In this week’s episode of the Career Coven, Bec interviews Alice Pelton who is the founder and CEO of the Lowdown. The Lowdown is a health platform - where women can research their health choices (used by over 2 million women per year). Alice and Bec have an honest conversation about what it’s really like being pregnant at work, and being a leader. Bec felt that there were lots of parts of becoming pregnant which were not explained to her at all, and both Bec and Annie feel that pregnancy at work is something that is not openly discussed. We want to give a voice to some of what people go through whilst pregnant.

Quote of the episode — “Women are fucking amazing actually.”

A trigger warning for this episode - we do cover the topic of miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy. We know that some people will find this content upsetting, so we wanted to be up front about that. But as so many women will experience pregnancy loss on the journey to parenthood, we wanted to keep this information in.

This episode covers:

• Getting pregnant whilst working
• The misinformation women are told about pregnancy
• Coping with the nausea
• How your hormones change in pregnancy, and  their impact on you
• The pressure to perform at your best, whilst pregnant
• The importance of naps
• How and when to tell people
• When you should go on mat leave
• Returning to work (don’t come back first week of Jan)
• How you prioritise better when you’re a parent
• Childcare once you’re coming back to work

And most importantly - how amazingly worth it the journey to being pregnant is. Alice provides a lot of tips about what she would do differently next time she was pregnant. Gold-dust!

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Content & recommendations from this episode:

• Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood - Lucy Jones
• The Lowdown
• Alice’s Substack
• Bubble - an app for booking nannies and childcare