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I was intrigued to see this bag from The Honest Company — not only is it a vegan “leather” bag that looks nice, but it also has stroller straps, which I’ve only seen with nylon bags before. I like that it comes in black as well as a laid-back brown color, and I like the 12-25″ strap it comes with. It’s $179 at Nordstrom. The Honest Company ‘Carryall’ Diaper Bag Satchel
Update: The black is now sold out at Nordstrom but still in stock at The Honest Company’s own site.
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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?
FWIW says
I’m scared and stressed. I’m 6 weeks and have had some slight spotting- not bleeding- on and off. My doctor says it’s too early for an U/S, so they sent me to get blood work with a repeat on Monday.
I know that statistically, there’s a good chance everything will be fine, but I could just use some good vibes.
I also am trying to hide from my office because I am so far from my normal, happy, productive self.
Pigpen's Mama says
I had spotting on and off for the first ~4-5 months of my pregnancy. I freaked out EVERY time. Once I was far enough along, the U/S showed I had a partial placenta previa (placenta over the cervix), which meant spotting was ‘normal’.
Take it easy, keep your feet up, and try not to Google.
Good thoughts headed your way!
FWIW says
THANK YOU!
Also, I’ve been trying step away from Google, but not doing very well. Normally, I’m someone who’s soothed by statistics, but I’ve just been focusing on the negative. It hasn’t been great.
I wish I had an office with a door so I could close it and hide.
Meg Murry says
Can you go “work from home” for the rest of the day? Or come down with a mysterious “not feeling well, need to take a half day”? Or will being at work be a better distraction to you than sitting at home with nothing to keep you from Google?
Good thoughts to you
FWIW says
Unfortunately, not an option with my job. (Jerks)
Thanks for the good thoughts!
NavyLawyer says
Hear, hear to stepping off the Google terror train!! Put on some favorite music?
CHJ says
This is my personal experience, with the big caveat that you can’t really learn much from how someone else’s body reacts to pregnancy! I had a very early miscarriage (6 weeks), and in that case, I had some spotting in the morning that became very heavy bleeding by the end of the day. There was no question what was happening. With my second pregnancy (currently a toddler running around at daycare), I had some light spotting a couple of times in the early weeks, some with cramps which I now think were implantation cramps, and everything was fine.
So, keep thinking good thoughts if you can! At least the weekend is near so you can relax with your feet up until you feel better.
FWIW says
Thank you for sharing your experience. I’m sorry you had to go through that with your first, and I appreciate you being open with this (freaking out on the inside) internet stranger.
JJ says
With my pregnancy with my first son, I spotted on and off the entire time. I have partial placenta previa and a subchorionic hemorrhage. Yeast infections or BV can also cause spotting. It’s always stressful, but it’s not always dire.
KJ says
Good vibes to you! I also had spotting early on. It happened in the middle of the night when I was staying at my in-laws because they were hosting a party to celebrate our marriage. I spent half the night hysterically crying and then had a hell of a time trying to keep it together at the party the next day. Everything was fine! I hope everything will be fine for you too.
Newly pregnant says
I had some light spotting in the first few weeks as well. I was freaked out as well, but I’m currently 38 weeks! Sending good thoughts your way.
Manhattanite says
I had spotting around the same time with pregnancy no1 and a subchorionic hematoma with lots of bleeding (like full on period bleeding, could see blood dripping) with no2 between 6 to about 9-10 wks. I also stopped feeling pregnant after the bleeding started with no2, but apparently that was my imagination. My take on it now is that bleeding is normal. Could mean anything. And I would still be freaked out by it even if I knew that.
TBK says
I had spotting and called the doctor FREAKED OUT every time. Every time he said it was nothing to worry about, but brought me in to check it all out. I now have totally healthy twin toddlers.
FWIW says
Thank you all so much for sharing this!
My anecdotal takeaway is this- most women I know who have been pregnant have dealt with something like this at some point. Sometimes it’s an issue, but it’s just as likely to be absolutely nothing and just a way for your body to prepare you for being an emotional wreck for the next 19+ years.
I got a call from my Dr’s with by bloodwork results which were very good. Let’s hope they’re good on Monday as well!
anon says
If this freaks you out, have fun being a complete wreck for the next 19+ years. This is nothing. Calm down.
KJ says
As I described above, I freaked out at early spotting, and I am not a complete wreck, so I don’t think this is accurate, helpful, or kind.
Left coaster says
Ditto KJ. I also panicked at early spotting, and everyone I know who experienced it had a similar reaction. Let’s try to have a little compassion.
