Like most other baby crazed women in their thirties, I’ve long fantasized about the joy of learning that I am expecting, the day I bring a healthy baby into this world and the phenomenal bonding experience with the little bundle of joy in the year after his or her birth. But what the hell happens after mat leave? Nobody ever talks blissfully about what it’s like to return to their old life before baby at the office. To be quite honest, when it comes to how I would handle my return to work, I have literally given it little to no thought at all. Until now!

Cast (L – R) Jenny (Jessalyn Wanlim), Anne (Dani Kind), Kate (Catherine Reitman), Frankie (June Rinaldi)

Well my friends, for those who are new mothers, soon-to-be mothers or dreaming of becoming mothers one day – you need to be carving some time out of your busy schedules on Tuesday night’s to watching Workin’ Moms. Hilarious, honest, refreshing and totally unfiltered, Workin’ Moms, which debuted on January 10th and incited a cult following almost instantaneously, has managed to pull people away from the Netflix vortex, back into cable television-sphere. Really, a huge feat in itself! I knew by very early on in the second episode that this series had me; hook, line and sinker when I laughed so hard snot literally came spewing out of my nose. In the scene Reitman’s character, a frustrated first time mum, has a mini meltdown trying to get her stroller into the back of her Lincoln MKX SUV screaming, “You have be work for NASA to get this shit folded down!” before launching the still erected pram into the trunk with the girth of an elite athlete. Kate’s lack of patience for the Mommy basics like strollers and breast pumps, telling other judging mom’s to ‘eat a bag of dicks’ and her willingness to fight to have it all in every aspect of her life is exactly how I see myself transitioning into a Workin’ Mom.

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Created by the über talented Catherine Reitman, who is also an executive producer, writer, and plays the lead character Kate Foster, pulls up the curtain on taboo issues that are barely even discussed within the Mommy Community; postpartum depression, workplace insecurities resulting in not feeling like you can keep up or still have what it takes to get the job done, resentment, nanny stress and of course the identity crisis that apparently most women suffer post delivery but very rarely open up about. According to Reitman:

“I went back to work after six weeks. I was surrounded by very important people.  I had just realized I missed my first Mother’s Day. I kept going and was trying to laugh, but I don’t know what happened. I just started bawling. It was so awkward for everyone. But, at those moments, it’s real and it’s true pain.”

Each character’s storyline is based on real life events – art imitating her life if you will. Meticulously thought out and well played by Reitman, making the show’s four leading ladies just as relatable as the women we grew to know and love in Sex and the City and Girls:

The series follows the lives of Kate and her Mommy Group acquaintances as they desperately attempt to juggle parenthood, careers, sex, marriage, and PPD and trust me – the struggle is real! But after binge watching the first four episodes, I’m amazed at how Reitman has managed to keep shit real with just the right amount of comedic elements and touching moments which no doubt reassures new mom’s that they are not alone, even though it can seem so isolating. And although I can’t entirely relate to everything just yet, it’s super fun and entertaining to watch others navigate their way through their newly found Motherhood.

Workin’ Moms airs on CBC on Tuesday night’s at 9:30pm. Catch up on missed episodes here.