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No More Jaywalking for New Mom Amy Ryan

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For Amy Ryan, the key to balancing work and motherhood is streamlining both.

“It’s just about becoming really efficient with your time and just writing things down,” the Academy Award-nominated actress — mom to 5-month-old daughter Georgia Gracie, with fiancé Eric Slovin — tells iVillage.

“I used to keep a to-do list in my head before I had a child, but now I have to write it all down.”

Taking stock of each potential role has also become paramount.

“If it’s not good enough, I’m not going to leave home,” she explains, “and that makes for an easy decision.”

Not quite as easy, however, is the internal dilemma Amy faces each time she’s stopped at a red light while walking the streets of New York City!

“I don’t jaywalk anymore. It’s true. I feel this part of me thinking, ‘What kind of New Yorker are you waiting for the light to change?’ But it’s true. I wait for the light to change. Even when I’m not with her. I’m like, ‘She needs me. I can’t get hit by a car.’”
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Ellen Pompeo: Why I Only Took Four Weeks Maternity Leave

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After years of wielding her scalpel as Meredith Grey on Grey’s Anatomy, Ellen Pompeo was ready for her life to expand beyond her career.

However, many were surprised to find the actress suited up in scrubs and back on set just four weeks after delivering daughter Stella Luna.

“A lot of people couldn’t understand why I wouldn’t take my maternity leave,” the actress admits in the April issue of SELF.

“I felt like I needed to work while I had this opportunity. The writers and producers were really gracious and wrote my scenes so I could preshoot them.”

While she has successfully managed to balance motherhood and her career so far, Pompeo, 40, insists Stella will forever be first and foremost — despite her initial nerves as a new mom!

“I got pregnant and I was like, ‘Oh God, it worked! Oh, no!’ Will I know how to do everything right?” she muses. “Of course, nobody does everything right, but as long as your baby is the priority, that’s the best you can do.”
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