Maternity Monday: 3-in-1 Maternity Puffer Jacket
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A lightweight puffer is a winter staple — here’s one that will take you through pregnancy and beyond!
This longish puffer has a flattering, streamlined silhouette with an extender panel you can zip in as your body changes. After your baby arrives, the panel fits over your baby carrier so your little one stays snug and warm. Lose the panel and it’s a cozy, water-repellent puffer you can wear for years to come.
Modern Eternity’s 3-in-1 Maternity Puffer Jacket is $179 at Nordstrom and available in sizes XS–XL. It comes in navy, khaki green, burgundy, and black.
Sales of note for 5/19/25
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Lots of markdowns on AGL (50%!), Weitzman, Tumi, Frank & Eileen, Zella, Natori, Cole Haan, Boss, Theory, Reiss (coats), Vince, Eileen Fisher, Spanx, and Frame (denim and silk blouses)
- Ann Taylor – 50% off summer-ready styles
- Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Eloquii – 50-60% off select styles
- J.Crew – 60% off sale, and 40% off packing picks (prices as marked)
- J.Crew Factory – New arrivals, plus up to 60% off everything plus extra 50% off clearance
- M.M.LaFleur – Daily flash sales, and lots of twill suiting on sale! Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off. 5/19’s flash sale: Jardigans down to $175-$209, dresses down to $150, blazers down to $250
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – 30% off dresses, skirts, shoes, and accessories
I need a gut check. Kiddo (7) has been in speech therapy for 1.5 years for articulation challenges. In the spring he had surgery to release a tongue tie that was stifling progress. We were led to believe that would lead to quick results. His progress has basically stalled out. We switched speech therapists and something is just not clicking – he continues to say “wabbit” even though he hears that it is wrong. Other medical causes have been ruled out, his hearing is fine. I assume we need to switch therapists again, but what do I need to be asking for? Anyone have suggestions for therapy methods or magical techniques that could help?
I need to vent. I’m 7 months pregnant and my husband just took a new, bigger job and I am feeling so much frustration and rage about it. Objectively, there is no reason for him not to have done this; it’s an opportunity he’s excited about, and he isn’t the one who is pregnant, obviously. But the exact same thing happened when I was pregnant the last time and it was really hard having him in the “new job” mentality when we had a newborn at home. When I asked him about paternity leave, his answer was that the company doesn’t do set amounts of PTO but that they said he could “take what he needed”—so yeah.
This also means I’m 100% on the hook for child care for our older kids during daycare’s winter break this year, which is technically fine as I have that week off anyway—but it isn’t what I expected or was hoping for. He had a ton of banked PTO at his old job that he would have used over the holidays. His old job was less money but very flexible generally and an insane amount of time off.
I think the real issue is I’m just fed up with how much pregnancy and having an infant affects me and has negatively impacted my career, and how little it seems to impact the men around me. I know that it’s not fair to take this entire cultural/professional issue out on my husband. But I’m just so freaking mad.
i was the poster last week with the 4.5 year old twins concerned about family visiting over thanksgiving and my SIL’s wedding conflicting with the start of kindergarten. reporting back that overall the visit was great and my SIL thinks my MIL is like 12 steps ahead of her in terms of the whole wedding thing (which SIL doesn’t even really want) and having our kids there and in good spirits is very important to her and she does not want to select a date that would be stressful for their schedule. i really was surprised last week by how many people didn’t take into account other people’s schedules when choosing their own wedding dates. it was very important to us when we got married that for certain ‘tiers’ (for lack of a better word) of people, that it be as little stress as possible and chose a date accordingly (like didn’t want our friends in medical school/residency to have to fly in late friday night/early saturday and then have to fly out early sunday morning so took their rotation schedules into account).
Luggage advice? We are taking our first international plane trip with all three kids, and are planning to get our kids carry on size luggage for Christmas. Kids are 10, 6, and 3 and we are going to Amsterdam for Spring Break.
I think the 10 year old will get something on wheels but I’m torn as to whether this should be a duffle or a suitcase.
