Maternity Monday: Long Sleeve Cowl Neck Tee

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A woman wearing a Long Sleeve Cowl Neck TeeOooh: Amazon has a number of nice colors for this maternity cowl neck, some sizes and colors marked as low as $33 (down from $48). I like that it’s flattering without being too low-cut and looks like a great piece to wear by itself or beneath heavier cardigans or blazers. The pictured color, oxblood, is $33-$44. Ingrid & Isabel Maternity Long Sleeve Cowl Neck Tee (L-2) Building a maternity wardrobe for work? Check out our page with more suggestions along both classic and trendy/seasonal lines.

Sales of note for 9.10.24

(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)

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

And — here are some of our latest threadjacks of interestworking mom questions asked by the commenters!

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I’m worried that my husband is just not that into our kid, but I’m wondering if it’s just the age. Our son is 21 months and I feel like my husband finds every excuse not to take care of him solo. During the weekends when we’re both home, he’ll just ghost on me. All three of us will be in the living room and suddenly my husband disappears to the bedroom where he futzes on the internet. If he’s going to be alone with him on the weekend, he’ll just go to my MIL’s where he’ll crash on the couch and nap while his mom watches our son. I was out of town last weekend, my MIL wasn’t available, so I figured my husband would have lots of one-on-one time with kiddo, but no I found out he had our neighbor (a teenager who often babysits for us) watch him all day both days (running up a big babysitting bill). It’s true my husband had some work he needed to get done so I had expected him to hire the sitter for a few hours but he wound up hiring her for 20 hours (!) between the two days. Part of which he spent napping. He’ll say things like he feels like he doesn’t seem him enough, but he doesn’t use the time he has — he even goes out of his way to pay someone else to spend that time with our son. He says that when he’s old enough to talk and do things it will be different. I admit our son can be very boring right now. There’s a lot of just sort of staring at him, making sure he doesn’t kill himself. But it’s also an age that requires a lot of investment. The best moments are often the ones where it’s 4:30 and I have no idea how I’ll fill the time until bedtime and we wind up having an amazing baby dance party together. On the one hand, it’s my husband’s loss if he doesn’t want to spend this time with our son. On the other, I’m having a really hard time not judging him for it. And I feel hurt. I feel like he’s saying he doesn’t really like our son that much (although I know he loves him and spends a lot of time showing off photos of him, worrying about him, etc.). And I also feel like it’s unfair of him to just completely shirk on parenting. I honestly think he believes in his heart (although he’d never say it out loud) that it’s easier for women to spend time with toddlers than men. That expecting me, or his mom, or the sitter to be fine with the kid all day isn’t expecting that much, but that it’s way more than he can handle. I’m just not sure how to think about this. He gets deeply, deeply offended if I say anything that he takes as me questioning whether he’s a good dad. And I know I’d be upset if someone questioned my commitment to my son because, for example, I hire someone to take care of him during the day while I work. Also, it’s not like I don’t sometimes take him to my MIL’s, too, when I need to get things done. So it’s not fair for me to say well spending X hours per week with our son is okay, but spending X-Y is not okay. But at the same time, I feel upset by it and I can’t figure out if I’m out of line. Also, I can’t tell if it really is the age. Again, this age can be really challenging. My mom says that I was SO BORING at this age, but that when I was 3 and 4, it was amazing. So maybe it’s just another year and this will all resolve itself?

Any tips on using the ergo baby carrier? I read the instructions, watched all the you-tube videos, and my baby still freaks out anytime I try to put her in. Right now, shes not quiet 7 weeks so still needs infant insert. I’m going a little stir crazy inside and a stroller in the snow just isn’t an option.

Following on the question about weekend schedule, how do people manage to fit in batch cooking on the weekends? In my ideal life, I’d cook 2-3 meals on the weekends that could last us through Friday. In reality, I only have the time/energy to cook one meal (like bolognese or chili) that lasts Sunday through Tuesday, then we cave and order takeout 2-3 nights. I eat too much bread, pasta, and rice, spend too much on takeout, and end up feeling like a complete failure. Help! I just don’t have the energy to cook on weeknights, and my toddler is clamoring for food by the time I get home at night. I need a better system for reliably getting healthy meals on the table on weeknights. For me, that means protein plus vegetable, at the very least.

