A giant subject of dialog amongst my prenatal college students is maternity leave- find out how to set boundaries whereas pregnant, find out how to shield that point as soon as child arrives, and what it’d seem 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 actually take pleasure in each? The reply is sure, and on this dialog, you’ll hear sensible ideas and considerate steering on find out how to make it work.
On this episode of Yoga | Delivery | Infants, I’m joined by Lauren Smith Brody, an knowledgeable 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 printed, and the place the identical patterns nonetheless play out in the present day
- Why so many mother and father 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 mother and father felt empowered to set earlier than they go on go away
- The best 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 to be 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, similar 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 might instantly make being pregnant and postpartum really feel extra sustainable, in the case of eager about work
- One last tip or recommendation Lauren wish 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 e-book, 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 Occasions, The Wall Road Journal, and on Good Morning America. She has additionally spoken at corporations 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, style, 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 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.
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Guide: The Fifth Trimester
Instagram: @thefifthtrimester
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