Moms in Labor - by Daphne Delvaux (Hardcover)

About the Book

Embrace motherhood without compromising your career.

Book Synopsis

How to Embrace Motherhood Without Compromising Your Career.

Step-by-step strategies and tangible scripts that have helped women nationwide care for their children, honor their health needs, and embrace their motherhood journeys, all without jeopardizing their ambitions!

During attorney Daphne Delvaux's first pregnancy, she learned first-hand how the system was set up to make it as difficult as possible for women to juggle a challenging career along with all the responsibilities of being a new mother.

Motherhood can feel like a tug-of-war with work. You're constantly deciding when to hold your ground and when to surrender. Finding the right words to discuss motherhood professionally shouldn't require a legal degree. But too often, it feels like it does.

Inside Moms in Labor, Daphne shares the blueprint and word-for-word scripts she's used to help you:

• Extend your leave and secure accommodations like telework or flexibility, without losing your job or benefits
• Communicate confidently with your employer and HR in a way that gets results
• Advocate with clarity, not conflict, protecting your baby and your career
• Leverage tools forged from years on the frontlines of maternal rights law

This is the handbook HR won't give you, but the one every expecting or new mother deserves.

Here is your invitation to channel that creative motherforce, to advocate for yourself with the same devotion you give your child.

Give your child the gift of a healthy and present mother. You'll never regret advocating for your baby.

Because your baby doesn't need a perfectly composed woman who quietly adjusts. Your baby needs a good lawyer.

Review Quotes

'Daphne Delvaux gives every mother the playbook she deserves. Just as Fair Play rebalanced the workload at home by teaching women how to advocate for themselves with their partners, this book empowers mothers to advocate for their rights at work with clarity, courage, and confidence. As a fellow attorney devoted to gender equity, Delvaux's work and my work are intertwined and complementary. Women will only be free when they master the art of advocacy at home and at work.'--Eve Rodsky, Author, Fair Play

'It's quite simple: Every new mother needs this book. At a time when all you can think about is staying afloat, keeping your head (and your baby, and your job) above water, Daphne is here with a life raft saying hop in, friend, I've got you. And I do mean friend. Daphne isn't just a highly skilled attorney (the best of the best!). She is a story-telling visionary who makes you the main character, daring you to imagine a way forward in your career and giving you the tools you need to get there. We are all so susceptible to the myths of motherhood in America...that it's meant to be hard and that you have to earn the privilege of a comfortable existence. Daphne shows you how sustainable working motherhood is a human right. You deserve it. Here's how.'--Lauren Smith-Brody, Author and Founder of The Fifth Trimester

'Moms in Labor is a lifeline. Daphne Delvaux's brilliant legal mind pulls back the curtain on how to approach motherhood in the workplace with a steady fierceness that every single mother needs. This book is real self-care and every pregnant and postpartum professional should have it in their hands before they walk into HR's office.'--Dr. Pooja Lakshmin, MD, Psychiatrist and Author of Real Self-Care