Maternity Monday: Floral Print Wiggle Dress
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This ASOS maternity dress has a really fun floral pattern. It may not be the best fit for the office unless you want to mute it with a darker blazer or cardigan, but it’d be great for a baby shower, or Easter, or other spring-y events. ASOS has a ton of cute maternity stuff right now, so check it out — their size offerings include maternity petite and the very rare size of maternity tall. This cute dress is on sale for $51 from $73 and comes in sizes 2-16 (some no longer available, alas). ASOS Maternity Wiggle Dress In Floral Print With Ruffle
For plus sizes, Pink Blush Maternity has a lot of pretty floral dresses like this one and this one.
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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?
Since everyone is posting about feeding issues today, I thought I’d add mine: I am struggling with conflicting emotions about weaning my 17-month old. Ages ago I’d decided I wanted to wean him by 18 months. I have a variety of reasons: that timeline coincides with a work trip I’m taking, and I need to have weaned for a certain number of months — more than I would have thought — before I can start fertility treatments to give kiddo a little brother or sister. The longer I keep nursing, the longer until I can start trying to get pregnant again. We’ve been at three feedings a day — wake-up, before I leave for work, and before bed — for a few months now. He wasn’t super into nursing as a baby so I thought weaning would be easy — but it’s been tough. I’ve only dropped the wake-up feeding so far, and for the past three weeks he spends ALL MORNING following me around, asking for “milk, milk!!!” with increasing urgency. He’s caught on to my distraction/substitution attempts, which don’t seem to help. He does the same thing every night, almost like he’s panicked I will try to put him to bed without nursing. According to my timeline, I’m going to try to put him down without nursing tonight, and I’m totally dreading it . . . .
Not sure what I’m looking for. Advice? Support? Commiseration? I feel horribly guilty and hate seeing that panicked look in his little eyes. I don’t really mind our morning/night routine itself, but I don’t want to keep pushing back TTC — plus I don’t feel like it’s magically going to get easier anytime soon. Ugh.
Looking for suggestions on what I can do for a pregnant friend. Last week they found out there was a heart defect at her 20 week scan and some sort of chromosome issues. They are waiting on more results (they found out it is not Downs, trisomy 13 or trisomy 18, but still waiting on more info). They won’t know anything for at least another five days. She sent me a long email today and concluded it with “this is the worst week of my life.” I feel so bad and I want to do something to help. My husband and I are leaving for Mexico on Wednesday so I’m not going to have texting and I can’t take her out to distract her or anything. Is there something I can send her while we’re gone? Any good suggestions? I thought about a massage but it might feel even more stressful to have to schedule something and go to a place and all of that. Any suggestions?
Ugh I have a period migraine (always get them on the first day) and we’ve been TTC my #2 his #1 for 5 months so getting it was disappointed to begin with. I just want to go to my car and cry. I only have 1 hour left, but my head is pounding. I tried doing easy tasks (aka sending out an outlook invite to a meeting i’m coordinating) but I even messed that up because this headache is so distracting.
UUUGGGHH even if I take an hour of sick leave i’m going to have to pick my son up when I get home so why bother.
The silver lining is, as suggested by a member of the hive here, I’ve started giving myself “rewards” every month I’m not pregnant. I started putting an extra $100 in savings every time I end up not pregnant, and am saving it to go visit a college sorority sister i haven’t seen in a couple of years. If it fails again next month I’ll be ready to book a ticket!
I recognize you don’t want to piss off the teachers, but this is completely excessive. I think it’s fair to raise the fact that these events make kids who have 2 working parents feel “less than” those who always have someone there. For every kid like yours, there is one who has a single mom who works and can NEVER be there, and who feels even worse. If you speak up, it won’t just be helping your family.
I’m having hard-core mom guilt today. The parental invites at my son’s elementary school are hitting fever pitch. At least once a week, parents are encouraged to attend a special book parade, or story time, or very minor musical performance. I am all about being at the major stuff, but these activities are literally 20 minutes long in the middle of the work day. I’m disappointed and upset. My son is 7 and he’s been begging and pleading me to come to everything because he sees his friends’ parents there. I’d love to, but I work 25 minutes from our neighborhood school and so does my husband. Unless one of us has a WAH day, logistically it’s just not feasible. My heart breaks every time I have to tell my first grader that we can’t be there because we work during the day. He gets upset, which makes me upset.
Some of these events are borderline ridiculous and I’m so tired of the school hyping up the kids, knowing that 50% of the families at our school can’t have a parent there between 9:50 and 10:20 a.m. One of my neighbors texted me a photo of my son from the Dr. Seuss parade last week. Instead of feeling grateful that she was looking out for him, I just felt like total c r a p that I wasn’t there myself. (Frankly, she’s the type of SAHM to judge others for missing stuff, so it felt more passive-aggressive than caring.) I know I support my son’s education in many other ways, but I feel so isolated as a working mom sometimes. I hate that my kid might be feeling unsupported because he has two full-time working parents. That whole idea that it magically becomes easier when kids are in school is total BS, I’m sorry to say.
