Maternity Monday: Jackie Knit Maternity Mock Neck Dress
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Now that it’s fall, bring on the stretchy knit dresses!
This soft, midi dress from Kindred Bravely is a fabulous choice for moms-to-be. This stretchy ribbed knit dress features a slim fit to show off your growing bump, back slit for easy movement, and mock neck that’s perfect for cooler weather.
This black dress is a versatile choice for the office, weekends, or even an evening out. You can pair it with low-heeled or flat boots, sneakers, or even your favorite pumps.
This dress is $69.99 at Kindred Bravely and comes in sizes S–XXL.
Two options that extend to size 3X are this dress from 24/7 Comfort Apparel ($45.99) and this one from Motherhood Maternity ($58).
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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Talk to me about celebrating Christmas elsewhere. This is the first year it has mattered and kiddo has lots of questions about how it will work. We will be gone the 15th through the 30th, at my parents in Portugal. Fingers and toes crossed. Travelling light on Ryanair and present this year is too big to take along so does Santa come beforehand? On the 31st?
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parenting while sick is the worst. fortunately it is just a really bad cold, but i do not have time for this!
Took two pregnancy tests this weekend and both were (very faintly) positive. Not officially late until tomorrow so could turn out to be a chemical pregnancy but its SO HARD to concentrate on work. I’m a textbook overshar-er and want to tell everyone, so this anonymous board will have to do!
I remember there was a suggestion for kids’ boots that would work for both rain and snow but I can’t find it – can someone remind me? Thanks!
Audible has a Thomas and Friends podcast and my kid has been obsessed with it. He’s having his afternoon quiet time, and he’s been lying on his bed for an hour, just listening.
Thanks to everyone who responded about my second office! Yes, I got a promotion back in May. Great point made about not wanting to put anything too special in there in case I never get back to clean it out; I think I’m going to go w/ generic prints on the walls and some photos of kids – good idea to just ship stuff there! I also found a HomeGoods close to my office so I can maybe just grab some stuff there.
Hooray! This week is DH’s last week of work – he will take the rest of his family leave starting 11/1 through year-end!
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TW – miscarriage.
Me, again, from about two weeks ago. This pregnancy is failing but not failed yet. It was IVF and we’re tracking my abysmal HCG, and my first ultrasound is Thursday. The results are all but inevitable. Question: did you tell your employer – either immediate boss or someone else – when you miscarried because you needed space/time away? I’m in a very fast paced job, transactional finance. Lots of men, relatively few boundaries. This particular cycle has been brutal – I’ve known our outcome now for almost three weeks despite my still being technically pregnant (the meds I’m on are delaying the inevitable but doc won’t pull me off of them until the ultrasound confirms there’s nothing there). It’s hard to truly get time off/away and get people to cover for you without really good reason (honeymoon, birth, death, basically). Don’t get me wrong — love this work, I get paid a lot and this is a trade off — but under these circumstances, I’m flailing. I’m not an over-sharer at the office but I waiver on what to do here once we do get the final-final results. Any wisdom on how to handle the next week or two in light of expected outcomes? Thanks, all.
Low stakes question. Are folks with unvaccinated children going to movie theaters? There are starting to be some movies that aren’t available streaming that I would like to see. I’m in an area with a mask mandate and good mask compliance and community transmission is trending down. Obviously people take their masks off to eat and drink in a movie theater, but I’m happy to go and leave mine on the whole time. While I’m generally pretty Covid cautious I’m realizing that with a baby on the way I’m likely to have an unvaxed child in the house until fall 2022 (assuming a vaccine is approved for babies 6 months plus sometime between now and fall 2022). I’m wondering how long I should continue my life in this state of “partly suspended life” but also I feel like after so long of doing this I’m really terrible at evaluating risk and just default to not doing things because its mentally so much easier.
TMI potty training question.
I know withholding is a thing for poop, but did anyone experience it for pee? My 3.75 year old daughter is not potty trained but we’re working on it and it feels like we’re making progress, but she’s started going the whole school day (~9 hours) without peeing (she’s in underwear, except she wears a pull up at nap – she used to use her pull-up at nap but has stopped that recently). She must have a big bladder because she doesn’t seem especially uncomfortable at the end of the day, but I know this can’t be healthy. She’s well-hydrated – her pee is pale yellow. We’ve tried talking to her about how important it is to pee frequently and how it can make her sick to hold it for this long and she says she understands but then holds it all day again. She does not pee super frequently at home, but will normally pee at least once in the middle of the day, so she’s holding it for more like 4-5 hours, not 9, which seems far more reasonable. I asked our pediatrician who freaked out and said we have to go back to diapers and not try potty training again for a while (our ped’s attitude about potty training is…blase, to be mildly), but I feel like we’re making progress and she’s so old that I hate to go back to square zero. If she were 2, we’d obviously just forget about potty training for a few months, but then seems crazy with a kid who is so close to 4.