Maternity Monday: Isabel Color-Block Maternity Top
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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?
Easy afternoon question (late in the day I know).
There was a great list of book suggestions a few weeks ago (including some new to me!), that I swear I bookmarked, but alas did not. Looking for people’s favourites for 3+ year olds. We are looking for real stories for an upcoming third birthday.
My recommendations of books that we have read to death in the last 6 months (and I don’t want to throw out): Alfie series (Shirly Hughes), Oliver Jeffers (Stuck, in particular), Grumpy Monkey (Lang), Buffalo boys series. We still love Mighty Mighty Construction Site and Robert Munsch and the Hairy McClary (spelling?) series.
Also… Richard Scarry obsession over here. (“Busy Busy World” is horrible national / racial stereotypes… we unfortunately took it home from the library 2 days before lock down….)
Anyone have tips for packing a hospital bag for L&D? The lists on google seem like waaay too much stuff to bring but I’m having trouble sorting out what I’ll really want/need.
Anon at 12:44 that’s interesting! It was a total stab in the dark on my end but I really think that is part of what’s going on.
He’s been back since May 27. I do think it’s better, e.g. he’s not kicking up a huge fuss EVERY day, but I just feel at a loss of how to talk about it with him. Especially the behavioral stuff.
My son has really been having trouble adjusting back to preschool/daycare post quarantine. His teacher left (apparently that was in the works before, but they didn’t get to say goodbye because it happened in June), so he is in a new class. Obviously there are other changes as well – teachers wearing masks, kids encouraged to wear masks, smaller class sizes, less moving from room to room, etc. I can’t tell if part of it is that he just didn’t realize it was possible to be home with Mom and Dad all day before this (he’s always been in full time care)? We have never had prolonged issues before. He is upset in the morning because he doesn’t want to go. My husband said drop off this morning was dreadful. And he’s being less cooperative at school also – not listening to his teachers, not respecting his friends’ requests to stop touching them etc (although that was an issue before quarantine as well that we were working on). He just turned 4. Any advice??
I’ve asked a similar question here before but I hope you’ll take pity on me and help me again figure out what I’m doing wrong . . . if I am doing anything wrong. My 7 month old will not nap for more than 20-30 minutes at a time. We sleep trained him for nights, he’s down at 7pm-6am, sometimes cries before going to sleep but otherwise sleeps through. But the kid will not stay asleep for naps! We have blackout curtains, white noise, cool temp, full tummy. We put him down when he has sleepy cues, usually no more than 2.5-3 hours after waking. We do still rock/pat to sleep at nap time (but not at bedtime) because that’s the only way we can get him to sleep. We tried cry it out once for naps and it was horrible. We left him for an hour each time and he cried the whole hour with no sign of settling. We just don’t know what to do anymore. Try CIO again? Stop worrying and hope it gets better on it’s own? He’s generally a happy baby but does get very cranky and is obviously tired. I feel so defeated.
Has anyone been told they should induce at 39 weeks due to being over 35? Normally I’d probably do it, but I’m struggling with the decision as COVID makes everything harder. I really don’t want to be in the hospital an extra night (or longer) and I’d rather labor at home as long as possible, particularly since I will have to wear a mask the entire time at my hospital. But I don’t want to put my baby at risk either.
My doctor strongly recommends it for AMA births but has said it’s up to me and I’m just, ugh, torn.
Sorry nesting fail above. Anyone keeping their 3 year old home this year? If so, what are your plans for curriculum, goals, etc (other than survival).
Leatty my doctor mentioned this when I was pregnant too. In fact I felt like he kind of threatened me. “Your baby is measuring big and could be 10 pounds at birth, we may need to do a c-section.”
I did wind up with a C but my baby was 7 lbs. (c section was because my water broke and then I hung out for 36 hours in the hospital and finally I agreed to a c section). So I tend to totally write off those measurements. But I had 2 c-sections and my second was with a 20 month old at home. How old is your toddler? You aren’t really supposed to lift toddler that much so getting my son into his crib had to be done by my husband for the 8 weeks or so after baby arrived. But the reality was that I had to lift more than I was supposed to often. But it was ok. I survived.
Good luck!
You guys, we think only toddlers join conference calls but we thought wrong. My boss’s 11 year old daughter just jumped up behind her in full vampire make-up. She knew it was me and that I’d laugh, and persuaded her mom to describe the scratchy, howling noises in the house before she popped up. This is apparently how the tweens are managing lockdown.
How bad is a C-section recovery when you have a toddler at home? I’ve been advised that I may need to have one due to the size of my baby (who was an estimated 6 lbs at 32 weeks…oof). I know growth scans are notoriously inaccurate, but my OB has advised that if baby is still measuring very large at 37 weeks, their recommendation would be a C-section. I had a v-birth last time, and I was hoping for the same this time, but I don’t want life long pelvic floor issues. Thoughts?
Help me think through our school options for the fall. DH and I are really wavering between sending the kids back to school, and making another attempt at distance learning using the school’s curriculum. Literally the only pro to distance learning is their health and safety. Which is super important, of course, and why we’re even considering it, but I don’t know if I have the fortitude to give distance learning another try. Juggling that with our two full-time jobs was very hard on our marriage, and I still have a lot of resentment about how the spring played out. DH deals with work interruptions much better than I do (so much for women being better multitaskers), yet I am the one who dealt with … more interruptions, more housework from having everyone at home, more stress. I tried my best to convey how hard I found it and I couldn’t make him understand it, on any level. Prior to that, our household balance had been good and fair.
We have a fifth grader and a kindergartener. The 5th grader actually did OK with the academic part of distance learning, but I worry a lot about his social development because he has ADHD and already struggles in that area. With middle school coming up next year, this feels like an important year for him to continue building some skills that he simply cannot practice in the same way at home. Having our youngest at home all the time was a freaking disaster, and I really don’t believe that distance learning is useful for kids that young. For her, Zoom and Facetime feel like playtime … we pretty much stopped doing her preschool Zoom meetings because they were a huge interruption to my schedule — DH didn’t do them — and she didn’t get much out of them.
So clearly I don’t WANT to do distance learning, but I feel so so so guilty about potentially sending the kids back in person. One person on the main ‘rette board compared it to “sending my kids to the slaughterhouse.” Ouch. Going to in-person school will mean more social distancing from the grandparents, which was hard on us all. And what if they get sick? The stress and guilt are consuming me. Our family has been so cautious all summer. Not everyone in our neighborhood has, which gives me pause. I also know that our principal is very cautious and runs a tight ship even in non-pandemic times.
at what age is it appropriate to expect a child to say please before asking for something? and at what age is it appropriate for a child to say it with prompting? do you withhold the item if the child doesn’t say ‘please’?
Another month, another failed pregnancy test (#6 in this go round, plus 9 before my miscarriage). And I was so, so sure this time – that hit like a truck feeling, constipation for days, queasiness. Either a chemical pregnancy or serious mind games from parenting a toddler (who, by the way, took 1 month to conceive) in a pandemic. Or maybe visiting my sister bumped my cycle enough that I tested too early, but that seems very, very unlikely. More likely I’ll just get my period a bit late today or tomorrow. This blows.
Children really can just sense when you need to work can’t they? I’m off today and the kids are happily playing in the basement. They’ve been delightful all morning. I bet you $100 if I touched my computer they would come racing upstairs, fangs out like productivity vampires who smell blood
Content warning: pregnancy loss.
My sister lost her pregnancy at 20 weeks and has expressed an interest in finding a special way to memorialize the baby/the loss. Does anyone have any suggestions? We are all so heartbroken. This would have been their first child.