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Kate McCann

Gallery: what working parents really look like

Working parents gallery: Working parents 10
Lunch with my boys. Two little visitors joined me on my lunch break at the office, just a few weeks after returning to work after my third boy.
Photograph: SarahTraynor/GuardianWitness
Working parents gallery: Working parents 1
At least I can have a peek at her on my desktop... Like so many parents, I plastered my working environment with pictures of my toddler. First days back at work are hard.
Photograph: Anissa Lybaert/GuardianWitness
Working parents gallery: Working parents 4
Fit session with the kids! Here is a photo of one of my typical working days running my own kids clothing business - fit session with my two girls at home ...
Photograph: laylamayuk/GuardianWitness
Working parents gallery: Working parents 2
Coding!
Photograph: JaneZ/GuardianWitness
Working parents gallery: Working parents 5
The family business. My husband home from his day job at Newcastle University, packing up orders for our family business. We run a personalised children's wear business from the shop at the front of our house. I design and make all the orders and he packs them up. We have two helpers that like to help by spotting where Wally is.
Photograph: lauxgled/GuardianWitness
Working parents gallery: Working parents 3
Computer, coffee, sleeping baby. Catching up on some work while the baby sleeps! Photograph: ID0727732/GuardianWitness
Working parents gallery: Working parents 7
A typical day at the office. My son (then one year old) asleep behind my desk. He came to the office with me until he was six months old. Now he and his older brother are only occasional visitors, but my office always has a box of lego and a mattress in it for emergencies (and a hidden bag of sweets as well). Photograph: untamedshrew/GuardianWitness
Working parents gallery: Working parents 6
Mum's 'toys' are equally fun to play with! My daughter playing with my teaching aids - she loves them all and helping me pack before a class!
Photograph: gemhyde/GuardianWitness
Working parents gallery: Working parents 8
Stage is set! Lead singer of rock band Mum ready to go on stage at an outdoor music festival ... mini-roadie in her arms!
Photograph: Niamh OSheehan/GuardianWitness
Working parents gallery: Working parents 8
Facetime before bedtime. Juggling meetings on a recent work trip to New York to make time for a 5 minute FaceTime conversation with my husband and 23 month old son back home in London. Couldn't always make it work in the short window between them getting home from work/childminder and bedtime.
Photograph: pixeldiva/GuardianWitness
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