![The Pain and Beauty of Pregnancy After Loss](https://startupparent.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/pexels-photo-54289-e1505764744437.jpeg)
![The Pain and Beauty of Pregnancy After Loss](https://startupparent.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/pexels-photo-54289-e1505764744437.jpeg)
![Why I Want to Talk About My Pregnancy Loss](https://startupparent.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/pexels-photo-113742-1080x675.jpeg)
Why I Want to Talk About My Pregnancy Loss
Pregnancy loss is a broad term that encompasses the loss of life of any embryo, fetus, or unborn baby. The most common type of pregnancy loss is miscarriage, affecting up to 50% of all pregnancies. Put another way, every other woman you know who has been pregnant has likely experienced some form of pregnancy loss.
![A Maternity Leave Expert on Creating Her Own Maternity Leave](https://startupparent.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/pexels-photo-333529.jpeg)
A Maternity Leave Expert on Creating Her Own Maternity Leave
Arianna Taboada is a maternity leave researcher and expert. She helps entrepreneurs build their own maternity leaves when neither work nor country provide support. In this interview, we talk about everything from grief to loneliness to overwhelm, and how to create your own framework to make it through the transition to motherhood.
![Filling the Gap With a Hidden, Untapped, Talent Pool](https://startupparent.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/pexels-photo-386009.jpeg)
Filling the Gap With a Hidden, Untapped, Talent Pool
Dominie Moss is focused on a very specific gap in the market that is wildly underserved: women who have taken a career break and want to get back to work. In her estimation, there are 427,000 women in the UK alone that want to return to executive-level positions and have the talent to do so, but no clear path for what it looks like (yet). Dominie’s company is setting out to fix this.
![Why Maternity Leave Isn’t Just Nice to Have, It’s a Human Rights Issue](https://startupparent.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/girls-children-kids-friends-50581.jpeg)
Why Maternity Leave Isn’t Just Nice to Have, It’s a Human Rights Issue
What does maternity leave look like when you’re an entrepreneurial, small-business owning woman? There isn’t a roadmap or a public narrative about what it means to have this transition to motherhood, and more importantly, to working, business-owning motherhood. Here are three common barriers women run into, and how to overcome them.
![Building a Family-Friendly Startup](https://startupparent.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/cropped-yjtxnh7bsdw-alirio-garcia-diseno-grafico.jpg)
Building a Family-Friendly Startup
Sara Mauskopf is the CEO and Co-founder of Winnie. She has a background in consumer technology and product management, having worked at Postmates, Twitter, YouTube, and Google. She graduated with a Computer Science and Engineering degree from MIT. She talks with us about how pregnancy and parenting changed her work, why she left to start her own company, and what Winnie does for parents.