Nursing/Postpartum Tuesday: Modern Rainbow & Rays Teether
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If the sight of day-glo-colored kids’ toys makes your eyes hurt, here’s a teether for you.
The calming terra-cotta color of this teether from Pretty Please Teethers is a welcome respite from the loud colors populating playrooms. This silicone teether is filled with soft silicone beads — just pop it in the freezer to cool tender gums.
This teether is $14.99 at Nordstrom.
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+
I’m a new mom of a 6 month old baby, and this may sound odd, but I like it so much more than I thought I would? I was on the fence about having kids for a loooong time because I understood what that reality would probably look like. I thought I might have to slog through the baby years but eventually it would be worth it. Alas, I am not slogging. I’m absolutely thriving, I’ve never been happier, everything is great. I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop. When does it start getting “I’m starting to regret this” hard?
Tactical question: practically speaking, how do you teach table manners in your house? Is it something you just model? Do you actively practice behaviors at certain meals? We’d like our 4yo to develop better table manners, but he’s often exhausted at dinner and it’s been a struggle.
i know there are a number of parents on here with kiddos with adhd or sensory challenges, etc. how do you manage to stay patient with your kids? i think we are heading towards an adhd diagnosis with one of our twins, but even if she ends up not meeting the official diagnostic criteria, she has a number of tendencies that she clearly cannot control, which are super annoying for me and DH. she is already in OT, but we can barely make it through a meal without her knocking over her water bottle or dropping her fork, etc., when sitting in a chair, she is always picking up the back legs, chewing on/licking different things, and just generally cannot sit still. she can be the sweetest kid ever, but sometimes it is just so hard to stay patient. any tips?
My husband and I usually go each summer to our family vacation home with our 5 year old who’s going into K this summer, and my mom goes too. DH doesn’t want to go this summer. I’m not worried about the plane travel, I travel solo with my kid a lot, but I generally look forward to this trip as a vacation and it won’t really be one unless I arrange some paid childcare. We’ll still have two adults there, but my mom understandably isn’t as hands-on as DH is, plus she and I share a hobby my kid hates and since kid is too young to stay home alone even briefly, it will be hard to do it without DH there. So we were looking at signing kid up for a half day camp, but the camps in the area are all full day and very expensive. We could pull her out early I think but it seems like a waste of money to sign up for these expensive full day camps just to send her for a couple of hours. I found a daycare program that lets you enroll by the week and has half days, plus I think my kid would actually enjoy it more than the camps (less structured and less outdoorsy, both of which are good for her). But I feel weird about sending her to “daycare” on vacation. Somehow camp seemed fine, maybe because people think of camp as having more educational value, but daycare is…daycare. I know it’s just a mental block and the terminology doesn’t really matter. Anyone done anything like this?
DH and I need to decide, once and for all, whether to take our older kids on a Disney trip. We had one planned for 2020 and obviously canceled. We were excited back then: our girl was still in her princess phase, and our boy would’ve been geeked for all the Harry Potter stuff. Three years later, our girl couldn’t care less about princesses and while our boy still likes HP, it’s not an obsession anymore. I feel really sad about this, actually, like we missed our window for making all that time, effort, and expense worthwhile.
On the surface, Disney sounds like a massive, overcomplicated endeavor. (We have a friend who is a Disney travel planner and can help with logistics, but still. Having to go-go-go constantly doesn’t sound much fun anymore.) Would we enjoy another stupid expensive vacation more than Disney? Are we depriving our kids of a key childhood experience? They have no idea that we had a trip planned in 2020 and occasionally have lamented that they haven’t been to Disney like their friends.
With these factors in mind — would you try to make this work? Will it be worth it? I recognize this would be a vacation that’s very much for the kids, not us.
Strike camp report – kiddo had a great time, there were 6 kids and 4 staff which suits my little old man. They made cookies, played outside, did crafts. He was reading his magazine at the table when I got there.
I got most of my teaching prep done and my lupus is flaring so curled up on the sofa with the heated blanket. Now off to the airport and he’s at the fun swim / adventure camp tomorrow.
It also gave me a bit more confidence to just book him there for the week we need coverage over the summer.
Question for UK moms – we have an upcoming trip that will involve unavoidable trips in taxis in a rural area with a very large (~47 lb) nearly 5 year old. Will U.S. booster seats work in UK cars? Some of the standard models appear to use the LATCH system which I’m not sure UK cars have ? Any recommendations for something I can buy here that will work ?
This is prime sadbeigechildren
Just reposting from yesterday because I feel this strongly about the cheap pump!
Oh! I know this one!
I had Medela (older version) PIS for my first and it was okay. I now have a spectra S1 and I like it better, but it’s also been 6 years so technology maybe just advanced.
BUT, I actually like this incredibly cheap one the best! by far! No word on how it ages, and it’s not hospital grade in terms of being a closed loop, but it is SO much more effective than the other two I’ve owned. It’s a bit louder, but way smaller, and works with avent natural bottles (like the spectra). I’m not going to link here but it’s by bellebaby and it’s a double pump. I got it for literally 42 bucks on sale (with bottles and flanges), so it may be worth just having it as a backup/work pump.
In the age of hybrid work, I’ve found having a tiny hand pump also valuable. I’d just get whatever one fits with your main pump’s bottles, but for the Medela hand pump has lasted best.
Interesting factoid of the day: Daniel Tiger was named for Debbie Daniel, the female tv executive who launched Mr Rogers’ first show, and the whole station that aired it. She gave him the first tiger puppet at a party to celebrate their first broadcast.
Looking for recommendations on where to take my 6 year old shopping for sneakers. I have been buying shoes online, either Amaz*n or Kidizen, and just cannot ever seem to get the size right on the first try. I want to get her a good quality pair of sneakers to wear for spring sports and summer camp, preferably without breaking the bank. I don’t think we need to get her measured or anything, just go to a place with a good selection where she can try on various option. Would DSW be good for this? Any other Philly area recommendations?
We need a new morning strategy. We’ve had our 3.5 year old in a full-size bed for about 3 weeks now, and where he used to sleep in/babble quietly in his crib until 8:30 or so, he now gets up and wanders the halls starting at 6:15. We got him a Hatch light that turns green at a certain time, but he’s not paying any attention to it. One day I was able to pull him into our bed and get an extra 20 minutes of sleep, but that hasn’t been successful since. Do we need to put a child lock on his door? Or just embrace the early rising and adjust our schedules?
Is the Doona worth it?
Pregnant with #2. Big sister will be 2 when baby is born. We never bought an infant seat car seat for her, we’ve just used a convertible car seat since birth and a Mockingbird stroller.
Imaging daycare drop offs and just moving around with 2, this time we’ll want an infant seat, right? Could we just get a decent travel system for $300 or is it really worth it to spend an extra $250+ on the Doona?