Maternity Monday: Front Tie Blazer
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I was looking through comments on a recentish post, and some lucky reader scored a major sale on this blazer — which I immediately recognized as the very same blazer I had bought during my first pregnancy, probably a good five years ago at this point.
It was one of my favorite blazers for pregnancy. (Admittedly I only had two maternity blazers — this one in gray, and a boyfriend ponte blazer from Pea in the Pod or some such — and in my second pregnancy was able to keep wearing my regular blazers).
It’s always calming (and exciting in a weird way? I’m such a shopper) to find a gem that a company keeps making.
Indeed, Amazon has the same blazer in beige, a dark maroon, and a more tweedy gray version for $42-$128; there are even a smattering of matching skirts and pants (such as here and here). The pictured color is available for most sizes, XS-XL, for $121. Maternal America Maternity Front Tie Blazer
Building a maternity wardrobe for work? Check out our page with more suggestions along both classic and trendy/seasonal lines.
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
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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?
Re-posting from main s i t e.
Should I wean my 1 year old? We’re going on a trip to India at the end of March when she will be exactly 1. She nurses to sleep but if she’s in bed with me she tends to wake up more to nurse (when she’s in her crib she’ll stay asleep for 10-12 hours). On the trip she will be in our bed and I dont want to wake up frequently to nurse her. On the other hand, I am worried about food quality and want her to have a reliable source of food if she gets sick. We will be gone for one week. Would you wean? If I wasnt going on the trip, I would probably continue nursing only at night before bedtime but I am really dreading the idea of waking every 2-3 hours to nurse her (and creating a bad habit!).
Tips for encouraging a 26 month old to nap at home? A few weeks ago she started climbing out of her crib; we’ve had 3 napless weekends in a row. We’ve removed all toys except books from her room, but I can’t remove, like, her dresser full of clothes. She still needs the nap, and takes a 2 hour nap at daycare. We’ve tried the “silent return” to her crib, ignoring her and letting her have an hour or so of quiet time, lying down next to her . . . nothing has worked. Help!
I’m curious how careful you all are with sugar for your toddlers. My one year old really likes oatmeal these days and I eat myself the trader joes frozen ones with maple syrup and brown sugar added, and give those to her too, for example. I could also just give her plain oatmeal.
FWIW, she also likes kraft mac n cheese. Oops. But in a lot of other respects, we tend to be pretty good about giving her whole foods, if that makes sense?
Ladies, can I get a reality check? I have to go on a recruiting trip next week to the college town where my husband and I met. A month ago when this came up, we decided it would be fun to go together, take our four month old, and my husband could interview law clerks at the same time (he owns his law practice). Now he is suggesting that I just take the trip alone so that he doesn’t have to be out of the office.
I’m so not emotionally ready for this. Set aside the logistics of having to lug a pump around, DH has never managed to get the baby to sleep (lack of patience) and would not function at all the next day if he had to get up with baby twice (or more!) a night. If I really cram all the recruiting events/interviews together and take flights with some crazy connections, I can make the trip just one night.
Can someone please talk me off this ledge? I’m upset that DH would put me in this position, but I know that on Mondays all he can see is work. I also know that baby won’t go 36 hours without sleeping – they may have a rough night, but the babysitter can get him to sleep during the day and then I’ll just have to deal with any lingering effects when I get home. At the same time, I am pretty sure I will be a terrible recruiter and the positions I’m hiring for are critical to my own professional success over the next year+. Do I beg DH into coming on the trip? Do I just suck it up and go? If option B, how do I get DH and baby ready for this?
I’m afraid that I am beginning to build up some weird resentment issues with my in-laws. As far as in-laws go, they are really nice, generous, fun people who I know love my family. But, particularly since we have had the baby, there are things that have happened that I have tried to let go of but end up holding a weird grudge about. Like the time MIL kept putting off getting a flu shot when baby was born, or when they drove 6 hours to the hospital and knocked on the door when they heard I was in labor, or when she suggested I become a SAHM (just not who I am)…
I usually tend to resolve things like this by just saying what’s on my mind. But, I’m not always able to do that on the spot with them, and it feels like making too big of an issue out of things if I bring it up later (a point my husband has made). It’s also hard because my husband does most of the managing for their relationship with our family, and I sometimes feel he doesn’t do enough to set limits with them, whereas he feels my limits are irrational and hurtful to his parents.
Anyway, I guess I’m looking for some tips on how to be a big girl and just suck it up – acknowledging it could be much, much worse…..
Thanks for the response! My husband is also super supportive of my career and I know my MIL does not mean any harm… I think husband just doesn’t think these things are that big of a deal because it doesn’t ultimately impact anything – just offhand comments that reflect their background more than any real expectation of us. I know this in my head, but am having a hard time shrugging things off. To clarify, my husband does not think all limits are irrational/hurtful, but does not always agree with the way I would respond (tone/content) if it were my own parents. We are talking about it a lot more, but still trying to find a place where we are both comfortable. Nothing has actually become a real issue – at the hospital he told them to go away and come back tomorrow, which I also agreed to; on the SAHM thing, it’s a moot point and hasn’t come up again. But now I’m just FEELING resentful for even the smallest things which I KNOW are not a big deal.
Has anyone here used BabyWise? I had a counselor recommend it to me and I like the concept but most of my friends are attachment parenting co-sleepers so they all think it sounds like the worst thing ever.