Maternity Monday: Claire Maternity Sweater
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I think this maternity sweater would be a great option for Zoom meetings as well as in-office workdays that are more casual than the norm. I really like asymmetrical neckline — it elevates this from a basic sweater and could draw the eye away from your pregnancy-enhanced bustline, if that’s something you’re self-conscious about. (The neckline is easier to see in the photo of the black version.)
If you run hot during pregnancy, no problem. This sweater is a soft rayon/polyester/spandex blend — no wool to be found! It’s also machine washable, although not dryer safe. It comes in the pictured gray as well as black, but I prefer the gray and like the mottled look of the hacci fabric.
The sweater is $88 at Nordstrom and comes in sizes XS–XL. Claire Maternity Sweater
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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Okay, y’all, if I am to survive winter lockdown (in a cold Midwest state), I need one or more winter hobbies. In summer, we are always outside and getting bored isn’t an issue for me. But I already don’t like the cold, dread winter, etc. I need something something to do that brings me joy. On the current list is to go through everything we own and purge. But I need something a little more joyous than that in the mix. Open to outdoor hobbies if you teach me how to dress so that I’m not miserable.
My 5yo son discovered this morning at breakfast that has his first loose tooth! He is elated, as he is apparently the last kid in his class to have all of his baby teeth. There was SO MUCH JOY this morning!
For some reason, this milestone hit me so much more than nearly anything in recent memory. I had to leave the breakfast table so I could sob in my room for a few minutes. How is time moving so fast?!
Motherhood, man. Hits all the feels.
Should I be worried that my 2.75 year old doesn’t have her second set of molars? It looks like one bottom one is partially erupted but the other bottom one and the top ones are still completely missing. She got all her other teeth on the early side. Her ped said to go to a dentist if they’re not all at least partially there by her third birthday, which we’ll do, just wondering if anyone can reassure me this is not that weird.
When would you announce pregnancy during COVID? I am 11 weeks pregnant and have been having bad morning sickness – this is my second so pretty par for the course. Last time, I had to announce early because my morning sicknesss landed me in the hospital but this time, fortunately with covid, I have been able to hide it as I have been WFH since March (will be for the foreseeable future). WWYD?
Relevant considerations:
1. I have my annual review next week (it will be a positive one from what I have been told).
2. Our firm does not pay bonus until spring (which will be in my third trimester).
3. I have been involved in a lot more pitches as I get more senior for deals that, if we are hird, will happen next spring/summer. I would love to be considered to be a lead associate (esp for deals that will happen in the summer after my mat leave. I also plan on working a bit on mat leave versus being completely out.
4. I have a close female partner mentor that I can confide to if needed.
5. Based on last time, I should get better soon and will be able to hide even more easily during the second trimester.
I’m newly pregnant and also recently switched OBs to one within walking distance of my home! I really like the new OB and she has a great bedside manner. There are two downsides – she’s not high-risk but I am so I have my ultrasounds at a different office with a different doc further away. The bigger issue is that my doc has no electronic medical records system. I have no way to view my test results from all of the labs and I have two auto-immune disorders that need monitoring. I realize that this used to be the norm but I’m a huge advocate for being in charge of your own health and I just feel like even the best doctors can be tired and miss something when they look at test results. I called to follow up on my first round of labs and was told that “The doc will only call if something is wrong. No news is good news.” It sounds so incredibly old fashioned to me now. Would this be a deal breaker for you?
I posted late Friday about the stokke high chair (and someone very helpful let me know it does not reach up to counter height). I would love something like it, though, that will also convert to a toddler chair. I LOVE our counter-height table, and a clips-to-the-table high chair won’t work for us (because of a wooden skirt). I was looking around online this weekend and found the Abiie Beyond, which had an answered question on Amazon that said the highest setting was fine for counter height. Anyone have this one and can give thoughts? Any other options for us?
