A giant subject of dialog amongst my prenatal college students is maternity leave- set boundaries whereas pregnant, defend that point as soon as child arrives, and what it would appear to be to return to work postpartum. How do you maintain each worlds of being a brand new mother or father and a working mother or father? Is it attainable to actually take pleasure in each? The reply is sure, and on this dialog, you’ll hear sensible suggestions and considerate steering on make it work.
On this episode of Yoga | Start | Infants, I’m joined by Lauren Smith Brody, an skilled in supporting working mother and father and advancing ladies’s management within the office. She is the CEO of The Fifth Trimester consulting and the bestselling creator of The Fifth Trimester: The Working Mother’s Information to Type, Sanity, and Success After Child.
On this episode you’ll find out about:
- What elements of the dialog round work and parenthood really feel like they’ve genuinely advanced since The Fifth Trimester was revealed, and the place the identical patterns nonetheless play out immediately
- Why so many mother and father nonetheless internalize the transition of returning to work as one thing they need to be capable to “deal with higher”
- Boundaries Lauren wished extra anticipating mother and father felt empowered to set earlier than they go on depart
- Tips on how to reframe the worry that setting boundaries at work will value you profession credibility or alternative
- What workplaces nonetheless misunderstand most about being pregnant, postpartum restoration, and early parenthood
- What a sensible assist system really appears to be like like, and why it may be exhausting for expectant mother and father to plan for that
- What sorts of ongoing assist really make a distinction, in retention and well-being, when returning to work
- How trendy work tradition’s priorities, comparable to availability and over-functioning, collide with the bodily and emotional realities of being pregnant and postpartum
- Beliefs that oldsters maintain onto, about work and productiveness, that now not serve them
- A mindset shift that would instantly make being pregnant and postpartum really feel extra sustainable, in the case of desirous about work
- One ultimate tip or recommendation Lauren wish to provide new and expectant mother and father
- The place yow will discover her work
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About Lauren:
Lauren Smith Brody is the CEO of The Fifth Trimester consulting, which helps working mother and father and caregivers whereas serving to organizations advance ladies’s management within the workforce. Her guide, The Fifth Trimester: The Working Mother’s Information to Type, Sanity, and Success After Child, was a triple Amazon bestseller, and her work has been featured in The New York Instances, The Wall Road Journal, and on Good Morning America. She has additionally spoken at corporations throughout the Fortune 500, significantly in tech, finance, and legislation, and in 2025 was named a Subsequent Gen winner by Dad and mom journal.
A longtime chief within the ladies’s journal trade, Lauren beforehand served as govt editor of Glamour, the place she oversaw magnificence, trend, and well being protection and helped run the model’s Ladies of the Yr Awards. She can also be a journalist and advocate centered on the intersection of enterprise and parenthood, co-founding the nonprofit Chamber of Moms to advance public coverage options for households. From 2021–2024, she suggested U.S. Well being and Human Companies and the White Home Workplace of Administration and Finances on household points. Lauren lives in New York Metropolis along with her husband, two teenagers, and a extremely medicated rescue canine.
Join with Lauren:
Web site: https://www.thefifthtrimester.com/
E-book: The Fifth Trimester
Instagram: @thefifthtrimester
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