One of the most important things you can invest in when you are expecting is yourself! Maternity coaching (also known as Return to Work or New Mum Coaching) provides employees the support they need before, during and after their maternity leave. Traditional coaching, such as business and executive coaching is popular and well known, but Maternity Coaching is much newer to the Irish market. This new focus for coaching assists employees to embrace the highs and lows of having a baby and focus on the balance that they require in their life to retain their identity as a professional working mother.
There is a great temptation to focus on the baby to be and get caught up in all the mass marketing of baby books and the essential things you have to have, without stopping to think, what about me?You may have medical professionals, well meaning friends and loved ones and a barrage of people you never even knew before keen to pass on their advice to you. Maternity Coaching is a holistic approach to life coaching. Becoming a mother (whether that is for the first or fourth time) is an amazing experience and one that will be life changing. Maternity Coaching can help you to empower yourself to adapt to these changes and become the parent you want to be.