We fed some ducks this weekend, my 4 year old daughter gave them all names, and I about died laughing. Names: Lucky, Sad Bat, Daddy, White Cranberry, SwampDuck, and Kathy.
potty training questions. i recently read ‘oh crap’ per the suggestions on this site (you were all correct, reading the first 5 chapters was super quick). do most people who follow that sort of method just wait until the day you start to ever put your kid on the potty? do you talk about it at all in advance? the book made it sound like you just wake up one morning and introduce the topic without ever mentioning it before. also- the second block where they go commando – do most people actually do that? i know in the book she mentions how people often have a problem with it from a hygiene perspective…i have no issue from that perspective, but it just sounds so incredibly uncomfortable to me, that if i was a two year old, i’d ask for my diaper back. and then any travel potty recs? do i need potties for the house and then a separate one for when we are out and about? we have twins and i would love to minimize the stuff if possible
I am new to social media, having just signed up for Facebook this spring to stay connected during lockdown. I keep getting friend requests from people I don’t know, mostly friends of friends, people at church I’ve never actually met, or relatives of relatives. I find this weird and just ignore the requests. Is this considered bad form and will it come back to haunt me somehow? And why are people I don’t know trying to connect with me?
Thanks to whoever posted about being “boo-ed” last week – we got “boo-ed” over the weekend! I too am so not that mom and have no idea about these new traditions – where do people read about this? I feel like there is some secret parent handbook I’m not aware of (maybe purposefully not aware of…). Similar to elf on a shelf. Perhaps it’s all on fb groups now? Which I’m trying to avoid over the next few weeks, and in general.
Recommendations for particular places to buy pikler triangles? Thanks!
Do you send anything into daycare/preschool for Halloween? I’m not normally that mom, but this is such a blah year I kind of want to.
Has anyone gone back to work in-person from maternity leave recently? It’s hard enough in normal times but with a spike in cases in our area and not being allowed to even go inside daycare, everything feels impossible. WFH not an option even though my job can 100% be done from home.
Thanks for listening to me whine. All advice welcome.
Cases are surging in my area, so there’s my answer for trick-or-treating. We’re not doing it. It’s not worth the risk at this point, and I have zero faith that my neighborhood will actually follow any sort of social distancing rules. Sigh. I think we’ll do a backyard candy hunt and maybe save our pumpkin carving for Halloween night. 10yo has asked to have a backyard party with our “quaranteam.” A few weeks ago, that sounded OK, but now I’m questioning that, too. Our bubble isn’t as small as it was this summer, when nobody was going anywhere. Blerg. Somebody please remind me that this is ONE YEAR of canceled celebrations? I mean, I sure hope we’re celebrating Halloween in 2021 … .
I don’t know if I’m being overly sensitive — it’s possible — but I keep getting my feelings hurt when I talk to my mom about my kids. She’ll ask how they’re doing, I’ll give her a quick update, and instead of asking follow-up questions about THEM, she starts in on some anecdote about one of my nieces or nephews. There are a bunch of grandkids in my family, so maybe it’s inevitable, but it rubs me the wrong way. My kids are in elementary school, and many of the grandkids are still in that cute baby/toddler/preschool phase. It’s always some story about how cute they are, or what a nice little personality so-and-so has … would it kill her to say something nice about *my* kids’ personalities?
IDK, it brings back a lot of feelings about not being good enough. I’m the oldest in my family and was criticized a LOT growing up for being too opinionated and bossy, or not having the “right” interests (i.e., wanted to read all the time; had zero interest in playing with dolls and babies). I was never that sweet, precious kid, and I guess my kids aren’t, either? Or at least that’s how it feels. Maybe my mom is just a bad conversationalist and does this to my siblings, too, but I’ve noticed at least one of my sisters does the same thing. Does my family just dislike my kids? Me? Or are the big-kid topics just less interesting than the little-kid stuff? This sounds like such a petty, jealous rant, and maybe it is, but I need to find a way to move past these feelings of being hurt, both as a daughter and as a parent.