Baby feeding is the theme today! I’ve been struggling with pumping enough to feed my son (4.5 months). This weekend on a trip with my husband, I was pleasantly surprised by how much I was able to pump, and thinking that the steps I’ve been taking to boost my supply must be working- but back at work today, I went from 4 oz from the first pump (a power pump to try to jump start my supply for the week) to exactly zero ounces at lunch- seriously, I just got drops. Now I just want to cry. All the equipment seemed to be working fine, and I’ve done power pumps before and always gotten at least 2-3 at the next pump.
I rationally know formula is fine. But I am now on a guilt spiral. Was it cause I was relaxed this weekend and not expecting much, my body decided to surprise me? Is it because I was anxiously starting at the empty bottles and wondering what was going wrong? I guess I’m just looking for commiseration. Is this even worth it?
Without getting into an unnecessary debate on BF vs. formula… I would love to hear from any of you in a similar or same boat. I EBF my first and we had a successful experience but I stopped earlier than I would have wanted for various reasons. I’m pregnant with my second and I don’t want to go that route again. I’ve been feeling a lot of guilt about BF with the first but not the second, but the more I think about it, I feel a lot more peace imagining just formula feeding from the start.
My question is for any of you who chose to formula feed from the start, what resources did you use? Did you find helpful healthcare professionals? The hospital where I’ll deliver now has the designation of being Baby Friendly, which it did not when my first was born. This means that they promote EBF. This was wonderful the first time around, but I’m worried about receiving guidance this second time around. I know how to do the EBF thing… I know nothing about formula from the start. I feel like a rebel and not in a good way. I’m making the decision that’s best for me and my family, but already I’m being inundated with the BF question every time I’m at the OB.
Ideally, I’d love to nurse on and off in the hospital so that Baby gets some, but I also want to do the bottle right away. I’m afraid this perspective will be seen as wishy-washy and that I’ll get nothing but BF propaganda. I feel like I have to say I’m just going to formula feed.
Experience with this? What internet resources did you use if you formula or combo fed from the beginning?
Thank you!
Looking for advice on logistical aspects of leaving b-milk for my baby when I return to work. He’ll be 7 weeks and is a voracious eater. So far we’ve been practicing with 3 ounce bottles in the morning, which he downs with minimal spit up and sometimes still wants more after. I’ll be leaving him with a family member for a few months and will be starting with a 9-5 schedule — hopefully nursing at lunch until he’s 3 months. I’ve seen the calculators on dividing on total amount they need with hours you’re away from baby. Just not quite sure how to make sure he gets what he needs with minimal waste of the precious product… So any words of wisdom are appreciated!
I know this has been covered ad nauseam, but I can’t quite find what I’m looking for. I’d like to order food for a new mom/family (baby just born) in Providence, RI (I’m across the country and unfortunately can’t bring anything in person).
I’d like to send something that would be delicious and easy for dinner (rather than snacks or sweet things). No dairy. For DC area families, my go-to was getting unbaked pasties sent from the Pure Pasty Co….I’d like the equivalent!
Thanks in advance.
I would totally wear this maternity dress to the office with a dark blazer if I was pregnant. And if I could wear shift dresses well. But I don’t think the print is a problem. I also think you can get away with a bit more in terms of “fun” clothing when you’re pregnant.
The above discussion about bedtime routines for 3 year olds is really interesting. Can I hear some examples of 1-2 year old bedtime routines? I’m afraid we’re doing the exact same thing we’ve been doing since LO was 6 months old, but it’s probably time to mature the routine a little bit. Right now we don’t do songs and only get through ~1 book before nursing to sleep (which I need to stop, but it’s so easy to keep doing because.it.works.)
I have a weird one for you. For the past week out 2yo has been exhibiting some odd behavior. She hasn’t breastfed for over 1 year but has started to ask for it in the mornings, has been eating multiple crayons although she knows it is not food, and this morning we found her drinking the liquid soap. She’s got her full teeth and was never been into a “dummy” so this is all very new.
Is this just toddler being funny or is this pointing to something medical? Do we just wait and see if this goes away? I honestly have no idea!
What exactly is a “wiggle dress”? “Maternity wiggle dress” is even more confusing.
I exclusively BF my one year old and we are down to just the morning feed. I can’t decide whether to keep it for another 5 months or drop it and be done (benefits of dropping it are I can finally buy new bras and use my retinol again!). He wakes up at 5:45 and nurses then goes to daycare and they feed him breakfast at 8 am. I’m concerned if I drop the morning nursing session he is going to be hungry until breakfast. We can give him water pretty easily, but giving him food in the morning is going to add another 20 minutes and I don’t want to have to wake him up earlier than we already are. He’s starting a new daycare in 5 months, at which time we will start feeding him breakfast at home before he leaves. What would you do?
Any experience with Lands’ End pants for skinny almost 4 year olds? My son wears a 4T at Carter’s, Gap, etc. and a 100 at HA. He can even get by in a 5T from those brands. He really liked Lands’ Ends’ khakis (specifically the Iron Knee Cadet Pants) in the catalogue so I ordered a bunch. They are so big in the waist and so long. He’s the right height and weight for the 4T. The 4 regular is slightly bigger than the 4T so that’s not an option but he exceeds the weight range for the 4 slim. Do I try the 4 slim anyway? 3T? Do they shrink a ton? Can anyone point me in the direction of similar pants from another store? I guess I don’t have the time or energy for him to want clothes from a brand I’m not familiar with!