Pumping Tuesday: 4-Piece Jet Set for Nursing Mothers
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Ooh: We’ve mentioned HadleyStilwell’s brand before, which focuses on workwear for breastfeeding moms, but I’ve never seen any of it on Amazon. Even if this isn’t eligible for Prime, Amazon is one of my favorite trusted online shops and I’m much more likely to buy anything from it than elsewhere. This “jet set” looks amazing, and while there’s only one review, it’s so positive: It made going back to work bearable, was functional for nursing and pumping, held up to regular wearing a once a week for a year and counting, and looked/felt flattering even on her postpartum body. Nice. The set comes in three color options and costs $250 (with $10 shipping). HadleyStilwell 4-Piece Jet Set for Nursing Mothers
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Sales of note for 3/26/25
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – 15% off beauty (ends 3/30) + Nordy Club members earn 3X the points!
- Ann Taylor – Extra 50% off sale + additional 20% off + 30% off your purchase
- Banana Republic Factory – Friends & Family Event: 50% off purchase + extra 20% off
- Eloquii – 50% off select styles + extra 50% off all sale
- J.Crew – 30% off tops, tees, dresses, accessories, sale styles + warm-weather styles
- J.Crew Factory – Shorts under $30 + extra 60% off clearance + up to 60% off everything
- M.M.LaFleur – 25% off travel favorites + use code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – $64.50 spring cardigans + BOGO 50% off everything else
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?
My income has dropped post baby. Realistically I feel like my prospects and potential have also dropped. I live in a community where professional women with babies are few and far between and I am a bit of a freak here. We don’t want to leave our community and I still have employment here but the reality is that I’m going to be earning about $80-100K a year after taxes and after daycare expenses this year and it will probably not go up until my kid is in school full time, if then. I tried keeping up with my pre-baby hours and know I cannot do it physically or mentally. I like where I work right now and I still work as a lawyer but it lacks any sort of prestige or opportunity for advancement. I do not see that changing any time soon and my husband’s job doesn’t allow for him to cut back. It doesn’t help that the the brightest of the women I went to law school with (who do not have babies) are making partner and going up in the world while I know I am on track to nowhere professionally. I have a lot of trouble being able to mentally justify purchases for me. Even small things like a coffee or a new book or a manicure.. I haven’t booked a trip to see my parents (who live on the opposite side of the country) since my income plummeted. I just don’t feel like I am contributing. I feel like I don’t deserve things basically. We have savings, we vacation out of country at least four weeks a year, we have almost no debt, our baby has all the baby stuff imaginable so I know we are doing a lot better than most people so I should not complain. But I feel as though I personally am failing and I don’t seem to know how to stop failing. Still on anti-depressents, PPD suspected but no diagnosis.
Question for all you moms out there-I have a bright funny only-child 3.5 year old who seems to struggle with big emotions/emotional regulation. Gets upset easily and has been more physical when upset lately, especially with me and my husband (but probably more with me). kicks, hits, tries to bite. He was a biter as a toddler but had outgrown it, I thought. He’s hit me in the face a few times, the last time being yesterday morning when he asked, “it is the weekend or a daycare day?” Sigh. We are working on being firm, having immediate consequences, and not losing our tempers and escalating the situation. I’m considering an intake with a therapist to help us do a better job managing/reducing these behaviors, but I’m wondering if we should do something different daycare wise too. He’s at daycare he’s been at since birth in a “preschool” room, but it seems a little chaotic and I’m not sure what the preschool curriculum is beyond free play and doing art projects (which I do think is important). He will go up to the next room soon and there is more activities there but it also seems fairly unstructured. I worry about him learning to manage his emotions, especially when he starts school and it is much more structured. I am considered doing a more preschool type program, at least half a day (although it needs to be with a daycare or after school component since we both work) or doing a local Montessori program I’ve heard good things about (calm!). But it will be more in cost and my husband likes where he currently is and doesn’t think our kid needs a change. I’m struggling with how much to push this. Any thoughts much appreciated.
