Good morning on this defrosting Wednesday.

As they are for many working moms, Diana Limongi Gabriele’s mornings are a scramble.

At her apartment in Astoria, Queens, yesterday, she made breakfast for her family, prepared her 6-year-old for school and then got herself ready for work. At one point, she held her infant daughter to her chest to breast-feed with one hand and checked her phone for updates on a work meeting with the other.

“I have to hand her off soon,” said Ms. Limongi Gabriele, 35, pausing to smile at her daughter. “There are things that I would love to do with her just to bond, a lot of stuff during the week that I can’t do if I’m at work.”

Soon, Ms. Limongi Gabriele won’t have to choose between focusing on her daughter or her job as an assistant at New York University: She is set to be among the first beneficiaries of New York State’s new paid family leave policy, which the governor’s office has called the strongest in the nation.