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Finally Friday: Cotton Canvas Tote Bag with 13 Pockets

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A Luliey Diaper Tote Bag Black & White Lines With Tan TrimHappy FriYay! If you’re looking for an affordable diaper bag/beach bag/bag with tons of organization, check out this stripey one — it’s highly rated over at Amazon, only $39, and comes with a number of strap options so you can wear it crossbody, on your shoulder, or hang it on the back of your stroller. I like the insulated bottle carrier section and all of the 13(!) pockets. It’s $39 at Amazon, available in black and white (pictured) and gray and white. Premium Cotton Canvas Tote Bag, 13 pockets Including Insulated Bottle Holders, by MommyDaddy&Me (L-all)

Sales of note for 9.10.24

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  • Carter’s – Birthday sale, 40-50% off & extra 20% off select styles
  • Hanna Andersson – Up to 50% off all baby; up to 40% off all Halloween
  • J.Crew Crewcuts – Extra 30% off sale styles
  • Old Navy – 40% off everything
  • Target – BOGO 25% off select haircare, up to 25% off floor care items; up to 30% off indoor furniture up to 20% off TVs

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  1. Mrs. Jones says

    Adding on to yesterday’s thread: I’m constantly frustrated by not being able to register our son for activities, because they are only offered during the workday. On a related note, I cannot find anyone to carpool with him, because no one in our neighborhood uses aftercare at his school. I don’t personally know any people with these unicorn schedules, but I wish I had one.

    • JayJay says

      How old is he? There’s a sports league in our area that only practices and has games on Saturdays/Sundays. They simply practice for a while before each game. It’s not really competitive (obviously), but for my 3 and 4 year old guys, it’s perfect for us. The group is apparently all over the country: i9 sports.

      • Mrs. Jones says

        He does play baseball and take swim lessons. It’s other stuff like music and martial arts that I can’t find good times for.

        • CPA Lady says

          Not sure if you’re religious or if this is structured enough for you to consider it music education, but my church has children’s choirs that practice one evening a week.

          • Anonymous says

            Was just going to say this. I purposely chose a church with a good children’s music program and choir practices during Sunday school or before the service for the little kids if they’re actually singing that week. Middle school and high school choir have one evening practice per week. Fwiw, the church choir program I sang in as a kid was amazing, taught us to read music and sight sing, and by high school tackled pretty challenging repertoire. YMMV, depending on the church, and it’s heavily dependent on the music director’s personality, but the good ones can be so, so good. I studied several instruments a lot more formally, and even by comparison to that, it was a great educational (and social) experience.

          • Spirograph says

            Genuinely curious: What music classes are you having trouble with? it’s really easy to find private teachers who work in the evenings. Some will even come to your house. And most school band and orchestra programs have small group beginner lessons during the school day.

          • PhilanthropyGirl says

            Not sure about the OP, but I’ve looked at Kindermusik in my area and all the Kindermusik classes are during the day.

      • Navy Attorney says

        This sounds awesome I wish I could find a place with practice right before a game!!!

  2. Closet Redux says

    Any tips for a third trimester work capsule wardrobe that wont break the bank? My office is business casual, meaning I can get away with separates and dresses. I’d like to look polished but I really don’t want to spend a lot of money on what will by my last 3 months of pregnancy ever. I’m thinking a couple of maternity sheath dresses and a couple of sized up blazers, plus a healthy rotation of necklaces to stretch those out over the weeks. Ideas for particular items or other capsule ides? I’m trying to keep the cost under a couple hundred dollars.

  3. Em says

    My son is 6 /12 months and currently nurses 4 times a day (morning, when we get home, before bed and a dream feed) and gets 3, 5 oz bottles at daycare (I pump 3 times at work). He also eats 3 meals of solid food a day (and will eat a ton). His daycare wants to drop him down to 2 bottles a day. I thought milk intake was supposed to stay the same until around 9 months or so, and I’m also concerned about maintaining my supply if I am only nursing/pumping 6 times a day (although I could keep pumping and freeze the extra milk). Is there any issue with letting them drop a bottle?

    • HSAL says

      I definitely think that’s too soon. Baby HSAL is almost 11 months and is only now starting to drop one of her daycare bottles. I’d ask your pediatrician, but I’ve read that if the kid is not drinking enough milk, you should cut back on solids. 3 meals a day seems like a lot for 6 months. We went from 3 to 2 bottles at around 9 months, but she was on formula by then so we went up to 6 ounce bottles so total consumption stayed the same until recently.

    • Anonymous says

      too soon – I’d be concerned baby is still hungry. It extremely hard for them to intake a wide enough variety of solids at that age to replace breastmilk. Much better to keep baby at 3 * 5 oz vs switching to twice a day and risk them pushing bigger bottles/feedings

    • PhilanthropyGirl says

      Mine was on a roughly 3 1/2 hour schedule: 6, 9:30, 1:00, 4:30 and then before bed. He slept 6-6 starting very early, and would never take a dreamfeed. I worked 730 – 330, so I only pumped twice at work. His two bottles were probably closer to 7 ounces, and he generally had breakfast, supper and a snack during the afternoon after his bottles. We kept that up until 12 months.