TwinMOM says
I too had bleeding early on in my pregnancy (subchorionic hemorrhage) that landed me in the ER in the middle of the night but ended with two very healthy babies. The freaking out part is totally normal – for me it was just the start of a mama bear fierceness that I never knew I had, and one that I don’t think will ever go away! Sending good vibes your way!
Ruby says
while there is no predicting any one case I had it too- I think mine was called subchorriatric hemorrhage or such- and she is almost 3 and healthy. i will never forget how scary and painful that was though, they said it was a 50/50 chance for her. fingers crossed for you. it was a terrible experience and i feel for anyone going through it.
MomAnon4This says
On Monday I found out that my first project I’m super-managing is coming in UNDER budget. Yay!
That night I had terrible insomnia, finally fell asleep, and I think I slept through my ~38 week ob/gyne appointment. No idea, really. The office didn’t call me.
Yesterday I found out something is NOT our fault, it was the client’s fault. But solvable, so that’s good.
Today I found out that I caught a mistake in our database (the macro in Excel).
So YAY! Good week at work for me, good week for the baby to stay inside cooking. Today they’re throwing a small shower for me at work, after I went to a Mom’s Breakfast with the kindergartner.
Go working Moms! We can do it!
NewMomAnon says
Good for you!
Last nght I slept for 9 hours! Two of them were on the floor of my kiddo’s bedroom, but 9 HOURS!!!! I feel almost human again today.
MomAnon4This says
+1 Exactly. A younger woman friend on Facebook posted a meme about how you remember the nights you went out & had fun, not the nights you stayed in and slept, and every response was from Mom friends being like, NO, I REMEMBER THAT NIGHT I GOT THE 6 HOURS I NEEDED AND HOW AWESOME IT WAS.
Manhattanite says
For the thread yesterday about Mother’s Day while pregnant, there was a great article in Slate about miscarriages and Mother’s Day. I think it would also be relevant to those who’ve had a long journey to pregnancy.
Personally, since I’ve not had that particular struggle, what resonated the most for me was mention of the discomfort with Mother’s Day as a celebration of a somewhat retro ideal of motherhood. My DH is a true co-parent and often the primary caregiver. I don’t feel completely comfortable taking any spotlight away from him as a parent.
Link to follow.
Manhattanite says
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2015/05/mother_s_day_after_miscarriage_celebrating_and_grieving_a_lost_pregnancy.html
blueridge29 says
This is a great article. As a mom, should I reach out to a friend on mother’s day who recently had a miscarriage?
I had a miscarriage before my first and don’t know if I would have appreciated the gesture or if it would have made me sadder. Any advice would be appreciated.
meme says
I think this really depends on the person. I have had miscarriages, and I am not the type that wants to discuss it with anyone (or if I do I will bring it up), and I would not have wanted people bringing it up. But I’m a really private introvert, and some people are much more likely to want to talk through their feelings. I probably would have appreciated the gesture if someone had sent me a link to a helpful article though.
TBK says
But he has Fathers’ Day, right? So it’s not really retro at all. And if you were a couple where you were both moms or both dads, you could opt to celebrate one of you in May and the other in June. Plus, while it’s great that your husband is totally 50/50 with you now, you did have to go through being pregnant and giving birth. And, for most couples, I think the mom typically still does more than 50% of the parenting. For example, my kids still wake up every. single. night. My husband sleeps like the dead, so they almost never wake him. I’m the one who does middle of the night stuff. I also am the “default parent” per that article (HuffPo? or where was it?). I plan their lunches and dinners, keep track of who’s teething when, switch out the clothes when they’ve outgrown a size or it’s a new season, make a note to buy diapers, call the doctor to make the next well-baby appointment, worry over whether it’s time to drop morning nap and how to do it, research baby swim lessons, etc. That might be totally retro of me, but I suspect I’m not the only (by far) mom in an enlightened 21 st century family who does these things. (And no way I’m giving up my Mother’s Day present — I’m sleeping in the guest room Saturday night, where i can’t hear the babies, so my husband will be the one on nighttime and early morning baby duty. I cannot wait.)
MSJ says
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/opinion/sunday/judith-shulevitz-mom-the-designated-worrier.html?ref=opinion
Meg Murry says
That’s a good article I hadn’t seen, but I think the default parent one is this one:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/m-blazoned/the-default-parent_b_6031128.html
My husband was the 80% default parent for a few years, and then I went to working part time and became the default parent. Now I’m back to working full time, and it’s amazing how hard it is to break the “mom=default parent” with the schools, doctor’s offices, dentist, etc. And with the kids too – they have been known to walk right past my husband sitting in a chair reading the news on his iPad, and past the laundry basket of clean clothes, up the stairs and into the bathroom wherer I had the door closed to ask me to help them find a pair of socks. Seriously kids?!?
