Postpartum Tuesday: Essentials Muslin Blanket
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When my son was a newborn and a baby, I used Aden + Anais swaddles for everything. I loved how they felt, and they came in cute patterns.
Like most new parents, we were also lucky enough to receive a deluge of baby blankets. We received one of these Aden + Anais baby blankets, and it is the only one we still use. My son uses it as a blanket for naptime at daycare every day, and it is the perfect size and weight for a school nap.
The best part is that you don’t have to be precious about washing or drying it. I wash it on hot with the rest of his laundry and burn it on high heat in the dryer and it still is going strong. Yes, the white of the blanket has turned more of a gray (I don’t separate by color for him), but it’s just gotten softer as time has passed.
The blanket is $34.99 at Target. Essentials Muslin Blanket
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+
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?
I need some thoughts and ideas for getting through minutes/days/weeks with a depressed spouse. Largely related to the election and the general state of the world. I’m not exactly happy and cheery myself, but I do feel like I’ve gotten myself into a healthier mindset where I do what I can — volunteer, donate — and can largely avoid the doom spirals that my spouse seems to be in more often than not these days. I feel like I have accepted that this is a really difficult time for everyone and that it’s common and normal not to feel happy or not to have things to look forward to right now, and I just need to get through — but it helps me to think of it as an everyone problem not a me problem.
I know I cannot make spouse better, but my nature is partly to blame myself/look at what I could do better or differently, and I’m really struggling not to go down that road here. Yes to therapy all around.
(We have a similar blanket from Little Unicorn and are about to buy a twin-size one for kiddo because he loves the smaller one so much.)
Talk to me about stranger danger — how do you teach your kids about it? Kiddo is extremely sensitive and anxious and I want to find something that is cautious but not alarmist. Any stories about kidnapping or bad strangers will inevitably end up in nightmares for him, but he’s almost 5 so he needs to start learning about it. Book recommendations specifically appreciated!
Along the lines of the poster with the 3 year old above, when does this get easier? My son is a crazy handful these days. He’s 14 months and walking and into absolutely everything. I remember 12-18 months being hard with my daughter but not like this (she was a late walker so she could be contained and was honestly just kind of easy). I used to laugh at stories of people with the crazy toddlers who would throw things in the toilet or something else destructive the second you turned around but now I’m living it.
On yet another small annoyance of pandemic life, my husband has seasonal allergies and is SO LOUD when clearing his throat/blowing his nose constantly. I know it is not his fault, and that having misphonia makes it worse than it would normally be but aaaagggghhhh. Playing white noise constantly in the background on my laptop is the only thing saving my sanity right now.
I just got an e-mail from my daughter’s school. They are pleased to announce that face-to-face students in music courses are now allowed to play wind instruments, as long as they keep their masks on at all times. That should be interesting.
How are y’all getting rid of baby stuff during the pandemic? My local Goodwill has recently started taking donations again, but it’s still limited. No local friends with babies. We have so much stuff (baby tub, jumper, clothes, rock n play, etc) and we’d like to clean house a bit since baby is nearly 2!
Ugh, ladies, my 3.5yo DD punched me in the mouth last night. I was putting her in time out and she was pinching me and I said “you’re hurting me please stop”…and she wacked me in the face instead. I kept my cool (trying to not freak out after getting hit hard in the face is not easy!) and told her we don’t hurt people and left her in time out. She was calm afterwards. But WTF. Why is being a parent so hard sometimes?? She’s been hitting more lately and we don’t know why except for the pandemic and all that entails. She gets tons of exercise, adequate sleep (12.5hrs/night) and we limit sugar as best we can. Is 3 just this hard?
non-mom related but I also don’t use the main site much anymore. Has anyone used a gas firepit? I’m tired of every time we use our wood firepit someone coming over to complain through the fence. (city living, we follow the rules and regulations)