Maternity leave presents a whole host of replacement tasks and obligations By the time you read this, I will be gone. Goodbye to the nine to five. Goodbye to the conversations you have while filling up your water bottle by the cooler.

Goodbye to remembering your staff pass so you can get in and out of the newsroom. Goodbye to carrying your laptop in and out each day and goodbye to that bar of chocolate you can never resist when the afternoon slump hits or when you’re topping up your petrol on the drive home..