Small talk tended to revolve around what the baby was up to these days (usually a combination of not sleeping and being aggressively photogenic) and how they were sorry to take me away from my baby. A comment that, in and of itself, betrays underlying assumptions about gender roles. Then, the conversation would peter out because hearing about a colleague’s baby is not interesting unless you have some emotional stake in the game. I found myself missing the days we’d all cling to the conversational liferaft of weather.
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