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Native Shoes Jefferson Slip-On Sneakers in navy and white

Do your kids need comfy, breathable shoes for summer? These slip-on sneakers from Native Shoes are a play- and pool-friendly choice!

These shoes integrate ventilating perforations into their design. They also have a flexible, shock-absorbing sole, and come in more than a dozen colors.

When your kids have worn out or outgrown their shoes, you can recycle them — Zappos for Good will collect your well-loved Native Shoes and turn them into community playground materials. 

The Jefferson Slip-On Sneakers are $50 and come in kids’ sizes 11 to 6.

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Ann is a working mom, a longtime reader of Corporette and CorporetteMoms, and has been writing our morning fashion advice for working moms since November 2020! She has a daughter (born winter 2014) and a son (born fall 2019) and is a public interest lawyer in Washington, D.C.

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  1. Anon says

    My pediatricians told me to to feed my newborn every 2 hours, including through the night. I thought it was the standard recommendation, because all my mom friends had to do the same– but in retrospect that might just be because they all go to the same ped.

    How often were you told to feed your newborn at night? I’m expecting #2 and the early feeding schedule is what Im dreading most.

    • Anon says

      Pregnant with my first and that’s the advice I’m seeing too (and what my friend confirmed – 4 month old). I’ve become such a cynic that I wonder if this is just another way to promote breastfeeding when really babies can probably go a little bit longer. A lot of my friends’s babies have in fact gone longer – more like 3 hours or 3.5.

    • Vicky Austin says

      I was breastfeeding, so YMMV if you’re not, but I was also told every two hours.

    • An.On. says

      It’s not super fresh in my memory but I’m pretty sure it was “whenever they’re hungry” which was probably that often anyway. I assume if they fell off the growth charts we would have had to keep to a stricter regimen.

    • Anon says

      With both of my kids, my pediatricians and lactation consultants said it was every two hours until a newborn baby is back to birth weight.
      After that my pediatrician has recommended letting them sleep longer at night until they wake up. With my newborns, that usually was never more than 4 hours anyway.
      Feeding every two hours during the day was kind of the preferred route to me, with the hope baby would then wake up less at night.
      Even from the beginning my lactation consultants would say there was no shame in pumping before bed and sleeping in shifts with my spouse so I could get a 4 hour stretch of sleep at the beginning of the night.

      • Anon says

        +1, I was told 2-3 hours but otherwise this is exactly what I was told/did

    • Anon says

      I was told every two hours at first. I stopped doing that once they regained their birth weight.

      • anon says

        This. I have a 6 month old now so just went through it. Once we cleared the birthweight, which did take us some time with this one, the pedi said we didn’t have to wake her to feed as long as she was eating well during the day. So, we stuck to every 2-3 hours on demand, but never went longer than 3 during the day knowing we let her sleep at night (our most recent/last baby has been a tremendous sleeper so we were able to get 4 hr stretches pretty early).

        • anon says

          My kids both regained their birth weight quickly, so this was only an issue for about 2-3 nights after we left the hospital. After that point, I stopped waking them and started getting 3 hour stretches, and by 1.5 weeks I’d get at least one 4 hour stretch per night.

          It’s really only an issue for a very short time unless you have feeding issues.

          • OP says

            Interesting. I was definitely told to keep on this schedule for a few weeks, maybe even a month. He gained back to birthweight before we even left the hospital and never had any feeding issues. If that’s all true for #2 as well, I will probably push back and ask if the recommendation is really right for our situation.

          • Anon says

            I think it may also vary based on baby size. Mine was 10 lbs at birth and it seems pretty silly to wake a healthy and growing 10.5 lb baby. Doctors may be more conservative with babies that are smaller.

    • Anon says

      I was told two hours during the day but that it’s okay to let them go longer at night.

    • Anonymous says

      My son was born at 42 weeks and was 9 lbs at birth, then spent a week in the NICU, but even when he was in the hospital they suggested waiting until he woke up to feed him at night, and then roughly every 2 hours during the day. I’m sure the situation is different with a smaller baby. I also had an oversupply of milk, if anything, and there were no concerns about him gaining weight. And he had an IV.

