Maternity Monday: Alfie Tunic Layering Maternity Dress with Collar
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Expecting and need a dress to take you through the rest of your pregnancy? This flowy tunic dress will take you from the warm days of early fall to the chilly nights of winter.
This A-line smock dress has a gathered empire waist to accommodate your growing bump. The fall floral print works with all the darker tones in your cool weather wardrobe. Add some tights or leggings as the temps drop.
Seraphine’s Tunic Layering Maternity Dress is $99.
Sales of note for 9.10.24
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Ann Taylor – 30% off your purchase
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Boden – 15% off new styles
- Eloquii – $29 and up select styles; up to 50% off everything else
- J.Crew – Up to 50% off wear-to-work styles; extra 30% off sale styles
- J.Crew Factory – 40-60% off everything; extra 60% off clearance
- Lands’ End – 30% off full-price styles
- Loft – Extra 40% off sale styles
- Talbots – BOGO 50% everything, includes markdowns
- Target – Car-seat trade-in event through 9/28 — bring in an old car seat to get a 20% discount on other baby/toddler stuff.
- Zappos – 26,000+ women’s sale items! (check out these reader-favorite workwear brands on sale, and some of our favorite kids’ shoe brands on sale)
Kid/Family Sales
- 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
Help me talk through my feelings of being a bad mom. My daughter turns two this week. On her first birthday, we threw a big party with all our friends and family, a theme, pictures etc. This year, I’m really not in the mood – I have a busy job, we’re doing ivf, I’m just not as excited to do it. I’m thinking of doing a weeknight dinner with the grandparents on the day of. Store bought cake, food she likes, some gifts, maybe balloons. I figure it’s the last year she doesn’t care that much and won’t want a party with her friends. That’s ok, right? She won’t look back and think I was a lazy parent? My husband is worried that our friends will care – as in, we were invited to little Bob’s birthday party and didn’t reciprocate, but I don’t think adults care that much about a toddler birthday party?
Do I need to take a birthing prep class for my second baby? My OB suggested it but I took one for our first kid and I feel relatively prepared for round 2 (I still have my notes from the first one!).
When you ask your partner to do something, do you frame it as a question or a request? Me: “Can you pick up your shoes?” DH: “You need to turn off the lights in the house before you go to bed.”
How did you decide when to stop fertility treatment for a second child (or first) if you were unsuccessful? I’m 37 and it took 18 months of fertility treatment to conceive my 1 toddler. I’ve now been doing fertility treatments for a year for number 2 and am questioning how I know when to call it quits. Finances aren’t an issue – I have never produced more than 1 egg when attempting IVF and so just do IUIs which insurance covers. My fertility is objectively bad (caused by chemo) but I did get pregnant once before.
How long did it take for your milk to come in with your first kid? Trying to gauge how likely it is that we will need to supplement with formula, although we’re planning on bringing some to the hospital anyway. It’s “baby friendly” and I don’t feel like fighting them for formula if I think my baby needs it. My preference is for BFing to work out but I do have some risk factors for delayed milk onset.
Am I overthinking normal kid behavior re potty habits? I can’t remember what I did with older kid in this phase…
Kid was potty trained between 3-3.5. Will be 4 in a few months. At school, he’s fine bathroom wise, goes by himself, etc. Same for the most part when he stays at my parents’ house, he’ll let a grandparent know he needs to go but often goes by himself (he still does need help with #2).
At home on weekends – I feel like now he goes way longer stretches without going? I offer, he says no, we move on, and then he eventually goes or asks to go. There have been a small handful (~3) of #1 accidents at home where he waited too long, but that’s not the norm.
He also often asks to go as a stall technique at bedtime or to get out of his chair at mealtimes and then is like “No, I don’t need to go.” He’s a mixed bag on public bathrooms (my older one was the same until ~4.5-5) so there will be times we’re out, he asks to go, and then changes his mind. I’m often solo with both kids, so I like to have him try before we leave somewhere on weekends (I posted about this last week). He’s still in a pull-up at naptime (at home) and overnight.
My first grader’s BFF (since Pre-K) is quite possessive and apparently prefers to play only with my daughter at recess. My daughter considers this girl her best friend, but has a large circle of other kids she likes to play with. She’s mentioned that there have been a few times that she wanted to play with someone else instead, or invite another friend to join them, and her BFF “said no” so she didn’t. We’ve talked about how it’s fine to play with whoever she wants but she shouldn’t let someone else make these decisions for her, and it’s nicer to choose the more inclusive friend if two people both want to play with her and only one is offering to include others, but it doesn’t really seem to be getting through to her. She’s not a pushover in general so I’m kind of baffled as to why she lets this kid boss her around so much.
I don’t know if there’s more I should be doing to guide her? I normally have a “let her solve her own problems” approach to friend drama, but I see her headed down a path where she only has one friend and that doesn’t seem great. What would you do, if anything?
So lets talk planning Halloween costumes.
This is my first year having two kids to dress for Halloween. One is 5 the other is a baby.
My oldest changes her mind on what kind of costume she wants every day. So far the consistent message is she really wants to have a costume that goes with baby brother’s.
Growing up my mom use to sew my costumes and I do have the urge to made a costumes for my kids. Which is why I’m thinking about it now (honestly I probably should have thought about this even earlier).
In this scenario, would you come up with 2 or 3 ideas, let your oldest pick one and then nail that down with no wiggle room?
Or do I lighten the load, not make costumes, kind of let it be a free for all in October of what kiddo wants from a box store?
Are people already buying costumes now? Or do you wait closer to?
With the caveat that I couldn’t sew if my life depended on it, so there is more time, I just give kiddo a cut off date. “You need to decide by Oct. 10, and after that there are no other, new costumes.”
Just a vent, but I’m grumpy and so ready for the soccer season to be over. My 6 year old has done a bunch of activities, but has never had anything that met more than once per week so the adjustment to 3x weekly soccer has been a lot. And I hate the expectation of parental involvement. I’ve been dropping her off for play dates and dance classes since she was 4, but for some reason at soccer all the parents stay? And constantly shout to their kids about what they’re supposed to be doing?? Why!? Kid activities are supposed to be my reading time, lol. It doesn’t help that fall has been so slow to arrive in my part of the Midwest so a bunch of these practices and games have been in 90+ degree weather.