Babies have always been a major part of my life. My first job was as an interpreter and tour guide for American adoption groups in China while I was a first-year English student at a university. I would accompany groups of adoptive parents to orphanages to pick up their children. Following this, I’d bring them to local authorities & consulates to complete their paperwork. Nothing is more beautiful than the outpouring of love & joy on the parents’ faces when they first see their long-awaited babies. That feeling really sticks with you.
Ultimately, I left China to pursue a degree in Fine Arts and Economics in Canada, resulting in my having a PhD in Economics. After graduate school, I started working as an economist for the central bank of Canada. After the birth of our first child, I found it harder and harder to leave my newborn with caregivers to go to work. I wanted to see him eat every meal, and I took & developed pictures of him while he took his naps. I needed a career that would allow me to free up time so I could be there for all the big moments in my baby’s life that I otherwise would’ve missed. I quit my job at the bank and opened up a retail store selling quality baby products. After years of sleeplessness, the baby retail business grew into a chain of five stores, and our family grew to seven, with me, my husband, and our five babies.
Ultimately, I left China to pursue a degree in Fine Arts and Economics in Canada, resulting in my having a PhD in Economics. After graduate school, I started working as an economist for the central bank of Canada. After the birth of our first child, I found it harder and harder to leave my newborn with caregivers to go to work. I wanted to see him eat every meal, and I took & developed pictures of him while he took his naps. I needed a career that would allow me to free up time so I could be there for all the big moments in my baby’s life that I otherwise would’ve missed. I quit my job at the bank and opened up a retail store selling quality baby products. After years of sleeplessness, the baby retail business grew into a chain of five stores, and our family grew to seven, with me, my husband, and our five babies.
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