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EP. 8: A Pregnancy Montage - Baby Brain, Morning Sickness, and Productivity | Postdoc Charlotte Duffee (Harvard)

A trimestered video compilation on managing the challenges of pregnancy

Description

After a long maternity leave and a podcast re-branding, Anscombe’s Juggle is back with a new look and name: a-kid-emia! In this 8th Episode, podcast host and Harvard postdoc Charlotte Duffee shares a trimestered play-by-play of her latest pregnancy. From her nursing chair (rather than her Philosopher’s Armchair), she offers tips and lessons for pulling off pregnancy and publishing.

Chapters

0:00 - Introduction: video clips from each trimester

2:56 - Academic-adjacent work as a springboard into research

3:13 - The first trimester: morning sickness

4:06 - Managing peaks and troughs in pregnancy

4:32 - Applying frontloading postpartum strategies to the first trimester

7:38 - The second trimester: baby brain

8:05 - What baby brain feels like

9:34 - Timing work hours around baby brain

10:26 - Staggering projects around baby brain

11:18 - The third trimester: memory problems

11:54 - Turning forgetfulness into a research strategy

12:44 - Baby brain as creativity

13:38 - The fourth trimester: creativity vs. productivity

14:08 - Creativity as a decline in productivity

15:38 - Personal benefits of more creative research

16:24 - Gestation as a natural moderator of overwork

17:55 - Against zero sum games and over-ambition on the job market

19:32 - Benefits of parenthood regarding ambition off the job market

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