University of Tennessee womens basketball coach returns to work one week after giving birth

[Anonymous]

She probably had an uncomplicated pregnancy and birth and a lot of support. I see no issue with it if it’s her choice.

[Anonymous]

I could have probably done this.

It's a 5 hour commitment, and who knows, someone might bring her baby to her in a car to breastfeed halfway through. Or she can pump privately.

Not ideal, certainly not my preference, but it is doable if you had an uncomplicated birth, have someone to watch the baby, get picked up in a car to go and whisked away when it's over, and can use special entrances and exits, etc...

[Anonymous]

If only you busybodies cared about poor women and their babies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I could have probably done this.

It's a 5 hour commitment, and who knows, someone might bring her baby to her in a car to breastfeed halfway through. Or she can pump privately.

Not ideal, certainly not my preference, but it is doable if you had an uncomplicated birth, have someone to watch the baby, get picked up in a car to go and whisked away when it's over, and can use special entrances and exits, etc...

Her husband works at the same place she does and the baby is at work. They set up one of their offices as a nursery.

Nobody’s “bringing the baby in a car”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I could have probably done this.

It's a 5 hour commitment, and who knows, someone might bring her baby to her in a car to breastfeed halfway through. Or she can pump privately.

Not ideal, certainly not my preference, but it is doable if you had an uncomplicated birth, have someone to watch the baby, get picked up in a car to go and whisked away when it's over, and can use special entrances and exits, etc...

Her husband works at the same place she does and the baby is at work. They set up one of their offices as a nursery.

Nobody’s “bringing the baby in a car”.

Yeah so that makes it even more doable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If only you busybodies cared about poor women and their babies.

Well we don't so go virtue signal elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

This is what society has driven women to. A week old baby needs a mother full time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is what society has driven women to. A week old baby needs a mother full time.

The baby is with the mother and the father full-time it just happens to be with them at their work.

In a few weeks, she will be off-season and not need to work at all.

[Anonymous]

I worked a week after baby was born. He was preemie, I needed something to take my mind off spiraling about all the medical issues and I was going stir crazy at home. I stayed home for 8 days and then went back into school (I'm a teacher) for meetings.

At the time we had no maternity leave or STD or anything, it was just PTO, so there was nothing preventing it. It made it much easier when I had to return 6 weeks later to a tornado of a classroom that the kids had destroyed with a sub--I at least had a handle on what was going on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is what society has driven women to. A week old baby needs a mother full time.

STFU Gertrude. Mom clearly loves what she does and is able to bring the baby with her. No one is forcing her to do this. She's clearly choosing to as she 100% should be able to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I worked at a place where a C-level exec returned like a week after having her baby. She also, worked remotely three days a week and literally built a play space with a pack and play in the conference room next to her office. Her nanny came to work with her, took care of the kid, took the kid for walks, etc. Mom, basically built a nursey at work and had a nanny. So, for these people, yeah, it's not hard.

The judge I clerked for did a very similar thing. Also, not hard. Now, when I had my kid, I nearly lost my clerkship (this was years ago but this century).

It's the rest of us that are utterly screwed. Once again, rich and powerful people have different rules and work arounds. The laws are to protect us NOT RICH and POWERFUL people.

This 100% ..: I’m at a top 3 management consulting firm and what an MDP mom does and can do is quite different than the rest of us.

What is hard is they drive the company perception of what’s possible … so then expected. We get a lot of leave but if you run a portfolio you better not be taking that or you lose your business

[Anonymous]

With my 2nd and 3rd child, I was totally fine to go back to work. They were easy deliveries.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel bad for the baby.

They’re missing out on the most important bonding time, very sad!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is what society has driven women to. A week old baby needs a mother full time.

STFU Gertrude. Mom clearly loves what she does and is able to bring the baby with her. No one is forcing her to do this. She's clearly choosing to as she 100% should be able to.

Yes, she clearly made a choice.

She loves her work more than her baby.

[Anonymous]

It’s a very bad sign about the workplace culture.

I left a job where two very senior male leaders came back to work fewer than five days after the unexpected deaths of their wives. Lauded for their “commitment,” etc. Same workist crap. It was sad when it wasn’t absurd. Their work quality was abysmal for months.