I wasn’t thinking like a mother when I went back overseas for the first time after my son's birth.
I was so accustomed to development work without a child that when I did have my son, I was the one who couldn’t adapt to my career.
I had my son when I was 36. Until then, I had lived and travelled to many countries working on U.S. Agency for International Development-funded projects. Opportunities came quick and unexpectedly, and I was used to taking them at the drop of a hat.