Workplace

Finding Your Balance

Work and family balance changes with each child. Planning ahead and having realistic goals will help you manage this transition.

I emphasize calm beginnings for parents (be it your first or third) with workshops and home visits. This is always an important time for parents and especially so for breastfeeding.

Employee Assistance Programs
You can help your employees make the most of their family leave time by sponsoring a workshop and/or offering gift certificates for home visits.

Many of the essential skills of parenting are also qualities of resourceful employees: good time management, setting priorities, communicating with others and the ability to improvise.  Mothers who breastfeed have one third the number of sick day for their infants in the first year. That reduces health care costs, saves time and makes for more productive employees.

Healthy employees with healthy families are good for business and for our communities. Your support at this time can make a huge difference.

Practical and Positive Workshops
Prenatal workshops can answer many questions and help families make more informed choices, calmer decisions. Learn about the time-sensitive needs of early postpartum and the benefits, for the whole family, of breastfeeding. I’ll review what’s normal and what’s not for postpartum adjustment. I’ll share family resources and discuss preparing for and easing the transition back to work.

Because it does take a village to raise a child, these workshops are for parents and those who support them: grandparents, day care providers, nannies, employers who want to support their employees.

Home Visits
Gift certificates for home visits make excellent baby shower items. They’re also a great employee benefit. $150-$300 spent on home visits with an IBCLC can easily save a family over $4,000 a year just in formula costs. Indeed, this is an important, long term investment in family health.

Breastmilk is best for infant’s budding immune system and oral development. Breastfeeding reduces the mother’s risk of specific cancers and osteoporosis. That reduces costs for the family’s long term health. And importantly, you are healthier and happier. As a bonus, with breastfeeding, there’s less trash on the planet and that’s good for everyone.

“When a child is born, the entire Universe has to shift and make room”.
Stephen Gaskin

No matter your situation, take the time to appreciate your newborn and your new abilities as a parent. You learn alot and continue to adjust. It’s easier to adjust if you’d had a well-supported beginning.

Feel free to call and we can discuss what you need. I look forward to talking with you.

Robin Snyder-Drummond, CD(DONA), IBCLC
Prenatal workshops, Home visits
617-435-0693