Balancing Pregnancy and Work

Nancy Hall — a media consultant for Yale's Bush Center in Child Development and a contributor to Working Mother and Parenting — wrote this as a practical companion for employed women navigating pregnancy from announcement to return-to-work. It covers legal rights under the Pregnancy Discrimination Act and the FMLA, symptom management on the job, professional dress, budget planning, and childcare research, with a checklist at the end of every chapter. The tone is reassuring and the scope is comprehensive across office, self-employed, and blue-collar work environments. The honest limitation is the 2004 publication date — some legal provisions have been updated since, and readers should verify current FMLA specifics with a current source. As a framework and emotional support guide, it still holds up well.