Kit Pier, stay-at-home mom

Her Step Forward

Kit Pier is a military wife, a stay-at-home mother of three, and a Biostatistician. She has an undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University and a Master's Degree in Biostatistics from George Washington University. She worked full-time as a Statistician until welcoming twin sons. She does freelance statistics work from home, but dedicates her time and her talents to her family, which now also includes an adopted daughter. The military keeps them on their toes: so far, in twelve years of marriage, she and her husband have moved to a new location five times. Kit has learned volumes about life and love through motherhood and adoption.
Leaving her career as a statistician to be a stay at home mom offered a different kind of fulfillment for Kit Pier, but the choice wasn’t without its challenges. In her words, “it’s an adjustment when you come from a place where work and your earnings define your identity… some days I miss adult interaction and the satisfaction of completing a project. But in some ways, it was the most natural thing, to be home with my children to witness all their first things.”
Staying at home also made it easier for Kit to shut herself off from connecting with other women, after a life-changing incident.
Opening up for the first time to share her innermost secret, Kit tells about the medical misstep that led to emergency surgery immediately following the birth of her twin boys. Waking up to this news in the ICU was made infinitely worse when hospital staff decided to look into her medical records without permission. This breach of HIPAA privacy laws turned Kit into an item of gossip at the hospital where her husband worked as a doctor - and made her shut down and shut out the world for years.
Joining us to share her story, Kit talks about getting past her darkest days with the support of the military community. She shares the advice she’d give to herself during her most challenging chapter; explains how her views on feminism have changed since adopting a daughter - and how she makes sure she’s raising a strong, independent, and capable woman; and why she also makes it a priority to instill women-supporting values in her sons.