Maternity Monday: Wool Boucle Coat
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It’s gotten rather cold, suddenly, so I thought I’d go on the hunt for maternity coats for pregnant readers. The usual budget suspects like Kohls, Old Navy, and Macy’s all have coats for under $100 — but my absolute favorite is this wool boucle coat from H&M. It looks sleek and sophisticated, as well as warm. It’s $99, and available in sizes XS-XL. H&M Mama Wool Boucle Coat
P.S. Note that Nordstrom has a convertible coat for $150 — I’ve only seen much more expensive versions before. Even though I’m less fond of the puffy coat look, this would be my coat of choice if I were pregnant — as well as on maternity leave — during super cold months.
P.P.S. Note that Piperlime has a pretty killer “take 30% off any order over $200” sale right now, with tons of great accessories to pick from, including Corporette reader favorites like Stuart Weitzman and Kate Spade New York included in the mix.
P.P.P.S. Note that sister brands Gap and Banana Republic are both 40% off today, and Old Navy is 35% off, all with code CHEER.
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?
Sorry for the personal question, but here goes. Has anyone else had to deal with recurrent yeast infections since having a baby? I never had one in my life prior to having a baby, but since then (7 mo) I’ve had at least 5. It’s getting really tiresome. Anyone have tips on how to avoid them? I already eat a lot of yogurt.
Love this coat!
Efficiency question: how do your households manage laundry? We’re a family of four but will be adding a fifth member next year (I’m currently pregnant). Our strategy now is weekend laundry with the occasional load of sheets/towels or other items that don’t need immediate folding during the week. Our kids are both under age 5.
Part of me thinks it might be more efficient to do a load a day (or a load every other day) but then I fear our clean clothes will linger forever in laundry baskets — at least when we’re in Intense Weekend Laundry Mode, we can focus on getting everything put back where it belongs. What am I missing here?
LOVE these coats. So glad I got my maternity winter coat from eBay and it arrived Friday or Saturday. I gave it a machine wash and it’ll be ready in time for freezing temps on Tuesday. And then my work sends me to Minneapolis the 1st week of December, so I’ll be ready.
My in-laws (MIL and two SILs) live close to each other but far from us. They talk to my husband largely on his cell during his long commute (their habit, predating us getting together). I send them various children’s drawings and cards that they make and school pictures. Is there a standard set of stuff that I should do? I want to help the ILs be less unknown to our children, but from a distance, it’s hard to know what is standard.
My examples from my parents that this job falls to the women and if people aren’t particularly good at long-distance things, all you can do is send the basics. My sister is BFFs with her inlaws (and that is all long-distance).
OK, another question (since you guys are already making me feel a lot better about my laundry situation!). My SIL is pregnant with her fifth child, due in June of next year. She is notoriously hard to buy gifts for — doesn’t have a lot of time/inclination for hobbies and she and her spouse have a lot more money than we do, so they often just buy things for themselves that they want/like. Any ideas for Christmas presents?
So far I got her some Lush bath bombs, but DH’s family goes pretty crazy at the holidays so we still need to think of either one bigger gift or a few smaller ones. I was thinking maternity pajamas (since that feels a little splurge-y) but haven’t found anything I love so far. I’d like to keep additional purchases under $75.
Like I said above, we dealt with the dual stomach virus all weekend with my kids (this totally outs me to anyone I know that reads this blog…but oh well). This was the first time we’ve had both boys sick at the same time. Thankfully, it was only a 12-hour type virus. Now, my husband and I both feel fine, but I keep waiting and wondering if either of us are going to get sick. This waiting game is pretty terrible.
Oh, and as to the topic actually at hand – a friend gave me a coat with an expandable maternity/babywearing panel as a hand-me-down that someone bought her from Europe. I only had the opportunity to wear it a few times, but it was nice (and almost too warm for me with baby body heat up against me). It was well constructed, and also had the ability to add the extra panel to the back to carry a baby on your back.
The brand was MaM Design, and I think it was this one – if you live in an area where you carry a baby in an Ergo often it might be worth looking into to see if your size is available on ebay, etc, since they aren’t officially sold in the US. http://www.mamdesign.net/carrying/clothes/mamcoat.html
Hi Boston ladies (assuming there must be some of you!). Does anyone know if another parenting center/set of classes/retail shop has taken over since ISIS closed? Three of my friends went to the classes there and loved them. I’m now expecting (finally! it’s been a very long time coming!) and I’m so bummed they closed up. Has anything stepped in to replace them yet?
Probably posting too late to get much of a response… but I’m about halfway through my maternity leave, and (stupidly) checked my work email to discover an angry email from a partner to me and several coworkers who completely dropped the ball on a project. We all worked on the project, but it was not assigned to any of us in particular. The manager on the project did not follow up with anyone about it until two days before it was due, by which point it was too late. This project will now not get to the client by the appropriate deadline. I’m pretty sure this is almost entirely my fault, as I was the last person who had the file, as far as I know. I hadn’t worked on it in months because we were waiting on more information, which is how it slipped through the cracks before I went on maternity leave.
I’m not supposed to go back to work for another month. What should I do? Email the partner now? Wait ’til I get back to work and ask coworkers about it to figure out what happened and to make sure it really was my fault? Just drop it and see what happens? If it matters, the partner works in another department and has no clue who I am. Ugh, I hate that this happened, and I am so stressed out by it.