This week on the podcast, Lauren Brody, author of The Fifth Trimester: The Working Mom’s Guide to Style, Sanity, and Big Success After Baby, joins me to discuss the Fifth trimester of pregnancy. The fifth trimester is everything that happens after your baby arrives – all of the feelings, thoughts and decisions that a working mom faces. Having never birthed a baby and never will in this lifetime, I wanted to share this information with my audience of soon-to-be or new mothers.
We jammed on:
- When is a good time to go back to work
- Different childcare options
- What to do when you just want to quit your job after returning to work
- How to look like you slept 8 hours, when you have been up all night
- How to make time for date night and how to reconnect with your partner
About Lauren Smith Brody
Lauren Smith Brody is the author of The Fifth Trimester: The Working Mom’s Guide to Style, Sanity, and Big Success After Baby (Doubleday) and the founder of The Fifth Trimester consulting, which helps parents and businesses collaborate to create a more family-friendly workplace culture. The Fifth Trimester has been featured on Good Morning America, CNN.com, Fast Company, and dozens more outlets, and Lauren has been a featured speaker at companies and organizations including Facebook, The New York Times, and Turner. A longtime leader in the women’s magazine industry, Lauren was most recently the executive editor of Glamour magazine, where she ran the editorial staff and produced the magazine’s annual Women of the Year awards, honoring luminaries like Dr. Maya Angelou and Hillary Clinton. Raised in Ohio, Texas, and Georgia, she now lives in New York City with her husband and two young sons.
Resources:
Thefifthtrimester.com
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The Fifth Trimester: The Working Mom’s Guide to Style, Sanity, and Big Success After Baby
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