Jumpsuits are my favorite one-and-done alternative to dresses, and this one is made for moms-to-be!
This jumpsuit from Nom Maternity veers toward office territory with its snap front (perfect for nursing or pumping after your little one arrives) and self-tie sash. The go-with-anything navy organic cotton gauze fabric is as comfortable and breathable as it is practical.
Pair it with polished flats for the office or sneakers for the weekend.
The Alma Jumpsuit is $128 at Ingrid+Isabel and available in sizes XS–XL.
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Covid says
Covid finally got us. Help me make sure I’m understanding the procedures:
Husband had congestion starting Wednesday. Got a positive test Friday morning and immediately began masking, but we are not able to fully isolate him.
I understand that myself (triple vaxxed) and our 6 y/o (vaxxed) are okay to go about our lives provided we are asymptomatic and mask in public/at school. What I’m struggling with is how long the unvaxxed 2 y/o has to stay home. It’s 5 days from last exposure, but when is that? Friday morning? The day my husband has no symptoms?
HSAL says
Unless you’re truly isolating your husband, the two year old’s quarantine will begin the last day your husband is symptomatic/the end of his home isolation. Is the two year old in daycare? They probably have their own rules. When we all had it last week, preschool told us exactly when everyone could come back.
Anonymous says
Would be shocked if your childcare does not have a rule. Ours is still 10 days from last exposure date OR 7 days with a negative PCR.
Anon says
I read it as her daycare’s policy is 5 days from last exposure and she’s trying to figure out when the “last exposure” is.
OP says
This. The lack of guidance for families is maddening.
Anon says
I think officially the last exposure is when your husband’s isolation ends (5 days from onset of symptoms, per CDC, right?) But personally I would try to start counting from when your husband is testing negative or at least symptom free (assuming it’s longer than 5 days – if it’s less you still follow the 5 day rule).
Anon says
10 days from the onset of symptoms…if you can wear a mask you can go out in public masked after 5 days, but presumably he’s not always masked around his kid (and living together the exposure/viral load would be more than just a person running an errand in a mask)
Pogo says
When we went through this, we did a PCR on the asymptomatic 18mo at his day 5. He was negative. We then did a repeat on his day 14 per daycare’s request, and that was negative. During those two weeks he fully isolated (did not take him out of the house at all – but then again, we all got symptoms within a few days of the 4yo’s positive, so it was a moot point as we were isolating anyway).
Anonymous says
Are you asking a out daycare or life? I’d just ask your daycare what their policy is. For general life, err on the side of leaving the 2 year old home from indoor excursions when practical.
OP says
It happened to coincide with a planned daycare closure this week, so asking about life first. She won’t mask all day at daycare, so I know we’ve got another 5 days at home after she’s allowed to be in the world for short periods—but it would be nice to get out of the house, go to a (not-busy) park, etc.
Anonymous says
Nope. She can’t go out until 5 days after your husband is contagious.
Anonymous says
I disagree. I think you could definitely take her to a not-busy park. Like, now. To me, the guidance is about avoiding people outside your household so as not to spread covid. You’re not going to spread it to anyone outdoors alone at a park.
Emma says
What are your thoughts on alliterative names? DH and I like the name Leo for our babe-to-be, but DH’s last name starts with an L and I’m worried that Leo Lewis (not his real name, but you get the idea) would sound gimmicky. I realize he could take my last name, but for various reasons we are not leaning towards that.
An.On. says
My daughter has an alliterative name and I think it makes her sound like the hero of a children’s book. The amazing Juniper Jones* is on the case! As long as it’s not a tongue twister, I say go for it.
(*not her name, obviously).
Cb says
That’s why my son isn’t named Benjamin… Benjamin B… sounded like a Beatrix Potter character.
Anon says
Probably an unpopular opinion, but I think it’s cheesy and I don’t like it. My best friend gave her kids her name, and I think it’s the coolest.
HSAL says
I love one alliterative name for the superhero reference mentioned above. If every kid in the family has an alliterative name then it’s obnoxious.
Anonymous says
I think it is fine. You could also just give him a middle name that works for Leo and call him Leo, then he has options if he doesn’t like the alliteration later. I have a relative that derives his everyday name from his last name. Think going by “John Johnson” when his real name is like “Tybalt Johnson” and John isn’t part of his real name at all (not the real names, but you get the idea). So if Leo could come from your last name then you don’t need Leo in his name at all to call him that as a nickname.
DLC says
My kid and my niece have alliterative first and last so I might be biased but I like them and think they can be charming and rhythmic. It might help that my daughter’s first name is long (3 syllables) and her last name is short (one syllable).
I don’t think it sounds gimmicky at all and I think if that’s the name you really love and that’s who your kid is to you, then it won’t feel gimmicky.
i would probably be careful if it’s too similar to an already existing super hero, though. Like for the same reason if your last name is Kemp, maybe avoid naming your kid Clark.
Pogo says
I’m with you, we chose not to do a few names we loved due to alliteration. At the same time, I work with a few people with alliterative names and I don’t really sit there thinking how weird it is, so it’s not the end of the world.
Anonymous says
One of my kids has an alliterative name. It was our favorite name and while I wasn’t keen on alliteration, I didn’t hate it enough for it to be a deal-breaker.
Taylor Kelley says
I think Leo L. is a fine name. My one caution is that since “Leo” can be a last name, do not do this if your husband’s last name is also a first name (e.g., Lewis). People will really struggle to figure out if it’s Leo Lewis or Lewis Leo. Ask me how I know this.
