Nursing/Postpartum Tuesday: Easy Wrap Swaddle
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Both my kids slept better as babies when swaddled. This version from aden + anais is a step up from the ones I used with my kids.
These soft, cotton swaddles have a secure adjustable fit that grows with your baby. The wrap makes babies feel cozy and secure for a sound sleep, and the bottom zips open for easy diaper changes.
A pack of three swaddles is available at Amazon and starts at just over $20, depending on the color/pattern. There are more than a dozen color/pattern combinations to choose from.
Sales of note for 1/16:
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Cashmere on sale; AllSaints, Free People, Nike, Tory Burch, and Vince up to 60%; beauty deals up to 25% off
- AllSaints – now up to 60% off (some of the best leather jackets!)
- Ann Taylor – Up to 40% off your full-price purchase; extra 50% off sale
- Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Boden – 15% off new styles with code — readers love this blazer, these dresses, and their double-layer line of tees
- DeMellier – Sale now on, free shipping and returns — includes select options like Montreal, Vancouver, and Venice
- Eloquii – $29 and up select styles; extra 50% off all clearance, plus ELOQUII X kate spade new york collab just dropped
- Everlane – Sale of the year, up to 70% off — reader favorites include their scoop tee, Dream Pant, ReNew Transit backpack, silk blouses and oversized blazers! New markdowns just added
- Hannah Andersson – Up to 30% off all pajamas;
- J.Crew – Up to 40% off select styles; up to 50% off cashmere
- J.Crew Factory – 40-70% off everything
- L.K. Bennett – Archive sale, almost everything 70% off
- M.M.LaFleur – Tag sale for a limited time — jardigans and dresses $200, pants $150, tops $95, T-shirts $50
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – Semi-Annual Red Door Sale – 50% off + extra 20% off, sale on sale, plus free shipping on $150+
I have an 11 yo who is being monitored for slow growth, as she’s dropped well below the 10th percentile. She’s also a swimmer and has stalled on improving her times and building muscle and endurance. I think she probably isn’t getting enough quality calories in her diet.
She’s always been a picky eater in that she only will eat food she loves and not eat based on her hunger. She eats many foods, and loves raw oysters, sushi, mussels, blue cheese, curries, brie, okra, fish and chips with malt vinegar, Branston pickle, etc, so not a typical picky eater. She’s really good about eating quality in season, locally sourced fruits and vegetables, but will scorn any that aren’t excellent quality and fresh. For example, she’s will pick tomatoes from our garden and eat them like apples, but then refuse all store bought tomatoes. She has a huge sweet tooth and would live on refined sugar if she had that choice. Even when she was little (in preschool), if she knew she had a birthday party coming up the next day, she’d refuse to eat dinner with the hopes of filling up on birthday cake the next day. I’d describe her as an opportunistic eater and food snob with poor hunger cues.
She’s started taking an insulated mug of hot strawberry milk with her to middle school in the morning. We’re happy to get the whole milk into her, but the Nesquick is total crap. Any suggestions for a replacement beverage? It probably needs to be both sweet and warm for her to accept it, we’d like it to be more nutritious too. She’s not into fruit smoothies. I’d prefer it not just be ultraprocessed fillers and junk, not that Nesquick is any better.
My mom and I are taking a trip together next month and my dad is going to move into our house to help my husband while we’re gone. I feel like this is the setup to a sitcom and I really wish I had a hidden camera to watch those two parent and run a household together…
(Fwiw, before someone jumps on him, my husband is a very competent and involved parent. But he likes to run or go to gym in the early mornings and evenings while our 6 year old is asleep and he obviously can’t do that without another adult in the house, so my dad is mainly helping by being the other adult. I still find it hilarious though!)
Okay – more holiday travel advice needed.
(Thanks for all the games and activities suggested last week!)
We are travelling to a country where Christmas is not a big thing. But it is a big thing for my Husband and kids – it’s actually caused a fair number of tears lately. My husband has arranged to have “Santa” leave presents for when we get back in the new year, but I’d love thoughts on what else we can do to make it more Christmas-y while in a foreign country. We’ve already found a church and will go to Christmas Eve Mass (in a language no one really understands, but I figure the rituals are the same, right…? ). Also in the mix is that my brother’s family, whom we’ll be with, doesn’t celebrate Christmas, so I’m not sure how to celebrate Christmas with them around. Or even, ways to explain this all to the kids?
