Getting Past the Learning Curve
Anything worth doing is worth doing well. But anything worth doing well requires work. No athlete woke up with perfect musculature. No entrepreneur became wealthy in a vacuum. All good things take time and effort, and that’s as true for your career as it is for your position as a mother. When combining both, you compound associated challenges.
However, you can overcome these difficulties, and new mothers are able to do this through grit, determination, and love on a daily basis. No, it’s not easy. But it’s not impossible, and it gets easier as you find what works, what doesn’t, what to avoid, and what to do.
Here we’ll briefly cover several things you can do as a new professional mom that are conducive to your career and your child’s healthy development.
- Be There As Much As Possible
You can work within your existing career to obtain Work From Home (WFH) options. If you’re pregnant, they likely have maternal laws binding their hands, and the WFH angle works for everybody. In the wake of 2020’s crisis, 1 out of 4 jobs are remote already, it’s not a big leap. If you’re in a WFH position, good. If not, lean on your employer. Being there is best for baby.
- Learn From Other Professional Mothers
You are far from the first mother to hold down a full-time job and raise a newborn. While this has never been an ideal circumstance for a lady, it has always been a feature of reality. Accordingly, as soon as you’ve conceived, find mothers you trust who also have careers, and can help you know the best moves for you and your coming newborn.
- Explore Resources Made Available Through Experts
Just as there are endless mothers who have had successful careers, there are endless resources for new mothers you can tap into to expedite and streamline your transition into a maternal role. For example, as regards nursing, there’s a learning curve, learning proper breastfeeding positions helps you overcome that curve.
- Don’t Be Afraid to Reorganize What “Success” Means to You
Who is more successful: Tom Cruise, or his mom? Her leadership as a mom is directly responsible for his success as an actor. Sure, he’s got talent, but she helped him through the door.
Being a professional mom doesn’t always mean you’re in the business you intend to dominate the field you’re in when the child is born. There are long term aspects of success to consider.
Being the Best Mom
What constitutes professional “success” is a moving target; “don’t lose the forest for the trees”, as they say. You might want to change what success means for you as a professional mother.
Also, look into existing resources, get support from other professional moms, and find ways of being available for your newborn as much as is possible. Such moves can nourish your career and your child simultaneously over the long run.
