So question for you. Where are you gonna be the night of December 24th? Maybe hiding

from your parents? Enjoying the cookies that were meant for Santa? Maybe it's just another

night, up late with your screaming newborn. This Christmas Eve, we're staying up with you.

Our producer, Jackie and I are gonna be taking more calls from midnight until three in the

morning, Eastern time. And we're doing it on a recorded party line where we can all kind

of freak out together about in-laws and visiting parents, gift-giving, and dimension in-laws.

For more information and a phone number to call, check out our show notes for this episode

and make sure to follow us on Instagram. And now we have a special episode for you. This

one is hosted by our show's creator, Hillary Frank. Hillary started gathering tape for this

episode back in 2017. And we're excited to bring you the story now as our season closer. Hope

you enjoy.

So tell me, what was your original game plan for after your baby was born? Like how did you imagine

you'd spend the first month or so after giving birth? Yeah, so I was basically imagining

this really peaceful, peaceful, peaceful time where I would just be, you know, going to coffee shops

with my baby. She would just be sleeping in my arms. I would have all this time to read and

catch up on TV shows and I would try all these recipes and read all these books as I work full

time. So I thought that this was going to be a vacation, actually. Wait, but you're in OBGYN,

correct? Yes. Have you seen any of your patients have a first month like that?

The problem is I usually, I mean, nobody, I don't think anyone's really honest about that first

month. And so I had no idea what I was getting into. This is the longest shortest time I'm Hillary

Frank. Today we'll hear about Dr. Jessica Chan's maternity leave, which didn't go anything like

she'd expected. And not just because maternity leave and vacation have about as much to do with

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