Two Years Without Sleep: Working Moms Talk About Having a Baby and a Job. This item is unavailable.Two Years Without Sleep: Working Moms Talk About Having a Baby and a Job

Two Years Without Sleep: Working Moms Talk About Having a Baby and a Job is practically a classic. It has helped thousands of new moms understand that exactly what it’s like to have a baby and a job by learning what others have experienced. New parents never really believe having a baby is going to be as challenging as it is, so having a book that lets them know they aren’t alone makes a huge difference. Full of quotes from women around the country, expert advice, statistics and illustrated with old Victorian line art, Two Years Without Sleep is designed to help a new mom from the time she finds out she is pregnant through the birth of her baby to returning to work in a easy-to-read format. The book has been used by many Fortune 500 companies in new parent, employee assistance, lactation, management training and diversity programs, as well by the military. Two Years Without Sleep is the first in Cathy Feldman’s trilogy of book about working women. The other two are Men at the Office: Working Women Talk About Working with Men, and I Work Too: Working Wives Talk about Their Dual Career Lives.

Cathy Feldman, editor/publisher of Two Years Without Sleep: Working Moms Talk About Having A Baby and A Job, The Men At The Office: Working Women Talk About Working With Men, and I Work Too: Working Wives Talk About their Dual-Career Lives, is an editor and researcher living in Santa Barbara, California. She graduated from the University of Iowa with a degree in journalism and mass communication. She began her business career in advertising and became director of advertising for a major California retail chain. Fifteen years ago Cathy started her own research company, and Blue Point Books grew out of her research work. She met so many interesting women who told her great stories about their experiences in the workplace, she knew she had to try to put them together in a book. But when people to whom she showed the prototype of the first book, Two Years Without Sleep in a three-ring binder said they wanted to buy it for their employees, she became a publisher and started Blue Point Books.

Cathy has interviewed more than 600 women from all over the country in a wide variety of professions. She describes the Blue Point Books project as a grass-roots effort made possible by a very informal network of people who want to share information and experiences.