    • GCA says

      At night, I fed mine when they woke up, which worked out to be about every 2-3 hours at first, then every 3-4h, and eventually once or twice a night for the rest of the infant year. There’s no hard and fast rule that you have to feed every 2h, nor is there a hard and fast rule that you cannot feed them more than every 2h, but I think the 2h is a rule of thumb for a newborn’s stomach capacity and how fast they digest milk. I get hungry in the middle of the night and I sometimes snack during the day, too; it stands to reason that a growing baby would too!

    • Chl says

      Oh my gosh this would have made me craze! Unless there is a health concern let them sleep.

      • Spirograph says

        +1 I honestly don’t remember whether I was told differently, but if there’s one thing motherhood taught me, it’s Never Wake A Sleeping Baby.

        (I seem to remember they woke up every 2-3 hours anyway. And during LDR hospital stay, if you sent your baby to the nursery, they could only stay away a maximum of 3 hours)

    • Anon says

      This is pretty standard advice. I think its in part of get milk supply up in the early days. That said, I definitely would stretch to 3 hours if the baby was sleeping (and gaining weight appropriately, and had no concerns about supply). But my kids were hungry hungry hippos, so I rarely got to the 3 hour mark in early days.

    • Anon says

      I was told every 3 hours, including for my NIcU baby. I swear doing that helped me get my twins on a good schedule and helped them sleep through the night. I think that’s what we did for like the first two weeks and then they’re gained enough weight to start pushing one of the night feeds a bit.

    • Anon says

      I never woke my kid to eat, and she started doing 3-4 hour stretches pretty much immediately. We supplemented with formula in the early days though.

      • Anonymous says

        Formula babies can usually go longer than bf babies. I’m pretty eyerolly at a lot of pediatrician recommendations, but this isn’t one I’d be willing to ignore right off the bat. I would feed every 2 hours until baby is obviously ready to go longer. My guess is this will last maximum of a couple weeks.

    • Amber says

      Mine are 8 and almost 6 and it was “whenever they’re hungry but at least every 3 hours.”

    • Anon says

      I did this with my first kid and it was exhausting and frustrating to have to wake the baby to feed. By my third kid, once we were out of the hospital, I let her sleep and just fed when she woke up. Unless the pediatrician is concerned, I would not wake a baby to feed.

      • AwayEmily says

        +1 to this. My experience is that pediatricians all give the standard “every two hours” advice but then if you ask them specifically about YOUR baby they will give you more tailored advice. And if your kid is healthy and eating well (formula or breastmilk) then they will probably tell you to just feed them on demand.

    • TheElms says

      I was told to breastfeed when they are hungry aka on demand, but not to let them go more than 2 hours during the day and 3 hours at night until they regained their birth weight (I triple fed my first for the first 2 weeks) and then my ped was ok with at least every 3 hours during the day and at least every 4 hours until 6 ish weeks and then on demand after that. For both my kids if I kept up with feeding them every 2-3 hours during the day I got longer stretches at night fairly early on but if i let the day slip at all the ate all night — which honestly kind of makes sense in retrospect.

    • Betsy says

      The title and the assumed gender roles in it are slightly out of date, but the La Leche League book The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding is a great read if you don’t want to drive yourself crazy with inane instructions like feeding every two hours on the dot 24 hours a day. They say to watch the baby, not the clock. Feed at hunger cues rather than timing with the exception being if you have an exceptionally sleepy baby (like more than normal) in the first few days. That is what I’ve done from day 1, an attitude that my midwife strongly endorsed and my pediatrician slightly less so. My baby lost 9% of his birth weight in the first 3 days but was over birth weight a week later so no one has questioned what I’m doing since. I genuinely could not tell you how many times I feed my baby each day or how frequently – it is 100% to his cues.

