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Maternity Leave — and Staying Connected to the Office

How connected SHOULD you be on your maternity leave, and how should you keep in touch with your office? How available should your employer EXPECT you to be? If there’s a mismatch in expectations, what does it mean for your career prospects?  Maternity Leave and Staying Connected to the Office This may be a case where understanding and managing expectations is…

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Num Num Dips

Feeding Tuesday: Num Num Dips

Interesting — hat tip to editor Kate who found these cool kinda-spoons. The idea is that there’s no “up,” so there’s no right or wrong way to use it. Harry just turned one (yesterday, in fact!) and is still doing that comical thing where he insists on feeding himself but turns the spoon upside down…

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Memorial Day Sales!

Happy Memorial Day! As usual I’ve rounded up some of the best sales for women’s workwear happening over at Corporette. I thought I’d do a quickie roundup of maternity shops and kiddo stores here… Sunday updates are in red! Maternity Clothes: Amazon – Take 20% off. Boden – 30% off with code 3M3M. Destination Maternity – Take an additional…

Summer Tops for Curvy Girls

News Roundup

Some of the articles of interest to working mothers that we’ve seen around the web recently… The Mom Edit rounds up some stylish and forgiving tops for curvy moms. An upcoming cover of Elle Australia (the version for subscribers, not newsstands) will feature model Nicole Triunfo breastfeeding her four-month-old son (while wearing Burberry — but really, doesn’t everyone?) The…