eX: No, but that part sounds nice. Kelly: Yeah. And then after about six months they start to develop a personality and it’s much more interactive between you two. They’re smiling, babling, crawling, laughing. As soon as you figure it out, it’s on to a new stage and you have to figure that out. So you’re con- stantly learning, because you don’t know what each day is going to bring you. eX: What were the first few hours like? Kelly: When Logan was born, I held him for a second, and he reached out and like rubbed my face like it’s going to be ok, Mom, but then they took him away from the NICU, and they took me back down to my hospital room, be- cause my blood pressure was still really high, so I didn’t get to see him for almost 24 hours, which was incredibly hard. eX: How do you remember your first few months? Kelly: It’s funny, I think your brain kind of pro- tects you from those first few months, so those memories are kind of vague. I do remember a sort of euphoria in moments when I was bond- ing with Logan. I think for me, I bonded with my child right away, but I think it first feels like it’s you and your child when they start to develop their own personality and they start interacting with you. You see them start to develop as their own person and that’s a lot of fun. Before that it’s just keeping them alive.
eX: Where did you go when you didn’t know something? Kelly: I did a lot of research while I was preg- nant. I subscribed to a couple apps, and the apps would give you an update every week. The baby is this size...these are your side effects. On top of that, I was a high-risk pregnancy so I was seeing my doctors all the time and having tests done. There was also a lot of people here [at LearnVest] that were pregnant at the same time or had just had a baby, so there were a lot of conversations about what I can expect, what they were feeling, so there was a lot of peer- to-peer learning, which was helpful. eX: Has being a mom changed how you work? Kelly: I think what Logan has done a lot for my life is add a whole dimension of patience. I think I bring more empathy and kindness to work in some ways. It’s a different relation- ship when you’re a parent with a child. You’re responsible for making them a good person, raising them, and helping mold them, and so there’s a level of empathy that comes with that. They’re not you, they’re different and you have to accept that. Patience is huge too because in the beginning you have to give up some of the things you had before, you have to become selfless in many ways. Your priorities change so things that used to bother me at work don’t bother me any more.
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