Maternity Monday: Layered Peplum Top
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Peplum tops are made for baby bumps. Here’s a work-friendly choice from new-to-me brand Ripe Maternity.
This navy-and-white-striped button-front top has a layered peplum that covers your bump. The flattering high-low cut also covers your backside. Keep this shirt for after your baby arrives — the button front is perfect for breastfeeding or pumping.
Add a pair of black cigarette pants and polished loafers for an office-friendly look. And on the weekends, sport leggings and your favorite sneakers.
This top from Ripe Maternity is $86 and available in sizes XS–XL.
Sales of note for 4/24/25
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – 7,710 new markdowns for women!
- Ann Taylor – Friends of Ann Event: 30% off your entire purchase, including 100s of new arrivals
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 25% off
- Eloquii – Spring Clearance: Up to 75% off + extra 50-60% off sale
- J.Crew – Mid-Season Sale: Up to 60% off sale styles + up to 50% off summer-ready styles
- J.Crew Factory – Extra 50% off clearance + extra 15% off $100 + extra 20% off $125
- M.M.LaFleur – 3 pieces for $198. Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – Friends & Family Event: 30% off entire purchase, includes markdowns
My 4 year old (boy) wants a bike for his birthday. Any recommendations? Also should I do a balance bike or one with training wheels?
My 4 year old (boy) asked for a bike for his birthday. Any recommendations of a bike for a 4 year old (also should I do a balance bike or a small one with training wheelsbh
At my husband’s request, I fully delegated food shopping and meal prep to him, as part of better divvying up house/family work. He asked for a little grace as he gets used to it, which is fine. I am super organized so we, for example, never run out of milk. But we did this week, so I ran to the store and got it without comment. It happens!
However, we have a small fridge, which I bought so I am sensitive about. It was the best option for the space. To address that, I am a careful shopper and attentive to using stuff up/cleaning stuff out. He is not doing that. The fridge is a disaster with tons of duplicate food items and tons of expired food. I even saw him see that something was expired and then put it back! To me, managing by the fridge is part of the food purchasing role. He also tends to complain that the fridge is too small. I hate that. It just takes a bit of planning and it’s fine. It’s not, like, a mini fridge or something.
Do I say something to him? Just clean it out? Consider this part of his figuring it out and leave it?
Hello! Does anyone here use buy sell trade (BST) trade pages on Facebook? Do you have any favorites? Mine was The Mom Edit BST, which is a good community with the type of clothes I am typically looking for, but I haven’t loved the offerings recently. I think they are getting more resellers, which isn’t really what I’m looking for. Wondering if anyone else has some suggestions for pages that have a mix of work and weekend wear in the nordstrom/saks/anthro/etc price range?
So I know kids act differently at daycare, but apparently my 2.5-year-old doesn’t talk at her daycare at all. Her teacher says her comprehension is great and she’s on target in every other way but she barely even uses any words regularly. She’s not super verbal at home – maybe even would qualify for speech therapy (planning to talk to her ped about it at her 30-month-appointment), but says phrases and occasional short sentences. And she’ll echo back words people say to her which apparently she NEVER does at daycare.
I am especially worried because she’s super resistant to going. She’s reactive at drop off but even more than that, she’ll get upset when I mention it outside of daycare (like, oh, tomorrow is a school day and I’ll get cries). But by all accounts she’s happy when she’s there. And her teacher is super experienced and even teaches child development. I also know a bunch of the other families and everyone has been really happy with it. And she’s been there almost a year.
So basically, I guess I’m wondering if this is a sign or something I should be really worried about. It seems today bizarre to me but maybe less so than I think?
I had a baby last month and am exclusively breastfeeding. I’ll start pumping and try bottles in a few weeks, but am not there yet. With COVID rates high in our community we don’t want to take the baby inside. This means I feel reliant on my husband for every little thing like picking up a prescription or getting groceries or stopping at post office to mail a package. Is there some solution I am missing? Is this just how it is right now? I had my first kid pre-COVID and running errands was a big part of how I got out of the house during leave.
I don’t want to jinx myself, but I’ve been incredibly burned out at work through a merger and looking to go a new direction, though I wasn’t sure WHAT new direction. I reached out to a former colleague with a question about a cert they have/I was considering pursuing, and they mentioned they’re growing their team and had been thinking of reaching out to me! I put in an app and have a phone screening tomorrow. No guarantees, but it feels good to be taking steps to address my misery. The new opportunity also allows room for growing a lot of different possible directions while staying with the same company, which is something I haven’t had up to this point in my career (which has been local/state government/non-profit).
I’ve never interviewed with the private sector before, so fingers crossed!!
Just venting – My kid got ear tubes a couple months ago, and I’m not impressed. She’s had one definite ear infection since then, and we’re thinking she has another. The problem is that when she gets an ear infection now, the tubes just get clogged with gunk, so we don’t actually see any drainage until things get bad and it turns into a massive ear/sinus/eye infection that requires oral antibiotics and staying home from daycare until there’s less stuff draining from her face (but never from her ears). She’s had thick yellow snot for two weeks now, so I finally called the ENT’s office over the weekend, and they said to start the ear drops. However, since the ear tubes are presumably clogged, the drops don’t actually go in. So now we’re waiting to see if the ENT thinks she needs to come in to get checked out and get her ears suctioned out, and of course the ENT has less availability than the ped’s office. This whole thing seems like it’s more of a hassle than it was pre-tubes.
2+ years in to this pandemic and I still don’t have a clear idea of what to do. Our county is back in red so our elementary school sent a “strong recommendation” to wear masks again, but it seems to ultimately be up to the parents now. My kids are back in their masks, although it’s far from universal. We’re planning trips for June and August. We’re still waiting for the vaccine for our youngest but at this point, I don’t know how much difference it will make. It just feels like I don’t know what the end game here is, whether we should be cautious or not, and no clear guidance either way. How is everyone else feeling?
My family and I have been passing a cold around for several weeks now, it’s so annoying! Is everyone else having a tough spring for illnesses? We’ve never tested positive for Covid but we keep having colds and it’s really wearing on me.