Family Friday: Mama/Mini Maternity Hat and Socks Set
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Keep the new mom and baby in your life cozy with this darling hat and socks set from Ingrid & Isabel.
These items are made from a soft, gray ribbed fabric blend. This coordinating set would make a great addition to a shower basket — just add some diapers, a small toy, and other baby essentials for a personal and thoughtful gift.
This set is $25 at Target.
Sales of note for 3/26/25
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – 15% off beauty (ends 3/30) + Nordy Club members earn 3X the points!
- Ann Taylor – Extra 50% off sale + additional 20% off + 30% off your purchase
- Banana Republic Factory – Friends & Family Event: 50% off purchase + extra 20% off
- Eloquii – 50% off select styles + extra 50% off all sale
- J.Crew – 30% off tops, tees, dresses, accessories, sale styles + warm-weather styles
- J.Crew Factory – Shorts under $30 + extra 60% off clearance + up to 60% off everything
- M.M.LaFleur – 25% off travel favorites + use code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – $64.50 spring cardigans + BOGO 50% off everything else
Yep– did this. I was at a boutique litigation firm and transitioned in-house when my son was close to 2. I could not work after bedtime. My son has always had a later bedtime, so for me this meant logging on at 9ish normally, and it would take me at least an hour to unwind before bed if I’d been working. This was especially bad if I had to turn around and travel early in the morning for a deposition or court appearance. I just realized that a lot of my issues with my firm were not going to get better, and I was at a point in my career where I should have been gearing up to make partner (which at my firm involved a lot of last-minute travel for expert depos), which just wasn’t going to happen.
I was in healthcare liability and was able to transition to healthcare operations. Many of the attorneys in my group at my company are former litigators and actually seem to have an easier time with the role than former transactional attorneys. A lot of skills from litigation– management of tasks and people, reading a room, and communication– are really transferrable to an in-house setting even outside of a litigation management role. I would recommend talking to any local connections you have that have gone in-house to get a feel for what is available in your area.
Does anyone else have grandparents who frequently catch crud from your kids and get a lot sicker than the kids? Except for one bout of strep, my first grader has not had anything more severe than a runny nose in years (thank you daycare immunity!). But she passes along a lot of those colds to my parents, who get much sicker, especially my mom who is very prone to bronchitis, pneumonia and other lung complications. We try to keep kid away from my parents when she’s clearly sick (and obviously tell them if she has any signs of illness) but it’s clearly not working perfectly because my mom has had three bouts of severe bronchitis or pneumonia in the last year, all of which developed after viruses presumably caught from my kid. (My mom works from home, my dad is retired, they don’t have local friends here and my parents still mask in indoor public spaces, so they have very minimal exposure to germs except through my kid.)
My mom thinks this is an acceptable price to pay for frequent contact with her grandchild and I realize that this is ultimately her choice to make. But I feel guilty about it. Should I be having kiddo mask around her? If you’ve been in a similar situation, is there anything else you do?
I am ready to get out of my boutique-litigation firm job. I mostly like the work, but there is just too much of it to be compatible with my values of spending time with my family (DH, kids 2 & 4 who still sometimes wake up in the middle of the night/unreasonably early) and taking care of myself. I do not want to log on after bed time, work weekends, etc. It’s not always like this, but I also can’t always predict it. I know a common option is in-house, but I think I would be primarily interested in a litigation management role, which seems even harder to come by. Other options seem to be state or municipal government. Is there anything else I’m missing? I don’t even know how to do this but I have come to accept that this is no longer working for me or my family. (Related to the recent discussions about this, I actually do wish I was a person who could just log on after the kids go to bed, but I am resentful every time I have to do it. And all my non-kid time is going to work, and I can’t find ways to incorporate rest for myself, and I frankly feel terrible because of not being able to exercise, relax, have a conversation with DH longer than 5 minutes. I am so tired.)
I know I’ve seen this discussed before but I don’t know how to find it.
I have a 1 week old newborn and a toddler. DH has crashed into hardcore pp depression. My mom came to stay with us to help, but now she a DH are arguing to the point they can’t be in the same room.
I guess my question is, how much time and patience should I give an emotionally immature partner? He was raised with a combination of tremendous privilege and emotional neglect. In the last couple years since our first was born, we’ve been in marriage counseling and he’s been really trying, but there’s a long way to go.
DHs PPD has been the primary focus of the whole house– not our newborn or my recovery from a rough birth. I think he’s doing the best he can, getting counseling appointments and adjusting meds, etc. But I can also understand my mom’s concern, that it looks a lot like manipulation (including suicide threats) paired with love bombing.
WWYD to do the best for your kids?
How far is your commute to school or daycare? Currently for us it’s a little over 10 minutes / 5 miles, and looking at a new school that’s a bit further but still not super far (15-20 minutes / 10 miles). I do most of the driving and work from home, so this new option would add up to an hour or more of driving back and forth for me most days. Trying to decide if that’s reasonable or would be too much.