Balancing Career and Co-Parenting: Claire's Story

As a director at a consulting firm, Claire traveled frequently and worried this made her a bad candidate for motherhood. "Every fertility conversation with friends assumed I'd need to slow down my career. I didn't want to choose."

Through CoParentBaby she met Hugo, a freelance graphic designer with a flexible schedule who wanted to be the primary daily caregiver. "We built our agreement around our actual lives, not an idealized version of parenting. He has our son on weekdays, I have him on weekends and we split school holidays."

"I used to think I'd have to be less ambitious to be a good mother. Turns out I just needed the right partner for the job — not a romantic one, a parenting one."

— Claire, 40, Paris