Maternity Monday: Analise During & After Maternity/Nursing Sleep Set
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I like this pajama set to inject some joy into the haze of the newborn days. Unfortunately, it seems like due to COVID-19, there won’t be the normal parade of visitors to see the new baby. In order to make the best of a stressful and overwhelming situation, I like the idea of sending out/posting an extra-special photo, or even doing a traditional birth announcement through snail mail. I think wearing this matching set elevates a photo that likely won’t be taken by a professional photographer. I could even see bringing this to the hospital to feel put-together, at least on the outside. This also seems like a great gift for a friend who is expecting! The set is between $37 and $98 at Nordstrom, depending on color. Analise During & After Maternity/Nursing Sleep Set
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Sales of note for 9.10.24
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- 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
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Happy Monday! How long did it take you to get your cycle back to normal after your second baby? Was it different from your first?
After my first, I was nursing/pumping when I went back to work and enjoyed 8 months of cycle-free bliss, and it seems this time around it came back after six weeks! Still exclusively nursing and she’s sleeping a bit better than my first, but I still feel totally jipped!
We had a little scare this morning. DD is 2 and sleeps with stuffed animals in her crib. Between the time that she woke up and when I got to her (10 mins?) she had stuck her middle finger through the loop of a tag that was on the butt of one of her stuffed animals, twisted it so tightly and so many times around the base of her finger that when I got to her her finger was purple, borderline black. As soon as we untwisted and cut it back the finger regained blood flow and normal coloring but holy guacamole, that was a giant scare.
I’m only now recalling reading a warning somewhere sometime about those tags and exactly this but let me tell you, please consider looking at your kid’s stuffed animals and cutting all of these tags off.
My 9 month old hates diaper changes and will not lie on his back for them! Any tips?
the other week someone posted a site where you could order things online from independent bookstores? can you repost?
I need help finding something to wear for an appellate argument while pregnant. It looks like it will be held via video, if that matters? Maternity suits are surprisingly hard to find!
Is a dress and jacket ok if they aren’t technically a suit? This is proving harder than expected!
I have one child,a 5 year old daughter who is scheduled to start kindergarten in the fall. My husband and I both work full time, and the three of us have been staying at home for about 5 weeks now. DH and I take turns during the day working and spending time with DD. For the most part its going ok, although not having any kids to play with is wearing on DD, and we can’t play all the time with her (we need to cook, clean, etc). Should I expect her to learn to play by herself and how to handle boredom or is there some developmental milestone before she can do that? Should I just let her chill with her iPad?
I feel like there have been a million posts along these lines but I’m so frustrated by my inability to get anything done with a 3 year old and baby and my office not realizing that. We’ve tried to find childcare but haven’t found much luck. I feel like I’m working constantly but maybe billing 50%. How are any of you communicating to your team that you are operating at less capacity? I’m a partner so for the most part I’ve been leaning on an associate in my group. He’s young and unmarried and seems grateful for the extra work but I try to check in that he’s ok. For the most part I’m just trying to make sure the work gets done but am so frustrated.
For those of you with a +/1 2 year old, what does their sleep schedule look like? This is my 3rd kid and I don’t know if it’s the pandemic or what but I can’t even remember what my older ones did at this age. Mine is napping ~1-3 and going to bed ~8:30 and waking up ~7. Which seems totally normal and what I recall my others doing.
Except for the past week she’s been fighting nap and fighting bedtime and then waking up at 3am ready to hang out. She’s not sick. She’s not teething. She probably IS sick of us ;). DH and I are thinking she may need to shorten her nap, but she’s not even 2–will an hour cut it?
Part of the issue is that she’s in a Big Bed now (she can climb out of the crib), so sometimes she gets tempted to get out of bed and play. Or by the time she’s gotten out of bed to come and find us in the middle of the night, she’s too awake to get back to sleep.
Any advice on parenting a threenager? He turned 3 at the end of Feb, and the…feelings (?) are just starting. He’s like a sour patch kid. One minute he’s cuddly, the next he’s throwing a tantrum because I am not able to adequately define the word “art” (literal example from this morning). I use strategies in How to Talk, but they don’t seem to be working. He’s started growling when he doesn’t get his way or can’t tell me what he needs. He’s also annoyed by the DT strategy to “take a deep breath and count to four”, which worked previously. Help!
How long do we think workplaces will be understanding or flexible about people having kids at home? I feel like what little patience there was is quickly waning. My boss has already privately said “This is the new reality and people need to figure it out. It’s not my problem if someone has kids, they need to do the work they’re paid to do in the timeframe we need them to do it” to me. She was speaking about someone on the team who I have assigned a VERY light workload and is still getting paid their full salary and performing far below any reasonable expectations, so I’m sure it was said in a moment of frustration, but I think that’s the attitude that is starting to happen in workplaces in general. And frankly, even though I’m a mother, the “boss” side of me is starting to feel that frustration as well.
Ah, well since my other two dropped all naps by 2.5 I’m not holding out hopes for naps til 2.9 :). But I vaguely remember mine having a real nap well into 2….but the more I think about it the more I think I’m deluding myself and they fought it starting around 2 but daycare helped them keep it going. Since we don’t have daycare, that’s probably the issue.
Crap.
How long did it take and how old was your baby? We’ve got a 4 1/2 month old and the last 3 nights have been terrible! She doesn’t seem to be any better than she was on night one. How long would you continue if you aren’t seeing improvement? Been up since 3:30am, ugh.