Maternity Monday: Lucia Maternity Jumpsuit
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This jumpsuit leaps from weekend to work.
The jumpsuit is made from soft and stretchy jersey fabric to accommodate your changing body. It has a flattering wrap silhouette, flutter sleeves, and tapered leg. It also works postpartum! The wrap silhouette makes it easy to nurse or pump.
Wear it alone with a few key pieces of jewelry or add a jacket for aggressive A/C (but if you’re thinking about wearing it to work, know your office).
The Lucia Maternity Jumpsuit from NOM Maternity is $118 at Nordstrom and comes in sizes XS–XL. Per the notes, it runs slightly small in the bust, so consider sizing up.
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
I have both specific and general questions re: pumping and work travel:
Specific – I have high lipase milk, so I scald before freezing. If this was also you, did you even bother trying to scald while traveling with a bottle warmer, or did you just pump & dump to maintain supply?
Also specific – if you traveled internationally with pumped milk (short haul ~2 hours and long haul ~ 10 hours), I’d love your tips.
General – any general tips for pumping while traveling for work? Baby will be 7 months (so will have started solids by then), we don’t use formula and do not plan to, he currently gets 1 bottle of pumped milk a day from the nanny and the rest is me nursing (I work from home so I nurse all but one feed unless it’s a crazy day and I can’t get away from work long enough for it). I’m very nervous about having to pump that many times in a day (I only pump 12 minutes for a full feed, but still, it’s a lot of times!) and also worried about him rejecting the b**b when I get home.
This gorgeous house around the corner is on the market again. 6 Bedroom Victorian, on a main road but gorgeous like house I imagined when I was 12 kind of place. I had this brief moment of ‘oh, we could actually swing that if interest rates were lower’ but then thought better of it.
List price is around $800k and we’re in a MCOL area with a HHI of around $300k. Our current home would sell easily for $450-500k tomorrow if we wanted.
This is not an actual idea, but just throwing it out there – anyone willing to anonymously share HHI and house cost?
ladies! my youngest turns 5 this week. I am so excited for her and the next chapter of our lives as a Family with All 3 Kids in School!
Throughout my 3 kids I’ve never been particularly sentimental and as soon as we were done with baby things I found them a new home. I’ve never made a necklace out of breastmilk or worn an initial necklace or ANY of the sentimental stuff I’ve seen people do. And yet…the ONLY thing I’ve hung onto is the c-shaped boppy pillow that I nursed them all on (and propped them up on, and used as a pillow while passed out on the floor next to their crib). I don’t want to keep it forever, it’s not a decoration like a stuffed animal would be…but I can’t throw it out. It’s worn just the right way, like an old t-shirt.
Any ideas on what I can do with it? Right now it’s a couch for some stuffies in one of the kids’ rooms. My kids don’t want it in their rooms, I think throwing it in a box in the attic will ruin it (and maybe that’s fine)…ideas?! My husband suggested turning the fabric into something or maybe finding a “classy way to use it as a throw pillow” but I’m not sure either would make sense. Maybe…a christmas ornament? idk.
I know there are a bunch of ADHD/autism moms on here (or at least a few very vocal ones!), and I’ve posted before. What steps did you take from “we have a problem here” to “we are in a good place with [whatever interventions you have that work.”? Trying to carve out a path forward for our family and our explosive child that needs help and I feel like we are going around in circles.
Ped said come on in and she’d prescribe meds [kiddo doesn’t even have a diagnosis yet; I’m not anti-meds but it feels like maybe not the first/only step?! And I think there is more than just ADHD in play]
School says there is no problem/can’t do anything bc she has no academic impact but we separately had her teacher do a screening and it came back with raging ADHD (teacher is lovely but as kiddo’s behavior is only annoying and not making her below grade level she didn’t get flagged)
Our core problems are at home and we need help managing them as they are continuing to escalate.
It’s my first day back to work, and I spilled a full ounce of pumped milk on myself and am already reminded why I was so bored at this job pre-mat leave. They literally have nothing for me to do except continuing education.
On the plus side, DS is doing great with nanny and DH dealt with the IRS to get us an EIN so we can pay her legally. Any day I don’t have to sit on hold with the IRS is a good day.
How’s everybody else doing?
I’m approaching 20 weeks pregnant and losing what feels like a TON of hair. Second pregnancy. First was a number of years ago and I recall not losing almost any hair during the pregnancy (did have significant loss once I stopped b-feeding). I’ll admit that pre-pregnancy I was losing what felt like more than usual for the last 1.5 years, but chalked it up to hormonal changes from IVF and also pretty dramatic weight loss. FWIW I’ve always had thick hair but in the last year don’t think it’s particularly/strikingly thick anymore. It’s fine outwardly – no bald spots or significant signs of thinning/balding but just…. a lot of hair loss.
Thoughts? Anything to put me at ease?
Any odd “milestones” that have been emotional for you? My almost 2 year old started climbing into her car seat independently over the weekend (from the ground! In my SUV!) and it just makes her seem so big and independent and it’s causing a lump in my throat. A couple of months ago the transition from Mama to Mommy also got me.
I commented last week — my 3.5 year old has been hitting in his daycare class lately. We got three calls last week about it, and we’d never had a problem before. I am fairly sure it’s because both the teachers in his class changed over without warning. In addition his bestie is in the process of moving house, so he’s had some behavioral issues as well. In any event on Friday the school gave us a flyer with the phone number for Child Find, which appears to be a service provided by our public school district to evaluate kids for developmental disabilities. The school didn’t give us any other information or tell us why they think he needs evaluation/intervention (other than three instances of hitting last week). We are planning to talk to them ASAP, but do you all have any thoughts on this?