In theory I’m the default parent for research (things like summer camps, etc) and my husband is the default parent for day-to-day school drop offs and mid-day phone calls, but in reality we are still shaking out our roles.
In fairness though, even when I pick up the majority of the household/kid stuff, my husband is and always will be the default outdoor-chores person. I don’t do lawn mowing, gardening, gutter cleaning out, etc – but that was our deal we made when we bought our house with a good size chunk of land. I will occasionally help with snow shoveling or taking trash cans to/from the street, but the rest is all on him.
MSJ says
Likewise, I spend far more time researching various kid related things, but my husband is a super star with all the house maintenance.
JJ says
Ditto to all of this. My husband is a true partner and a wonderful father, but I am the one that buys the presents for the teachers at daycare for teacher appreciation week, schedules the doctors’ appointments (the one time my husband had to schedule an appointment, it became a two week SAGA), plans swim lessons, and buys all the food the kids need for meals each week. I truly appreciate my husband, and I’ll give him a great gift for Father’s Day, but there’s no way I’ll give up a good night’s sleep and a guilt-free pedicure on Sunday.
PregLawyer says
I guess I don’t really understand this. How is Mother’s Day at all retro?
hoola hoopa says
I think the discussion about mother’s day and miscarriage is interesting, although I don’t have anything personal to add.
But I too am confused about the guilt over enjoying my mother’s day because my husband co-parents. I have Mother’s Day. My husband has Father’s Day. Zero guilt. I could see the disconnect if, like our household, the father does the cooking but the classic mother’s day is for the mother to get ‘the day off’ in the kitchen… but then just don’t do that as part of your celebration. It’s seems doubly confusing to reject the holidays because, as co-parents, we very genuinely appreciate the work of the other. I ENJOY giving him Father’s day to show my appreciation. He feels the same.
Baby Bargains says
I’m newly pregnant and have heard good things about the book…two questions:
1. Is it mostly helpful for product reviews or also how to find bargains/save $$? I’m much more interested in the latter (have already perused Lucie’s List extensively and found it helpful…)
2. If this book is worth it, I’m debating whether to buy the book and/or book + website subscription. Thoughts? We live in a tiny city apartment and want to minimize what we buy anyway, but are on a tight budget and thought this may be helpful.
Thank you!
anon says
Someone gave us a used copy, and I do find it helpful when you are, say, about to buy a humidifier and don’t want to spend hours researching – just turn to the humidifier section and pick the one they list in your price range. Lucie’s List, I find, has great reviews but seems to be aimed at people with a higher budget than we have. The used copy is also fun because you can see what the previous person highlighted (!) and realize that wow, they have different priorities than I do.
PregLawyer says
It’s mainly helpful for product reviews. I don’t even think it discusses how to find bargains. It goes through each category of products (cribs, mattresses, carseats, bottles, strollers, etc.) and reviews each brand. Then it gives recommendations for top brands in each price range. So it helps you find bargains to the extent it recommends good, low-priced brands, and identifies products that don’t increase in quality as they get more expensive.
I found it very helpful, but I ended up getting most of my stuff either new (based on recommendations from the book), or given to me by friends. I didn’t do any hunts or purchases at second-hand stores.
MomAnon4This says
It does discuss what stores, brands, are best for value – bargains.
I like the lists – Good, Better, Best, and what’s good for Grandma’s house – a house you’re at a lot but not at ALL THE TIME.
It tells you when to be consignment/resale, and when not to.
I love this book and the brand, and it helped me A LOT.
PregLawyer says
Nice clarification. I agree that the book is awesome. I used it for getting all my stuff.
PregAnon says
I have a horrid case of Friday-itis! It rained quite a bit last night, and now it is cool and a little bit cloudy. PERFECT weather for opening my windows, curling up under my big fluffy comforter, and disappearing into a book. Or into my bathtub right under the window. MIL is coming tonight, so the house is finally 95% clean and organized (we moved in the fall, but then I got pregnant and unpacking / organizing became impossible, so with a lot of help from DH and one of his employees that wanted some extra hours, we got everything moved around and it looks pretty good!).
Unfortunately it isn’t really a day I can knock off early (darn you Rotary, being a Friday at Noon club really sometimes messes up Fridays!). I don’t have a TON of things to do today…review a couple of contracts for new projects, organize my electronic files, maybe clean up my office. Maybe I’ll try to get out of here right at 5 or a little before, depending on how things go.
Anyone else have Friday-itis?