Am 32 and currently setting up my own startup. I have also put aside the baby thought for a year but i am super scared every time I think of how the hell will i manage when i’ll come to it. Will my team and investors understand that I am still the same person and have the same zeal for my firm as when I started? Your article made me smile and made me…

I would add, “entitled” to the mantra list, and not in its sometimes negative guise, but in the manner that implies all that is available to you in the way of leave time, accommodation and professional confidence. It incenses me that pregnancy is sometimes regarded like a disease in the workplace, and suddenly one’s credibility is questioned, not…

As I guy I get it. In Canada, most provinces allow for men to take parental leave, I took one at 42 years of age in a senior managerial roll working for a small company, yes it is paid through the employment insurance system.

The Response from the company was anything but welcoming. My boss, a female, had her kids at the…

Great read. I think for a lot of things that people think its a much bigger deal than it actually is. If your boss reacts negatively then perhaps its time to move on. If they are that negative with the pregnancy then it will not be fun to try to raise a child under those working conditions.

And sometimes it IS a big deal, telling your boss. First pregnancy, I wisely shut the office door. This was fortunate, because when my boss burst into tears, she had some privacy! Second pregnancy, different boss — my boss was furious; I was the third person in our department to have announced a pregnancy in the last several months, and he reduced…

My first was born long ago, in 1969, when it was legal to make pregnant woman leave at a certain point. I refused to divulge exactly how pregnant I was, but finally someone must have counted on their fingers and I was ordered to leave, about four weeks before I gave birth. A couple of years later I was part of a class action against the City of New…