Nursing Tuesday: Undercover Mama Nursing Camisole
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I’ve featured this before, but for some reason this camisole was on my mind yesterday — it was my very favorite camisole for nursing. I liked the tightness (I had the 360 shaping one), and I liked the odd straplessness, where it just attaches to your bra — it made every other camisole feel like I was swimming in straps. It raised the neckline of everything so that it felt appropriate, even with my huge nursing boobs, and didn’t ride up. Win win.
It comes in 14 different colors at Amazon in the basic version, as well as a few other specialty versions (a longer version if you want it peeking out beneath clothes, a shaping version if you want compression, etc, etc). Undercover Mama
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Looking for the best nursing camisoles and tanks? These are great for adding coverage for your belly if you lift your shirt up to nurse…
Above, some of the best bras for nursing and pumping as of 2021: 1) Bravado 2) Cake 3) Natori 4) Wacoal (not pictured but also: Elomi and Kindred Braverly!)
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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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 never tried this one but I’m intrigued by the idea of using it as a regular camisole, since I also hate attack of the straps.
I had several nursing tanks that I liked for different reasons – the Bravado was the best support for going out, and I loved three styles from Target that worked great, even though I was a 36H (or bigger, I never wore an actual bra on maternity leave) – the plain cotton, the “fluid knit”, and the sleep nursing tank is INSANELY comfortable and I still wear it.
How did you decide how many kids to have? My husband and I have been discussing in depth when/if to have a second child, with the primary factor being daycare costs for a second, since we already aren’t maxing out our retirement (although we get the match and contribute a little extra each month), and daycare for a second child would put off our contributions even further. I have two acquaintances who just had their 5th babies (although both are SAHMs so daycare isn’t a factor), but both their husbands make around half what I do, so they probably aren’t doing a whole lot with retirement either. Is this just the trade off for having kids?
Unrelated PSA – I’m trying to be a little less spendy these days, but I just got a new shipment from MM Lafleur. Most of what I ordered is just not working w/ my post-pregnancy body (I’m a year out when does that excuse get old?) But I am loving the Deneuve top for hiding my lingering lumpiness….. Just thought I’d share!
Ugh, kid is sick AGAIN. It’s nothing serious, so far, just a fever and sleeplessness and all coughing and all of that, but I am *so frustrated* because I just can’t get into a routine. Particularly, a gym routine.
Since like Thanksgiving, someone has been sick or I have been traveling or we’ve had guests like every week. I just want to bop around at Zumba or, hell, sit on the stationary bike for half an hour and get sweaty… and seriously every time I’m like, “ok, gym bag packed for tomorrow” I seem to wake up at midnight to a wailing, fevery kid.
She’s two, been in daycare for just over a year. Please tell me this gets better?
Just a brief vent about that experience of dissonance between your adult self and the version your family still holds on to. I just got under contract on a beautiful, historical home, and my mom commented on how “You sister and I were so surprised – your style is so modern and contemporary”. Well, actually it’s not, and hasn’t been for the last 10 years or more. She wasn’t trying to be passive aggressive, but I just wish she hadn’t said that.
It’s like if/when we go clothes shopping together, and she pulls things for me that my 18 year-old self would have loved! All sequins and frou-frou…
I have a ridiculous question, but you all are such a treasure trove of ideas. My girls have really high butt cracks. (They inherited this from me.) Has anyone noticed particular brands of pants that have really high waists for kids? Or should I just size up?
Late, but in case you’re reading today–we used mesh crib bumpers starting around 7/7.5 months, and I don’t have strong feelings either way. We started after kiddo got his arm pretty stuck between the slats and the wall and we felt guilty, but he also learned how to not do that after a fairly short period of time (and he’s a wanderer in his sleep–he ranges the full length and width of his crib during the night). I did check with our pediatrician before using them, who said while the AAP recommends against them, she did use them with her kids after she held them up to her face and checked how breathable they were (very). The only caution she gave was to keep the ties well out of reach so the kid can’t untie them. Once he started standing in his crib, they just became an additional thing for him to stand on and we stopped using them.
TL;DR: Strongly neutral on mesh bumpers, despite having used them.
This morning it became clear to me that, even though he might not be aware of it, my husband doesn’t like me. And I am not sure I like him. We love each other, and are both totally invested in staying married. But we do not enjoy being around one another and I’d go so far as to say I annoy him most of the time, which makes me self-conscious and only compounds the problem. From my perspective, it is not fun spending time with someone who doesn’t enjoy your company. And it’s done a huge number on my self-esteem.
Here is what he said I should try to do differently:
-Stop trying to take cues from him
-Stop trying to control everything
-Be more aware of time
-Go with the flow more
-Stop apologizing and worrying so much
-Stop trying to take on too many household responsibilities
I have no frame of reference for how to both go with the flow more and be more aware of time. I’ve signed up with a therapist because clearly I can’t fix myself on my own. But I thought I’d ask, has anyone else gone through something like this? Can you fall back “in like” with your spouse? If it’s relevant, we’ve been together almost a decade, married for about half of that.
*sigh* Kiddo was sent home from preschool with “pink eye” which sounds like it’s probably actually an ear infection. This was supposed to be her night for dinner with her dad, and I was going to work late-ish and then start some laundry. Instead, he offered to pick her up from preschool and take her during the day (yay!) because there is a thing he wants to do tonight, and then I take her for dinner (boo). And then it crept to me meeting them at the pediatrician’s office at 4:30, which means my “work late-ish” day turned into “work until 5” and then got cut to “work until 4.”
I know it’s better than “home all day, scramble to get all work done in 2.5 hours of evening quiet” but it still feels unfair.
Tips for getting out banana stains?