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You wouldn't think the POTUS, Barack Obama, would be the person to turn to for good postpartum parenting advice.
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The President’s Advice For New Parents

You wouldn’t think the President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, would be the person to turn to for good postpartum parenting advice. But he is!

Along with all the other things he does well, Obama is pretty good at advising expectant parents.

I discovered this recently when listening to a podcast called The Tim Ferriss Show. In episode 176 Tim was talking to his guest, comedian and filmmaker Mike Birbiglia. In the midst of their talk about the creative process Mike offers the following recounting of meeting the President.

Mike starts off with the advice, “Talk to people about a thing they didn’t think they were gonna talk about.” He illustrates the point by sharing the following:

“Our thing with Obama was, ‘let’s tell him.’ Because my wife is four months pregnant but we hadn’t told anybody yet. ‘Why don’t we tell that him you’re pregnant’. And so when we get to the party we go, “Mr. President, this is my wife Jen. She’s newly p

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“In making the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act the first bill he signs into law, President Barack Obama today signals an end to the days when we had to revisit and defend women’s and civil rights victories of the past, and can instead focus on creating jobs, promoting fairness, and ending discrimination in our workplaces.

The harmful U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Ledbetter v. Goodyear will now become an ugly footnote in our history books, and a memory of a painful time when our highest court failed to uphold workers’ fundamental rights and lawmakers failed to right a terrible wrong.

The bill President Obama is signing today is a modest and targeted response to a ruling that made it just about impossible for victims of pay discrimination to seek justice in the courts, no matter how severe the discrimination they faced.

We now enter a new era in which equal opportunity is real and anti-discrimination laws matter. In this struggling economy, workers need protection from discrimination more than ever. Equal pay for equal work is among one