Nursing/Postpartum Tuesday: Remi Knit Nursing Dress
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I am ready for fall knits even though the thermometer is still firmly stuck in summer. If you’re expecting or nursing, here’s a cozy knit dress for when the temps finally drop.
This midi ribbed knit dress stretches to accommodate your growing bump. For those who are nursing or pumping, there are discreet nursing panels integrated into the dress’s design. Add a pair of boots and you (and your baby) are autumn-ready.
Ripe Maternity’s Remi Knit Nursing Dress is on sale for $95.20 (marked down from $119) at Nordstrom and comes in sizes XS-XL.
Psst: Looking for info about nursing clothes for working moms or tips for pumping at the office? We’ve got them both…
My youngest just started Pre-K. We have a new-to-our-school teacher this year, and kids in this class have homework to help “prep” for kindergarten. This is insane, right? The homework is a couple of sheets with activities that aren’t out of line for pre-k-ers but the rigidity of this and requiring turn-in seems a bit much.
Am I being a stinker? Should we just go along with it? DH and I have better things to do with my time but in general these are things that we’re doing with our child anyway. This is our last year at this school before we move our youngest to public kindergarten next year, and we have honestly viewed this school as more of a daycare format with preschool activities instead of “real” school. Our older two went to this school but we moved them to different schools before reaching pre-K — so this is our first time experiencing this.
My in-laws invited my family and several other relatives to stay at a rental house in Phoenix in October. We will be 7 adults and 2 kids (7 and 2) all together. What should we plan on doing there? I’ve never been.
For my birthday I asked DH to plan 3 dates for us between my birthday a month ago and year-end. To me a “date” can just mean dinner out and arranging childcare; I’m looking for QT not like some crazy niche adventure. He hasn’t done one yet. We have some other stuff where we (I) are arranging babysitting and he hasn’t been like “Oh hey why don’t we extend it so we can do one of our dates?”
I was super clear in my expectations and am not seeing any effort. For years I’ve done all the logistics around 95% of things in our lives and I just wanted him to prioritize this.
When do I say something? I don’t want to have to remind for this, he should want to do it. Or when the holidays come up and if we haven’t gone on any dates, just repeat the ask? I should note my DH was the one traveling for work for a month and is grieving the loss of a parent, but I still think my ask wasn’t a big one.
Here’s a potentially controversial issue for discussion – putting aside constitutional rights (I know the first amendment doesn’t apply to private employees and a dress code can be appropriate), to what extent should a teacher be able to engage in political speech? Our kids go to a fairly progressive private school, and apparently there has been some serious conflict after a teacher wore a shirt showing support for Gaza to an in-service day and was asked to remove the shirt. Now teachers are saying things like they don’t feel like they are safe to express themselves. Ideally there would be a dialogue if this was a truly progressive school, but this is such a sensitive issue I’m not sure there will be.
Any recommendations for great family-friendly hotels (i.e., suites or separate sleeping spaces) in the American Southwest? Flexible on exact destination but we’re hoping to do a desert trip sometime in the next year with extended family. Lodging is always a pain point and hoping to find a decent rec or two early. Glamping options appreciated too.
Any tips for dealing with anxiety over toddler meals? We had bad feeding experiences when he was an infant (breastfeeding was a mixed bag, bottle aversion, borderline underweight) and I definitely still feel the mental effects today. Even without that, though, it feels really stressful if he starts screaming and rejecting a meal when he doesn’t even have a single reliable safe food to fall back on. He’s not even the most extreme picky eater overall but on these days when he just decides he doesn’t want something I cannot help feeling really stressed. I also truly hate cooking and the thought of having to make a second meal when the kitchen is already dirty from the first and I’m burnt out from a long day is..not my fave.
The friend of my daughter’s who keeps claiming dietary restrictions was over during the weekend, and she suddenly decided to happily eat anything we offered, including a fairly unusual, no-one-else-has-ever-heard-of-it chorizo pasta dish we had already planned (assuming she wouldn’t eat anything anyway). Plus, the girls got bored while staying up and decided to empty the dishwasher and mop the kitchen, plus they washed my car the next day (being still young enough to find that a super-fun excuse to play in the water in hot weather).
So, I’m just going to assume she reads this site, saw the error of her ways, and made a commitment to do better. Heh.