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Heading back to work after your baby? It can be tough to feel like you’re hitting your stride at work and at home — these posts are some of our most recent discussions. (Also, please check out CorporetteMoms.com, our blog that explores work-life balance for working mothers.)

  • How to Be Supportive To a Stay-At-Home Spouse
    Family Planning | Happiness | Motherhood | New Mom

    How to Be Supportive To a Stay-At-Home Spouse

    Updated07/26/2022
    53 Comments

    How can you be supportive of a stay-at-home dad or mom? We’ve talked about how to prepare to be a SAHM, but not about how to support your stay at home spouse, so let’s discuss. Here’s Reader L’s question: I want to find ways to encourage and be supportive of my husband, who is a…

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  • How to Fit Exercise Into a Busy Day: 8 Tips If You’re Always Working
    After-Work Activities | Energy | Exercise | Happiness | Lifestyle | New Mom | No Time | Weight Control

    How to Fit Exercise Into a Busy Day: 8 Tips If You’re Always Working

    Updated04/29/2025
    84 Comments

    Update: We still stand by this advice on how to fit exercise into a busy day, but you may also want to check out some of our other office-to-gym issues, including our posts on the best streaming workouts to do at home, gym near the office etiquette and how to fit lunch workouts into your workday. After…

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    Business Etiquette | Career | Family Planning | Motherhood | Networking | New Mom | Organization | Pregnancy | Professionalism | Transitions

    Staying in the Game: Tips for Stay at Home Moms

    Updated04/29/2025
    121 Comments

    Update: We still stand by these SAHM career tips, particularly for lawyers turned stay-at-home moms — but you may also want to check out some of our more recent stories on stay-at-home parents, including what you need to know about strategic volunteering, and what to consider when you’re thinking about not returning to work after…

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    Lifestyle | Motherhood | New Mom | Pregnancy | Special Sizes

    How to Dress Professionally After Maternity Leave

    Updated03/09/2021
    26 Comments

    Welcome to our guest poster, a Fortune 500 lawyer who has some suggestions for how to dress professionally after maternity leave!

  • Some Thoughts on Frump
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    Some Thoughts on Frump

    Updated02/19/2021
    219 Comments

    2021 Update: We still stand by this advice below, but you can also check out our more recent discussion on how to avoid professional frump. We got this reader mail a little while ago, and it seems appropriate in light of the response to this morning’s cardi set (wow, you guys did NOT like that)….

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