Maternity Monday: ‘Nouveau’ Sheath Maternity Dress
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I always like Leota sheath dresses. This one, I’ll grant you, has an unusual print, but I kind of like it — it’s a fun, spring-y plaid and it’s a nice change from the typical maternity dresses. Sizes are XS–L, and the dress is machine washable (lay flat to dry). You can find it at Nordstrom for $98, and Amazon has it in different patterns (sizes include XL, which is sold out at Nordstrom) as well as the plus-size version. ‘Nouveau’ Sheath Maternity Dress
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Sales of note for 9.10.24
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- 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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- I need tips on managing employees in BigLaw who have to leave for daycare pickup…
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- 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?
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What are your best book recommendations for TTC and pregnancy?
We’re just starting out and i’m in my first “two week wait”. The internet seems to polarize itself between “live life as normal” and “sit quietly no chocolate no baths no exercise omg don’t let yourself stress!!” and it’s be nice to have a balanced, scientific approach.
Expecting Better, hands down.
Some nice person hit my car in the gym parking lot this morning and didn’t leave a note. Just the way I wanted to start my week.
I feel like I’m messing everything up as a working mom. My 2 year old (always a bad sleeper) woke up at 4:30am this morning and wouldn’t go back to sleep. So by the time we dropped him at daycare at 8:00, he was a mess, and he just has to push through till nap at 1pm, which makes me feel so guilty. And I just got a call that I have to go pick up our 5 month old because he’s sick. For the second time in 2 weeks. Meanwhile I’m behind on everything at work and really just barely holding on to my sanity.
How do people do this?? Being a working mom with one kid was tough enough, I’m not sure we’re going to make it through these years with two. My husband is an equal co-parent in every way. Short of one of us quitting our jobs, what do we do to get through this phase? I just feel like we’re failing these poor kids who are sick and tired so often.
(I suspect many of you will suggest a nanny, but I have always had serious concerns about my childcare being wholly dependent on one single person. Plus my two year old is so used to daycare, we’d need to enroll him in some sort of preschool, and you can’t just do that mid year our very crowded and competitive area, and in fact i think we’ve missed most of the deadlines for next fall as well. So a nanny is not an easy answer to our problems.)
Ugh, forgot one of the horns for my double pump so my already annoying pumping sessions are now even longer. Feeling a bit stressed about supply, down to a day reserve in the freezer so I’m going to try some power pumping.
The very best pre-pregnancy read:
It Starts With the Egg by Rebecca Fett
I found this much more useful than Taking Charge of Your Fertility, Impatient Women’s Guide…, etc. I attribute my third successful pregnancy to this book.
Overnight my (just about to turn 3 year old) went from well-behaved to a defiant little rule breaker who has all sorts of arbitrary demands (not the blue cup! the red cup! (after requesting the blue cup)) and basically has us all twisted in knots.
Is this just three? How long did this phase last for you all?
We had more tantrums this weekend then we usually have across several weeks, and I think she’s feeling fine!
I know this is a deeply personal decision, but I’d love to get people’s thoughts on how they picked the child spacing.
In my circle, the most common age difference between kids seems to be 18 months to two years. I have a 9 month old that’s still not a great sleeper and so so active, so I just can’t imagine right now (not to mention I don’t even have my period back). I always thought we’d start trying after she turns 2, hoping for a 3 year age difference?
I think having them 18 months or 2 years apart is fantastic for their relationship as they get older, but it just seems impossibly challenging until the youngest turns 1 or 2? I’m not sure if its any better with a 3 year age difference though.. gah.
I’m also having to factor in that I really want to get a new job for many reasons. If I want a 2ish age difference, I need to stay put here, but if I want 3, I’ve got ~6 months to see if I can find a new job, prove myself there for a year, and then start trying?
I know this is a crazy amount of planning and things rarely work according to plan, but just trying to factor in what I can see as issues to consider.
