Dr. Stacy Sims

Which can be a little bit problematic because there's so many women out there like, my wearable told me that I'm in the red, I can't do anything today.

When in fact, physically and psychologically, they can do what they set out to do.

It's just now they have this little seed saying that, no, you can't do it because of an improper algorithm on their wearable.

Well, it's not talked about, I think.

It's one of the things that people still think it's taboo and rare.

But I think all of us around the table had a pregnancy loss.

Oh, yeah.

New Zealand's a year.

Steve took a picture of me in the hospital, and it was a day after I gave birth.

My laptop is open.

I'm trying to breastfeed because we launched a company the month before I gave birth.

And instead of my male coworkers going, okay, we'll give you some grace, no.

So if you're working, you know, we're all very highly motivated and became parents, but it's that whole identity shift of now how do I interact in my life and how do I interact with my peers?

I'm a mom.

How am I being identified?

What are the implications?

So there's a complete identity shift that also isn't discussed and that can also perpetuate some of the postpartum that we see as well.

Well, there are a couple of companies in New Zealand who are pretty flexible, especially after the pandemic, where they have allocated certain hours that are free to work at home and just have to get the work done to the point where they have four-day working weeks.

And then they're also putting into the annual leave what they call menstrual leave or menopause leave.

And you just say, you know, I can't come today.