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Thank you so much!Even if your company offers flexibility and support, balancing a career and kids is an enormous challenge. And what about having a baby and juggling it all when you're your own boss and employer? According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the U.S. is the only industrialized country that does not require employers to provide paid maternity leave. Under the Family Medical Leave Act of 1993, anyone who works for a company with 50 or more employees is allowed up to 12 weeks of leave without pay. Those who work for small businesses have no legal protection at all.Companies like Facebook, Twitter, Google and Amazon have garnered attention in recent years for going beyond government requirements to offer an extended amount of paid leave for new mothers. Netflix offers up to a full year of paid time off for new parents after a child's birth or adoption.But policies like these still aren't the norm, and even with generous measures in place at some companies, many mothers still feel unsupported. Studies show that of the 34% of women who do not return to their job after having a baby, 73% said they made their choice strictly for financial reasons and 23% said they felt like their employer could have provided better postpartum flexibility.Bestselling management author and CNBC contributor Suzy Welch has said that the challenges women face at work could be a leading factor in more women pursuing entrepreneurship.  "What is happening now is there is an off-ramp of women who want to be in business and have more control and run their own thing," Welch said on CNBC's "Power Lunch" in 2018.CNBC Make It spoke to four women entrepreneurs about their own challenges with taking maternity leave (or, in some cases, not taking it) while running a company, how it affected their businesses and the advice they have for other entrepreneurs considering motherhood today.

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