Maternity Monday: Casual Striped Maternity Dress

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A woman wearing a Casual Striped Maternity Dress This maternity dress looks incredibly comfortable and easy to wear. I like the short sleeves and the longer length, and the pleating at the waistline looks flattering. My favorite part is that the dress is 95% cotton and 5% spandex for a comfy and stretchy fit. It comes in a multitude of colors, but for some reason some of the colors are a completely different style — a wrap dress with a tie waist, or a similar dress but with three-quarter sleeves — so pay attention to the one you select. I like them all, but my personal favorite is the short sleeves with the stripes. The dress is between $22.99 and $30.99 at Amazon, depending on color/style. Casual Striped Maternity Dress Building a maternity wardrobe for work? Check out our page with more suggestions along both classic and trendy/seasonal lines. This post contains affiliate links and CorporetteMoms may earn commissions for purchases made through links in this post. For more details see here. Thank you so much for your support!

Sales of note for 9.10.24

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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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I’ve searched the archives and there are lots of good threads on deciding whether to have a second kid. DH and I were probably in the no kids camp, but maybe 1 kid. We had our daughter just over a year ago. I had a pretty easy pregnancy overall I think mostly marked by 1st trimester exhaustion and some late pregnancy issues that required a lot of time to monitor (saw the doctor 2-3 times a week for 1-2 hours each time the last month of pregnancy) but weren’t otherwise hard to manage or scary. I had an unscheduled C-section, but my recovery was easy. Daughter was a really easy baby after some early eating struggles (not sure I would breastfeed again) and has always been a good sleeper and seems to have an easygoing temperament. DH and I recently both wondered if we might like a second. We both enjoy being parents more than we thought we would. We never thought about a second before and I can’t imagine we would have such an easy pregnancy this time or such an easy baby. (We feel like we hit the baby jackpot with our first). We both have big careers and routinely work 50-60+ hours a week. We manage with one but I can’t see that continuing for me with a second. I’m not sure I could scale back at my current job, so I’d probably need to find something different. I have mixed feelings about that. I love my job most of the time but it does have real limitations and I’m not certain that I have a long term future there either. I’m an only; DH is the older of 2. No local family and the family we do have for a variety of health reasons really can’t help much. I’m 37, almost 38 and DH is 40 almost 41. I have a really hard time imagining being pregnant during Covid, but if we did have a second I think I’d prefer them closer together and obviously age is a factor. Any recent articles or books on how to decide that anyone found helpful? Things to think about? General musings?

Waiting to hear if MIL, who is our main childcare, was exposed to COVID. I was back in the office last week (apparently it’s more important for my behind to be in the seat at my office for unknown reasons) so I took today off with the hope that DH and I will be able to split days home and days in the office until we find out. He still has the option to WFH some days, so maybe we won’t blow all our PTO and have to move to FMLA or whatever the next option is.

I am just so tired of figuring out how to stay solvent and keep my kids safe and cared for.
Just venting. I know many here are feeling the same stressors.

My four-year-old girl twin never threw tantrums at 2, or at 3… she has always been unrealistically well-behaved. She loves rules and order. She turned 4 in April and since then we are getting ENORMOUS overreactions and toddler-level tantrums 2-5 times per day that are really freaking me out! She goes from zero to thrashing around on the floor like, kicking and bucking, and when we say she needs to calm down and take her to her room to chill out, she pounds on the door, pounds on her bed, screams louder than I thought was possible, and kicks everything (though she does stay in her room– rule follower!). These mostly seem to be precipitated by having to wait for something– they’ll happen when we’re already in the process of driving somewhere she wants to go, or she’s waiting for everyone to finish dinner so we can all have dessert, for her brother to finish her turn with a book, etc. So most of it is screaming at the top of her lungs that “IT’S TAKING TOO LONG!!!” repeatedly. But it’s happening anytime she has to wait more than about 15 seconds for anything, which is… frequently. I’m a little at the end of my rope. So far I’ve tried:
1. Talking to her about it when she’s calmer– she admits she’s having a really hard time waiting and seems to realize it’s a problem. Like she’ll very calmly tell me that she “pitched a big fit because I didn’t want to wait.” I know girl, I was there.
2. Repeating the Daniel Tiger show/lesson/song about things you can do when you wait… singing it or suggesting waiting activities it makes her even madder in the moment, and talking about it outside the moment doesn’t seem to be helping.
3. Ignoring it. We put her in her room and let her scream and bang it out for 5-10 minutes. She usually finds a book, and we let her come out when she’s calm.

