Nursing/Postpartum Tuesday: Baby Side-Snap Bodysuit In Organic Cotton
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Does your baby have a really huge head? Both my kids have large heads — it was (and is) always a struggle to pull shirts over their noggins.
When my youngest was born, friends gifted us Hanna Andersson’s Baby Side-Snap Bodysuit. At first, I found the buttons a bit confusing. However, once I treated it like a wrap dress, it made total sense — you just button the hidden buttons on the inside, wrap, and then button the ones on the outside.
Best of all, you don’t have to tug it over baby’s head. The fabric is stretchy organic cotton, perfect for growing wiggleworms!
The bodysuit is $24 and comes in a range of adorable patterns and colors. It’s available in sizes 50 cm (0–3 months) to 90 cm (3 years).
Sales of note for 1/16:
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Cashmere on sale; AllSaints, Free People, Nike, Tory Burch, and Vince up to 60%; beauty deals up to 25% off
- AllSaints – now up to 60% off (some of the best leather jackets!)
- Ann Taylor – Up to 40% off your full-price purchase; extra 50% off sale
- Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Boden – 15% off new styles with code — readers love this blazer, these dresses, and their double-layer line of tees
- DeMellier – Sale now on, free shipping and returns — includes select options like Montreal, Vancouver, and Venice
- Eloquii – $29 and up select styles; extra 50% off all clearance, plus ELOQUII X kate spade new york collab just dropped
- Everlane – Sale of the year, up to 70% off — reader favorites include their scoop tee, Dream Pant, ReNew Transit backpack, silk blouses and oversized blazers! New markdowns just added
- Hannah Andersson – Up to 30% off all pajamas;
- J.Crew – Up to 40% off select styles; up to 50% off cashmere
- J.Crew Factory – 40-70% off everything
- L.K. Bennett – Archive sale, almost everything 70% off
- M.M.LaFleur – Tag sale for a limited time — jardigans and dresses $200, pants $150, tops $95, T-shirts $50
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – Semi-Annual Red Door Sale – 50% off + extra 20% off, sale on sale, plus free shipping on $150+
And — here are some of our latest threadjacks of interest – working mom questions asked by the commenters!
- The concept of “backup care” is so stupid…
- I need tips on managing employees in BigLaw who have to leave for daycare pickup…
- I’m thinking of leaning out to spend more time with my family – how can I find the perfect job for that?
- I’m now a SAHM and my husband needs to step up…
- How can I change my thinking to better recognize some of my husband’s contributions as important, like organizing the shed?
- What are your tips to having a good weekend with kids, especially with little kids? Do you have a set routine or plan?
I only have one kid, so no room sharing advice. When we moved a couple of years ago, we initially had Kiddo in the bedroom with his toys. At night, he had a hard time winding down and not playing. During the day, he dragged all his stuff out to the living room. We also had to store some toys in the closed-in porch, but then they took over that room. There were toys in pretty much every room of the house.
Six months later, we rearranged everything. We moved Kiddo’s bed, dresser, and books into the room we’d been using as an office. His bedroom became a dedicated play room. The desks got moved to the (unused) formal dining room. The toys in the porch went to the play room. It is SO much better. Kiddo has an easier time winding down for bed–out of sight, out of mind. The play room looks like a bomb went off, and I don’t care. My mom convinces Kiddo to clean it up every 3 months when she visits. (She’s magic.) Toys do get dragged out to the living room, but they have a home to return to. The porch is “my” space–I’m basically the only one who bothers to go in there, and it’s always clean and relaxing. I can use it for yoga or reading or talking on the phone. And we still have a dedicated office, which was good during the beginning of the pandemic, though I’ve been back in the office since May. So, basically, dedicated play room solved so many problems in our house.
Another potty training question! 2.5 year old was using the potty at daycare and most of his pull-ups were dry (they mark in the app), but all of a sudden the last few weeks he’s just going in his pull ups again. They take him to the potty all of the time so I don’t think that’s the issue. We’ve been having him wear underwear at home on the weekend and he’s been doing great with that and staying dry 90% of the time. Do I start sending him to daycare in underwear? I explained the issue to daycare and they’ve been discouraging me from switching him over as they think he’s not ready.
