An enormous matter of dialog amongst my prenatal college students is maternity leave- tips on how to set boundaries whereas pregnant, tips on how to defend that point as soon as child arrives, and what it would appear like to return to work postpartum. How do you maintain each worlds of being a brand new father or mother and a working father or mother? Is it doable to actually get pleasure from each? The reply is sure, and on this dialog, you’ll hear sensible ideas and considerate steerage on tips on how to make it work.
On this episode of Yoga | Beginning | Infants, I’m joined by Lauren Smith Brody, an skilled in supporting working dad and mom and advancing girls’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 Fashion, Sanity, and Success After Child.
On this episode you’ll study:
- What components of the dialog round work and parenthood really feel like they’ve genuinely developed since The Fifth Trimester was printed, and the place the identical patterns nonetheless play out right this moment
- Why so many dad and mom 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 dad and mom felt empowered to set earlier than they go on depart
- 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 really appears to be like like, and why it may be arduous for expectant dad and mom to plan for that
- What sorts of ongoing help really make a distinction, in retention and well-being, when returning to work
- How trendy work tradition’s priorities, resembling availability and over-functioning, collide with the bodily and emotional realities of being pregnant and postpartum
- Beliefs that folks maintain onto, about work and productiveness, that not serve them
- A mindset shift that would instantly make being pregnant and postpartum really feel extra sustainable, in terms of fascinated by work
- One closing tip or recommendation Lauren want to provide new and expectant dad and mom
- 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 dad and mom and caregivers whereas serving to organizations advance girls’s management within the workforce. Her guide, The Fifth Trimester: The Working Mother’s Information to Fashion, Sanity, and Success After Child, was a triple Amazon bestseller, and her work has been featured in The New York Instances, The Wall Avenue Journal, and on Good Morning America. She has additionally spoken at firms throughout the Fortune 500, significantly in tech, finance, and legislation, and in 2025 was named a Subsequent Gen winner by Mother and father journal.
A longtime chief within the girls’s journal trade, Lauren beforehand served as govt editor of Glamour, the place she oversaw magnificence, vogue, and well being protection and helped run the model’s Ladies of the Yr Awards. She can 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 Funds 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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