Giving birth is one of the beautiful God gifts to a Woman. As a Woman enters motherhood she requires some time to settle herself and her baby. She needs physical strength, emotional power and lots of care during this phase of her life. When a carrier oriented woman enters this phase, the challenges from professional front awaits for her along with physical and emotional challenges. If you are a mom and planning to join workplace post maternity break here are some tips for you.
Joining Workplace post-Maternity Break requires a lot of mindful planning. I am sharing some tips for you with my experience and this will help you Joining Workplace post-Maternity Break.
1. Stay Emotionally Strong and reduce Mommy’s guilt. :
As a mom plans Joining Workplace post-Maternity Break she fight an emotional battle with herself, she faces a separation anxiety. Yes, you will leave your newborn baby home exactly when your baby needs you the most. I can totally understand that removing this thought and overcoming the mom’s guilt is not possible. I would suggest thinking differently if you are stepping out it is for the betterment of your child.
Try for some time inform your Reporting head well in advance that if the situation will not work you may extend the break or request for Work from home for some time.
2. Be prepared for Facing Family and society:
Everyone will be ready to question you Or may talk negatively about Mom and child bonding. Don’t worry, For your baby, you are the boss. When you need help or to overcome the challenges in life none of these will come and lend a hand. Here you need to make trust bond with your partner or husband. You need to plan and organize baby care and baby needs well in your absence. Seek help from your parents, siblings, and Husband. Try and make sure you involve your partner or Husband in all baby needs from day one. After all, we are in the era of #Equalparenting.
3. Safety is always first for your baby:
In your absence, you need to plan a safe environment for your baby. If you plan to leave your baby with maid or ayyah Always ensure camera’s with live streaming on your phone is installed. Ensure police verification and all necessary documentation is done before hiring a maid. With a joint family system care is ensured for a baby But with Nuclear setup issue seems very big. Make sure you baby-proof your house before you leave.
I would suggest taking help from your parents and in-laws to babysit and support your decision. Make sure you take help from your partner or husband to convince parents. Convincing Parents and in-laws may take some time but, I am sure if you share your thoughts with positively they will get convinced.
4. Breastfeeding and baby care:
Breastfeeding is highly recommended by WHO for a baby till 6 months. Breastfeeding is good for baby’s health as well as mom’s health and emotional well being. Now, If you are out how will you breastfeed. So I would suggest trying to stay in the vicinity of your office premises. Take prior permission and necessary approvals from your office to take 2 breaks and visit your baby for breastfeeding. There might be circumstances when your baby needs breastfeeding other than these two breaks or because of meeting etc, you are unable to reach back on time. For such cases, I would suggest buy an electric breast pump and store breast milk in fridge
Inside refrigerator for almost 5 to 6 days if you keep the temperature at 4 degrees. Store it at the back of the fridge, where it’s coldest, away from meat, eggs, or uncooked foods.
5. Real Challenges at Work Place:
If you are a work from home, Work from office or stay at home mom post you will face challenges associated with your workplace or home. It all depends on you how you deal it with calmness.
6. Get prior approval for Flexi hours:
As soon as you enter a Parenting phase you need more time to adjust to it. Try working in flexible hours. Many organizations nowadays are supportive to give you ease and peace. One must discuss all Maternity benefits and policies with the Human resource department in order to understand the flexible hours, benefits etc.
These were some tips from this mommy to all reader mommies. But, I would always advice follow your heart it is equally important for a mom to join back her job as she has a responsibility towards her office. As well as this phase of mommyhood may not come back again that’s another associated truth with it.
All the best. This mommy is always with you in your decision. If you feel like sharing or has a query please feel free to post your comment below.If you like this post, do share it with your friends or fellow mommies.
Go for it, just have some patience and you will rule the world.
Good Day!
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These are some great tips. I can appreciate it must be really hard to leave your little ones.
Great information. It is a process going back to work.
These are some awesome tips!! I will definitely be sharing with my friends that are New Mamas.
Xox
These are great tips! A new baby is an adjustment for everyone but you know what’s best for your little one.
I struggled with this, as well. It took us 4 years to get pregnant with our oldest, so after a few months of working full-time, I asked to work part-time. They had never done it before, but decided they’d rather have me work part-time than lose me, so we worked it out. Same thing happened with the 2nd since we had moved and I had transferred within the same company. I’m so glad I had the nerve to ask for the part-time gig, and be willing (and able financially) to walk if they didn’t agree. I think if you can do it full-time, and want to, that’s great. But don’t overlook the Dad-care, like you said! Dads are half of the equation and they need to step up to that! Great post!
thanks I am happy you liked the post 🙂
good tips. I see so many women re-join the work force and then get overwhelmed.
Sharing it with my didi as These are some amazing tips it will help her.
