Maternity Monday: Black Zip Detail Maternity Dress
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My favorite maternity dress I bought myself was by Seraphine, and when I was recently browsing their site, I came across this dress and knew I had to recommend it. I think this is a great maternity work dress, but it can even be worn to a more casual wedding. I like the well-placed zippers and the notched neckline and sleeves — and it’s machine washable. I’m not crazy about the way it’s styled in some of the photos (what’s the point of nude shoes when wearing black tights??), but it does show the dress’s versatility. The reviews are very positive, and I like that many of them mention that the material is thick. The dress is $109 at Seraphine.com in sizes 2–14. Black Zip Detail Maternity Dress
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Sales of note for 9.10.24
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- 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?
Help me settle a silly debate with my DH:
What do you call the various living spaces in your house? What is the difference between a living room, family room, and den? What is a great room?
We’ve lived together for 13 years, all in small places that had only one living area, which we’ve always called the “living room.” We’re soon moving into a place with multiple living rooms for the first time (!), and cannot agree on how to refer to the different rooms. Growing up we called our two living rooms “the living room” (where the TV and couches were), and the “formal living room” (which we were under no circumstance to enter ever. HA!). My husband had a “living room” a “den” and a “sitting room” growing up, and now he’s tossed “great room” into the mix because our new place has an open kitchen/living space which he thinks makes it “great.” Probably a lot of difference lies in the region you grew up, and I’m so curious– what do you name your living rooms and why (and where did you grow up)?
I had this dress! It’s awesome. I even wore it on an interview at my peak pregnant and felt like a million bucks. It did start to wear towards the end of pregnancy so I’d say if you’re trying to justify the price by thinking you’ll wear it for multiple pregnancies, I’d rethink; but for me it was well worth it anyway just to feel professional at work when I was otherwise feeling pretty off.
I need a really good bday gift for a soon to be 1 year old that I can order and have delivered in the next few days. Yikes. Anyone have any “go-to” gift ideas? TIA!
I didn’t have this dress but I lived in Seraphine dresses when I was pregnant and got so many compliments on them. Worth the cost.
My husband decided he really wants to go to the Bahamas toward the end of August (so in a few weeks). He is busy looking for accommodations and flights. Anyone have tips on what to do/where to stay in the Bahamas? It will be husband, myself, two kids (3 and 5) and my MIL. We would want to stay in a condo/home that has a full kitchen, would rather not do an all inclusive or hotel. Obviously we will spend a lot of time on the beach but looking for other ideas as well (MIL doesn’t swim, so there’s that). Thanks!
My 17 month old has started informing us when she needs to poop. We should embrace the opportunity to introduce the potty, right? I was thinking of just sticking a potty seat in the bathroom, and when she makes an announcement (“Mama, I poo”), put her on it. Is this going to be useful at all, given how young she is? Is there any point without buy-in/reinforcement from daycare? She is switching to a new place after Labor Day, so maybe we wait to try then?
I had envisioned waiting until she is closer to 2.5 and doing the weekend boot camp method, so the prospect of trying something else now has me flustered.
Morning!
Looking for suggestions on how to fly with an infant. Specifically, what equipment to bring/leave at home. We’ll be taking 3 hours flights (there and back) with her at 2.5 months to a wedding. She won’t have her own seat. We’ll be renting a car at the destination. Do we leave our car seat at home, only do babywearing and use a car seat that comes with the rental car? Do we bring her car seat and stroller (ub cruz)? If so, what do we check and what do we bring on the plane?
Additionally, any general suggestions for flying with a young baby are much appreciated. Will (hopefully) be exclusively BF.
Need a second to rant. Finally got the courage to go off my diclegis at 22 weeks after having really bad morning sickness… the first day went well, but of course it’s Monday morning and the vomiting is back. To top it off I got splashed in the face by toilet water after a particularly bad episode right as I was ready to walk out the door to work. Back on diclegis I go tonight… until then, this Monday is going to be miserable.
Thanks to everyone who encouraged me to not worry about saving my milk on my last business trip – it was sooo much easier not worrying about cleaning and sterilizing and keeping everything cold. I made a lot of use of my manual pump, maybe because the batteries on my electric were so anemic.
And the best part was, LO still wanted to nurse when I got back! I really think I’m more sad about weaning than he is.
