Nursing/Postpartum Tuesday: Maternity Party Dress with Nursing Access
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Lately, I’ve been seeing a lot of twist details on tops and dresses. This trend works especially well for nursing (and expecting) moms, as shown by this dress from Boob Design.
This form-fitting dress both shows off your growing bump and provides easy nursing access under the twist front. Made from a stretchy and cool lyocell jersey fabric, this dress epitomizes all-day comfort. To wear it now, add a cozy, textured cardigan and tall boots.
This dress from Boob Design $139 and comes in navy and dark mauve. It’s available in sizes S–XL.
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+
What is your plan for childcare? If you are sending DS to daycare, start touring daycares now and get on waitlists.
Get a chest freezer and stock it with frozen meals that require minimal prep (i.e. goes straight from freezer to oven or microwave). If a friend or family member reaches out to you to offer help, ask them to set up a meal train for you.
Look into a postpartum doula and/or night nurse. I found out about night nurses way too late!
Meet up with friends or call them to chat. You may not have a chance to talk to them again for a while. Ask them to check up on you in the months after you give birth.
Does your hospital offer group sessions with new moms? Or any other play date groups or Gymboree groups, etc? It’s great to be able to connect with other new moms during those days.
hi there! Im hitting 31 weeks pregnant with my first, a boy, tomorrow. Seeking any advice from this board as I enter the home stretch of pregnancy! Everything is getting tougher to do these days, but wondering what I should really prioritize getting done before baby comes. Some things I’m already doing:
– baby shower in 2 weeks and setting up nursery/getting baby items
– maternity photos this weekend
– working on a will and life insurance for me and my spouse
– we have infant cpr and overview of delivery at my hospital classes lined up already
– getting lactation consultant ready (have a general consultation with one a month before due date)
– trying to do the financial things for 2024 that I can now (401k, IRA contributions, collecting tax docs)
Anything else? It’s my first and I deal with the unknown/anxiety by making plans and lists, if you can’t tell!
I know internet strangers can’t settle a marriage disagreement, but I’m curious if you guys think I’m being unfair to my husband.
My husband enjoys travel much less than I do. I take our two elementary age kids on an annual one week vacation without him, giving him solo time at home without any family responsibilities. I think it’s fair that I get an equivalent amount of time for a trip without the family, normally solo or with girlfriends. This means that (excluding work travel, which he does a lot more of) we have the same amount of solo parenting time and the same amount of kid-free time. His feeling is that he doesn’t ask me to take the kids on a trip, so I shouldn’t be rewarded with a solo trip for doing something he didn’t ask for. And I do see where he’s coming from. But at the same time, he would grumble about doing more family vacations, so I feel like I am sort of doing him a favor taking the kids on a trip without him.
Outfit inspiration needed! What is your go-to outfit that you wear when you want to feel put together at work? How about on the weekend?
I’ll go first: for work, its a cream silk blouse tucked into straight leg black trousers and a camel blazer. I either wear flats if I have a meeting or cuff the pants and wear black chelsea boots if I dont.
Weekend I have a harder time but right now it’s straight leg jeans cuffed with sneakers and a chunky sweater.
Our previously amazing daycare has become so short-staffed due to people unexpectedly quitting and other issues that they were turning families away at the door this morning once they reached capacity based on the number of staff who showed up. Things look unlikely to get better in the short term. Everything in the area has a waitlist (especially for infants).
I’m searching for backup care options but it’s so hard to find someone who isn’t already working during the day. I’m afraid we are going to be back to trying to work and take care of kiddos and it’s giving me 2020 flashbacks.
Any ideas I’m not thinking of? Has anyone else ever dealt with anything like this?
Tips on surviving disney world traveling with kids and extremely difficult grandparents? My mother and I have a challenging relationship, and I am deeply regretting inviting her on this trip but felt I had to because she talked a lot about wanting to do disney with her grandkids. Essentially she’s already freaking out about making sure we have an hour-by-hour itinerary, reservations for every meal, what we’re going to do if one of my kids wants to do something and the other one doesn’t, etc. We’re not leaving for two months. Should I spring for a VIP guide?
I teach university but I’ve gotten roped in to do a series of politics talks at my son’s school, and weirdly I find 11 and 12-year-olds way more daunting than the 17 to 20-year-olds I normally teach. Like are they going to think my dog photos are goofy and my jokes are bad? Probably…
Hello from the frozen Midwest. We’re on a two hour school delay today, which doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me because the temperature is the same at 8 am and 10 am – actually colder at 10 with the windchill. But oh well, my kid is happy.