Introducing an Empowered Approach to Pregnancy & work.

Navigating pregnancy while working can be a push and pull between a desire for privacy and the need for support. Carry Strong flips the script to transform your pregnancy years at work into an opportunity to embrace with confidence. 

Through original research, expert advice, and heartfelt stories from incredible women, author Stephanie Kramer outlines essential principles to embrace each phase, starting with the moment you decide you want to become a working mom-to-be.

This isn’t about powering through pregnancy at work. It’s about being powerful and pregnant at work.

  • "I wish I had Carry Strong as a companion when I first entered my life phase of mothering.

    Yet it still resonates with me and should be read by everyone who is a caretaker. Kramer anchors her research in profoundly personal stories and comes up with a glorious road map for navigating work and parenthood. A must-read.”

    — Eve Rodsky

    New York Times bestselling author of ‘Fair Play’ and National Bestseller ‘Find Your Unicorn Space’

  • “Navigating the stages of pregnancy and balancing a career while pregnant can be daunting.

    Stephanie tackles all the ups and downs by sharing the moving personal experiences from a breadth of individuals, as well as her own motherhood journey and the career balancing act that came along with it.”

    — Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt

    New York Times best-selling author, Creator of BDA Baby™

  • "Carry Strong is an important and necessary reimagining of pre-conception, pregnancy, and work.

    “Due to a multitude of systemic gaps, including a lack of federal laws protecting pregnancy and new motherhood, navigating work and pregnancy is one of the greatest challenges of the parenting journey. But it doesn't have to be. Carry Strong is an important and necessary reimagining of pre-conception, pregnancy, and work, drawing on robust research and compelling personal stories…”

    — Kimberly Seals Allers

    Author ‘The Big Let Down: How Medicine, Big Business and Feminism Undermine Breastfeeding’; Founder, Irth

  • "This is not business as usual, in Carry Strong, Stephanie Kramer normalizes the challenges that so many women face in the workplace.

    From considering a pregnancy through being a working mother, Kramer offers a refreshing perspective based on research and anecdotes on how we can harness the power of motherhood to achieve personal and professional success.”

    — Dr. Sarah Oreck

    Reproductive Psychiatrist

  • “Carry Strong is an important reflection of real women and real life and real stories--

    an authentic reference for the most exciting and anxious time in a woman’s life.”

    — Libby Wadle

    CEO J.Crew and Madewell

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Carry Strong Educational Downloads

What Phase of Your Carry Strong Pregnancy

Are You In? Find Out Now.

The Journey to working motherhood is beyond trimesters, discover what phase you are in now and how that perspective can be incredibly helpful for both your current mindset and what to do next.

Real & Supportive Advice on:

How to Tell Your Boss You’re Pregnant

It’s one of the top pregnancy and work-related searches today, and there isn’t just one answer. Download today and frame the conversation you want with comfort and impact.

Carry Strong Podcasts

Now Available to STREAM wherever You Listen to Podcasts.

Carry Strong Recommended Reading

Carry Strong seeks to not only normalize your journey to working motherhood but to celebrate it.

Carry Strong Pregnancy Stories & Studies

As the relationship of work and pregnancy is beyond trimesters, “Carry Strong”, supports women with five principles in Part I and by phase of impact in Part II. These phases are from the pre-pre-conception “B(TT)C” the “TTC” when she is actively trying, through “the hush” from when she first finds out into “the push” - the window of “modern nesting” after she shares her news until her due date and, of course, in “anticipating her great return (or not)”. 

Carry Strong Research

In Carry Strong, four new quantitative studies join the hundreds of personal stories; here are some highlights.

92%

of College Women Shared that Motherhood would have an impact on their career*

1 out of 2

said that someday motherhood will have an impact on their major decision*

86%

of College men say that fatherhood will have an impact on their career, however, the men are significantly more likely to view fatherhood as a positive impact on their career compared to how women view motherhood (neutral/negative)**

52%

women who worked during pregnancy said conception, not just when they were physically pregnant, had an impact on their career***

48%

of women who worked during pregnancy said that their experience at work during pregnancy had an impact on their decision to return to work.***

54%

of people with and without children shared that parents are an asset in their workplace, and only 5% said they were a risk.****

*Carry Strong™ 2021 ECI Study of 150 US Current College Age Women/Non-Gender Conforming without Children
**Carry Strong™ 2021 ECI Study of 150 US Current College Age Men/Non-Gender Conforming without Children
***Carry Strong™ 2020 ECI Study of 400 US Women in Non-Primarily Labor-Intensive Roles who Worked Full-Time While they were Pregnant (Census Validated)
****Carry Strong™ 2021 ECI Study of 650 US Women and Men with and without children (Census Validated)

Just because you carry something well -doesn’t mean it isn’t heavy.