When and how did you begin telling your kids about work trips (or other times one parent would be away)?
I’ve gone on maybe 2-3 week long work trips a year since 2.5 year old was born, and have also taken a few long weekends with friends (leaving the kiddo with my husband). While I always tell her when I’m leaving for the day to go to work, typically I haven’t told her ahead of time I’d be gone for a number of days since she didn’t have a good concept of time. I’d just put her down to bed at night and be gone in the morning.
Last trip, I think she asked for me / was upset I wasn’t there in the morning more than usual. This was a few months ago. I have another week long work trip coming up in a couple weeks. Should I tell her about it before I go, or will that just make her upset? When did you start explaining this to kids, and how?
Argh I’m an idiot – I submitted my infant daughter’s passport application without her social security number (she has one, I just don’t know it off the top of my head yet so I filled out everything else and then I meant to go back and fill in the SSN and…I just plain forgot). The US Department of State website says you can be charged a $500 penalty for failing to disclose your SSN. I wouldn’t be surprised if they don’t enforce this against people who just made an honest mistake but I don’t know. Any chance anyone here knows someone who has made the same mistake? Is my best bet to just withdraw the application? I don’t want to eat the $135 and the time spent at the post office, but I’d much rather do that then get charged $500 on top of the passport fees. I swear I feel like half my brain is missing since I became a mom :/
I just realized we’re traveling (with our now 5 month old daughter) every single month from July to April. And hosting Thanksgiving at our house. Some of it is work travel for me and DH and the baby are only joining because she’s still BF-ing but still…I guess this is the big downside of living a plane ride away from all our family members.
I’m struggling a bit with drawing boundaries right now – I feel like a big chunk of my friends are grappling with Big Problems right now (seriously big problems, like messy breakups and chronic illnesses in the family), and that I am spending a lot of emotional energy listening to them and just being there. I’m finding myself really tapped out and not having the emotional energy left in the tank to thoughtfully care for myself and kiddo. All of these folks deserve a support network…but I need to be a smaller part of it. Any scripts or suggestions for how to have those conversations? Or logical places to draw boundaries?
Also, I feel super guilty about this. I know I took up a lot of peoples’ emotional energy during my divorce, and I feel like I should be able to pass it forward…but I can’t. I’m feeling like a bit of a friend failure.
Talk to me about first preschool experiences…
I have two and a half year old twins starting preschool in the fall. They’ve had a nanny and gone to classes with her or with me, but never been left somewhere alone (but with each other). I am expecting to stay with them at first the whole time for a few hours and then leave them for longer time periods.
Any other strategies? We’re reading books about all their favorite characters going to school but not sure what else. How long should it take until they can stay full day alone? I’m sure it differs a ton by child.
Thank you!
I have a 12 y/o at my house playing with my 5 y/o today. I’m at home in maternity leave; baby is with me and toddler is napping. She’s here as her first mother’s helper gig after taking a babysitting class, and I booked her via her mom. I realized I didn’t ask her mom about her rate, so I’m going to ask the girl. She’s going to defer to me, I assume (and if not I’ll pay her what she wants…). We pay high school sitters that drive to us $15-18, college sitters $18-20, and professionals (moonlighting nannies or daycare teachers) $20-22/hr. Rate varies a little based on persons experience. This girl is getting picked up and dropped off (though I offered to do one way…)
Is $10/hr fair? I don’t want to be cheap. It’s going to be about three hours (could be a little less). Frankly I want to make sure I pay her fairly but don’t set her expectations too high for future families- this is one of her first jobs, might actually be her first job.
Any tips for dealing with in-laws? No need to go into details, but my in-laws live across the country and spend time telling me how disappointed they are that we don’t see them more often. We visit at least 2 times per year and they are always welcome at our place (separate guest suite in our house and my husband and I have generous vacation time). They have visited only once since my daughter was born 2 years ago. I actually liked them prior to having a kid, but now they are shoveling on guilt about not being close to their grandkid. It’s stressful and makes me want to visit less. I also think that their lack of visits (not due to lack of money – they are well off) makes me believe that grandkid isn’t a priority to them. Which is okay! But then I don’t want the accompanying guilt trip. They also make no effort to call, FaceTime, etc. Am I being a jerk? How do other people cope with this? I will be spending a week in close quarters with them soon and need to be prepared for this…