Maternity Monday: Maternity/Nursing Layered Pencil Dress
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Sales of note for 2/7:
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Winter Sale, up to 60% off! 7850 new markdowns for women
- Ann Taylor – Extra 25% off your $175+ purchase — and $30 of full-price pants and denim
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 15% off
- Boden – 15% off new season styles
- Eloquii – 60% off 100s of styles
- J.Crew – Extra 50% off all sale styles
- J.Crew Factory – 40% off everything including new arrivals + extra 20% off $125+
- Rothy’s – Final Few: Up to 40% off last-chance styles
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – 40% off one item + 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?
LinkedIn question: About 80% of the invitations I get are from recruiters, and once I accept the invite, they bombard me with bizarre job “opportunities” (Move across the country and take an in-house position in a new area of law! Only a 10% pay cut! And it’s a start up so there are stock options but no health insurance, it’s gonna be great). Do recruiters know if I’ve declined their invite or let it rot in my inbox, or am I part of just a giant batch of invitations and can get lost in the shuffle? Is there any advantage to accepting or rejecting these? I’ve literally just been leaving them in limbo, but got an angry message from one woman and now I’m wondering if I’m not playing by the “rules” of LinkedIn.
Anyone ever brought a babysitter with them on vacation? Planning a two-week international vacation with our toddler, and husband and I would love to have a babysitter so we could go to a few nice restaurants. DH’s idea was to bring our current babysitter (who is also a teacher in kiddo’s daycare) and pay her with a) covering her flights and lodging, b) a per diem of some sort and c) paying for her to fly to her hometown while we are there. Her family lives not too far from where we will be visiting, and DH is picturing her staying with us for several days and then she could go visit them. I’m slightly worried about power dynamics at play, since she works at our school and I don’t want her to feel obligated to come. Daycare is closed for one of the weeks we’d be going, so she wouldn’t be skipping work. While it’d be great to have someone we trust and who knows our kid come with us, something about it is nagging at me a bit, and just wanted to see if anyone had input. Thanks.
Would love thoughts on weaning a slightly older child from a bottle. Our younger is about to turn two, and he still has a nighttime bottle (actually, 2 of them). With doctor blessing – he’s been through a world of medical treatments and the bottle was the comfort we could use to get him through those things. But now we’re on the other side of that and we’ve weaned him down to just one bottle and it’s going horrible. He gets up sometime between 1-3 am EVERY SINGLE NIGHT and literally screams/shouts that he needs a bottle for more than an hour. Usually he wakes up 2-3 times with a repetition of this.
He’s not dehydrated.
I feel again like I have a newborn.
Everyone said within a week it would go away. It’s been a month. I’m nearly non-functioning.
Do I also give up the remaining bottle (the only thing that seems to get him into bedtime mode?) What do I substitute for it? How long will this take?
I also cannot get him to drink milk out of anything but a bottle. We’re tried everything, it seems – making ‘milkshakes’, doing everything. In his mind milk is for the bottle and not for anything else and he’s very stubborn. He’s a very stubborn, adorable kid anyway. More stubborn than me, it seems.
I would love some advice here. Qualifier, I have another 3 year old and my husband works split shifts, so at least half the time it is one mom, two kids and I can’t just do an hour-long solo bedtime routine. My other child gave up the bottle without the slightest fuss, so this is new to me.
Anyone have experience with weaning (night, day, whatever) a very, very determined young toddler (almost 19 months)? Everyone I know seems to have kids who either self-weaned or are happy to nurse them for six million years.
‘Don’t offer, don’t refuse’ has not-worked for us for five months now. Offering pacifier, water, or milk in sippy cup does not work. Distraction (‘Hey look, let’s play with your trains’/ kisses and tickles) works occasionally, and is better when he is well-rested and not tired. Wholesale removal from lap by husband works but some kicking and screaming ensues, and is ineffective when I am solo parenting. To complicate matters, kid is neediest immediately after daycare pickup, as it sets in that he’s missed me. We are coming up on a week of solo parenting and I need some sort of sanity check.
Hi ladies! I know corelle dishes are popular here, and I’m thinking of putting them on my Xmas list (to replace our stoneware, especially after the toddler chipped a bowl banging his spoon this weekend). What style do you all have and like? Does the winter frost white look classic or dated? If you got a print, did you eventually tire of it? Pretty sure my grandparents had the winter white, so it looks a bit dated to me, but also seems super practical.
I loved this story and it reminded me of when another poster said her kid’s “lovie” was a rake.
Does anyone have the SkipHop Stroll n Go 3 in 1 FootMuff? Thoughts? Is it warm enough for a NYC winter?
Two daycare center philosophy questions –
1. Last week, one of the teachers in my kid’s room (he’s almost 2) commented that he got the same thing for lunch every day and that he would eat more if there was variety. They also made some comment about how they think he is underweight after being sick. Kid has been eating less, but not nothing, and is in a general refusing-everything offered phase (i.e., every suggestion from food to playing to putting on coat gets a small-voiced “no”). I make his lunch every day and yes, it’s repetitive – but so is my lunch! It’s healthy food and not processed for the most part. I am part upset that he’s not eating food that he used to like and part upset that it got sort of snarky commentary from the teacher. I am not going to give him what the other kids get (mostly pure carbs/ pouches/puffs) and try to keep to the “eat what’s offered/not a short order cook” mode at home. Should I say something? Just keep sending the same types of food that we want him to eat and get a thicker skin? Should I worry about his weight (he seems fine to me, but what do I know?)
2. We want to potty train the kid between Christmas and New Year’s as he’ll be in the 20-30 month window suggested by a potty training book, but when we tentatively broached the topic with the center they said they don’t/can’t take kids to the potty until the next room up. He won’t be in that room until he is two years and nine months old. It’s possible that he won’t get trained until later anyways and it will be a moot issue, but I don’t like the idea of having to wait on *their* schedule if the kid does train. Experiences with this? Am I borrowing trouble?
And switching care is not an option. In most other respects, it’s a great place and the kid loves it.
Asos has a dress like this too. Would you really wear this work-type dress when nursing though? I thought I’d read that pumps like the Freemie you basically need to strip down – would this type of dress work?
Moms, help.
Little TK declared this weekend, “no more napping.” He will be 3 in February. Until this weekend, he routinely went down for a nap of between 1.5 to 3 hours every day.
He was an exhausted, grumpy mess from 3 until bedtime on Saturday and Sunday – everything resulted in a meltdown. He clearly still needs the extra sleep.
Tried moving bedtime up a bit (from 730 to 7 on Saturday night and to 645 last night) but I really hate to do it because if he starts going to be before 7, we’ll barely see him during the week. Any tips on either (1) making him continue napping [I am already mourning those couple of productive weekend hours …] or (2) easing the transition into no-nap land?
Just read that “working mother’s letter to husband” or whatever it was called everyone discussed yesterday. It was kind of upsetting. Really, your partner has to be told to help you when he sees you carrying groceries AND work bags AND kids’ backpacks? That’s human decency. A STRANGER would probably help you if they saw that. I start to worry that the constant blogging about how men are useless and constant begging for “help” (it’s not help…help implies extra, it’s really just participation) are starting to normalize this behavior from men.
Apologies that this is barely coherent.