Dr. Laura:

Thank you for giving me the strength and wisdom to choose to be a stay-at-home mom.  I am a pediatrician who made a mistake and chose poorly with my first marriage.  I was lucky enough to have discovered you so that when I met my now wonderful husband, I could be the wife and mother he and our boys deserve.

Shortly after we married, I became pregnant with twins.  Both of us are physicians, and we realized that our colleagues who were married and both working physicians had children and marriages that were severely suffering divorce, drugs and more.  The physicians who were married with kids and whose spouse stayed at home had what appeared to be happy, thriving families.  This wasn't a scientific study, but it was still blatantly obvious to us what to do.  So I became a stay at home mom.

It took a lot of courage to face those who could not understand "throwing away" my very successful career, including my seven-digit income.  On the days it was more than I could take, you and your confident words kept me strong and unwavering.  I would love to meet you some day, as I'd want to discuss the topic of high-income career women transitioning into stay-at-home moms.  Not to undermine other moms and the sacrifices they make to stay at home, but I think women like me are in a unique situation.  We suffer tremendously as social outcasts while forgetting that one of the reasons we became successful is that we never stood down to people.  We are powerful women in our own right, commanding boardrooms, and emergency rooms.  Those of us who are pediatricians have immense credibility when it comes to the care of children.  I believe we have an opportunity to use our strong voices to change the way that society views raising children.  

Jill