I feel you have hit the right rock. Getting over the mom guilt is the first thing to do.
Resuming work post sabbatical has always been tricky and specially when you have a tiny tot at home. Society yes plays havoc with brain at times as you rightly pointed.
Agree with all you here.
Great tips for preparing youngue women for baby birth and at the same time to follow tips and have a health life and body
Working post-maternity can be very trying for moms. Loved the practical tips you’ve given here. No guilt is a must.
Ask me, and I vouch on all these. For me, the most important was the motherhood guilt which I felt as soon as I used to come back home and see my baby’s eyes! A moment wherein a mama needs to control her emotions so much!
Very useful tips for working Mommies… Beautifully u covered every point.
Something really essential for working mom’s to read and understand! Thanks for sharing!
I can see you’ve illustrated some very useful tips for working new mothers. It is true they need to keep emotionally strong, as I’ve myself seen women craving to go home and at times upset at work,thinking about the baby.
Honestly, I loved your post! I am not married yet but I have always hated that mindset which forces moms to quit work against their wishes! Going to share this with everyone
Omg! This post is going to be super helpful Incase I join back.I am still in a dilemma.
This post take to the period of time when I joined my duty after a long maternity leave. These tips are really helpful for new moms.
Really helpful post for all working moms it is so hard to join work leaving baby
That’s a very helpful post for women who are on a maternity leave and trying to join once again.
Surely sharing this post to my mates, who have newly made mommies and are actually wanting to get their lives back on track and get back to work!
Because babies need constant attention, it becomes difficult to work after maternity break which is why most moms so working after giving birth.
These tips are great and helpful!
Juggling employment responsibilities and a new baby will never be easy. But you share such a nice tips.. Love to read it
Amazing tips dear. Would love to share this post with new moms. Thanks for sharing.
This is absolutely a real challenge for new moms to get back to work and yes keeping all facts on ground one should be perfectly prepared for this. Your points are so perfect for such moms!!
These were some very helpful tips. Am sure new mommies can keep this as their checklist
This is one of the most difficult things faced by women in today’s time i.e. going back to work after a maternity break. Amidst so many dilemmas in the mind, a lady needs to sort things for herself before going on the break itself I feel. These are great tips for mums to consider before joining work after the maternity break.
A new mom will always face the society’s judgement first, when she rejoins work! That should not stop her.. it’s her life, her baby and a mom knows the best! Amazing post!
Post-maternity joining work can be very stressful, physically and emotionally. These are some good points for new mothers.
Thanks for these tips. Very helpful for new moms who are planning to join their jobs again.
You have mentioned some really good tips here. Post maternity joining work is really stressful but some of these points will work great.
One of the best messages that all the pretty ladies out there need to know!
Thanks for sharing these practical tips. Even I am on a sabbatical and fear even to think of going back to a full time job, nevertheless whenever it will happen this post of yours will help me.
Excellent points. You have rightly pointed out all that needs to be considered and planned for, to make returning to work a success.
Amazing and informative post. Very useful and beneficial tips for the pregnancy. This is very important info for the newly moms.
I am not married. Article is quite informative. Will share with my friend.
so many great tips. Really helpful. Do post articles like that. ????
I love the newborn stage! There is nothing like the bond you can develop in those early days. This is a very good post!
This article gave a lot of insight into the struggles that come with motherhood! Returning to the work place post maternity can be challenging.
This is good advice. I manage a team at work and communication is the key. Make sure to communicate issues or needs as early as possible to give them a chance to help work out a solution for issues that arise.
Great advice. I wish I had considered these tips before returning to work after my first baby.
This is a very inspirational post for many mums, new or otherwise. I’ve been lucky in that respect, when I “went back to work” after my 4th kid, it was from home, so never had to deal with any issues.
Getting flexible hours is so important when you are trying to manage both working and having a child. I think as a dad its sad that I get discriminated in such a way to take care of my child as opposed to women. When I have to go home to take care of the family I am criticized.
This is great advice. It can be really hard for women going back to work after maternity leave, although it really shouldn’t be! Fab tips!
This is such an interesting article indeed. I find the information you gave here really helpful for new mothers!
Coming from Romania where the maternity leave period is 2 years, I was shocked to discover in UK the status is one year. Coming to work seems so difficult at first sight.
I returned to work when my first child was 3 months old. I had a terribly guilty conscience, although I prepared well. When I saw that everything was fine, I calmed down.
I just shared your post to my best friend who’s undergoing so much mommy guilt for going back to work. Thank you for writing about this. It is very practical and helpful.
You know, I never really considered this because I am a stay at home mom anyway. Or maybe the Philippines is just lenient to new moms. Like we are very considerate when a woman has just given birth. It’s like we cannot fault them for being moms. But this is a good read for working moms who are going back to work after a maternity leave.