Moms in Labor · Daphne Delvaux, Esq. · July 2026
A very feral book tour. Mothers. Children. Justice
Tour Dates
July 7 | 6:30pm
Doylestown, PA
with Blair Thornburgh
16 S Main Street
Doylestown, PA 18901-4698
This event is free to attend and no ticket is required.
July 9 | Media Feature
Washington, DC
DMV Paid Leave with Great Day Washington
July 10 | 6pm
Cranford, NJ
With Lauren Smith Brody
July 11 | 7pm
Brooklyn, NY
with Mel Judson
Hosted by Café con Libros
At Organic Skincare NYC
689 Franklin Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Tickets on cafeconlibrosbk.com
July 15 | 1pm
Georgetown, TX
WITH Dr. Pooja Lakshmin
205 W 6th St Suite 101
Georgetown, TX 78626
Tickets on LarkandOwlBooksellers.com
July 17 | 6:30pm
Salt Lake City, UT
with Lindsay White
The King’s English Bookshop
1511 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT 84105
Tickets on
KingsEnglish.com
July 22 | 5:30pm
Seattle, WA
event on Washington paid leave with Ambika Singh and Claudia Timmermans
Armoire
4786 1st Ave S #106, Seattle, WA 98134
Tickets at
https://luma.com/5lvht3sh
July 24 | Invite Only
Los Angeles, CA
with Britta Bushnell and Mary Van Geffen
Private backyard event.
To join us, send an email to support@themamattorney.com
July 29 | 7pm
San Diego, CA
MeetCute Romance Bookshop
8235 La Mesa Blvd., La Mesa, CA 91942
Tickets on
meetcutebookshop.com
August 8 | Invite Only
Encinitas, CA
Private Book Launch Party at Four Moons Spa.
To join us, send an email to support@themamattorney.com
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The Merch Table
Because motherhood is the most punk rock thing a person can do, and this movement belongs on bodies, not just in inboxes.
I want people at preschool pickup, in airport security, at the grocery store, at the playground, and inside the fluorescent belly of modern life to know that you embody both love (milk) and fire (mayhem).
If you want to support this movement, buy the shirt. Buy the tote. Buy the hoodie. Wear the world we are building. Then send me a picture.
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The Gathering
Motherhood is a labor justice issue.
My book “Moms in Labor” argues that motherhood is a labor justice issue, and that the entire world runs on the unpaid and invisible labor of mothers.
This tour is what bringing that out of hiding looks like. Imagine us, all of us, in a circle, finally telling the truth about what it took to create and sustain human life.
Part of the tour is everything you’d expect from a book written by a lawyer.
There will be book signings, where I’ll sit with a pen and a stack of books and write a poem just for you. There will be fireside chats, where we’ll talk in the low golden light while it gets dark outside. The panels. The workshops, where you’ll leave with something concrete in your hands: a script, a strategy, or a sentence you can say to HR on Monday morning.
At some stops, there will be a Judge. Have you ever met a Judge? They’ll be there with us, lending the gravity of the bench to the legal quest of centering mothers at work. We’ll discuss that motherhood is a labor justice issue, and how to get closer to our goals.
At some stops, we will celebrate the hard-won progress of state paid leave laws, in the states and cities where policy actually exists, where a mother can stay home with her newborn and still pay her rent because advocates fought for years to make it so. We will toast them. We will say thank you out loud to the labor activists who did that work before us.
At some stops, we will gather as priestesses of Artemis in a magical backyard, under the trees, on the grass, by a creek, with our shoes off and our feet in the dirt.
At some stops, I’ll be in conversation with a dear friend and leader.
At some stops, we will honor the sacred breast pump and other tools of motherhood.
This tour embodies the full range of who I am and what my work has always been.
So… come to the version that calls you.
The whole tour is an invitation to stop performing the diluted version of yourself. An invitation into your own fullness. Your own aliveness.
Come as you are. Come as all of it. I’ll see you out there in the wild.
