An enormous subject of dialog amongst my prenatal college students is maternity leave- learn how to set boundaries whereas pregnant, learn how to defend that point as soon as child arrives, and what it’d appear like to return to work postpartum. How do you maintain each worlds of being a brand new mum or dad and a working mum or dad? Is it doable to actually take pleasure in each? The reply is sure, and on this dialog, you’ll hear sensible ideas and considerate steerage on learn how to make it work.
On this episode of Yoga | Delivery | Infants, I’m joined by Lauren Smith Brody, an professional in supporting working dad and mom 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 Fashion, 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 printed, and the place the identical patterns nonetheless play out in the present day
- Why so many dad and mom nonetheless internalize the transition of returning to work as one thing they need to have the ability to “deal with higher”
- Boundaries Lauren wished extra anticipating dad and mom felt empowered to set earlier than they go on depart
- Methods to reframe the concern 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 practical help system really seems like, and why it may be laborious 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 fashionable 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 not serve them
- A mindset shift that would instantly make being pregnant and postpartum really feel extra sustainable, in terms of desirous about work
- One closing tip or recommendation Lauren want to supply new and expectant dad and mom
- The place you will discover 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 ladies’s management within the workforce. Her e book, 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 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 government editor of Glamour, the place she oversaw magnificence, style, and well being protection and helped run the model’s Girls of the 12 months Awards. She can also 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.
Join with Lauren:
Web site: https://www.thefifthtrimester.com/
Ebook: The Fifth Trimester
Instagram: @thefifthtrimester
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