      I will mention that my pediatrician gave me the actual worst breastfeeding advice at our first appointment, so I ignored it. If your hospital has a good lactation team, that’s where I would take your advice from. A pediatrician is not a lactation specialist.

      • OP says

        Thanks. I have really like the LLL advice on other issues, but I didn’t find their books until after I was through the tiniest infant stage with kid #1. I had the opposite experience in terms of advice, where the lactation consultant with credentials was useless, and (once I found NP who I like) the pediatrician gave much more practical advice. Many things improved by the time he was a few months old, so it’s the very first days and weeks that I’m most confused about.

    • Anon2 says

      I was told every 2-3 hours, but it can depend on the baby and gestational age. My baby born at 37 weeks was very small and sleepy, and was born during hot July, so we needed to set an alarm and be diligent to wake him at night to get calories and fluid into him.

      My other babies who were born at 38 and 39 weeks I fed on demand during the day (often much more than every two hours) and let them wake up on their own at night, which ended up being about max every 2-3 hours anyway.

    • Anon says

      FWIW, my baby was in the NICU for two weeks. She would get awoken every three hours in the NICU to eat (from start to start) and they told me to stay on that schedule at home for the first few (two?) months

  2. Anoon says

    Anyone have a good itinerary for a weekend in Washington DC? Kids are 10 and 7 and this is our first time visiting. I tried to get white house tour tix but was not successful. I’m thinking we’ll rent scooters and zip around the mall one day, see one museum (recs?), and the national zoo. Suggestions?

    • Anon says

      DC Mom of 4 kids here —
      Reach out to your congress person now to let them know you are coming, and get a private tour of the Capitol — really cool.
      The Duck Tour is always a hit with my kids and guests
      We like the paddle boats on the Mall when we are hot and want to see the Monuments but don’t want to walk a ton on the mall
      Check now to see if you can get tickets to go up the Wash. Monument
      At that age, the National History museum are my kids’ favorite (do an iMax movie when they are crashing in the afternoon), but the American Indian museum has the best food
      Renwick Gallery has the best, most approachable art for kids

      Off the mall – the Georgetown Splash park is always a hit, as is the Wharf, which always has a ton of seasonal activities that you can just show up and enjoy

      Food is hard to come by on the mall, so plan to bring lots of water and snacks in a backpack. My DC native kids still get a huge thrill from eating at Old Ebbitt Grill. If you have kids who like fancy things, the tea in the hall of the Willard Hotel (just off the mall) is incredible, if you have kids who just like to hang — a drink in that lobby bar is also really cool (and where the name “Lobbyists” was coined).

      For more location specific food, read Tom Sietsema in the Washington Post for excellent recommendations.

      Start following “Secret DC” now, and it will tell you if there are pop up galleries or exhibits the weekend of your visit.

      Feel free to post more details on where you are staying or what your kids are into, and I can share more specific recs

      • Anon says

        Ha, that would be Natural History museum !

        Also, agreed that the zoo is not super noteworthy if you have another zoo near you. The American Trail is my kids’ favorite because there is a splash pad (bring an extra change of clothes) + lots of awesome seals. Otherwise, our family joke is that the most commonly observed animal at the DC zoo is …. deer who jump the fence and hang out near the animal enclosures.

        • Anon says

          I don’t know if you can still do this now, but we used to visit the zoo super early in the morning, around 7 AM. You see a lot more animals early than you do later in the day when it’s hot out.

      • HSAL says

        Not OP but this is a great list that I’m saving for the future, thanks! Someone either here or on the main gave me the idea of keeping a note with all the helpful suggestions and it’s been so helpful.

        • Anon says

          Yeay! I’m so glad. I love it here. Always happy to help.

          Also, your family is my thoughts HSAL. Hope you are all doing well.

          • HSAL says

            That’s really kind of you to say, thank you. We’re doing okay. I’m a little nervous about this summer, and I’m emotionally struggling with having to plan my twins’ birthday next month, but overall things are about as smooth as they can be.