I have a 3 year age gap. When I was growing up the 2 year age gap was by far most common. In Canada, since I was a kid the leave period has increased to one year and it seems that the 3 year age gap is now the most common. A lot of people seem to do one year off, 9 months or a year back to work before starting to try and then it’s close to two years back at work by the time the second baby arrives. The longer period off for leave makes people feel like they have to be back to work for longer in between leaves. I love the 3 year age gap – they play together tons and my oldest was old enough at 3 years old to be patient when I needed to help the baby.
Only thing I wish I did differently is start trying a bit early to have earlier birthdays. My kids are all late fall birthdays and they hate being the youngest in their classes. DH and I are spring birthdays so we didn’t even think of this. Avoid a November/December birthday if you can. If I had my time back I would have taken a month or two off from trying but these things are so hard to predict, I could have planned for a January birthday and ended up with a November preemie.
Has anyone had PPD manifest itself as irritability/anger and/or mood swings? I don’t feel sad or hopeless or anxious, nor do I worry or think about hurting myself or my baby. However, the slightest little things send me into a crying fit or an emotional outburst (normally directed at my husband), even if I was emotionally happy or fine a few minutes before.
I’ve been depressed and I have generalized anxiety disorder, and this doesn’t feel like either of those, though I know something is off. I am calling my therapist today but am looking for first person experiences, if anyone is willing to share.
Does anyone here have advice for “leaning out” while keeping your foot in the door in your field? I hate the thought of it but I will probably be winding down my law practice (already went to of counsel at my firm but will probably completely exit) due to some serious health issues for our kid. I know this is the necessary and best decision for us but how can I keep my foot in the door for the future?
Has anyone here cut the cord and cancelled cable? We tried it in 2007, but it was hard. Technology has come a long way and there are enough options now that I think it would be easy. I currently have two toddlers who watch limited tv – and what they do watch is on netflix or amazon. But I worry that as the kids get older they would miss it.
Wondering if any of you have tried a certain childcare arrangement and if so, how it worked for you. My daughter starts kindergarten in fall 2019 and my son will be 3 at that time. We were thinking of getting an au pair. A very very close friend in her 60s is a WFH consultant who is broke because she cashed in her retirement to pay her sister in law’s medical bills (cancer in America is a b!tch) and who is also basically homeless because she gave up her rental in LA to couchsurf and support family while her sister in law and father both battled terminal illness. We are toying with the idea of having that friend live with us and do the morning dropoff and after school pickup. She loves our kids and is very interested in the idea. She could keep doing her mostly-WFH consultant work while the kids are at school. She travels occasionally for meetings – like a couple days a month – and I think if she had to travel, my husband’s and my schedule is flexible enough that we could do our own pickup and dropoff that day as long as we knew in advance. Our house setup is good – back stairs to a two room suite over the garage with en suite bath. So she’d have her own private full bathroom, bedroom, and sitting room/office that is separated from the rest of our bedrooms.
Has anyone done anything like this, and how did it work, and do you have any pointers or questions we should think about? The idea is very freeform and we can speak frankly and freely with this friend. She has stayed with us for days on end before, and lived with some other friends for a while as well and they found her to be a delightful addition to the household. Our initial thought was to pay her what we would pay an au pair for the child care time. Her initial reaction was to refuse payment. We are going to keep talking about it over the next few months.
Yet another sleep question (sorry). My 2.5 year old is going through a very long stretch of terrible sleep. It’s been months. She’s up multiple times a night and it immediately escalates into her yelling for us for mundane things like putting her blanket back on her. I do not believe it’s nightmares. I think she wants the interaction / to know we’re there / her blanket is too small / she might possibly be hungry. We’ve purchased a weighted blanket (waiting for it to be delivered), and I’m going to give her a spoonful of peanut butter tonight before bed. We’re literally just throwing everything we can think of at this and hoping that something sticks.
But… is it also crazy to take a side off her crib at this point too? I realize how disruptive that can be in an ordinary situation, but right now nothing has worked and I really don’t want to get to a point where her sleeping is better only to just mess it up again.
No cable for almost 10 years. We stream Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Pbs, HBO, Comedy Central etc etc through a Roku box these days. $99 for the Roku and maybe $35/mo combined for all programs we utilize? It’s great.