We’re moving into a new house with small 10×10 bedrooms and no playroom space. Can you BTDT moms talk me through the pros and cons of putting both boys in the same bedroom and using one bedroom for a playroom vs giving them each their room with no dedicated playroom?
Any advice for potty-training strong-willed kids who’ve decided they don’t want to be potty trained? My daughter turned 3 in January. We tried on and off to get her using the potty since she was 2.5 and we got serious with the naked method over winter break. It didn’t take and now she’s just completely refusing to go near the potty. We’ve tried every reward we can think of, read books and watched Daniel Tiger about it, talked about how big girls use the potty, etc. We take breaks from trying, thinking she might develop an interest if we don’t force it, but nope. Her daycare teachers are also baffled, they said that while it’s developmentally normal for a 3 year old to still be having accidents, they’ve never seen a kid her age this resistant just to trying. She’s the only kid in her class of old 2s and young 3s who’s not potty-trained. She’s aware of this and seems embarrassed about it (she said other kids call her a baby because she uses diapers). Everyone agrees she’s physically ready because she can hold her urine for many hours at a time and lets adults know when she’s going, so the issue is just willingness to sit on the potty and release it. I’m just stumped. She is the funniest, sweetest kid but really off the charts in terms of stubborness and so I fear she will never potty train unless she gets on board with the idea and I don’t know how to make that happen. All my friends potty-trained their kids easily before 3 and I feel like such a failure.
Can anyone talk me through the process of the various evaluations for your kid, neuropsych or other options? My 2nd grader is on year three of having trouble concentrating in school and I think the teachers are obliquely telling me he needs to have an evaluation for ADHD. We are starting with the pediatrician and I have set up a time for the school counselor to see him, but I am just at a loss of how this works. I don’t quite understand what the schools can/can’t do, what options are out there, how we assess what he actually needs once we do or don’t have a diagnosis. I don’t have anyone close to me who has been through the process. Help!
My son was angry this morning because I turned off the TV and told me he wished he had a different mom. He’s 4, mid-tantrum, I know he was just lashing out, but still it has really made me upset. I talked to him once he’d cooled off about how we don’t try to hurt people we love with words even when we’re angry, but I still feel kind of down. I’m not the world’s most confident person in general, especially about parenting, and have often thought that my kids would indeed be better off if they were with someone else so I think it struck a nerve. Guess I’m just venting to try to get this off my mind so I can focus on work, but if anyone has advice, share please.
My husband and I have big heads; in fact, I took up knitting when I couldn’t find hats big enough for my giant dome. So our son also has a massive head, of which I am inordinately proud. At one point when he was younger, it was off the growth chart, so much so that the pediatrician did a double take and measured again. I didn’t have trouble getting him into onesies due to the lapped shoulders I guess, but toddler bike helmets and swim shirts (look for ones with a zip neck) were problems.
Registering my older kid for kindergarten now (eek!) – part of me is thinking, I don’t even know what I’m registering for at this point in terms of hybrid/full in person/etc. What is everyone thinking, at this point, in terms of fall? Do you think everyone will be back in person full time, with masks for the kids maybe? I really really don’t want virtual for my kid, and I know we’ve had some talk on here about districts refusing to go back – just wondering if anyone else has heard from their districts or if it’s still wait and see at this point.
I’ll preface this by saying I have a call into the pediatrician and will follow any treatment plan recommended.
Does anyone have experience with treating pinworms? There have been cases at my 18-month-old daughter’s daycare I strongly suspect she may have them, and I think that I might too – ugh! Aside for any treatment recommended by our doctors, anyone have any tips and tricks for treating the discomfort in the meantime, cleaning, disinfecting, etc.?
I didn’t even realize this was such a common problem until I looked at the info the daycare sent. It’s…fascinating.
Confession: my daughter is 17 weeks old, and I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve dressed her in something that requires me to pull it over her head. Or requires me to put socks on her. We live in a cold climate, so since she was born in October and we go nowhere except for the pediatrician’s office (and have no visitors save my bubbled parents) – yay Covid – I dress her in one piece footed jammies every day. In the morning, we change out of her nightime jammies into her daytime jammies.
Am I lazy? Am I efficient? Both? It works for us. I keep seeing photos of similarly-aged babies on my Instagram feed and they’re dressed in real outfits, and I always think 1) cute! but also 2) why?