Nursing/Postpartum Tuesday: Fabric Pacifinder
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I worked with someone who has three kids. When his oldest dropped her pacifier, he sterilized it with boiling water. With the second, he rinsed it off in the sink. With the third, he kicked it back toward her.
Now, both my kids hated pacifiers (they felt cheated when food didn’t come out of them), but if your kid is like my coworker’s kids, perhaps this Fabric Pacifinder from Nuby would have eliminated some of the boiling/rinsing/kicking — it works with any pacifier that has a handle, comes in a variety of fun patterns, and keeps your baby’s pacifier in easy reach and off the ground.
Now, your baby can (hopefully) find their own pacifier while you do all the other things babies can’t do for themselves.
A two-pack of these Fabric Pacifinders is $4.99 at Target.
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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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?
Another division of duties question, because you all are so helpful on these. I work remotely, DH does not. I also have downtime most days, DH works fairly long hours. As a result, I am primarily responsible for home cleaning, food, and child care (we have daycare, whew, but I handle most of the non-daycare hours). Without getting too much into the weeds, the crux of my question is this: if one person works remotely with downtime, does it make sense for them to be more responsible for housework? Sometimes I feel like I have the responsibilities of a stay at home spouse while also working a full time job, and trying to prevent resentment.
Looking for anecdata from anyone who had no pregnancy symptoms in first trimester but otherwise successful pregnancy and healthy child. We went through infertility treatment and I am finally pregnant, a little over 8 weeks. We saw a healthy heartbeat at 6.5 weeks but I have otherwise had zero pregnancy symptoms and find it quite stressful, especially since our struggles to conceive trained me to think that pregnancy just did not happen for me.
Google tells me other people have no symptoms at my current stage but that it is rather rare. I’d love some encouragement if anyone else has had the same thing (or sisters, friends, etc.). Please do not share stories that end badly since the goal here is to reduce my anxiety about this :-)
I went to a 4 year old birthday party on Saturday and wished there was a Cmoms WhatsApp because this thing was bananas and deserved sharing. We arrived, there was a magician, then fire dancers (doing the tale of Prometheus), an acrobat demo, and then an old timey magic and Punch and Judy show. It began at 11 and they did not serve pizza until 130 and the kids were just ragged. It was the most over the top thing, there seemed to be a party planner involved but she obviously didn’t think about the importance of feeding small children? The birthday boys parents and assorted aunts and uncles had been up until 4am and all seemed vaguely hungover. My husband picked us up at 3 to head camping for the weekend and my son looked at him and said “I think we just need some quiet in the car!”
Can’t wait til next year when we do cake and games for my kid’s birthday and he inquired about fire dancers.
I missed the “funny things your kid says” thread yesterday but just remembered my favorite recent line. We were staying in a vacation rental last week and my 5yo found an old purple My Little Pony in one of the drawers. She had never seen one before and immediately exclaimed “LOOK! A broken unicorn!”
last year i had some tensions with one of my best friends due to our different covid risk tolerances that finally fizzled over the summer, and now it is back with a vengeance. what she does has absolutely no impact on me (we don’t even live in the same state), and it is obviously totally her choice, but grr, this is hard. (she is flying next week with her kids to vacation in a covid hot spot)
What parenting blogs and podcasts do you all recommend? I love What Fresh He$$ that was recommended by this board. I’m looking for those that are more grounded and realistic, especially for working moms (hard pass on fire dancers for birthday parties!). I love things that tend toward simple living, maybe because that approach feels so out of reach for my craziness?
Recommendations for immunity boosters for kids? I’m sure this is all placebo but I’ve already got a cold and I don’t want the kids to get it. They’d been taking Zarbees elderberry gummies (which have zinc and vitamin c) but don’t like the taste. Thinking something similar.
As I’m typing this I’m remembering that maybe this isn’t recommended in a covid world?
Good gifts for a 2 year old? My nephew’s birthday is coming up. Granddad is getting the scooter. Parents are laid back, in a city apartment so nothing huge, but it doesn’t need to be an organic silent toy either.
NPR Morning Edition reported that the vaccine for ages 5+ will not likely be available in 2021 and the expletives flying out of my mouth….
Morning Edition reporting that the vaccine for ages 5+ will not likely be available in 2021 [insert expletives here]
I have a new middle schooler, and he is home alone after school for anywhere from 1.5-2 hours a day. I don’t love it, but it is what it is, and I was babysitting at his age, so a little independence isn’t necessarily a bad thing. However. We need to crack down on screen time (TV, mostly) because that’s literally all he’s doing when he gets home. He doesn’t have a problem doing homework in the evening, so I don’t feel strongly about requiring him to do it right away unless he has an evening activity. Any thoughts on how to have him occupy his time? He certainly should be doing a chore or two.
Accidentally posted this (in mod) on the other site, don’t let it through mods, meant for here:
I am in a very lucky position that I never expected to be in where I do not need to work full time anymore. I have an office that is very accommodating, and will let me go however part-time I want. I fully understand that with transactional work I should plan to work more I am paid for (which I am ok with). I don’t want to step out of my career entirely but I’m not sure how much part time to ask for though and when I start it? 20 hours a week? More? I have two kids, 1 and 3.5 (maybe a future third) and plan to continue full time care and just pick up early when I can. Does waiting until older one is in K make sense? I know this will put me on the very long path to partner or silo me as counsel and I am fine with it, I can either ramp up later or find something else (the pandemic has exhausted me and I need some time to heal).
Advice, please. My job lately has been stressful. We’ve been short-staffed after the loss of a crucial secretary. And, before and after a (very rare) week-long vacation (involving travel for my cousin/friend’s wedding) ended up meaning working a lot of nighttime and weekend hours before and after I don’t like and don’t usually have to do. On the home front, DH has had to travel for work a lot, meaning anything over 40 hours again means late-night work. (Kids are 1.5 and 3.5, so when DH is gone it’s hard to get them to bed on time, then clean, THEN work. Morning work doesn’t work for me– I swear they sense I’m up and just wake up early too. Ugh.) And, kids keep getting colds requiring them to stay home and us to juggle childcare, babysitters, etc etc.
Then, when things slow down a little bit, I lose all motivation. Tips? I know a lot of moms here routinely work evenings and weekends, but it burns me out.
I need to start getting 3T clothes for my daughter. I’d like to lean into the whole capsule wardrobe thing and buy some good mix-and-match staples. I’m okay with it costing a smidge more if it helps simplify stuff. It seems like either Primary or Gap would be the best stores to do this. Any recs for either store, or some other store entirely? Any specific pieces? We tend to do pants over dresses because I think it’s easier but I’m not opposed to skirts. Thank you!!!
My searching abilities are failing me…has anyone found a kids (4yo) disposable mask where every mask comes with adjustable ear loops? The Costco ones work fine, but you only get 10 adjusters per 50 masks. My orally-fixated kid is chewing holes in cloth masks, so we need to stock up on disposables for the school year.