In Conversation With:
The co-hosts
Lauren Smith Brody
Author of The Fifth Trimester
Dr. Pooja Lakshmin
Author of Real Self-Care
Lindsay White
Founder of The Little Milk Bar
Britta Bushnell
Author of Transformed by Birth
Mary Van Geffen
Author of Parenting a Spicy One
Blair Thornburgh
Book editor/collaborator from Meghan Stevenson Books
Hon. Molly Hurley Kellett
NJ Superior Court judge
Hon. Linda Quinn
Retired San Diego Superior Court judge
Mel Judson
Book Cover Designer & Founder of Judson House Creative
Ambika Singh
Founder & CEO of Armoire
Claudia Timmermans
Chamber of Mothers Seattle chapter leader
The Ceremony
There will be an altar.
At the center of the gathering, a real altar. A cloth on the ground, as we’ll be outside.
On the altar, the sacred objects of motherhood. The ones that have been hiding in drawers and at the bottom of diaper bags and in the back of the cabinet above the washing machine.
- The breast pump. The nipple cream. The numbing spray. The peri bottle.
- The witch hazel pads. The sitz baths. The lanolin tube.
- The mesh underwear, still stained, still saved, still ashamed of itself in the drawer.
- The hospital bracelet. The pacifier with the teeth marks.
- The ugly sturdy pumping bra you bought and were a little ashamed of and still used every single day for a year.
- The anti-nausea bands. The half-empty rolls of tums.
- The notebook of feeding times. The single sock that stayed in the diaper bag for two years.
- The book you stopped reading at chapter three. The nose Frida.
- The nursing pillow that you definitely meant to throw away. The thermometer that took the 3am temperature.
- The labor affirmations cards you didn’t use. The belly support belt. The belly wraps.
- The positive pregnancy test that never resulted in a baby.
We all bring it out of hiding.
We will arrange these objects the way we should have arranged them all along. Like sacred artifacts, because that is what they are.
They held us through the holiest, hardest, most uncompensated work most of us have ever done. The fact that they have lived hidden in an old Target bag at the bottom of a closet, ashamed of themselves, is the entire problem the book is trying to name.
Bringing them out is the ritual.
These are the objects that support us in creating life. Items with breastmilk stains are not gross. They are blessed with holy water. Your pumping bottle is a chalice that is worthy of being held up and prayed to by an entire congregation. The amber teething necklace? It’s a rosary.
Imagine us, all of us, in a circle, finally telling the truth about what it took.
That is the ceremony. And we will tell the stories written on our wombs. And we will reclaim our status as life creators. And as the source of all of humanity.
Moms in Labor
This book is for the mothers.
While you’re growing and nurturing life, you’re also showing up to work. Hitting deadlines, holding meetings, delivering results, because you still need to provide, and because you’re still you.
Motherhood can create a tug-of-war with the demands at work. You don’t always know when to set a boundary and when to surrender to the flow. Finding the right words to discuss motherhood at work can be challenging. If you’re feeling this tender tension between home and work, if you’re confused about policies and just so damn tired, welcome.
And the law? FMLA, ADA, PWFA, PDL… I mean… WTF!? How many acronyms do we need. When you ask HR about your leave they say things like “these run concurrently” and you think to yourself, “I just want to know how much leave I can take.”
I’m your ally in this process. I’m not aligned with your employer or the government. My only commitment is to you and your baby.
This is the handbook you actually need. Not the one HR gives you, but the one that fiercely protects your baby, your wellbeing, and your career.
The attorney & the witch
Daphne Delvaux
Hi, I’m Daphne. I’m a mother and an attorney. I am the litigator and the priestess. I am the woman who reads the statute and the woman who reads the room and the woman who reads the moon.
I’m the founder of the first and only law firm devoted to justice for mothers at work, and the creator of The Mamattorney, the leading platform on mothers’ rights. I’ve won millions for mothers against Amazon, Fox News, Walmart, Tesla, and every other lord of capitalism who underestimated us. This book is the culmination of 15 years on the frontlines of that fight.
For too long, women have been told to pick one. Be credible or be wild. Be professional or be embodied. I built a body of legal work that no one can ignore, and I will howl in a backyard with my sisters, and both of those are the work, and both of those are me.
Come and watch a woman refuse to be only one thing, and maybe give yourself permission to do the same.
As Seen In
Moms in Labor Reviews
Foreword by Misty Copeland
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