Emma says
That’s a good point, and I actually have this issue because apparently my last name is a common first name in Eastern Europe, and my first name is a little unusual, so I get a lot of “Hi [Lastname]” emails. But DH’s name is pretty clearly not a first name. It’s also pretty long, which is why we like a short first name like Leo, Max or Eliot (my fave but DH is not convinced).
Anon says
My impression is that Leo is very trendy right now (whether that’s a pro or a con!). I like alliteration.
Anon says
I’m with you too. I don’t like the alliteration for names, but many people do. To each their own
Anon says
This is definitely something where personal opinions differ. I think one child with an alliterative name is fine (and in some cases can sound very strong!). I think it only gets in the realm of gimmicky if multiple children have alliterative names or if the root of the names are too similar (ex: Harry Harrison). We have one child with an alliterative name and one without.
TheElms says
My DH and I both have alliterative names using the same letter. So like Sally Short and Steven Smith. (Not our real names and I kept my maiden name). It is a little odd, and people comment on it fairly frequently. But our names are in all other respects common/ordinary/boring so it has never been a problem or really bothered me or DH. I think I would like it a lot less if my name made me sound like a superhero or was sing-songy. For our kid and kid on the way we ruled out any names that would be alliterative. But that could be in large part because a family of 3 or 4 people with alliterative names just seems like A LOT.
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Anon4This says
Need a sanity check. Will ofc check with ped, too at the next visit.
DS #2 is 14 months. He says a few words (Baba, Mama, Hey/Hi, Yeah) but nothing super regularly. It’s a lot of babbling. He points, waves, and high-fives but can give a crap about clapping. He’s not walking yet, but crawls fast and can get up the stairs, pulls up on things/cruises. We try to practice with the walker supervised.
He was also not preemie, but low birthweight (5 lbs+), so he’s always been on the smaller side, but I think is probably close to ~20 lbs by now so that’s always been a concern.
Does this sound developmentally normal? DS #1 was walking at 12 months, and I was easily able to teach him and have him parrot back words. Not sure if he was just naturally more advanced or what.
Boston Legal Eagle says
My first son started walking at around 11 months and my second son started walking at around 14 months (I remember his first noticeable steps well – it was New Year’s Day and he’s an October baby). Both of my kids had a language explosion at around 15-18 months. Both kids are now super chatty and walk/run normally. I think you’re fine, and you can bring it up with your ped at around 18 months or so if you’re still concerned.
Anonymous says
Oh what a tiny nugget! He sounds normal and adorable
Anon says
Both sound totally normal.
12 months is average for walking, but anything up to 18 months is considered within normal range. After that they’ll probably refer you to early intervention. My daughter was much later at walking than your son – she didn’t cruise or walk with assistance until about 16 months and didn’t walk independently just a few days before her 18 month birthday. But froom that point on wasn’t obviously behind in physical stuff. When she walked, she walked well and was more stable than many of her buddies who’d been walking for months. She ran, jumped, etc. roughly on time.
The speech also sounds normal to me. I think my daughter only had a couple words at 14 months. There was a big change around 15 months when she started picking up a new word or two every week and then another big explosion around 18 months when started picking up multiple new words a day. We never “taught” her words (parental laziness, I guess) but the few times friends or family member tried to get her to parrot words back to them, she never would. She was talking in basically compete sentences well before 2.
Anonymous says
Sounds totally normal. I wouldn’t even say DS#2 isn’t as advanced as #1. You can’t really see what their minds are working on. Plus, DS#1 had you as his whole world and had greater incentive to parrot things back to please you and interact with you (nothing wrong with it, just his circumstances). DS#2 has interactions with you plus big brother and maybe doesn’t feel as much pressure or reward from parroting things back to you, so he is taking it slower on language and developing other things.
Anonymous says
I wouldn’t worry as much about the speech/clapping as this sounds normal to me. Kid #2 was way slower on talking (boy) but at 2.5 has caught up/is ahead of milestones. He was even on the slow side of speech but has made huge progress in 6 months. Walking seems fine to me too. When you say walker – are you referring to something they push, or like a wheeled walker that you put him in? Old school walkers that you put them in inhibit walking and do more harm than good. He’ll figure it out when he’s ready, humans have been doing it for millions of years :)
OP says
Thank you! Referring to something they push!
Pogo says
Our second boy is like this too. He went from barely caring about cruising to walking very quickly at 16 mos. I suspect something similar will happen with language, and if not I’ll ask the ped at his 18mo. He has fewer words than his brother did at this age, but I think he also has his brother to interpret/help him in a way that an only doesn’t have.
OP says
Thank you all! For a myriad of reasons (my own natural anxiety being one), I worry a bit more about DS #2 than I did DS #1, so this was really helpful.
Anon says
I have twins. One walked at 14 months. One at 17 months. One was talking up a storm by 15 months, the other barely spoke until age 2. Having twins is both a reminder that there is a WIDE range of normal and always made me think there was something wrong with one kid despite my best intentions not to compare
Anonymous says
Have an unexpected day in Palm Beach FL next week, during the week, with a 3 and 5 year old. Any recs? I thought the Cox Science Center and Aquarium looked fun.
SC says
The Palm Beach Zoo–it’s a smaller zoo but really nice, shaded, has a cool fountain/splash pad in the middle that the kids can play in.
The Loggerhead Marinelife Center, a turtle rescue. Small but interesting, and doing important work. It’s also located in a park with a playground and a beach, so you can do all 3 in one stop.
Grassy Waters Preserve for a nice walk on a boardwalk.
Anon says
Do you have ASTC membership? Whenever we travel (with similar age kids) I always start by looking to see what is available free through that, and I’ve never been disappointed.