Maternity Monday: Bi-Stretch Full-Panel Ultra-Skinny Twill Pant
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Ladies, let’s launch a discussion today: If you’ve recently been pregnant, which were your favorite pants to wear to work? Ankle-length, bootcut, or straight? What kind of panel was your favorite? Tell all! These ultra skinny ones at Gap are affordable and very popular, although they may be a bit too casual for a lot of workplaces. I like that they come in sizes 00-20 in regular, long, and ankle lengths, and in six colors — plus they’re machine washable. They’re only $45-$69 at Gap. Bi-Sretch Full-Panel Ultra-Skinny Twill Pant
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Sales of note for 12.10
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Beauty deals on skincare (ends 12/14) including La Mer, Kate Somerville, Dior, Sunday Riley, Dyson, and gift sets — the deals include reader favorite lip balms Dior Addict, NARS Afterglow, and Clinique’s Black Honey, as well as Too Faced mascara and Sunday Riley’s Good Genes.
- Ann Taylor – 40% off your purchase, up to 50% off outerwear
- Banana Republic Factory – 50-70% off everything + extra 20% off
- Eloquii – Extra 50% off all sale + extra 25% off 2+ items
- J.Crew – Up to 60% off everything, with 40% off their newest styles
- J.Crew Factory – 50% off everything + extra 25% off when you buy 3+ styles
- Macy’s – 15% off beauty, including Tarte, Clinique, Dior and gift sets
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off, plus free shipping on everything (and 20% off your first order)
- Talbots – 50% off everything + extra 25% off when you buy 3+ styles
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?
Currently 19 weeks, 1st pregnancy (and still sick, which is MISERABLE, given that none of my friends or relatives had morning sickness either at all or past the first trimester). Only 5’8″, but with a freakishly short torso means I need tall maternity pants (at least 33″ inseam for flats). It has been too cold/too early for ankle pants in my office, which I normally wear for the summer when not pregnant (more casual satellite office of BigLaw firm). I have been rotating a grey and a black pair of the Old Navy full panel everyday bootcut khakis in a 14 tall for the past few weeks and it is soo much better than the belly band with my old express pants (the only ones I could find that were full length/long-enough). I refuse to buy pants – maternity or otherwise – that are not machine washable at this stage in my life. I figure when the weather warms up, I can just cuff them a little higher to make them crops. I thought I would be straight dresses in maternity, but given the insane hair growth, I just can’t bear to shave my legs that often and I was “blessed” with dark leg hair and pasty white Irish/Norwegian skin.
Old Navy has been my go-to for bottoms/tops. I have been having some luck with Motherhood Maternity via Macys for dresses, but mostly am struggling to find clothes that are “cute” on my unexpectedly large baby bump.
For the person with the UPromise question above – I’ve tried to respond to you twice, but my answer is not posting so I’m sorry if this posts a 3rd time. I have linked my credit cards and have had limited return (maybe like $2?), but have had better success with using the upromise portal for online shopping. I don’t see a downside to linking your credit cards (unless you have a particular concern about privacy – I don’t in this area) because it’s free money. But I have it set up so all of that money goes directly into a 529.
Plus size here – my best pregnancy pants were from JC Penney. Their maternity stuff was a godsend since there were no other good plus size work appropriate maternity pants.
Sleep question: About a week ago, my two-year-old son went from dream sleeper to terrified kid who doesn’t want to be alone in his room. No obvious triggers that we can think of, in terms of changes in the room or household routine.
My husband’s approach was to stay in the room until he fell asleep and then leave, but I think that has made things worse over the week as kiddo has woken up alone and afraid in the night. My approach has been to talk to kiddo about needing to sleep in his crib while mommy/daddy sleep in their bed, but leave his room door open, which results in him calling out for mommy/daddy a bit before settling back to sleep but also a bit less panic when he wakes up. It also means we have to be more quiet in the evening when watching TV, hanging out, etc.
I’m reading up on other things to try…he already has noise machine and night light, but last night I also played relaxing music on the iPad while he was settling down. Any other ideas? I’m pregnant with second (11 weeks) and really missing my reliable sleep.
Pushing – my 22 month old has started pushing other kids, and not just in obvious “push-worthy” situations. Any tips for dealing with it? Whatever lame parenting moves I’m trying are not working…
I would like to give my daughter a dollhouse. I’m picturing something really pretty, good quality so that she could – in theory – pass this down to her own daughter one day. Any suggestions? Is there a traditional go-to brand out there that I don’t know about? Google brings up a wide variety in terms of both quality and design.
Bra help… I’ve just been through pregnancy, weaning, and getting my body back. How long should I wait to buy new bras? FWIW, I needed new ones before I was even pregnant and the situation is pretty desperate.
Also – Does anyone have experience with the online bra sites like Third Love or True & Co. that you can share? Thanks!
I don’t wear pants a lot generally. For pregnancy I had a pair of black ankle ponte pants from Asos. Side panel. They were slim but NOT skinny at all. I wore those pants all. the. time. Loved them. Just checked the website and it looks like they don’t care them anymore.
I only had a few pairs of pants – I am a dedicated pants-wearer in regular life, but while pregnant I favored dresses. I had a charcoal pair (full panel) from Loft, a black pair and navy pinstriped pair (both full panel) from Motherhood Maternity, and then two pairs of linen pants from Old Navy that I loved – navy and tan (weird foldover panel thing). I had maternity jeans from ON too, but they were horrific.
Some days I just want to lean out and be a worker bee and forget climbing the ladder. I just want a simple job that I can do well, and do it. No learning curve, no uncomfortable unknowns, less stress.
Next week I’ll probably want to climb the career Mt. Everest, but not today.
Do you guys do the credit cards link with UPromise? What do you do with the cash you get — add to a 529? Take in the form of a check? I was trying to figure out the downside to doing it (like, am I not getting other bargains or cashback rewards? Am I just giving up a lot of personal information?) and couldn’t find anything.
My best pants were from Loft. I had a pair of full panel trousers and a pair of cropped red pants that were side panels. They both worked really well.
Old Navy pants, which many women on here seemed to love, were terrible for me. I also must have tried every single brand of maternity jeans and hated all of them. I kept one pair that I hated the least so I at least had something – but maternity jeans were horrible for me!
I really had trouble finding good pants. Forget finding maternity tall pants. I just figured I would wear pants that were slightly too short and figure the world would be forgiving.
My favorite pants were a pair of elastic waist pants from Isabella Oliver. They were a flowing knit so not too dressy but worked for my office on non-client-facing days. I was able to wear them my whole pregnancy even though it was just an elastic waisted pant.
I have these pants and I HATE them. I am down to three pairs of pants for work – one pair are cords and already getting too hot for the South. I refuse to wear these, however, because they ride so low that I feel like I have to pull them up every fifth step. If I could return them at this point, I would.
Bragging for a minute… DH is out of town all week, including both weekends. Yesterday, I did all our normal weekend chores while MIL watched the baby, then prepped tonight’s dinner and took a bath. This morning, I got up early and got myself ready, then got Toddler ready, got him to school, and made it in to work early (so I can leave early for pickup). I’m feeling like Super Woman, assuming Super Woman would ever have sore muscles from carrying and chasing a toddler around all weekend. And only 7 days to go before DH comes home! And less than 2 weeks until family vacation!
Baby Cb has entered the dance party phase of gestation – doing a little jig in my belly at regular intervals. He/she either really hates bridge pose or loves it. I’m sure it’ll get old eventually but after 22 weeks of feeling miserable, I’m embracing the excitement of feeling the little bear move and respond and seeing the start of a bump.