We have a Samsung Smartcam. It has a live feed that you can access through an iOS app and it will store the video relating to movement that the camera detects. No monthly fees. Not sure if it has two way communication, though (sadly, my spouse is the technical one and I have only paid as much attention as needed to know how to work the basic functions).

Just want to say that I love snow, and I love my kids and husband, but I really hope daycare is open again tomorrow and my street is plowed sometime before then…

Any tips for traveling with a baby by airplane? We will be flying cross-country in a couple of weeks, and this will be my then 5-month-old’s first trip. I’m a little nervous about everything. Thanks for any advice/suggestions!

Do any of you have trouble being friends with moms who don’t work full time or who have “jamberry/knitting hats/private fitness coach kinds of jobs”?

A friend of mine explained to me that I have time and ability to have a second kid because she does and we’re both working moms. She however worked 4 days a month with kid one and hasn’t gone back to work for at least 7 months since kid 2. She also has daycare twice a week and a maid service twice as often as I do.

I don’t want to diminish my friends who work a bit or who can’t find full time work or who choose to work in their passion projects but it’s by no means the same thing and their comparisons as though “we’re all working moms in it together” annoy me. I don’t care if they want to pretend to be lawyers and pediatric nurses and whatever on instagram or their blogs but if you haven’t gone to work in 6 months you aren’t a working mom and shouldn’t dispense working mom advice on me. Is that right or am I just being a jerk?

Mamas, help me figure out my weekend schedule! We have 3 kids age 6 and under and I’m having a hard time getting to Sunday night in what I call “Next week ready” shape. I try very hard not to overschedule our weekend time, but it seems like we get to Sunday and the house is a wreck, I haven’t paid bills/gone through mail, there’s still laundry all over the place and I just generally don’t feel ready for the coming week. Ideally, here’s where I’d like to be come Sunday night:

+ Whatever clean laundry we have is put away, and most of it is done (I have no time during the week for laundry). I’d even settle for having a basket of clean clothes in each kid’s room, not put away.
+ Main areas of the house (mudroom, living room, kitchen, master BR) are tidy (clean would be a bonus, but I’ll settle for tidy!). Bathrooms qualify as “not disgusting.”
+ I’ve had time to go to the grocery store
+ Kid lunches and backpacks are teed up and ready to go in the morning

This weekend is a great example of how time gets away from us: our daughter had a one-hour gymnastics class on Saturday morning, we had a family gathering on Saturday night (5-10PM) and another family gathering on Sunday night (4-8:30PM). With two family parties on the calendar (atypical for us), I actually felt overscheduled. But I also feel as though I spend my entire weekend getting snacks/putting people down for naps/kissing boo-boos/etc.

What are your tips for getting the most out of your weekends? We already outsource about half of our housecleaning, and the other half isn’t in the budget at present. Husband is super-participatory. I’m thinking maybe a sitter for 2-4 hours every Saturday, just so we can get some stuff done? What else am I missing here?

I want to give myself a shout-out here. After having two pregnancies back-to-back and gaining almost 60lbs, and a trying year, I have resolved to get myself back to a healthy, happy shape and this morning I have lost 12 lbs in the last month. I’m overweight enough that it’s not really noticeable yet, but I can tell a difference in my clothes and it has really provided the impetus I need to keep going.
Now – I’d like to do something special for myself when I hit the next few milestones. Does anyone have a good idea of a unique reward that involves spending literally $20 or less? We’re currently juggling two households for the next six months and we have zero zip discretionary income right now.
Thanks so much!

I’m expecting my first in June and having a hard time finding a baby monitor that meets my specifications. Please let me know if you have any recommendations, even if they aren’t perfect!

I’m in a NYC apartment so I mostly want something where I can access a live feed remotely including while traveling using my iPhone, without paying a monthly subscription fee. I want it to be silent (the best I’d found supposedly makes periodic loud clicks that reviews said disturb babes). Ability to save video to review later (again, without crazy fees) and to have two way communication also ideal but not necessary.

Thanks in advance for any recommendations!