The 6 and 3 year old, we’re debating between backpack and something with wheels. They already have backpacks for school, so this would be something bigger that they can pack for themselves in if we did backpacks – we were thinking of something from REI. On the other hand, I think they will have fun pulling rolling suitcases, but when they get tired of that, rolling luggage will be a pain for the grownups to carry whereas backpacks we can put on them and just tell them to carry them. The rolling backpacks just seem bulky and inefficient. But maybe not? Ideally I would like the two older kids to travel with three days worth of clothes and pjs and maybe one or two things to keep them busy/entertained. The 3 year old I think will still pack with me so her bag would just be for the fun stuff and snacks.
Any seasoned travelers with experience on luggage and kids have thoughts or suggestions? or reliable brands?
Dh traveled to 37 weeks one pregnancy but then baby came at 37 weeks and he almost missed the arrival (I mean it wasn’t that close, but I definitely drove to the hospital without him) and up to 36 weeks the next. Resumed travel 2 weeks after delivery but I got a night nurse any night he was going to be gone for the first couple weeks.
How late in pregnancy would you be comfortable with your spouse traveling? We have two other kids at home (preschool and toddler age) and late in the second trimester, I’m already having trouble lifting the toddler. Ugh. Both are in daycare, minimal local support system otherwise.
A fun gift question!
We have a finished basement that we’d like to turn into more of a playroom for our 3 kids- 3.5, 6, and 8. Currently we keep some games and toys down there, but it’s not a great set up so we’d like to turn it into a better playroom as a Christmas gift. It’s L shaped and so we’re thinking keeping toys/games, a table for crafts or board games and some sort of seating (maybe a couch, maybe some bean bags, maybe a nugget) on one side and turning the other side into an indoor jungle gym of sorts. Kids are very high energy, love sports and playing outdoors, seemingly fearless and we live in the Northeast so would love an indoor area where they can run and play during the winter. Right now that side has one of those Step 2 rollercoasters, but the kids have outgrown that. Looking to create an area where they can run and play and get their energy out without breaking things and where I can contain the chaos of both kids playing hard and the explosion of toys.
Thinking we could maybe do some mats and a goal or indoor basketball hoop or an indoor jungle gym swing set type thing or a rockwall? Open to any and all suggestions for indoor play equipment! Budget is roughly $1,000 but a little flexible.
When the kids are older we plan on turning this into a rec room with couches, a TV, and probably a pingpong table but for now we’d like to keep it TV free and keep their screen time upstairs with a little more supervision.
Ugh did anyone else have a brutal dropoff today? Mondays are always bad but Mondays after being home for a week and a half (illness + holiday) are especially bad.
Fun Monday question! What is your daily beauty and makeup routine for office? I’m looking to simplify and cut some steps and adding more “clean” easy to use products.
Shoutout to fellow MoCo school district moms… I’m glad that the people in the plane dangling from the powerlines last night were rescued and I appreciate the “abundance of caution”, but my area never lost power and an extra day with kids at home is not what I needed after a long long weekend. *sigh*
I would love all your tips for a holiday visit to NYC! My husband and I are taking our 6yo daughter in a couple weeks. Looking to keep it fairly low key (as low key as Christmas in NYC can be lol). We want to save most of the traditional NYC tourist things (like statue of liberty, museums, etc.) for another visit. What sort of fun restaurants, experiences, etc. do you recommend? We are staying at the Courtyard New York Manhattan/Central Park.
Over the holiday, I found out that while my in-laws were on a cruise they tested positive for COVID. Instead of reporting it to the cruise line like they were supposed to, they just “wore a mask for a couple days” and “sat far away from people in the dining room”. Basically, they thought they were special and above the rules, because they didn’t want it to ruin their vacation.
I am livid for two reasons 1) when we all got it, it was 2.5 weeks of hell working from home while very ill with two children and 2) I have a coworker who just got off the vent and moved out of ICU to rehab after contracting COVID at a work event. People are still dying.
I understand that we can’t live in isolation forever, but I just want a TINY bit of understanding from people without young children or compromised friends/family etc that this is still a big deal. I personally have long COVID and continue to suffer from persistent cough almost 10 months post infection. Like yay, glad for you that it wasn’t a big deal but god forbid you ruin your vacation so possibly you don’t kill somebody.
also, they knew what they did was really shitty because they didn’t tell anyone directly and it kind of came out in an roundabout way.
My 8 year old daughter has asked for a makeup set for x mas. I am trying to not overthink things and just get her a little lip smacker-type set and move on. But, a little girl playing with makeup makes me cringe a little.