Nursing/Postpartum Tuesday: Form Seamless Nursing Bra
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Third Love is famous for their well-fitting and comfortable bras. Their nursing bra is made along those samef lines.
Their wireless nursing bra is made from four-way stretch fabric and features a tagless (and itch-free!) printed label and removable cups with a drop-down overlap for easy nursing or pumping.
It’s available in versatile taupe and black and comes in one of the widest range of sizes I’ve seen.
Third Love’s Form Seamless Nursing Bra is $45 and available in sizes XS–3X.
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Planning a couple days’ beach (Lake Michigan) trip this summer with an almost-two-year-old. What do we need, other than the obvious towels, bathing suit, sun hat, sandals, and sunscreen? Thanks to Covid, we haven’t traveled anywhere with a kid, so I’m finding this a little overwhelming.
I have decided we need an au pair as it is the only realistic solution to our current childcare needs (which honestly are 7:30-9 in the morning and 3-5:30pm).
Husband is hesitant and I finally got it out of him that he’s afraid his blue collar brothers will make fun of him for being ‘fancy’. Neither of their wives worked and honestly? He’s not that close to his brothers and it’s true that I have a successful career whereas neither of my sisters in law did anything beyond part time work.
I am framing it much more as an exchange student thing but… he doesn’t have a solution so I don’t know what else he’s thinking.
Any tips for washing my 3 YO’s face to get sunscreen off? Wipes alone don’t seem to cut it, and he’s been very resistant to being scrubbed with a soapy washcloth.
Can someone remind/encourage me to draw more boundaries at work? I work in corporate America and have just returned from maternity leave. Kids are in daycare. I continue to be scheduled for meetings first thing in the morning (7am) and at the end of the day (5pm or later). Blocking my calendar is a joke, as everyone else just makes themselves available. I can’t drop off or pick up my kiddos when this happens, leaving my spouse with the more flexible job to pick up the slack. But this leads to occasional resent on his part or at least feeling like his job isn’t as important. I don’t know that it’s worth it (to me) to always be present at work and make my spouse pick up the burden, as I don’t want to burn all my relationship capital on work matters.
Are any of you paying your nannies who drive your kids around more / offering a gas stipend given the cost of gas right now?
Our nanny is great and, despite her being our employee, we have a really good but somewhat casual relationship with her. For example, if she stays late because I’m caught in traffic she refuses extra pay. We really do take great care of her in terms of pay, time off, etc. So, I would never ask her to log all of her miles and then apply a per-mile reimbursement nor would she have interest in doing so. But, I’d like to acknowledge the state of gas prices right now and that she drives my DD around. I can’t figure that it’s even 10-15 miles/day, but she certainly does drive her to the library, playgrounds, gymnastics, etc.
What are you all doing? Was considering adding an extra $50/week to her pay to account for gas but not sure if that’s reasonable (too much? too little?). If prices retreat I wouldn’t plan on taking this extra pay away, either.
Following up on the above – has anyone successfully transitioned an early waker (let’s say, naturally up at 5:45 to 6:15 as a toddler) to sleep in later? We have a pretty firm bedtime of 7PM, but I’ve been trying to push to 8 – hoping to convince my toddler to stay in bed longer. So far, it’s not working.
I always hear “sleep begets sleep,” but I’m on my 3rd early waker, and am willing to try a later bedtime if it will eventually turn kid into someone who sleeps in.
I need to send in some food for a daycare party and am trying to figure out what I can send that isn’t junk food. If I send something like fruit, what kind of containers do I send it in to make it easy for the teachers? Cupcake liners? The kids are 2.
DD is turning 4 this summer and, because of the pandemic, will be having her first friend birthday party. We’ve been invited to only a few parties this year and haven’t gone to most because they’ve been indoors and we have a high-risk family member. Many of the other daycare moms are close with each other, but I’m not because I work. Would you accept most birthday invitations, or only ones where you’re friendly with the parents or the kids are really close? I’m getting anxious that no one is going to come to the party, since we’ve said no to a few parties and haven’t done many playdates!
I caught up late yesterday but enjoyed reading the comments on working hours and childcare hours. Can we do the same thing with kids ages and bedtimes? Maybe even what time you go to bed and wake up, too! My kids used to have a firm 8PM bedtime but with longer days and then getting older, it’s getting stretched out. I need my decompression time in the evening!
I’ll go first: kids are 6 and 4. Bedtime is now 8:30ish from them, 9:30ish for me. I get up at 5 or a little earlier.
I’ve had a couple of “Yes, and” parenting feelings lately – like, yes, I find it really hard to parent two small kids and know that I would have more free time with just one AND I am glad that I had my second for many many reasons (related: yes I am a happy only child AND I feel like I missed out on some sibling dynamic relationships). Yes I find the toddler stage exhausting and the irrational meltdowns can get really irritating AND I love the sweetness and the way they speak at this age, and know I will miss it when they’re older. I guess this is more of a re-framing for me that helps in the hard times, but I’m prone to black or white thinking where a decision must feel right in all ways and this helps with that. Anyone else feel this way?
Talk to me about transitioning out of a crib. Kiddo is 18 months, we are moving when he will be 20 months, and a new baby coming when he’s 24 months. We’d like him out of his crib before baby comes because we don’t want to buy a new crib for the baby. I know moving and new baby are big big transitions, so not sure how to *time* it. He already takes naps on a queen size floor mattress and we are inclined to use a twin size floor bed after the crib. Any thoughts?
I’m also open to strong opinions about just buying a new crib for baby if keeping him in his crib for as long as possible is indeed the best option. (He doesn’t feel like baby stole his crib, he sleeps fine in it currently, it also transitions to a toddler bed). Or perhaps getting a bassinet for baby until they start to roll.
PSA for those unaware – Bravado now makes a non-nursing version of the bodysilk bra. Given that I was still wearing the nursing version nearly three years after I stopped nursing, I’m super excited.
We are taking some beach trips this summer with a young baby. Any recommendations for keeping cool and shady, or other tips?
Paging Anonymous from yesterday regarding Hunt Gather Parent.
I disliked the story (the idea of seeking wisdom from “others”, the author’s written voice etc) but really resonated with the parenting philosophy. It felt like a lot of ideas I’ve had about parenting in a more thorough and well explained way. I told my husband that I think he’d hate the book but like the philosophy- I wish I could find a summary online.
I actually read How Not To Hate Your Husband and it was the opposite experience- I really enjoyed the story but I only read it a few weeks ago and already can’t remember any of the suggestions.
Have you read Bringing Up Bebe? I feel like that’s a similar book to both that I enjoyed for both the story and the suggestions.
What does the hive think?
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