Parenting on the Frontlines
The Office of Well-Being is pleased to announce the resulting product of a Michigan Medicine Workplace Well-Being Grant-funded project:
Parenting on the Frontlines: Stories of love, loss, and wonder
Dr. Kelly Paradis and Dr. Morgan began an Office of Well-Being grant-funded project to create a community of awareness, insight, and compassion for all parents and would-be parents working in the healthcare profession at Michigan Medicine.
In October 2021, they launched an effort to collect narratives about the intersection of parenting and careers in healthcare. Soon after, stories were submitted by faculty and staff across the health system. These stories shared common threads of joy, worry, and struggle among parents with demanding healthcare careers.
The book Parenting on the Frontlines: Stories of love, loss, and wonder captures these narratives to normalize and destigmatize the shared experiences of balancing the journey of parenthood with a career in medicine.
Chapters cover the following topics:
Integrating Parenting and Work (and Other Lies We Tell Ourselves)
Working Motherhood: You Too Can Have It All!
Parenting in the Time of COVID-19
Rainbows and Sunshine: Getting Real About Perinatal Mood Disorders
Infertility, High-risk Pregnancy, Loss, and Illness
LGBTQ+ Perspectives
The Journey of Single Parenthood
Parenting as Kids Group Up
The book is now available to download or purchase.
To download a FREE electronic copy of this book visit:
Maize Books (University of Michigan Publishing)
To purchase a hard copy of the book - options include:
[You can use promo code PARENTING30 for 30% off through this link only]
"We want to help all parents and would-be parents to see that their feelings and experiences are normal and that they are not alone on their journeys."
-Kelly Paradis, PhD
