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The Best Friend's Guide To Maternity Leave: Making The Most Of Your Precious Time At Home - Hardcover
Every working mother-to-be knows that her time on maternity leave will fly by, and that just when she gets the hang of the dramatically different pace and routine, it will be time to return to work. The refrain is all too common: "I wish someone had told me from the start how to make the most of my leave...I would have enjoyed it more!"The Best Friend's Guide to Maternity Leave provides much-needed sisterly advice on making the most of this precious and unique "vacation." From hard-won wisdom on getting a paid maternity leave to dealing with the emotional return to work; from tips on bonding with a newborn to unique activities that will memorialize the time together, The Best Friend's Guide is the book every expecting mother needs and that every wise friend will want to give her.
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With The Best Friend's Guide to Maternity Leave, author Betty Holcomb tells mothers the wonderful, funny, and sometimes uncomfortable truth about maternity leave. Holcomb, a veteran of two maternity leaves and a contributing editor to Parenting Magazine, takes a practical, non- gimmicky approach to trading career time for precious time with a newborn baby. Reading between the lines of the family medical leave act, she offers sensible strategies for every phase of maternity leave, including how to convince your boss that you really plan on coming back, juggling finances, recovering from childbirth, comparing breast versus bottle feeding, staying in touch with the office, understanding why your husband may disappear, and coping with your first weeks back on the job.
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Holcomb tackles tough questions, asking for example: When the boss calls and the baby is crying, whoM do you put on hold? One standout chapter offers an insightful view of post-baby marriage and counsels working couples to explore "what it means to 'help' and what it means to 'share'--and how that difference can change your marriage." Other chapters include a fresh view of the mothers' cult of sacrifice. Holcomb suggests that each new mother needs private time to recharge batteries but also to integrate a new view of herself. Yet her wise words must be underscored with the knowledge that for many working mothers maternity leave is not an option. Ultimately, the issues raised here are compelling evidence for making parent leave affordable to all parents. -- Barbara Mackoff
A mother of two-and a veteran of two maternity leaves-Betty Holcomb is a Contributing Editor to Parenting Magazine and the author of Not Guilty! The Good News About Working Mothers. She lives in New York.
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- PublisherDa Capo Lifelong Books
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0738202797
- ISBN 13 9780738202792
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages288
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