validation for moms too, and yeah, just getting them connected with the right resources because the first couple of days is just a whirlwind. And yeah. I think that’s how I would like to help other moms. Yeah.

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