Am I abandoning my baby by refusing to abandon myself?

Starting a new job and inhabiting the land of mom guilt

“You are not failing, you are being failed,”

Zoe Gardiner

wrote earlier this week.

And I wondered, do these tender words, written to burned-out mothers around the world really apply to me?

Me with my white, female, American privilege and just one healthy, active, perfect toddler?

The delight of eating french fries.

Me, whose hands know how to titrate just the right am…