Maternity Monday: Faux Wrap Maternity Dress
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This maternity sweater dress by Maternal America looks comfortable, mature, and chic. I like that it is a faux wrap style, but the top doesn’t have the wrap element and it’s a normal round neck. I also like that the wrap is unique and has a big sash-like quality to it. The dress is machine washable, too. Both colors look great to me, but for “re-wearability,” I’d probably go with the gray. The black leather booties are cute as styled with the addition of black opaque tights, or even tights with a pattern would be cute. This dress is $119 and is available in sizes XS–L at Nordstrom. Faux Wrap Maternity Dress
A plus-size option in sizes 1X–3X is at PinkBlush.
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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?
Heavily privileged quandary, and ya’ll are the only ones I can ask. I’m halfway through my generous 20-week maternity leave and dreading going back to work so much that it’s keeping me up at night. I had a performance review on Friday that just reminded me how little I care about my career, which has just been a way to make money. I’m having major fantasies of quitting to become a SAHM.
I’m the primary breadwinner, making around 4x my husband’s earnings. On paper, we could absolutely live off his pay alone. It covers all of our basic necessities with a bit left each month. It would mean cutting way back on retirement and college savings, as well as a big overhaul of our spending habits. No more major travel, frequent dinners out, etc. A saving grace is that despite our HCOL area (NYC), we bought early and have exceptionally low housing costs.
Alternatively, we have so much equity in our house that I think we could sell it and move somewhere less expensive (somewhere very rural appeals to us both), and essentially live off of that money. A lot of the reasons we loved city life (going out, nice restaurants, etc) suddenly seem less relevant now that we have a baby. We just want to stay in and admire her – and we could be doing that anywhere.
FWIW, my job is pretty much ideal in terms of being a working mom. Very flexible, family friendly, well-paid, low stress. So finding a lower key job isn’t an answer. Just, paying someone 2k a month to watch my baby all day so I can afford to shop at Whole Foods is starting to sound less appealing. (And p.s. mad respect to all of you who are working — this is such a personal choice).
I guess I’m looking for any stories/articles/blogs around these topics, especially from a financial perspective. Anybody happen to quit their urban banking job and become a homesteader upstate?
For those of you who work modified schedules: will you come in to the office on your “off” time to attend work-sanctioned social events?
I do not work on Fridays but our staff appreciation lunch is this Friday. I’m debating whether to come in. On the one hand, I think it’s important to have face time with my colleagues, especially since I don’t see many of them except at these events. On the other hand, I have a modified schedule in part because I live almost an hour away. Plus we’ve been out of town for three weeks, my in-laws are coming into town this weekend which I need to prepare for, and I really need to plan my kid’s birthday party and our upcoming February trip. So, I would come for lunch only, not to work the full day (which my colleagues might think is obnoxious– oh she can’t come to work on Fridays but she makes it in for lunch?)
Thoughts?
Is three years old too young? And if not, any recommendations for long car rides?
Does your firm handle maternity leave differently for partners (compared with associates, staff, etc)? I’m in a regional midsize firm that I’m fairly confident has never encountered this issue (very few women in the firm; women partners with kids have all been laterals). I know some firms treat it differently but wanting to get an idea of what the norm is.
Considering a second child, but I had a precipitous labor (lasting less than three hours from the first contraction to delivery). I am worried about what labor/delivery might look like for me in the future. Has anyone else experienced this?
Is anyone else having the January Blues? I’m finding it very difficult to get out of bed in the morning. I need to get back to exercising, etc. Wondering if anyone has any tips to jump out of bed in the morning – FWIW we live in New England.
Thanks!
My three year old is suddenly into painting her nails. We’re going out to buy some pink and glitter nail polishes tonight. I live in a rural area, so Walmart is my only option (note the living rural conversation above). Recommendations for a fast-drying nail polish brand?
Question about gardening later in pregnancy… I am about to enter third tri and have no interest and feel huge and just like I want to rest when I’m in bed! Did anyone else have this issue? And how late into pregnancy did you garden? The euphemism of course. I know I won’t be interested for a time after so I feel like there’s some pressure here! Also my DH and I don’t tend to engage in other activities, so gardening or not gardening is even more fraught…
Over the weekend, my 3 year old boy decided he is ready! for! undies! This came a bit out of nowhere, so I haven’t done all my potty training research. We’ve just been winging it so far, and I will do some more reading, but in the meantime, a question: He is excited to wear his “undies” which his grandmother gave him several months ago. We agreed to let him try them, and have been putting him on the potty every 20 minutes or so while he has them on. He doesn’t really seem to “get” it and will happily sit on the potty for a while, sometimes going #1, sometimes not, sometimes have an accident right after getting off the potty. It seems like pullups are where we should be right now, but I think his excitement is over the undies, not the potty, if that makes sense. Should we roll with the undies? Try to switch to pullups? Help a rookie mom out.
Update: I wanted to update you about HSG test I was worried about last week. I had the test done. The radiology technician and the doctor made me feel very comfortable, answered all my questions (regarding x-rays etc) and it went very smoothly. Very comforting to know that both tubes are open and there are no other structural issues. It took a while to fill the right tube though, with lot of turning and more dye. Just before they concluded that the right tube was blocked, it started filling slowly. Thank you so much for push that I needed :-).
Housekeeper question – I want to have someone come to my house every day, 2-3 hours per day for cleaning, tidying, and dinner cooking. Other than Care dot com, has anyone used any resources for this? Any suggestions for duties / tasks or what I should be looking for in hiring?
If you are DH have a direct conflict for travel, how do you decide who goes? Both conferences are internal, good networking for us but not essential for our job function, both are technically optional, and we’ve both been before but in previous years they didn’t overlap. Normally I would have our parents watch kiddo while we’re gone and both of us go, but since it’s winter the snowbirds are all down south.
I’m leaning towards just flipping a coin, because I don’t want us to start keeping score about this kind of thing. Or maybe this is one case where keeping score is ok? Like I get to go for this conflict, but the next conflict is his?
Replacement Spectra parts – nenesupply vs maymom? Or suck it up and pay for the official Spectra parts?