Washable Wednesday: Hannah Jersey Dress
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This great dress has sleeves and pockets; comes in petite (2–10), regular (2–16), and long (4–18); and is available in six colors. There’s a denim color that I don’t really recommend — we’re featuring it in the navy here. It does have some seaming on the front that you should know about before you buy — it’s hard to see in the photos of the darker colors. The dress has a nice, thick ottoman rib that’s very popular at Boden, and it’s getting great reviews overall. It’s $110, but the yellow is on sale for $88. Hannah Jersey Dress
Here’s a plus-size option.
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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?
Please make me feel better and tell me this will all get back to ‘normal’ – I’m pregnant and am so swollen down there. Random googling makes me think I am the lucky recipient of varicose veins you know where. I didn’t even know that was a thing! Not to mention, my back spasms are just absurd lately. I really don’t know how one gets thru 4 more months of this. Between this and regular old aging, life feels like it’s just going downhill. Please tell me it gets better?
I will be returning to work in a few weeks when my daughter is 16 weeks, and I plan to pump at work. I have a pumping schedule in mind, but I am trying to figure out some logistical issues, specifically:
1) How to transport milk – Should I transport it in the bottles I plan to send to daycare, in lanisoh bags, or do something else? I use the spectra pump with Dr. Brown wide neck bottles, so I won’t be able to pump directly into the bottles.
2) Cooler – I will be able to store the milk in fridge at work,but I assume I will need a cooler to transport the milk since my commute (including daycare pickup) will be roughly an hour. Any suggestions for a good one? If I transport the milk in bottles, I would need a cooler large enough for four 8 oz Dr Brown wideneck bottles.
3) breast pump tote- is it worth it to get a bag for my breast pump? If so, any favorites?
4) hands free bra – I plan to purchase a hands free bra, but I am not sure which one would be best. The simple wishes one is popular on Amazon, but it would mean that I would need to undress from the waist up so I can pump. Has anyone successfully used the bravado one that clips onto your nursing bra with another brand’s bras?
I have a Spectra and this is what I do:
I pump into Medela bottles. There are adapters available via Amazon so that the Spectra flange will screw onto the bottle. This may work with the Dr Browns as well. I use the ubiquitous square Medela cooler that fits 4 bottles as well as the ice pack that fits the cooler. At night we clean the daycare bottles (soap and then pop them into the Dr Browns sterilizer), pour the milk in and assemble bottles, and then clean/sterilize the Medela bottles. I have extra flanges/valves. I also rinse out and refridgerate pump parts while at work (the CDC now recommends you don’t do this…but we’ve never had a problem. I would be more careful if I had a premie.)
I have a Sarah Wells pump bag which I like. It’s big but it fits the bottles and my laptop. It can also fit the Spectra pump, but I have a pump at work and one at home. I also carry a Medela handpump and flange in my bag at all times in case I forget my pump parts (which has happened twice now). Even worst comes to worst and I forgot bottles I could at least pump and dump into a coffee cup.
So, my son is still getting used to full-day kindergarten, and is super crabby in the morning/after school. We’ve been moving bedtime earlier, pushing quiet activities at home after school, earlier dinner (and protein based snack) but man, he so very obviously could still use a daily nap. Other than giving him nap time during the weekend (which we do) any other suggestions/tips?
And any suggestions for mental zen type mantras as I tell him for the umpteenth time to get dressed/eat/brush teeth/etc.? I’m also dieting and currently unable to do any cardio and MAN could I use either a hard workout or a glass of wine most nights…
Threading doesn’t work but a tag along to above about pumping –
What bag would you recommend if I’m leaving the pump at work? Meaning, I need to just carry the pump, cooler bag, and anything I want with me while pumping from desk to pumping room and back.
Sarah Wells seems overkill for this (plan to keep my regular rotation of work totes for laptop etc). Is it weird to leave my pump in the pumping room if I’m the only one using it and no one except me & facilities have keys?
