04/24/2025
Had the opportunity to read The Guilt Pill by , hosted by the . It’s an entertaining book that tackles the pressures of being an entrepreneurial, CEO woman, a working mother, a co-parent, and an immigrant daughter. I wouldn’t recommend it for parents currently pregnant or in the postpartum year, as it may be too much (and how many people can read postpartum???) but those a few years out may like the fact that they aren’t alone in the guilt and seeming impossibility of it all the tasks new moms are challenged by. Saumya also said something critical: we can only go as far as our systems support us — family leave, parental leave for non-birthing parents, social support networks, and childcare.
