Postpartum Tuesday: Cap-Sleeve Wrap Dress
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We’ve featured this Lark & Ro wrap dress before as a great affordable dress for going back to work, particularly if your body is still settling postpartum. This one is highly rated and select colors are down to $26 as part of Amazon Prime Day. (I’m still looking through the deals – I already bought a second Echo today because they’re down to $89 and we love ours!… I’m also considering the $90, 8-quart Instapot.) What are you excited for during Prime Day? Lark & Ro Women’s Classic Cap-Sleeve Wrap Dress
Psst: Looking for more advice about what to wear to work after maternity leave, info about nursing clothes for working moms, or tips for pumping at the office?
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Sales of note for 1/16:
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Cashmere on sale; AllSaints, Free People, Nike, Tory Burch, and Vince up to 60%; beauty deals up to 25% off
- AllSaints – now up to 60% off (some of the best leather jackets!)
- Ann Taylor – Up to 40% off your full-price purchase; extra 50% off sale
- Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Boden – 15% off new styles with code — readers love this blazer, these dresses, and their double-layer line of tees
- DeMellier – Sale now on, free shipping and returns — includes select options like Montreal, Vancouver, and Venice
- Eloquii – $29 and up select styles; extra 50% off all clearance, plus ELOQUII X kate spade new york collab just dropped
- Everlane – Sale of the year, up to 70% off — reader favorites include their scoop tee, Dream Pant, ReNew Transit backpack, silk blouses and oversized blazers! New markdowns just added
- Hannah Andersson – Up to 30% off all pajamas;
- J.Crew – Up to 40% off select styles; up to 50% off cashmere
- J.Crew Factory – 40-70% off everything
- L.K. Bennett – Archive sale, almost everything 70% off
- M.M.LaFleur – Tag sale for a limited time — jardigans and dresses $200, pants $150, tops $95, T-shirts $50
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – Semi-Annual Red Door Sale – 50% off + extra 20% off, sale on sale, plus free shipping on $150+
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?
A (relatively new) friend dealt with a lot over the weekend: her DH was hospitalized for an infection and her 4 mo baby got bronchitis. She works full time and also has a 2 y/o. Yikes! Her MIL flew in to help but I just want to send her a few things to let her know I’m thinking about her. Thoughts on what to send? I’m going to order off Amazon and have it delivered to her house so she doesn’t feel like she has to “host” me. So far I’m thinking: pedialyte?, wipes, chocolate almonds (for her), Goldfish, hand sanitizer. This list seems kinda lame. What would you want to receive? Ice cream? A box of wine??
Uh I am feeling dumb here but what do you call the kinds of hair clips that are a sort of rounded triangle and like, you bend it one way and it opens, then you put it in the kid’s hair and kind of push it down and it snaps shut? My kid will only deign to wear those right now, ideally in purple or orange, and I’d love to buy a whole bunch but all I seem to find are “alligator” clips, which I do not want.
We’ve also been having ongoing ratio issues with our daycare. For us it’s been going on for several months and we’ve had multiple meeting with the director. Daycares in our area are so oversubscribed that it’s at least a two year wait to get in elsewhere. Today I filed a complaint with the county. They said they’re going to send out an inspector. It may be counterproductive, I don’t know, but it is an option worth considering.
Where can I purchase a swim cap for a one-year old that will be delivered quickly? I searched Amazon and found a couple, but shipping will take more than a week! Thanks!
I think there are two separate issues here. First, is the daycare following the required ratios. It sounds like they are not. If you are not comfortable with that, you need to find a new daycare. Second, your son just switched rooms. My child has had a difficult time adjusting to each new room but was usually over the hump within 1-2 weeks. It is possible that was the problem with your son.
We had a similar situation at a daycare (both not following ratios during drop off and the resulting chaos). You may not like this answer but we switched daycares. If they are choosing to knowingly ignore ratio requirements, I don’t think they are going to change because of a parent complaint. And it would make me wonder what other rules they are ignoring.
We moved to a daycare that doesn’t do blended drop offs, meaning both of my daughters teachers are there when the school opens regardless of how many children are there. Same at the end of the day-both her teachers day until close even if she is the only one left. We love it and the morning is so much calmer for my daughter. But I realize this is not an option for everyone.
I have been awake since 2:45 this morning due to my 4.5 month old deciding it is party time. By the time I got him back down to sleep, it was time to pump and then go to the early morning personal training session I pay out of the nose for. How on earth am I going to survive this day? Nap under the desk and intravenous coffee?.
Question regarding daycare: Morning drop off for my 15 month old left both of us in tears today. He recently “moved up” to a new room and he is the youngest child in the room. State law (NJ) requires a 1 to 4 ratio for under 18 months old. Many of the kids in the class are 18-21 months old so they only require a 1 yo 6 ratio. There were only 2 teachers in the room for 12 kids when we got there (after 15 minutes a 3rd teacher arrived) and it was total mayhem. My son never had separation issues with drop off but in this new room he is a mess. It breaks my heart. He’s been at this daycare for a year but only now do I feel uncomfortable with the setup. I spoke w/ the assistant director this morning and she was babbling about “blended ratios” for this room. How hard to I push on this? They clearly were not maintaining the required ratio for my sons age (and I know some of the other children there).
NY Times “How to Raise a Reader” https://www.nytimes.com/guides/books/how-to-raise-a-reader
I tried to post this yesterday but I don’t think it worked – favorite system (and importantly, actual products – like what file folders or boxes or whatnot) do you use to organize kids’ yearly school stuff. Think mostly school pictures, report cards, etc. with maybe the occasional piece of art thrown in?
When did you start reading to your baby? DS is 10 months but does not have the patience to listen me read to him. He likes to look at colored pictures but that is about it. After 30 seconds he wants to chew the books so that is when our reading session ends. He gets angry if I do not allow him to eat the book! It does get better right?
My child is in the 18-24 month room at daycare. She has been biting, and now daycare intends to send her home after two bites in one day. Is this a common daycare practice? Everyone tells me it’s just a phase she will grow out of, but until she does this will cause MAJOR work strain. I’ll be paying for daycare, and now have to find an on-call babysitter near my office?
Tips for child-proofing a gas fireplace? I swear I read about this on here, but cannot find it. Right now there is a free-standing screen in front of it, which I completely don’t understand, as the people we bought the house from had two young children and left some of their other child-proofing. Maybe their kids just listened really well.
There doesn’t seem to be anything you could latch something onto, and I don’t know if a baby gate would work because there isn’t a lot of depth between where the fake logs jut out and the edge of the opening.
To me this looks like a maternity dress that she’s trying to pull off post-baby. Like that ruching is supposed to be hugging a bump.