Any other ideas? I’m hoping to God this is a phase and we just lucked out during the toddler years, but she seems too old and good at communicating for this sudden immense rage! At least she isn’t hitting me or her brother (on purpose) when it happens… she doesn’t seem to be doing this at day care, but I’m concerned about when she starts 4k in the fall. Can I chalk it up to “everything in her world is crazy right now” and keep dumping her in her bed to smash it out?

Im 36w and as far as visitors go post-baby, we have decided to let my parents and my brother and sister in law see the baby when we get home from the hospital (they are all within an hour drive). I’m well aware of their social distancing practices and am comfortable with both the small risk of us giving it to them from the hospital and them giving it to us. I will make sure they wash hands and will likely request they wear a mask or we sit on the back porch while they hold the baby. This is my parent‘s first grandkid so it’s a risk we are all willing to take.
I still have living local grandparents who are eager to meet their great grandson and we will allow to see the baby after at least 1 week, probably 2 to make sure we don’t bring anything home from the hospital to give to them (they are in their upper 80s but still relatively healthy).
All non-local family is going to have to wait probably till he is closer to 2 months but that depends on the continued spread down here. I am in my brother’s wedding in October and am struggling with the potential risk there. I want to be there for him, but I haven’t decided what to do about the baby and my husband who were planning to attend as well. We shall see. October is a long way in pandemic time…
Good luck on the rest of your pregnancy!

Any other pregnant-in-pandemic ladies out there? How are you holding up? What have your doctors visits been like and, for those father along (like me!), have you been given any information about what L&D is likely to be like?

If your employer could offer you one thing to make the working-parent-schools-not-functioning-normally craziness more manageable what would it be? A part time option with reduced pay with the expectation you could return to full time when this is over? Flex time (work off hours)? Subsidized help for when the kids are home on their non in-person days? Something else magical?

PSA: If your kids need face masks for school, Zulily has a bunch of multipacks for very reasonable prices. (Both of my kids have already lost a $10 etsy mask, and my budget for such things is not finite.) Now, if anybody has brilliant ideas for where to store these things so they’re less likely to be misplaced, I’m all ears. Maybe the solution is to hang a set of hooks on the wall of our mudroom. Not enough room for a cute cubby/storage basket setup, I don’t think.

My Peloton Bike is coming on Friday! I’m so excited.

FWIW, I’m a pretty active person to begin with and the gym was always my escape. If that wasn’t an option, I would run with kids in the double jogging stroller. Well, I have 3 kids now, so that’s too many for the jogger and just walking wasn’t enough.

The Peloton App transformed my relationship with my basement treadmill! I am so exited that I feel like a kid before Christmas because the bike can fit in my bedroom and is something I can work out on while I wait for the kids to fall asleep. (Do anybody else’s kids not need them to be in the room but will keep walking downstairs if they go downstairs?)

I have wanted this for a few years… I recognize that I’m 100% their target market and finally caved because I don’t know when I’ll feel comfortable going to the gym again.

NOW. Any tips? I’ve gotten to know the instructors who do the running/strength/stretching workouts and have a general feel of the style of the classes.

What is a good amount to give a nanny who is leaving? When our son’s daycare shut down in March, we hired one of his teachers to nanny for us. Daycare is not reopening and she has decided to go back to school so will be leaving us (it’s been about 3.5 months).
We really love her and hope to have her sit for us in the future. I ordered a photo travel mug, we will have cake on her last day, and I’d like to give her some cash – never having done this before, what is an appropriate amount?

Thank you!

Just curious, does anyone have elementary schools that are going back in person this school year? Our county is doing a hybrid approach of 1 week in school, 2 weeks remote which just seems totally untenable for working parents. Feeling very frustrated this morning.

We have a long (10 hours) car trip coming up and I need to stock my metaphorical bag of tricks to keep kiddo (4.5) sane. Here’s the rub: he gets carsick. Dramamine helps mostly, but it means that reading — or anything where he is looking at his lap — is completely out. No ipad games or coloring etc. We will stock a tablet with shows but would rather not have 10 solid hours of screen time. Help?!

Product rec – I bought the Uniqlo sun protection jacket for my son and it’s really nice. Folds up into a little pocket, shower proof but feels breathable.

I cannot justify buying any cute maternity clothes these days. Who would see me? Leggings and tank tops ftw.

I bought one really nice black tailored dress that I was planning to wear with a blazer to make a ‘suit’ for any big meetings or interviews. I definitely will not have occasion to wear it all now, which is just so bizarre (ordered it right before the pandemic started). Maybe I will put it on and wear it around the house with my pearls (also haven’t worn in months) and heels (ditto). lol.