I learned I was pregnant a week after signing on to an AI startup. I shipped up until I gave birth — here's how I managed.

Rachael Fuller said that parents have an extra sense of "time management."

Rachael Fuller

• Replit product engineer Rachael Fuller signed her contract one week before she learned she was pregnant.
• Fuller said she worked until midnight in her third trimester and shipped product until the day she gave birth.
• Parents "bring a kind of time management that you don't develop until you have kids," she told Business Insider.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Rachael Fuller...