Oh, baby!

When Taty Sena returned to her part-time webmaster job after the birth of her firstborn last summer, the prospect of leaving behind her baby girl, Tahra, made her miserable.

"I was literally in tears about it," says Sena, 41, of Park Slope. "I didn't think I could be away from her for that amount of time."

So the New York International Fringe Festival employee took a chance and asked her boss if she could bring her infant to work with her — and, to Sena's delight, she got the go-ahead.

For the past five months, Tahra has spent three days a week at mommy's three-person office (along with Sena's husband, whose flexible sales job allows him to accompany Tahra to the office and entertain the tot throughout the day). The setup allows Sena to spend quality time with her 8-month-old child, breastfeed right at her desk (in clear view of her co-workers — who she claims are comfortable with the setup) and bring the baby to meetings in a portable crib.

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BABY TALK: Like a growing number of new moms, maternity wear maven Rosie Pope (right) brings her daughter, Vivienne, to work with her.

Call it a move out of the Marissa Mayer playbook. The Yahoo CEO caused a stir in February for reportedly building a nursery for her infant son adjacent to her office — on the heels of banning the company's telecommute policy. And while experts say bringing your wee one to the workplace is virtually unheard of in corporate America, it can offer mothers at small companies — like Sena's — a unique solution to the intense work-life strains that new motherhood brings.

"It's sort of the best of both worlds," says Carla Moquin, founder of the Utah-based Parenting in the Workplace Institute, which helps companies implement baby-in-the-workplace policies.

According to her, there are currently 186 organizations across the U.S. with formal baby policies (including two in New York City), spanning such industries as publishing, manufacturing and law. One-third of these programs — most of which allow babies up to nine months of age — have popped up since 2008.

"I think there's a lot more understanding that this is a viable concept as long as you set it up right," says Moquin. This means, she says, establishing formal policies regarding where parents can change diapers, breastfeed and handle crying babies, and designates a co-worker to serve as "alternate caregiver" when the parent needs to pop into a meeting.

"And," she adds, "the company has to have the option to say, 'This isn't working,' " — as Moquin says one company did when an employee took to changing her baby's dirty diapers on the conference table.

Still, the programs are an overall success. Over the past seven years, Moquin's interviewed hundreds of participating parents who, she says, cite a long list of benefits to having their tot in the office — including lower stress levels and fewer financial worries.

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