All the Pregnant Ladies

From Left: Nina (who you may remember from a prior post), ME, and Molly.

Dear Baby Girl,

For some reason, 2016 is the year to have babies if you are in Investments and Capital Markets. In a predominantly male dominated profession—and on a predominantly male dominated trading floor—three of the few women are pregnant simultaneously. In fact, we are each spaced out by almost two months exactly (Nina’s mother in law made the comment that it must have been a long, hard winter). Anyway, this is great news for you, as you will have at least two playmates here. The other two girls are having boys, and growing up with boys sounds about on par with my childhood, so I’m confident you will hold your own (but if you’re concerned one of my best friends from high school just had a baby girl yesterday).

I organized this little photo shoot to try and time it so that Nina was far enough along to have a solid bump, but prior losing Molly to labor. We cut it pretty close. She’s ready to pop. Every time she’s not at her desk I think, “Oh my God. Is it go-time?” So as not to waste a single day of paid maternity leave pre-baby, we are all planning on working basically until our water breaks. We’ll see how that goes. None of us really wants that to happen at our desks. We definitely looked ridiculous all three walking together to our photo shoot. The background is the newly renovated trading floor, which isn’t quite finished, so we had a solid setting where prying eyes and judgement could be avoided.

I’m fairly confident that such a photo opportunity as three pregnant ladies has never happened in capital markets, and Lord knows when it will happen again, so I’m glad we seized the opportunity. After a bit of photoshopping I sent a blast message to a select few in the division titled, “Something in the Water.”

Love,

Mom

Belly bump!