Maternity Monday: Seam Detail Maternity Top
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Isabella Oliver has some great sales going on right now if you’re building or refreshing a maternity wardrobe; lots of their classic dresses are 50% off (but lucky sizes only). I like this flattering maternity top with a seam detail — nice high neckline, long enough to wear with pretty much anything, and I’d even give it a try with a skinny belt above the bump. The top was $128, but is now marked to $64; it’s available in lots of sizes in berry and yellow. Lauryn Seam Detail Maternity Top
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Psst: apparently Isabella Oliver started a non-maternity brand called Baukjen, offering a lot of their classic styles (ruched dresses, etc) in non-maternity sizes. Nice!
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+
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?
Mats for under the high chair — advice? We have one that I like (it’s cute, sweet potato doesn’t stick to it) but my husband (SAHD) hates that it can’t go in the washing machine. We had been using a towel before I got the mat, but it was gross and also too small. What do you do?
I think your mom is being ridiculous and you should just name your baby what you want. If the other couple someday has a boy and really want to use the name your mother is imagining for them (a silly exercise), then they can and the world will not end.
No one owns a name and no one gets to veto another person’s choice for their child (except the other parent).
It is a cousin’s child? So the kids would be second cousins? And see each other every once in a blue moon? Use the name in good health and if the cousin also uses the name, congratulate them on choosing an awesome one.
Anyone want to help me out with a name issue? Our first is due in early May and we don’t know the sex. We picked out a boy name that my husband and I both love, partly bc it’s a family name on my mom’s side.
Here’s the background: my uncle has the name as a middle name, then another aunt used it as my cousins middle (cousin two), then the uncle who had it as a middle named his own son (cousin two) as a junior. So cousin two has his father’s first and middle.
Cousin one’s wife is pregnant with their first and its a girl- he specifically told me no names are off limits. However, my mom told me that cousin two’s wife has had a recent miscarriage and I should reach out to them before using cousin two’s middle name as a first. Her logic is that maybe they’d want to give cousins two’s first and middle to a son as the III and call him by the middle. No one suggested this to her, and no one goes by a middle name in our family. However, she thinks cousin two might have veto power here.
I’m reluctant to call them up about potential baby names when I’m not supposed to know about the miscarriage. Also, I’m not quite sure I think it’s fair to “reserve” the name given that it’s a middle name that another cousin has too. I’m also reluctant to ask bc we might have a girl and not use it. Any thoughts on the etiquette here?
Outsourcing Help: Fellow-working moms, I am at the end of my rope with work/home (see post above re: being puked on in the face). I am basically a single parent (long story), and nearly dying trying to do it all. I need to outsource anything I can. Help me brainstorm what I can outsource? So far, I have: (1) hired a cleaning company to come once every other week; (2) new nanny that will do kids’ laundry. Options: meal prep service. What else is out there?
Just looking for any more thoughts/commiseration on TTC with demanding jobs… DH and I both travel, typically not more than 25%, but things are busy for both of us these days. I almost lost it when this past weekend, DH informed me he has to be at a client in California next Monday – right smack in the middle of when I’ll likely get my trigger shot and need him to, you know. Get me pregnant. (so any anecdata that says you ovulate less than six days after Clomid would make me feel better!)
I do think he’s making it a priority, but there’s only so many times you can have a “minor medical emergency” that necessitates cancelling travel, and I think we’re both loathe to use that one up so early (this is our first medicated cycle). At the same time, I’m annoyed at the thought of taking a round of Clomid and not even getting a chance to really ‘try’ it.
I also feel totally judged by the fertility clinic people – like they think if we both just didn’t work so hard we would have gotten pregnant already. The nurse acted like no one else ever had this issue, and said my only hope was to “cross all your fingers and toes!” that the Clomid works quickly.
Anyone have a kid battle the stomach bug for almost a week? I am at my wits end and utterly exhausted. Going to the ped again today but my normal little whirlwind is still crying on the couch. I thought these things normally worked their way out of little systems faster than this.
Maybe I just need a virtual hug.
Nanny Payroll Advice
I am sure this has been covered, so direct me to that thread if you know of it . . .
Do you use an accountant or payroll service to process payroll checks? We have been using a spreadsheet to record all the details and writing personal checks to our Nanny and the government. I was wondering if you all had suggestions on better way to manage this? We are pretty good with numbers, but slightly delinquent on life duties that do not involve (1) keeping kiddo alive and happy and (2) meeting job expectations.
Thanks!
More of a sympathy rant. I totally messed something up at work – came to light over the weekend. Won’t cost the client anything, but looked bad (and I’m junior). I feel terrible. And also like I’m now bad at a job that I could have been good at before I was pregnant in my first trimester with a toddler to worry about on the side. Off ADHD meds obviously and generally feeling more careless and torn in many directions. Did anyone feel this way? Like it was affecting your performance? There’s not really anything I can do, but I hate being bad.
It also made me realize I don’t like my current position – lots of anxiety – but I really don’t think it would be wise to start planning a move until I take maternity (I’m in big law).
I wanted to thank the person who suggested bringing a Roku on vacation (I think it was someone here). It was such a great tip! We were able to rent movies, watch Netflix at night, play music for our daughter, etc. It would never have otherwise occurred to me to bring it, and my husband and I were so glad to have it.
How long would you give your baby (or maybe more likely, yourself) to adjust to a new daycare before looking for other options? My 8 week old started at one of the large chains (BH) last Friday and I’m feeling some unexpected unease mostly because our normally calm, happy, and easy sleeping baby was extremely cranky the rest of the day Friday and it didn’t abate until Sunday afternoon. Granted there are lots of explanations for a cranky baby, but I wonder if it was the daycare.
I didn’t like that she barely napped at the daycare. The log says she had one 45 minute nap and then an hour long one when at home she’ll nap in 1.5-2.5 hour stretches that time of the day. But the log only really accounts for the time she was in the crib – she could have been awake and crying then too (two of the bigger kids were screaming in their cribs when I came to get her at 2PM). She’s also by far the youngest in the infant room (the rest of the kids range from 8 to 15 months) which is kind of dashing my hopes for socialization. It’s also reflected in the toys, which are safe but not at all interesting to a baby her age. My husband asked them if they had a baby gym this morning and they said they’d look and see. That doesn’t inspire confidence!
For people who put a young baby in daycare, do these things get better or do you think these are red flags? We have a spot at another daycare that I liked much more, but it’s not until September so it would be complicated but not impossible to take her out. But if this is just normal adjustment (and not mama guilt) then it would probably happen again at the new place, maybe even worse since she’ll be in the separation anxiety phase by then.
Thoughts, anyone?