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3 Key Challenges of Going Back to Work After Baby: One Mama’s Story

3 Key Challenges of Going Back to Work After Baby: One Mama’s Story

by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Sep 11, 2021 | Maternity Leave, Paternity Leave, Working Dad, Working Mom

When people ask why I created Mindful Return in the first place, I often answer, “out of sheer desperation.”  Returning to work after my first child had its challenges.  And then returning after my second drove me off the rails.  There were plenty of baby-focused...
To Buy or Not to Buy? What’s a New Mama Between Sizes to Do about Clothes?

To Buy or Not to Buy? What’s a New Mama Between Sizes to Do about Clothes?

by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Jan 23, 2021 | Working Mom

Confused about your new mama wardrobe and what clothes to wear, especially as you get ready to head back to work?  I’m delighted to be joined today by Lani Inlander, personal stylist at Real Life Style, to help you answer that tricky question: to buy or not to buy? ...
The First Week Back From Leave: In-Real-Time Advice from a Mama Who Just Did It

The First Week Back From Leave: In-Real-Time Advice from a Mama Who Just Did It

by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Sep 21, 2019 | Maternity Leave

What is it REALLY like to be back at work the first week after your parental leave?  My next door neighbor, Denise Myler, just went back to work after her third maternity leave and agreed to write about the experience while she was in it.  This is the raw, unedited...
Introducing: The Parents at Work Podcast

Introducing: The Parents at Work Podcast

by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Apr 27, 2019 | Working Dad, Working Mom

It all started with Twitter. I don’t know who “followed” whom or “tweeted at” the other first.  But that is how Tom Spiggle and I first “met.”  Given I had written the book, Back to Work After Baby, and Tom is the author of You’re Pregnant, You’re Fired, there were...
Back to Work After Baby: A Book Talk at Politics & Prose Book Store

Back to Work After Baby: A Book Talk at Politics & Prose Book Store

by Lori Mihalich-Levin | Sep 22, 2018 | Uncategorized

In May 2017, a few weeks after my book, Back to Work After Baby: How to Plan and Navigate a Mindful Return from Maternity Leave, came out, I had the pleasure of giving a talk at a wonderful book store in Washington, DC, called Politics & Prose. Fast-forward about...
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