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Jenni Ellis went back to work when her son was seven weeks old. Although she loved her job and knew that even if she wanted to, she would not be able to stay at home with her son, she was not prepared for the transition that was about to take place in her life - the transition of becoming a working mother.
In addition to the transition of having a child, which all new mothers experience, she almost immediately added the transition of coming back to work after maternity leave. She was thrilled with her day care situation, but nothing helped prepare her for the changes that occured in her professional life.
Jenni looked for ways to connect with other mothers, but only found opportunities for stay-at-home moms. There were support groups, playgroups, and classes, but they all took place during the day while Jenni was at work. She eventually found a few classes that took place on weekends, but after a full week of work, Jenni found that either she was too exhausted to participate or didn't want every waking minute of her son's time on the weekends to be spent either on the road to or in a class of some kind. Jenni wanted to spend time at home with her son on the weekends - time that, as a working mother, she didn't get to spend at home with her son during the week.
Jenni was also not prepared for the changes that were taking place in her life professionally. Before her son was born Jenni was at work anywhere from 10 to 12 hours a day. She would come in early and stay late to avoid Atlanta traffic. Work events at night or on the weekends were never been an issue. Now, because of the hours of her son's day care, Jenni was forced to travel during rush hour both to and from work. Not only had the number of hours she was able to spend at work diminished, she was additionally adding nursing or pumping every two hours into her daily schedule. What was once a very organized office very quickly became a place of chaos. For the first time in her life she was having difficulty with time management. She still loved her job, but her attention to it was not what it once was.
Jenni continued to look for support for working mothers, but continued to come up empty handed. She was missing the personal connection with other mothers that her friends who were stay-at-home moms had with one another. She was not only missing that personal connection, she wanted personal connection with women who understood what it was like to be a working mother.
She discussed her frustration with her other working mother friends. One of Jenni's friends said to her, "While it would be great, working mothers don't have the time to network with one another. We are all balancing motherhood, a household, our career and occasionally try to take some time for ourselves. Although a network would be great, none of us have time to create it." It was then that Jenni decided that she would create the network that she herself had been looking for and Mom @ Work was born.
