An enormous matter of dialog amongst my prenatal college students is maternity leave- the right way to set boundaries whereas pregnant, the right way to shield 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 guardian and a working guardian? Is it doable to really take pleasure in each? The reply is sure, and on this dialog, you’ll hear sensible suggestions and considerate steerage on the right way to make it work.
On this episode of Yoga | Start | Infants, I’m joined by Lauren Smith Brody, an knowledgeable 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 Model, Sanity, and Success After Child.
On this episode you’ll study:
- What elements 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 this moment
- Why so many dad and mom 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 dad and mom felt empowered to set earlier than they go on go away
- The best way 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 help system really seems to be 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, equivalent 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 the case of serious about work
- One remaining tip or recommendation Lauren wish 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 Model, Sanity, and Success After Child, was a triple Amazon bestseller, and her work has been featured in The New York Occasions, The Wall Road Journal, and on Good Morning America. She has additionally spoken at firms throughout the Fortune 500, notably in tech, finance, and regulation, and in 2025 was named a Subsequent Gen winner by Mother and father 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 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 Funds on household points. Lauren lives in New York Metropolis together 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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