Maternity Monday: Mia Secret-Fit Over-the-Belly Straight-Leg Pant
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Expecting? Congratulations! Stock your maternity work wardrobe with these versatile straight leg pants.
These pull-on work pants are made from a soft stretchy fabric that adjusts to your changing body. The high rise waist hugs your bump while the straight fit and 28-inch inseam works with everything from cozy sweaters to tailored blazers.
Motherhood Maternity’s Mia Secret Fit Over-the-Belly Pants are $40 at Target and come in sizes XS-XL. They’re available in five classic colors.
Building a maternity wardrobe for work? Check out our page with more suggestions along both classic and trendy/seasonal lines.
Sales of note for 3/2:
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- Ann Taylor – 30% off the Weekend Collection + extra 30% off sale + 30% off your purchase with extra 15% off $200+
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- Nordstrom – 4,000 new markdowns for women!
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Does anyone have a recommendation for a decent but affordable bat for an 8U softball player? She’s still playing rec so I don’t think we need to invest $$$ in this but at the same time this is her second season, she’s pretty committed to it, and I think we could upgrade from whatever no name $20 bat we got at Walmart.
I feel ridiculous expressing this to anyone in real life, but I’m struggling with working from home. My flexible job with 1-2x/week in office obligation works well with kids, but I prefer being in the office. I feel like in person conversations are quicker/easier and I’ve found myself getting anxious/blowing situations out of proportion in my mind while I’m alone at home. House chores and cleaning are also hanging over me in a way they wouldn’t be if I didn’t work from home. The obvious solution is to find an in person job, but, as we all know, school hours are just incompatible with full time work.
Please, please give me your parenting two toddlers (18m and 3) while pregnant in the first trimester tips. I just want to lay down. I absolutely do not want to prepare food for them. Even Cheerios smell disgusting to me!
What does early intervention look like for a baby? Trying not to completely panic that my doctor referred us.
Suggestions for a storage box to hold kids art work? Their completed art work is taking over the house. I try to be selective about what we save, but I also just need a good way to store it.
Any recs for an NYC hotel with young kids? We will probably do a few of the big sights but mostly plan to see friends (who live in LES and the suburbs), hang out at some parks, and eat.
I’m looking for baby monitor recommendations, as I have a second baby on the way. I don’t want anything high tech and don’t want it connected to the internet. But would love to have two cameras (one in the baby’s room and one in my toddler’s room) without needing to carry two monitors around the house. Any recommendations?
Late to the game on this but I just read Anne Helen Peterson’s 2022 essay on how women and men spend leisure time differently and it struck a chord. She says that men are more likely to have dedicated hobbies that get them focused and out of the house for hours, like golf, while women are more likely to have hobbies that are home-bound and easily interruptible, like reading, and they’re more likely to schedule them at times that work better for the family than for themselves (5:30 am, late night). Then women get worse-quality leisure and end up doing it less and losing out on the true benefits.
I’m someone who DOES have some male-coded, outside hobbies and I still feel that pressure so much. Why am I telling myself I can’t do a local workout class series because they don’t have late evening classes, when I HATE working out anyway, instead of carving out the hour when my son is awake and can be happy with his dad?
Although my DH is a pretty equal partner with respect to the kids on the daily stuff, he really drops the ball on special events like kid birthdays and holidays. Any tips on how to solve? If it weren’t for me, our kids genuinely wouldn’t have presents, our family would have no plans on holidays, and he’d be casually throwing together some half-baked plan morning of which would feel exactly like every other day. For example, he was in charge of Thanksgiving and waited so late to make a plan for food that he ended up only being able to get one local grocery store to cater and then proceeded to not start cooking in a reasonable time frame day-of, so our little kids ultimately missed the meal and were put to bed after having microwave chicken nuggets while a dozen grown ups scrounged around hungry for a few hours. Maybe an important note – he thinks that this was a fine outcome (I disagree) and evidence that if I let him do things his way, it turns out fine in the end.
In general, I’m ok with the principle of letting him fail when needed on the daily stuff (which honestly again isn’t much of a problem), but when it comes at the cost of nice family holidays or our kids having a costume for Halloween or a birthday gift, it doesn’t feel fair to let the kids bear the cost. At the same time, we’re in a stretch right now of Easter and multiple family birthdays that I’m just hauling 95% of the weight on, and I’m sick of it. Any ideas?