      • Momofthree says

        A few notes: the Ducks are no longer running.

        Also, the zoo may have pandas again soon so depending on when you’re coming, that may be worthwhile.

        Agreed that kids will like the Natural History Museum best most likely, and best food is at American Indian. Also the Air & Space Museum is pretty awesome if you haven’t been there before. You will need to get timed passes, but they are free.

        Like the idea of a sports game (depending on what is available in your city). There are also a ton of great parks/ playgrounds around the city if you need a break.

        If scooters aren’t an option, you can consider a bike ride (they have kid sized bikes). I haven’t used this company but we were seriously considering them in Paris & only didn’t use them because our flight got delayed by 1.5 days: https://fattirebiketours.com/

    • Anon says

      So, I believe the electric scooters are 16+ (younger kids go on them, but they’re large and would be hard for a 7 year old to manage). The Capitol Tour is better than the White House Tour (and tickets are easier to get). Air and Space Museum is (free) ticketed right now, and is awesome – American History and Natural History are also both great for kids – the National Archives is uniquely DC (if maybe not super cool for a 7 year old). The zoo is fine (and free) but not noteworthy if you have another zoo near you. The old post office tower is great for views (free and way easier than the Washington Monument and usually has no line).

    • anon says

      I wouldn’t let my 7 yo ride on a rented electric scooter. They are too big and there are too many people. I’d bring manual scooters from home with a good bike lock.

      I’d suggest visiting the Capitol for a tour–if you contact your Congress member you may be able to get a private tour. The Supreme Court is also interesting and just across the street.

      My 10 yo’s favorite museums is the Spy Museum. It’s not free, but it is fun. My kids also love Air and Space and Natural History. The Portrait Gallery is a fun stop if you’re in Chinatown, as is Renwick if you’re near the White House. We also enjoy the Botanical Gardens. If you want to get out of the middle of DC, you could also visit the Arboretum or Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens.

      I’d put a Nationals game or DC United game on your list too. Both are fun. There are also free outdoor concerts in the Sculpture Garden, DC Waterfront, and Warf–check schedules.

      • anon says

        One of our favorite summer evening activities is to pack a picnic or take out and have dinner on the Mall (usually between Lincoln and Washington) during dusk/sunset. You can bring a frisbee or kite, or food for the ducks. It’s lovely.

      • Anona says

        Just a note that some of these (at least the sculpture garden) is now requiring tickets – they’re free, but it’s not unlimited seating like pre-2020. I personally preferred the performances by the military band on the steps of the Capital when an intern looking for low-cost options. Get a burger, fries, and shake from Good Stuff Eatery and then head over and enjoy the people watching and music.

      • Bean74 says

        Nats Park also has a playground inside of it for kids 10 and under, which is a nice way to extend time there if needed with littles. The team offers player signings and allows kids to run the bases after Sunday home games, too.

      • Bean74 says

        The blog Kid Friendly DC usually has a pretty good list of ideas, too. I like the weekend round ups that list different festivals and performances available.

    • Anon says

      Not a museum on the mall rec, but we loved Planet Word. You could consider one of those hop on hop off buses

    • anon says

      FWIW, we tried to get last minute tickets to both the Air and Space museum and the Spy Museum and were unsuccessful (in April), so you might want to book those. My 13 y/o’s favorite was the Air and Space museum.