In your house, does Santa fill the parents’ stockings in addition to the kids’ stockings? Are all the presents under the tree for kids from Santa, or do parents give gifts to kids too?
We’re considering a cross country move for DH’s job/career. There are a number of complicating factors and I’d love some wise women to weigh in….
Three kids, 1 in Elementary school, 1 in Pre-K, 2 yr old
We live in an up-and-coming college town/state capital that we love. the move would be to a large urban coastal city (we’d live + he’d work in the suburbs).
Our DS goes to an elementary school that we adore, without giving too much away it has a very specialized curriculum with teachers coming from across the world to teach. There is a similar school that we can apply to, but no guarantee of entrace.
We have family support that our children (and us) love. Think grandparents who moved across the state to be with kids. They are supportive of the move and told us not to stay for them.
The job is FAANG type for my husband, I could keep working and scale back PT or quit if I wanted to. Of course COL would be higher but the cost to rent there would equal our current mortgage. We’d get a relocation package that would include help selling our current home.
So, would you leave a comfortable town/state you love for a career?
If we stay he’d struggle to find a fulfilling career (he’s been searching…) and I’d need to lean in more. I like my job but it’s not a passion and I’d be happy to pause for a period of time.
I’m struggling to up-end the children’s lives.
Hi all – updating on my almost-4-year old (birthday is later this week!) who I was freaking out about when I saw what looked like one eye crossing. Ped we saw had no concerns, but referred us to a ped opthamologist. In the interim, per the advice of a pediatric optometrist friend, we went into to see someone in her specialty that she recommended, who gave a VERY thorough exam (so many lights!). Kiddo had no vision or nerve issues that she saw, so no glasses or interventions for now.
TBD if we’ll still go to the opthamologist (appointment is scheduled for early January) – the optometrist didn’t think it was necessary, but said to run her exam/notes by our ped at his annual check-up and to get her thoughts.
Thanks all as always for the wisdom and reassurance here.
I know questoins have been asked about mp3 players. Considering the campfire for my 9 year old so she could also take it to camp. Does anyone have experience with that one? Thanks!
This feels like it’s almost too basic, but would welcome thoughts from the group. 2024 has been a year of immense change and challenges. I started a (very exciting, very, very intense) new job in a new state, moved the family (husband and two kids in elementary) and also have spent the last several months on a medical merry go ‘round dealing with a potentially terminal illness. Thankfully, it is not that and I am okay, but it has been…a lot.
I feel like I have been white-knuckling my way through life and am now at a place where I can maybe take a deep breath. I am trying to find my way back to myself, to any sort of sustainable self care and also lightheartedness (FWIW, I am in therapy and on an SSRI). Where do I even start? I have not exercised in forever, spend way too much time scrolling my phone, feel like tracking down reliable babysitters in a new town is a job unto itself, and would like to find some bandwidth to be a whole person again. I realize this particular set of circumstances is unusual, but any advice for digging out of a hole, so to speak?
Question for the group. My dad’s middle name is a unique name that has been passed down as a middle name for generations. It is very special to my family, and my sister and I have always loved it. I am the oldest, and I gave my first (and only) son the name as his middle name per tradition. My son goes by his first name also per tradition. My sister just had her first baby, a boy. We had talked all throughout her pregnancy about her son having the family name as his middle name and how special it would be for our sons to share this middle name. She had another name and corresponding nickname for her son’s first name in mind. Fast forward to the baby being born, and after ~36 hours of debating names, they gave the baby the family name as middle name with the planned first name. But, they are requesting that everyone call him by the family name. I am feeling very miffed, but I don’t know if I’m being unreasonable. Obviously I don’t “own” the name, and they can do whatever they want, but something that had the potential to be a very sweet and sentimental connection between the cousins now feels … not that way. I feel I was being fair and considerate in the way I used the name, and my sister is not. I feel bad for my son, who loves his grandpa a lot. Thoughts? Am I being too sensitive? I hope I explained this well. Thanks in advance.
How did you know you were ready to be a parent? I am 29, husband is 30. We have been married 5 years and together for 10 and he’s definitely “my person” and best friend. We are financially stable, own a home outright and have space for kids, and are in generally good health. However, we are both split 50/50 on kids. It’s not a hard yes OR a hard no for either of us and therefore we keep deferring… but of course there is a biological clock.
Why do we feel so ambivalent about wanting kids? Most people I know either really want them or don’t. I haven’t spoken to anyone else who is as ambivalent as we are.