If work gets a bit too intense for Carole Gailor, she takes a “baby break” and walks up to the second-floor loft of her seven-attorney offices.

There, in a nursery that Raleigh, N.C.-based Gailor Wallis & Hunt created for the children of its attorneys and employees, Gailor, 61, can visit the small group of babies and their nannies. She gets a reality check before diving back into her work as a matrimonial lawyer.