Today has been one of the hardest I have had as a working mom. I’ve posted before about my “concerns” with our nanny: not helping with laundry, my son doesn’t get along with her grandson who is at our house way more than I agreed to, thinking that she didn’t interact much with the kids. Today I have discovered that our nanny spends her entire day on her laptop ignoring my kids. At one point, my daughter cried and she turned to her and told her to be quiet. After my son came home from school, he has been watching tv. He puts his baby sister (the toddler) down for her nap. We were planning on keeping this nanny until the school year ended, but that is clearly not an option. I used most of my vacation time over the holidays and haven’t had time to accrue enough to be out for a week while we find someone. My husband is constrained from taking time by the school year. My mom can help some, but I am at a total loss. I am angry. I am hurting for my kids who are being ignored. I feel insanely guilty for not realizing this was going on sooner. I love my job but this is a hard day.
OK two probably stupid questions as I start this fertility thing.
1) How do you schedule business travel with induced cycles? Do you literally block off a week like, nope, I can’t go to LA that week, I need to get knocked up? I’m also worried about my cycle being screwy and unpredictable on me (I can’t start anything until I get my period, and knowing my stupid uterus, it’s going to mess with me and not show up until a week late, which means my projected “get busy”/inseminated week will be off -_-)
2) So, I go to a RE to get pregnant, but then at what point do you transition back to your obgyn for regular monitoring type stuff? Where is the delineating line? As soon as you get pregnant? After the six week ultrasound that confirms? Even later than that?
thanks!
Advice/commiseration. I’m running a fairly high profile conference out of state which will entail me missing my son’s actual birthday, and arriving home the day before his friends and family party (at a play gym, with family at our house after). I’m doing my best to mitigate the burden on my husband/inlaws (cakepops will be made/packaged/frozen in advance/gift bags made/balloons ordered/invites sent/space booked/catering for family party arranged).
I guess what I’m looking for is advice on how to minimize my guilt on missing his actual bday (and how to ignore the comments I know will arrive from my MIL), and how to try to make the process as easy on my husband/family as possible.
I have a review coming up and I’m just dreading it. My last several reviews have been difficult (I’m on a cycle of a review every 3 months because of low hours), with a lot of criticism and uncertainty about my future at my employer. I suspect (although it’s too soon to know) that this review will be equally difficult.
The good news is that my hours are up. The bad news is, I’ve been missing deadlines because I’ve taken on more projects to hit hours, but struggling to keep up with the workload. Many of the attorneys who give me work are really happy with my work, but I know there is a group that is not happy and will be more likely to write in a negative review.
Any tips on how to handle a negative review? I struggle even just figuring out the expression I want to put on my face while hearing the bad news since I inevitably want to run away and cry. I’m trying to “fail forward” by learning from my mistakes and putting in place new systems, but finding it exhausting and progress inconsistent. Any advice for seeking some reassurance too? I have never been a consistent failure at anything (especially over a period of several years), and I am so scared that I’ll be fired at any minute that it’s impacting my ability to muster the courage to take on projects.
The product in the photo looks like a bathrobe, so I clicked on the link. The featured outfit is actually pretty awesome, but from what I can tell, is not the bathrobe outfit in the photo?
Husband and I are having a discussion about our 4 year old’s birthday party. She started at her current daycare about a year ago. She’s been invited to a handful of classmates’ birthday parties but hasn’t had play dates with anyone. Husband is worried that no one will come if we have a party. I think kids like to do fun things and enough people will probably come to make it worthwhile. We’ll be in daycare with these families for another year and then (hopefully) some will go to my daughter’s school as well, so I’d like to continue getting to know them.
Missing my babies (i have twins) like crazy today. They’re over a year old but I still feel like I don’t get enough time with them. I was home long enough on mat leave to know that I don’t want to be a SAHM but really not loving the full time WAHM thing either. Just argh. Any advice for how to miss them less and be more focused at work? I feel like I end up staying late because I’m missing them and not productive but then I’m actually seeing them less because I’m getting home late. How do I break the cycle?