Career Allies keeps new moms in the workforce through its pregnancy planning platform

FORT COLLINS – A woman-owned startup is looking to stem the tide of women who leave the workforce after having a child.

Thirty percent of women who have children don’t return to their positions after maternity leave, said Jennifer Henderson, founder of Fort Collins-based Career Allies Inc. Often, it’s not because they don’t want to work, but because at some point their transition to maternity leave and back was mishandled in a way that they decided they would ultimately rather not go back to that place of work.

“The leave can…