Nursing-Friendly Tuesday: ‘Kathy’ Maternity/Nursing Wrap Dress
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This $70 wrap dress is not only maternity-friendly, but nursing-friendly as well. Every season it comes out in new prints and colors and wins rave reviews. I think this bluesy-gray print is lovely, and for $70, it’s hard to go wrong. Everly Gray ‘Kathy’ Maternity/Nursing Wrap Dress
Here’s a plus-size option.
If case you haven’t checked out the Nordstrom Half-Yearly Sale yet, here are the nursing sale and maternity sale items. Did you see last week’s workwear picks and weekend roundup over at Corporette?
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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?
Any advice for someone thinking of VBACing with number 2? I was all set to go for it, but my OB scared me with talk of a 1% risk of uterine rupture. I know the risk is still pretty small, but I’m more worried that psychologically I won’t be able to push this baby out with all my might if I’m worried about my uterus rupturing in the back of my mind. On the other hand, I know there are risks associated with multiple c-sections and we hope to try for another after this one …. Anyone have thoughts or experience?
Weaning from the pump question. I’m currently pumping 3x a day (2x at work and 1 time pre-bed) and I’d like to drop them all. Which would be easier – gradually cutting each pumping session by a few minutes at a time or phasing out each one individually?
Since having my kids, my hair has turned into a bad 1980’s prom. It’s frizzy and the entire texture has changed so it is as if I have steel wool for hair, it’s terrible, and I just wish there was some style, somewhere that could make me look the least bit put together instead of looking like I just rolled out of bed and into the office.
It is so bad that Saturday night I forgot to braid it before sleeping for the first time in a year and Sunday morning the tangle was so bad my husband had to pull it out while we had my hair soaked in conditioner. It took an hour. I love having long hair but screw this.
For those who are hourglass or pear shaped, did you gain weight in your butt/legs when pregnant, or just your belly?. I’m just entering the second trimester after a very sick first trimester, so I actually lost a few pounds, and I have an only-visible-to-me little bump. But my mom, who is pear shaped (I’m hourglass) has told me about 15 times that despite only gaining 30 lbs while pregnant with me, she looked like she was carrying the baby in her rear end. Trying to decide how much to invest in maternity clothes now–I’d rather not re-buy if I grow all over, but I’m soooo excited for stretchy waist pants, like, now. I know some of it is just genetics or luck of the draw.
Can we acknowledge the insanity that the only oral contraceptive available for nursing women gives you a 15-minute window of error for taking it on time and still having it be effective? I had no problem taking my birth control on time pre-baby, but now I am juggling 50 things and trying to remember another 50 things and hitting snooze on my phone reminder and it just isn’t happening. I’ve decided not even to refill it because I have forgotten to take it so many times there isn’t any point.
So I finally had a heart-to-heart with my husband, and he told me he wants to have a second child. We have a 18 month old son. I thought nailing down this decision would relieve my anxiety. Before this point, we’ve been putting off the decision, but then a lot of other decisions (like what to do re money and housing) were up in the air, too. Personally, if it were just up to me, I’m very on the fence about a second child. I dislike the whole physical toll of pregnancy and childbirth and breastfeeding. I recently took a gov’t job that’s very interesting, but in a way much more intense than being at a private law firm. I feel already stretched to the max, with just enough “me” time to keep me sane. I play tennis once a week and manage to sneak some private reading and writing time. That’s totally gone with a second child, right? I’m an only child, and I see how life could be more fun with a sibling. But I’m an only child, and it wasn’t that bad…and because I was an only child, having “me” time is really important. Now that we’ve discussed this issue openly, and kind of decided on the second child, I’m freaking out! Just seeking words of comfort, I guess. One more thing…for my first pregnancy, I was nervous because I didn’t know what to expect. Now that I know what’s coming, I’m even more nervous!
When you’re giving baby books as a gift, do you tend to go for classics like Goodnight Moon, etc., or try to find something a bit less likely to already be in baby’s library? I am always torn about what to get. I know gift receipts are key, regardless, but I never had time to exchange books in that early period so many volumes of Goodnight Gorilla just sat piled up on my bookshelf. On the other hand, I totally missed out on how awesome some classics are because I think I assumed we’d end up getting them and then never did.