      Depending on the advice of your ped, I don’t think dropping a bottle is a big deal since he’s eating solids, but to make sure he’s getting enough milk those bottles should be bigger than what he currently gets. You can always keep your nursing/pumping schedule to keep your supply up, and things will probably even out because he’ll be taking bigger bottles.

      • Anonymous says

        I’m surprised at this suggestion as I thought BF babies were supposed to be fed smaller bottles more frequently vs. larger bottles?

      • PhilanthropyGirl says

        We really just went with what worked for us. I pretty much let baby lead the scheduling and this is where we landed. Kiddo’s growth was always appropriate and his ped seemed happy with weight gain. Ped was fully aware of his schedule and consumption amounts. Obviously every baby is different – if OP’s baby is demanding the current feeding schedule I wouldn’t change anything, but if daycare is sensing baby is ready for a change, letting baby lead could result in a schedule similar to what my child did.

    • Em says

      As a follow up, he currently eats every 3 hours and they are wanting to push it to every 4 hours. So he would eat at 6:30, 10:30, 2:30, 6:30. 7:30, 10.

      • Anonymous says

        The 6:30 and 7:30 feeds are close enough together that I don’t think you can bet on him getting tons of milk at the second feed. It’s great to help keep your supply up and closeness of BF but I think it’s a long day between 6:30 to 6:30 with only two bottles in between.

    • MDMom says

      Why do they want to drop a bottle? Is he not finishing one? Instead, I would either (depending on your baby’s preferences): have them drop one of the solids meals entirely and give bottle instead (milk way more important at this age… 3 solids “meals” every day actually seems like kind of a lot at 6.5 months), make one of the solids meals 5 oz milk mixed with solids (ie cereal), or drop the dreamfeed/middle of night feedings.

    • Em says

      Thanks everyone! We just added the third meal, which precipitated them asking to drop a bottle (which is another reason it was concerning to me). I asked them to continue giving him the third bottle and let me know if he starts refusing it and we can reevaluate. He loves food in any form so I am guessing he will take both the third meal and the bottle without objection.

      • POSITA says

        I wouldn’t drop a bottle until he drops both the dream feed and 3 AM wake up. He needs to get his calories during the day.

  4. ChiLaw says

    Any advice on name labels for kids’ clothes? I ordered Name Bubbles (and then my husband threw them away accidentally? UGH) and I liked how they’re thin and they seem to stay on great, but I was hoping to maybe spend less $$ this time around?

    • anne-on says

      The cheap solution for us was to buy a sharpie designed for laundry/clothing. I just write my kiddos name in block letters on the collars/tags.

    • Em says

      Personally, I would buy the smallest pack of Namebubbles to label the stuff you care about and either sharpie or not bother labeling the rest.

      • Meg Murry says

        Yup, I only sharpie the things I care most about or that are likely to get taken on and off and left somewhere (swimsuits, sweatshirts, winter boots, snowpants, backpacks, mittens) and most of the time I only do initials.

        Tip: if you have to order more labels anyway and you think you might have more kids someday, just do your last name, as long as it isn’t “Smith” or something super common. That way hand-me-downs are still correct if you have another of the same gender, and the sheet of labels will last forever. Or do the last name and phone number instead of “First Last” and get a non-cutesy design so you can stick it on your own stuff too.

    • Anonymous says

      Yep, if I remember, I label with a Sharpie one evening after receiving that season’s shipment of kids’ clothes. Honestly, none if any have ever gotten lost at daycare, so I have sort of stopped bothering.

  5. Life as a SAHM says

    Three months ago, I was flying across the country 2x a week and working 50 hour weeks while 8 months pregnant (down from 70 hour weeks). I spent a full Friday and Saturday in April closing a merger.

    Today, was driving down the road at 11:30am with a 5 week old and a toddler in the back, with some god awful children’s music CD blasting and an ergo still attached to my waist. No make up.

    The jury is totally still out on this SAHM thing (I have a 6 month mat leave) but I thought the difference between me 3 months ago and now was hilarious. (Note: there is a lot of me that missed the corporate world, six months will probably drag!)

    • Anonymous says

      As a Canadian who’s done the long mat leave thing twice – I would say it’s 100% normally to both love being a SAHM and miss your working life terribly at the same time. It’s not an either/or.

  6. Navy Attorney says

    To whomever posted yesterday: “I’ve found that assuming someone will do the right (or at least acting like I assume they will) often pressures them into doing the right thing — in this case just being cool with your break being a little longer!”

    I love this idea. I think I need to read Getting to Yes again, or something like it but less repetitive. And then apply it to my entire life…especially my preschooler.

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