    • DLC says

      One of our favorite itineraries:
      Building Museum (a paid museum, but really engaging depending on the exhibit), lunch at Chinatown Express in Chinatown, National Portrait Gallery/Kogod courtyard/ MLK Library (which is right across the street), and then dinner at Ella’s Pizza. You might be able to squeeze in the Old Post Office Tower.
      I also like: checking out the view from the rooftop Terrace at the Kennedy Center, catching a 6pm free show at the Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center, then getting a picnic dinner and eating it at the REACH lawn. And maybe even seeing a show if anything appeals to you.
      If you go to any of the museums on the Mall, my favorite place for lunch is Rice Bar by L’Enfant Plaza. It’s not open on Sunday, though. I think which museum you go to depends on your kids’ interest, but they are all worth visiting, I think. Also – summer is hot, so I like to let the kids run around on the Mall and then pop into a museum to cool off. I think the great thing about DC museums is you can just check them out and if it’s not really speaking to you, you can just leave and find another one.
      Not on the Mall, but across the street from Union Station, so easy to get to – The Postal Museum is a favorite of ours. You can do the Postal Museum and then lunch at any of the (chain) restaurants in Union Station.
      Check the Smithsonian Website, a lot of the museums have family activities on the weekend. The National Gallery is not a Smithsonian, but also has very kid friendly aspects too.
      +1 to Old Ebbitt’s Grille and it’s across from the White House so you can always just walk by and take a look.

    • Anon says

      Just did this with a 10-year old. Big hits:

      – air and space museum
      – saw a show at the ford theater
      – constitution etc at national archives
      – presidential portraits at national portrait gallery
      – holocaust museum (maybe too much for the 7 yo, very impactful for my 10 yo)
      – national zoo! easily accessible by subway
      – lincoln memorial at night
      – tower in the old post office / current Waldorf astoria
      – supreme court

      Of course, i asked kiddo what his favorite thing was and he said the (terrible) mango smoothies on the mall, so …

      have heard good things about spy museum but didn’t see it myself. I’ve independently gone to the museum of african american history and it was amazing but perhaps a bit much for your younger

      have so much fun!

  3. Anonymous says

    WWYD? One of my twins (age 3) keeps getting sent home from day care for fever of 100.3 It has happened on and off for the last three months. The issue? His pediatrician keeps telling me “that’s not really a fever: I don’t need to see him.” Or “this is viral.” Which I believe but why does he keep getting sick when none of his siblings do? Obviously there’s something going on with him. it’s frustrating because when I keep him home I can’t work and also…he seems fine. I’ve asked the ped for a referral to a pulmonologist (his twin has asthma: figured we’d start there). The ped said he would “think about it.” I need to switch peds, right? DH thinks I’m overreacting. He also doesn’t have to stay home with kiddo two weeks out of the month.

    • GCA says

      …actually, why *couldn’t* your DH take his own time off for 50% of that? (Sorry, kneejerk reaction – obviously that’s a short-term stopgap and you need to figure out what is going on with your kiddo.) “Think about it”? Seriously?! Your poor kid. Ask your ped to put into writing why they will not make the referral, and they will probably then make the referral…

      • Anon says

        +1 at the approach with the pediatrician. I’m so angry at your ped here. I have never had pushback from a ped on a requested referral. Saying they “will think about it” — how infuriating.

    • Anon says

      Is he actually sick when he’s sent home? Some kids run warmer and most people are warmest mid-afternoon, as body temp varies during the day.

    • Anon says

      One of my kids gets a fever with everything, even a minor cold. The other tends more towards throwing up with everything (even colds) and rarely has a fever. Some kids are just more prone to different symptoms, and yes technically fever starts at 100.4 so that’s really annoying of your daycare.

      I agree with ped that this is probably totally normal toddler stuff, especially since you say he has no other symptoms. But it is odd he won’t give a referral; can you ask again? (Also, I’m sure you’ve looked into this, but many plans don’t require a referral. Can you make the appt yourself?)

      • TelcoLadyJD says

        +1
        My husband ALWAYS gets a fever, even for minor colds. I almost never do. My daughter runs over a degree cooler than my son. (Like, we know if her temp hits 99 – she’s definitely getting sick. My son is over 99 on a normal day.)

        I don’t say this to negate your concern – I totally think it’s something you guys should look into. But it could also just be….one of those things.

    • Anon says

      What is triggering them to take his temp?

      That would provide more context about potential issues.

  4. Former Junior Associate says

    Looking for a recommendation for sandals for a 2-year-old. Both water-friendly and not-water friendly welcome; I care most about them staying on their feet, being comfortable, and not being terribly expensive.

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