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I zip him up in his footed pajamas, the one that has the little smiling dinosaurs all on it.  The house is quiet, not yet filled with our girls’ bedtime stories told by my husband. I hold my baby close to my chest in the silence of the dusk, soaking in his infancy. This was the moment I had been yearning for since I said goodbye to him nearly eight hours earlier.  No one can really prepare a mother for the day she goes back to work. For weeks, the day had been stuffed in the back of my mind. …