Then I taught my second-period class, and I remember my second-period class being especially distracted and chatty. I taught my first-period class, and throughout the class, I noticed that my students were a bit more chatty and giggly than usual. On this particular day, I wore my khaki pants to school.

To save time in the morning, I used to eat a granola bar for breakfast every morning once I got to school. My most embarrassing moment happened the first month of my first year teaching, and it was mortifying. Thank goodness there was a neighboring teacher who could cover me – she watched my class AND gave me her cardigan. I calmly explained what was happening and that I was going to have to slip out for a few minutes. I saw looks of horror and sympathy, but the funniest faces were from those who had no idea what was actually going on. However, I didn't get to take a single step before there were two lovely streams of breast milk flowing down my shirt. Knowing what was about to happen, I turned toward the door, hoping I could somehow escape before I exploded. Everything was working splendidly until one day I was in front of my twelfth grade class, in the middle of a heated discussion, and I got that familiar tingly feeling. I was still nursing my son, but I gave him a feeding every day before I left and then when I got home for lunch. My husband & I were tag-teaming parenting duties, with me working in the mornings and him in the afternoons, so I figured I'd go back to work a little early. We get up to a year's maternity leave in my province but, with my third child, I decided to go back to work in September when he was only three months old. I’ve had a number of embarrassing moments in front of my class, but the day my boobs exploded would have to top the list.

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