Maternity Monday: Isabella Ultra-Soft Nursing & Pregnancy Hoodie
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If you’re expecting, here’s a comfy hoodie to wear both now and after your baby arrives.
This oversized hoodie is designed to accommodate your growing bump. It also provides nursing and pumping access via discreet side zippers incorporated into its sporty chevron design. You’ll immediately reach for this soft, cotton/poly fleece during your off hours.
Sweat & Milk’s Isabella Ultra Soft Nursing & Pregnancy Hoodie is $88-$110 and comes in Small/Medium and Medium/Large. It’s available in six colors.
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Sales of note for 7/11
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Designer clearance, up to 60% off!
- Ann Taylor – Semi-annual sale, 60% off sale and 40% off everything — readers love this blouse and I always love the variety of colors/textures for this jacket (it’s a great separate)
- Banana Republic Factory – Extra 50% off sale
- Brooks Brothers – Up to 40% off sitewide + 40% off 3+ items
- Express – Up to 75% off all markdowns; sale on sale, up to 70% off
- J.Crew Factory – 60% off clearance
- Lo & Sons – Summer sale, up to 50% off
- M.M.LaFleur – 25% off jardigans (Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off on other items)
- Talbots – 50% off wear-now styles and all markdowns + 30% off tops, pants, jeans, and shorts
Just a rant: I am so sick of shopping for sectionals. IKEA doesn’t have what I want. I may just order from Lovesac even though they’re way overpriced for whet they are (we own one of their love seats).
It’s day 6 of my baby being home with HFM and now I have it too. How to not die?
Can I get some advice on managing the toddler stage when he wants to take his time doing something, but we have places to go? An example is getting into his carseat in the tiny, very busy daycare parking lot off a busy road. He wants to climb in, look around, point out the stuff in the car, and then maybeeeee sit down in the seat on his own (that’s 50% of the time at best). I want him to get right in the seat so we can gtfo. However, if I rush him into it, it turns into a full flailing tantrum, complete with scratching and punching me, and obviously that can be more trouble than waiting 3-4 minutes would have been.
I am also getting really, really, REALLY sick of having to say 75,000 times “it’s time for dinner! Let’s get into our highchair” when he just wants to play and do his own thing. Sure, that’s great, I do allow a lot of time for transitions and we always do warnings and/or countdowns and all of that, but at the end of the day, we also need to eat dinner, you know? We run into the same issue – trying to rush him just turns into a massive tantrum that I don’t always have the bandwidth to handle. I’m basically torn between the two – let him go 100% at his own pace, gentle parent the day away as the food goes ice cold, or rush him and come out of it with my nerves absolutely shot.
Age 2 in a few weeks, FWIW.
i had such a depressing conversation with a mom this weekend. she is an infection disease physician who focuses on clinical trials. because the federal government has decimated her funding, she decided to be the president of the PTO at her kid’s school and she said she still feels like she is going brain dead.
I don’t know if it was here or on the main site, but I wanted to come back to the conversation about youth/club sports and also the stat that girls drop sports 2x as much as boys as young teens. It is really hard to find real options around us for the non-elite athlete. My daughter played softball for years and always made the top in-town teams. When she got to 5th grade, a lot of girls stopped playing town ball for club. Club is a full year commitment and means spending all summer at tournaments- she didn’t want that. Eventually, the town team was filled with kids that were new to the sport, bad players, and my daughter (who was by FAR the best on the team). She quit playing town that year and instead tried out for the middle school team as a 6th grader. FORTY GIRLS tried out. She didn’t make it and told me that the 16 girls that made it all play club softball. She never went back to softball.
She also plays field hockey for the town. Middle school field hockey is only open to 7th and 8th graders. She did clinics all of last spring, went to two separate field hockey camps this summer. She asked to play club field hockey this fall in case she didn’t make the team. She went to tryouts. There were THIRTY EIGHT girls (just 7th and 8th) trying out for 21 spots (which is already a huge team). She did end up making the team but she and I both know the ONLY reason she made it is that she’s been playing club field hockey since the beginning of August and has gotten much better. Of the 21 girls that made the team, 14 play club field hockey. 4 were national level elite players as 7th graders this past spring/summer. 4 of the girls that made it play elite level ice hockey and have older siblings that also were on the field hockey team. So of all those girls, only 3 were non-club athletes. The exact same thing happened in the spring with volleyball tryouts (not a sport for my kiddo but her friends).
So, good news in that she made the team and hasn’t dropped the sport. But it took, in my opinion, a truly crazy amount of effort (and money- thousands of dollars!) for a middle school team! There were some girls that came to tryouts that were new to the sport but generally athletic and they didn’t make the team at all- which is a huge shame because I feel like BACK IN MY DAY middle school was when you learned to play sports like field hockey and volleyball!
We have a college babysitter who does pickup three days a week + some light household chores. She is a nice girl and doesn’t have local family. She was clearly going through a rough time, so I gave her some friendly advice and encouragement in connection with a bad breakup. I was just trying to be nice, but now she is acting like we are friends/peers. Texting me updates about her love live, etc. Honestly it wouldn’t bother me that much except she is also kind of slacking – arriving late, not doing the agreed upon tasks or doing them poorly/too fast, asking to leave early because she has a date or something (we pay her a fixed rate per week + overtime if needed, I don’t dock her pay if she leaves early because we are home early). I’ve tried “hey please make sure to arrive around 2pm as agreed” and “please make sure to do XYZ task today” and she will, once, and then go back to being on her phone a lot. She has also made a lot of comments about how she’s part of the family now, and while I think she cares for my kids and means well, it also seems to be saying she can’t ever be terminated because she’s “family”. She is a good babysitter and my kids like her, but we also pay for two hours of chores and she’s not doing great with those. It feels a little overly familiar and I’m struggling to reestablish a friendly but proper boss/employee dynamic. I am getting frustrated but realize this is partly my fault. Any advice on how to course correct?
My 5.75 yo always thinks we’re yelling at him when correcting him or telling him to do something he doesn’t want to do after asking multiple times. We’re usually NOT yelling, and when we are, we acknowledge and fix. Even when we’re not yelling, he then gets upset and cries, because his feelings are hurt. I don’t think he’s manipulating, I think to him, stern wording feels like yelling. Any suggestions/scripting to get out of this loop?