A woman wearing a Textured Jacquard Open-Front Jacket.
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Everyone Thursday: Textured Jacquard Open-Front Jacket

If you’re looking for a few easy blazers to fill a hole (or make do with a transitional wardrobe while you’re gaining or losing baby weight), do consider this affordable textured blazer from Macy’s Alfani line. It comes in eight colors, sized XS-XXL, and for some reason both the harbor blue (pictured) and the bright white…

a stylish executive pushes a baby stroller while wearing sunglasses and talking on a phone; she is going back to work after maternity leave
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Open Thread: Work After Maternity Leave

What are some of your best tips for adjusting upon returning to work after maternity leave? What do you wish you’d known, or what did you come to realize? For my own $.02: Among my friends, the end of maternity leave has loomed large in all of our lives — but on a kind of sliding scale….

Nite Nite Light Bulb
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Nursing/Feeding Tuesday: Nite-Nite Light Bulb

Nursery Light Bulb: SCS Nite-Nite Light BulbWe got a version of this “sleepy baby” lightbulb from Hammacher Schlemmer a while ago — we were ordering other stuff and it was on sale, so I figured, why not throw it in — and we’ve been very happy with it. We have it in the reading lamp closest to my 4.5-year-old’s bed (although it would also work well for babies’ nighttime feedings and diaper changes), and bedtime has been easier since we got it. I’m not sure I’d say the former light energized him, but this one definitely seems to make it easier for him to recognize it’s bedtime. The Hammacher Schlemmer one is still available for $20, but this one is also highly rated and available through Amazon Prime for $20 as well. SCS Nite-Nite Light Bulb

Hmn: here’s a whole article about it in the NYT.

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