30 Issues | Your Back-to-Work After Motherhood Stories
After a woman has a baby in the United States, the time for rest, bonding, and recovery is often determined not by tradition, or even by a doctor’s recommendations, but by the new mother’s employment situation.
Jessica Shortall, a writer based in Dallas and author of Work. Pump. Repeat.: The New Mom's Survival Guide to Breastfeeding and Going Back to Work (Harry N. Abrams, 2015), discusses the creative ways mothers balance new baby and work, and we take your calls.
And mothers, you know those cartoonish stock photos of "new moms returning to work while juggling a baby and a briefcase"? Let's expand the definition of newly back-to-work moms.
Shortall has already started a gallery of realistic working mom photos.
Do you have a picture of yourself as a new mom and newly back-to-work? Would you share it with us? Tweet it at @BrianLehrer with the hashtag #trueworkingmom.
If you want to include details about how much time you took off, or how you felt at the time, please do!
