Maternity Monday: B.Love 2-in-1 Maternity Body & Nursing Pillow
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Someone gifted me a combo pillow like this one when I was pregnant with my oldest, and it was probably one of the most useful gifts I got.
This 2-in-1 maternity body and nursing pillow works as a body pillow for before your baby arrives and a nursing one for after. As a body pillow, use it to support your back, bump, and hips. (As a stomach sleeper, I used it to help me sleep on my side.) It’s filled with fluffy polyester and microbeads for comfort, and the removable cover is machine washable for those inevitable spills and spit-ups.
This body and nursing pillow is on sale at Nordstrom for $79.99 (down from $99.99) and comes in terracotta and green.
Sales of note for 5/14/25
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Beauty Deals up to 25% off (ends 5/17)
- Ann Taylor – Suit Yourself! 30% off suiting (ends 5/16) + 25% off your full price purchase (ends 5/18) + extra 60% off sale (ends 5/14)
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 25% off
- Eloquii – Up to 60% off everything + extra 60% off sale + $1 shipping on all orders
- J.Crew – Up to 50% off long-weekend styles + 50% off select swim and coverups
- J.Crew Factory – Extra 50% off clearance + extra 15% off $100+ + extra 20% off $125+
- M.M.LaFleur – Lots of twill suiting on sale! Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – 40% off all markdowns (ends 5/18) + 30% off dresses, skirts, accessories, and shoes
My toddler (2.5ish) still drools. They are in speech therapy, and we’ve checked hearing, adenoids, seen an ENT to look at the other things, and nothing – no underlying reason, and seemingly it’s not majorly impacting speech – toddler has tons of words, babbles, and puts words together now.
Ped wasn’t concerned at 2 year check-up, and I forgot to bring it up again at 2.5. I am going to monitor and see if it doesn’t resolve itself – it’s not causing any feeding/other problems, not like toddler’s clothes are getting wet, etc. Has anyone else had a similar issue?
I’m looking for some advice about toddler transitions. My almost-3yo DD has been potty training for about a month and is doing okay, from what i can tell in terms of what is normal and what her teachers say. She is in the process of transitioning to preschool in her Montessori school, so same school, different classroom. She has been visiting her new room on and off in the past, and will now visit every day from now until 8/21, which is when she will go to her preschool room full-time. She has been having more accidents and preschool with the transition, and I think less prompting than in her toddler room. She has also been waking up 2x a night. The first time, she is pretty easy to console – just wants to be rocked for a few minutes. The second time (which is around 4-4:30) she won’t go back to bed without crying or whining and I bring her into her bed. But even when I bring her into bed the second time, she tosses and turns a lot and whimpers and takes a long time to fall asleep (30 + minutes). She has a 14 month old sister who she shares a room with who is actually a pretty good sleeper, so I obviously don’t want them to both be up at the same time and am hesitant to do sleep training that involves her crying. And I think she is struggling with all these transitions so I want to be comforting for her. Also I am very tired and haven’t slept through the night more than a handful of times since January because of one or both kiddos. Any thoughts on how I can help/comfort with these transitions? As an added complication, on 8/26 we leave for a week-long vacation, which I’m worried will mess everything up. She is/we are also ready for her to have a toddler bed (currently in a crib) but that seems like too much right now.
the general consensus seems to be that four year olds are more fun than three year olds. Does anyone else have the opposite experience? My just turned four year old is getting increasingly annoying arguing about everything calling us names that he picked up in school and lying/not admitting to things that he did. At three years old, he was still cooperative and trying to place which made parenting a lot easier… Does this get better again?
Cross posting to hopefully get some more replies:
Looking for knowledge on dating post-divorce with kids and what is kind of normal/typical. Been on 6-7 dates, we text in spurts throughout the day. Updates on work/kids, what’s going on. Initially, there was a lot of texting as we tried to see if there was interest/getting to know each other, but the texting has waned or calmed down a bit. We are both divorced with two kids each and joint custody so it has been hard getting our schedules to work in a way to see each other. Right now, we are maybe going on one date a week or once every two weeks. I know this sounds silly but is this typical? Was married for a long time and never really dated before in my 20s.
