An enormous subject of dialog amongst my prenatal college students is maternity leave- the best way to set boundaries whereas pregnant, the best way to shield that point as soon as child arrives, and what it would seem like 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 the best way to make it work.
On this episode of Yoga | Beginning | 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 writer 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 components of the dialog round work and parenthood really feel like they’ve genuinely developed since The Fifth Trimester was revealed, and the place the identical patterns nonetheless play out right now
- Why so many mother and father nonetheless internalize the transition of returning to work as one thing they need to be capable of “deal with higher”
- Boundaries Lauren wished extra anticipating mother and father felt empowered to set earlier than they go on go away
- The right way to reframe the worry that setting boundaries at work will price you profession credibility or alternative
- What workplaces nonetheless misunderstand most about being pregnant, postpartum restoration, and early parenthood
- What a practical help system truly seems like, and why it may be laborious for expectant mother and father to plan for that
- What sorts of ongoing help truly make a distinction, in retention and well-being, when returning to work
- How fashionable work tradition’s priorities, corresponding 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 might instantly make being pregnant and postpartum really feel extra sustainable, relating to fascinated by work
- One closing tip or recommendation Lauren want to supply new and expectant mother and father
- The place you could find 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 ebook, 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 firms throughout the Fortune 500, significantly in tech, finance, and regulation, 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 Girls of the 12 months Awards. She can be a journalist and advocate targeted 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 Providers 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.
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Instagram: @thefifthtrimester
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