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Carry Strong

An Empowered Approach to Navigating Pregnancy and Work

by Stephanie Kramer
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A groundbreaking approach to successfully navigating your pregnancy at work
Pregnancy is a profound journey. Navigating it while working—from figuring out how to tell your boss you’re pregnant to squeezing in doctors’ appointments between meetings, all while working even harder to prove yourself—can be a push and pull between a desire for privacy and the need for support. The good news is, it’s possible to thrive in both spaces. Carry Strong offers a new approach that will transform your pregnancy years at work from something to “get through” into a career opportunity to embrace with confidence.
Employing original research, expert advice, and real-life stories from Olympic athletes, CEOs, and hundreds of amazing working mothers across the country, executive and professor Stephanie Kramer outlines essential principles for navigating pregnancy and work simultaneously. She shows you how to embrace a different perspective, find your balance, cultivate community, communicate your needs, and navigate the shift in identity from working woman to working mother. Along the way, you’ll identify career considerations to make at each phase of pregnancy, starting with the moment you decide you want to become a working mom-to-be.
In Carry Strong, Kramer flips the script: This isn’t about powering through pregnancy at work. It’s about being powerful and pregnant at work.

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    May 23, 2023

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      • ISBN: 9780593511244

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      • ISBN: 9780593511244
      • File size: 1255 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Booklist

      April 15, 2023
      In this guide for working moms and moms-to-be, Kramer, the chief human resources officer at L'Oreal USA and a mother of two young sons, shares firsthand knowledge and wisdom based on her own experiences and contributed by other women. The advice ranges from "the spread coverage situation" (ensuring clear hand-offs while you're away) and a reminder that "maternity leave is not a vacation." The well-phrased chapter titles include, "Deciding to have it all, not at the same time." To make her points, Kramer adds the voices of many other women as she includes their tales. No one profiled is blue-collar or pink-collar, but Kramer acknowledges that fact. Though she works, she notes without judgment that some women may not want to tackle "the great return" to the office. (It's "okay!" she says.) Her hope for the future is that the phrase working mom will become obsolete. After all, people rarely refer to "working fathers." Readers will find lots of feel-good, can-do messages and advice.

      COPYRIGHT(2023) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

    • Library Journal

      May 1, 2023

      As the chief human resources officer at L'Or�al, an instructor at Fashion Institute of Technology's graduate business program, and a mother of two children, Kramer is no stranger to balancing work with a pregnancy. Inclusive of the phases from pre-conception to returning to work, this book spotlights the principles of perspective, balance, community, communication, and identity. The author makes a point to say that pregnancy in itself is work, but in September 2020, she surveyed 400 women who worked full-time throughout their pregnancies. The book clearly states that the research did not include self-identifying gender-nonconforming individuals or manual laborers. Some readers, however, may be put off by that limited range of participants and workplaces. The book deftly tackles determining the right time to have a baby, the cost of maternity leave and caring for a baby, and handling infertility or pregnancy loss as a working professional. Each chapter ends with reflection questions and personal stories from pregnant moms. VERDICT The book would've benefitted from a more inclusive study sampling. Nonetheless, it is jam-packed with practical and important information for women within the scope of its realm.

      Copyright 2023 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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