I assume many of you know this, but both Target and Walmart have school supply list assist features where you enter your school name, and it adds all the requisite supplies to your cart. I had visions of shopping in-person with my rising K-er like I used to do with my mom, but time got away from me (school starts Wednesday!) and this feature was SO useful. Target had me select backup options for low stock items, and we got everything we needed in our pickup order.
It was a challenging week last week for our family and we’re still recovering. I feel so run down emotionally and physically. I can usually see things positively and can put things into perspective but I’m tired and sad. Any words of encouragement or kick in the pants for me or anyone else going through things right now?
I’ve talked to DH about this but would love the wisdom from this group. Another novel – thanks in advance for the counsel.
My MIL arrives today for “grandma camp” with DS #1 (5.5). We’ll be on a trip for some of the time she’s here. I should mention she recently got a Parkinson’s diagnosis (is on medication) and we just don’t know how much longer she’ll be able to do this kind of stuff with our kids. I should also mention there’s some history here where this is kind of a “second chance” of her staying with us like this. I know we are very lucky to have a grandparent willing to spend this kind of time, and I should note DS #1 always has a lot of fun with her when he visits her and they have 1/1 time, so some of this may be my own stuff.
My concern – we live in a major city. She’s not used to navigating the big city freeway driving and parking, and is VERY easily overwhelmed when it’s not her normal surroundings. I can’t imagine her taking DS #1 to an attraction 1 hour away from our house and managing the parking, tickets, making sure DS #1 gets fed before meltdown, etc. Another minor gripe – she’s also not great about keeping DS #1 on a schedule per se around food – it’s a lot of “hey are you hungry?” vs. “it’s lunchtime, let’s eat”, doesn’t think to pack snacks, etc.
I talked to DH, and I was like – hey is there a way we can nudge her to do stuff close to home? He agreed, but also wants to assess once she’s here. We have plenty of stuff nearby, can get her a guest pass to our pool (I think), and I’d love if in addition to these options, she and DS #1 spent time at home doing “projects” like science stuff, baking/making ice cream, etc.
Has anyone else navigated this? I’m thinking just to be direct once it comes up, maybe even giving her a list of fun stuff nearby. As for the food, maybe just keep my mouth shut until if/when happens and then ask DH resolve?
Am I out of bounds if I just blow off a nurse case manager that calls from my health insurance? I’m 24 weeks pregnant and just missed a call/got a VM from them, so I’m sure the call is related to my pregnancy. I believe the health insurance industry is the absolute devil and don’t need help from some rando person to manage my case. I’m high risk and have a care team I trust implicitly at one of the best hospitals in the world. I neither trust my insurance company nor some random nurse who calls me out of the blue at 24 weeks to have any helpful opinions or guidance. Plus, I also sincerely believe they’re out to help the insurance company and not me. Am I way off?
Are any of you aware of sites where female athletes talk about hitting puberty and challenges they had with grooming and periods and keeping up in their sports. My kids are at that stage where they used to love swimming but hair management has made them not want to keep it up (and they still only use pads, but period swimwear is at least an option now). And I remembered that this and how to not feel so exposed when I had periods was one of the main reasons I quit gymnastics (but with no one to talk to or ask why I didn’t want to do it anymore or sense of how to get help or options with this). I know that maybe it’s not a fair world where women’s and girls sports require outfits that are so revealing, but I just think it would be helpful for them to read things and know they aren’t alone (they are too shy still to talk to even their dad about this)?
I know that I get to bring my pump, supplies, milk etc. through security in my hand luggage. But do I get an extra bag in order to do that? In other words – can I have my carryon suitcase, my work backpack or purse, and a third bag for my Spectra and pump misc/milk? Or am I still limited to 2 bags and either need to consolidate pumping plus purse or check the suitcase?