Flight: Brisbane
Date: 18th February
Being a working mom is no easy task; they are considered as the modern superwomen. Some may criticise them as a shame to the so called motherhood, as they are more career oriented than focusing raising their children. Many movies has been made depicting their daily struggle, and juggle of being a mother, wife and career woman.
For many years the air hostess profession was labelled as a taboo to motherhood. Some are even under the notion that air hostess' aren't capable of bearing children. In fact, raising them would be a massive challenge, with the heavy travelling involved. However I’ve met the super crew moms behind raising kids from 4months old to 12 years, and still looking good as they were in their college days.
Many airlines today have evolved with employee regulations for married crew, and have given the privilege of rejoining as crew once the baby is born. Sam as we called her in flight, was a newly returned-to- work air hostess mom. She showed pictures of her newborn who was just 4 months. She said her biggest fear is that one day when she wakes up she will hear her daughter calling the live in maid mom and not her.
As any other working mother, crew moms have the same fear, losing the credibility in her role as a mother. However on her days off she does everything from cooking to feeding and playing with her baby. She was thankful to have found caring help. Annie, another crew mom, who had used every possible technology on earth after watching a YouTube Video on scary nannies has had nanny cams installed everywhere, including the baby’s pram. Thanks to all the new technology, she gets updates immediately on her mobile phone. How ridiculous it sounds, instead of watching TV, she spends her first few good hours at the hotel looking at the daily nanny updates.
Despite the ups and downs of the job, many airhostess’s love their job dearly. As it would be in any other profession, they would not want to give up what they built as a career woman, instead they juggle and balance it with motherhood. Family support and understanding husbands is what had them going on and of course Skype. Thanks to the Internet, talking to a distant family member is just one click away.
One beautiful airhostess, with almost super model looks, looked pretty sad about forgetting her laptop on her way to work. Upon enquiring it turned out she has a 12 year old son, who lives and studies away and she was suppose to speak to him online. No matter if it would have emotionally affected her; she looked after all passengers with care as usual. It was her patience and perseverance that made her look a decade younger than I thought she was, and perhaps it was the “super mom” shining out!
Love, Dany
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