Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer pregnant with twins

[Anonymous]

plans on taking off limited time and working throughout. didn't really take a maternity leave for her son's birth a couple years ago.
I can't wait to see how she does (or doesn't ) do this.

[Anonymous]

Oops.

[Anonymous]

She'll do fine; she hired a nanny before and brought the child to work, and I imagine she'll do the same again. Wealth helps.

[Anonymous]

This story makes me sad. She is reportedly taking TWO WEEKS off after her twins are born? That is unbelievable, unrealistic, but I suppose she thinks it's necessary? I don't know.

[Anonymous]

She's not due until December. A LOT can happen with a twin pregnancy between months 6 and 9. I hope she has a healthy and easy continued pregnancy, but she'd do well not to declare what she's going to do in advance because twin pregnancies can be particularly unpredictable.

[Anonymous]

honestly two weeks is enough if you have good childcare

[Anonymous]

Reminds me of the thread where Carolyn Hax's question was, would you want you for parents? Would you want Marissa Mayer as a parent?

Time will tell

[Anonymous]

So efficient!

[Anonymous]

Two weeks is not enough for a twin birth. I had 2 children and recovered quickly with both. Then I had twins. I ended up in the ER 4 weeks later with mild hemorrhaging. Twins is a whole other ballgame from a regular birth and recovery

[Anonymous]

Congrats to her, I wish her and her family the best.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Two weeks is not enough for a twin birth. I had 2 children and recovered quickly with both. Then I had twins. I ended up in the ER 4 weeks later with mild hemorrhaging. Twins is a whole other ballgame from a regular birth and recovery

It might be enough time (barely) if the babies are taken immediately from the womb and put into the Nanny's arms for full time care.

[Anonymous]

I guess my comment was deleted for profanity? I basically was saying I'm tired of her "look at me, I'm such a hard worker" nonsense.

She can do this because she can hire a ton of support. She doesn't keep the same hours that her office drones do, etc.

She set up a nursery in her office after #1 and could bring her team of helpers to work-something her workers cannot do.

Oh, and she can work from home while she took that from her employees.


Screw her - she's a hypocrite.

[Anonymous]

Before I actually had a child, I thought I would take 2 weeks off and jump right back to work. After struggling with work balance stress for years, I recently quit my job to be a SAHM.

I recently had a talk with DH and said that if things were different, I wish I could have been the breadwinner and my spouse could have been the default parent. DH earns almost $1 million per year while I was only earning low six figures. Economically it made more sense for me to be the default parent.

If she can make it work, more power to her.

[Anonymous]

She's wealthy as crap and that's how she does it. She does not represent the typical working mother in any way.

And I hope she has a happy, healthy pregnancy.

[Anonymous]

What is up with all the hate? Should she not have any kids? Or should mothers not be CEOs of tech companies?
What does her husband do?