Um, do, do you wanna talk about any of your challenges with going back to work and maybe tips for, you know, um, pregnant surgeons out there who are trying to plan this out for themselves?

Yeah.

I think, you know, outside of the emotional part of, like, you are leaving your child in the care of someone else, right, which I think itself is very difficult, I think there's, like, a lot of logistical things that, um, I didn't think about but actually my, my practice thought about for me, which was really great.

Um, you know, I am an OBGYN.

I'm a high-risk pregnancy, um, doctor, and so, um, my division, uh, director is also a woman who has had children, and so I think she has been very thoughtful, um, in how we treat our postpartum and pregnant colleagues.

Um, one of the things that she actually put into place as just like a general rule so that we didn't even have to think about this was, um, anyone who has a child under six months of age does not need to take overnight call.

Um, and this was not something that I had thought about.

So, um, can, can I ask you just, like, general guidelines in terms of, um, uh, you know, how, how can, as a program, or, like, if you're listening and, like, you, you know, one of your colleagues or one of your trainees is, you know, going to be- become pregnant, like, what kind of support should we consider giving to them?