Ladies, I’m 8 months postpartum and have been having The Rage. I understand this is pretty common and likely a hormonal issue, but I need help coping in the moment. Like, when I get completely furious about something that’s not really a big deal – rationally I recognize my reaction is disproportionate, but that doesn’t really help me pull out of it. (A few hours later or the next day I’ll feel back to normal.) I’ve been seeing a therapist but I think she’s not a great fit for me / hasn’t been much help.
Any tips for coping in the moment?
Any recommendations for therapists in DC? Ideally focused on postpartum issues, ideally near foggy bottom.
If I can’t find a better therapist, any resources for CBT (books?) to work on my coping skills?
When do infants start sleeping through the night? Baby is almost two months and usually sleeps from 9-2am and then wakes up every 1.5 hours to nurse and/or cuddle. He is big and has a large tummy so he does not need to eat that often. This is my second baby and I can’t remember what we did with #1, but I don’t feel on top of things this time around.
Did you have a goal for maternity leave? I am having a hard time with all of this unstructured time. Baby does not nap for very long yet, so I feel like I can’t get much done during the day. Every night I think, “Where did the time go today? What did I actually do?”
Hoping for a little anecdata and advice — I have successfully weaned my 11 month old, and I want to know when my size will have settled down so that I can invest in new bras. If it matters, she was only nursing at night for the past month, and despite all the nursing, I never dropped below my pre-pregnancy weight. But there is no way my pre-pregnancy bras will fit at the moment.
Threading doesn’t work on mobile… responding to son starting full-day Kindergarten.
For evenings, do a photo chart. Take a picture of him doing each task, then print a schedule with only pictures, so he can look at it and remember. Then you can just redirect him to the chart/list each night (“are you doing your next job on the chart?”) and you’re not the bad guy.
Thanks. This makes me feel a bit better. Right now my downstairs just feels like a disaster area, I made the mistake of looking with a mirror, and it’s hard not to feel like it will never recover.
Thoughts about breast lifts post kids? I’m planning on doing this after I’m done nursing my second. Not immediately after, obviously, but within a few years. Has anyone done this or know anyone who has? What is the range in costs? Do they typically do a lift + implants, or will a lift suffice if I have a fair amount of tissue, but a lot of sag?
I can’t tell if I’m replying to RDC or not, but I had the same rage issue. Turns out it was a symptom of significant post partum anxiety. I had a prescription for anxiety meds that I used on the worst days. The other things that helped were time, taking magnesium and vitamin D, and oddly enough, removing my IUD.
I got up early this morning so I could get kiddo to daycare and turn around to host a telecon. I got up 20 minutes early, we got out the door 10 minutes early (yay!), but he decided to throw a fit when we got to daycare because his socks were bunched in his shoes (they weren’t?). He changed shoes twice because he didn’t like how they felt, and at that point I had to leave because I would be late to the conference call… so I left him throwing a fit inside his classroom. I told his teachers what was bugging him, but just couldn’t this morning with him.
Then I got to work just barely on time, dialed in, and the person who had let me borrow their call-in line didn’t have the host password. He claimed it was my boss’s call-in line (spoiler: it’s not) and that I should ask my boss for the host password. Then I had to scramble to borrow someone else’s telecon line, all while people message me who are trying to call into the conference….
I could really go for some Baileys in my coffee this morning.
I’m at my wit’s end. I had a laparoscopy last summer to remove an errant IUD and ever since, my stomach has blown up, and I look, at any given moment, at least 4 or 5 months pregnant. Diet and exercise hasn’t helped – makes me lose weight elsewhere, which I don’t want, and my stomach doesn’t budge. My PCP ordered a pxlvic ultrasound, and that all checked out. I’ve been seeing a physical therapist for the last few weeks and she actually agrees that my stomach looks bigger. It’s not diastasis, which makes sense, because this didn’t occur after pregnancies, but rather after the surgery (almost immediately.)
I’m so frustrated. Has anyone gone through anything similar? Any suggestions?