‘I Started Working Six Days After Having My Daughter’

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As told to Photography by Karina Garcia, 29, is a chef from Harlem in New York City. She lives with her husband, Eduardo Rodriguez, and their daughter, Yohualli, now four months.

She had no paid leave and went back to work within a week of giving birth.Return to the main article.My husband and I saved for a year and a half in order to have a baby.

I am a chef, and my husband is a music teacher. We also run a supper club from our home on weekends, and I bake doughnuts for a café in Brooklyn four nights a week.We put enough money aside so that we could take eight weeks off running our supper club.

But there is no option to stop completely, so I always planned to keep doing the doughnuts without taking any break. I have to work.