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  • a stylish executive pushes a baby stroller while wearing sunglasses and talking on a phone; she is going back to work after maternity leave
    Babies | Career | Maternity Leave | Mom Issues | Parenting | Postpartum | Work-Life Balance | Working Mom

    Open Thread: Work After Maternity Leave

    ByKat Hours Apr 20, 2016Feb 27, 2025
    Comments 28 Comments

    What are some of your best tips for adjusting upon returning to work after maternity leave? What do you wish you’d known, or what did you come to realize? For my own $.02: Among my friends, the end of maternity leave has loomed large in all of our lives — but on a kind of sliding scale….

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    Career | Work-Life Balance | Working Mom

    Starting a Working Parents’ Group at the Office

    ByKat Hours Mar 16, 2016Mar 3, 2021
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    A few months ago, a friend and I were talking about how her huge company has a pretty strict face time requirement at the office. As a parent she felt it really limited her upward mobility at the company, and she felt somewhat like she didn’t have a voice in the matter. So we began pondering: how…

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    Career | Childcare | Family Planning | Work-Life Balance | Working Mom

    Job and Career Changes After Baby: Did You Make Changes? How?

    ByKat Hours Sep 2, 2015Nov 1, 2018
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    2018 Update: We still think this is a great discussion of career changes after baby — but you may also want to check out our more recent discussion of The Mommy Effect study and whether women have an unrealistic view of working motherhood. Ladies, have you made career changes after having your baby? If so,…

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    Babies | Career | Maternity Leave | Postpartum | Work-Life Balance | Working Mom

    Maternity Leave — and Staying Connected to the Office

    ByKat Hours May 27, 2015Feb 27, 2025
    Comments 21 Comments

    How connected SHOULD you be on your maternity leave, and how should you keep in touch with your office? How available should your employer EXPECT you to be? If there’s a mismatch in expectations, what does it mean for your career prospects?  Maternity Leave and Staying Connected to the Office This may be a case where understanding and managing expectations is…

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    Career | Nursing | Postpartum | Work-Life Balance | Working Mom

    Pumping When You’re Traveling for Work

    ByKat Hours Apr 29, 2015Mar 9, 2021
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    I am far from an expert on traveling for work — particularly while pumping. In fact, I’ve done it exactly twice: once with Jack (for a whirlwind trip to Seattle for a speaking engagement) and once with Harry (for a whirlwind trip to Chicago for an alumni conference). And: what a PITA. Both times, the…

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