My old nursing cover looked like an apron with some cutesy print — this one from Seraphine looks a lot more fashionable.
This nursing cover is knit from a soft bamboo/wool blend that very helpfully wicks away moisture. (Your baby can feel like a hot potato after a while.) You can secure it at the shoulder with snaps while nursing or wear it as a shawl or wrap once baby is finished dining. You can even use it as a swaddle or baby blanket.
Seraphine’s Nursing Cover/Maternity Shawl is $55.
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Octo(ber)mom says
Compression leggings question. I ordered a pair and they are TIGHT – like all the way through, is a real job to wiggle into them. Is this normal? Haven’t given birth yet so not sure what will be necessary. If it’s just the belly that should be compressed maybe I ordered the wrong thing and should return these.
Anon says
Are compression leggings A Thing now for postpartum? I never used them, nor did most of my friends. If it’s your first baby your shape will likely come back pretty quickly, with or without any special tricks. Honestly my belly looked much better at one week postpartum than it does now at almost 5 years postpartum. Even if I hadn’t naturally gotten my shape back, I can’t imagine trying to squeeze myself into something uncomfortable for the sake of looking thin right after having a baby.
Anonymous says
Hahahhahaha smugggh
Anon says
How is this smug? I said I look worse now. Late 30s metabolism slowdown has not been kind to me, but I lost pregnancy weight without needing a girdle and I think that’s true of most women. I think it’s crazy to torture yourself skinny right after having a baby – a time when everyone expects you to have a belly and your body is recovering from growing a human and may still be feeding one – but you do you.
AnonATL says
They sound like they might be a size too small. I have some designed for working out, not postpartum, and I do have to wiggle them on but they aren’t uncomfortable.
My hips are wider even 2 years postpartum and my belly has definitely changed shape (some of which is Covid weight)
Spirograph says
a.) your handle is cute, I like it. :)
b.) That’s how compression leggings are supposed to fit, but…
c.) I’m familiar with the idea of compression leggings to increase bloodflow and enhance performance for exercise, but unless you have reason to be concerned about blood clots, I don’t think they’d be useful postpartum. Like Anon said, squeezing myself into something uncomfortable right after birth would have been a non-starter. I lived in loose-fitting stuff for at least a week. (gah, dealing with post-partum bleeding in tight pants is just…. no!) If you end up with a c-section, you will not be able to wear anything tight around your waist.
FWIW, and with the caveat that every body is different: but I was back in something approximating my pre-pregnancy shape without a waist trainer or any other tricks after a couple weeks. After that it was just general weight loss, which also took care of itself with no special effort on my part over the couple months.
Anon says
I’m not totally sure of the reason for the leggings, but if it’s just to hug your stomach and hips you could try a belly wrap. It did help me feel “pulled in” and my muscles went back together quickly. (Though, I used it less and less with each subsequent baby and look the same after baby 3 as I did after baby 1 so while I think it definitely helps, genetics and general fitness play perhaps a bigger role)
Anon says
I didn’t wear compression leggings or a belly band after delivering, but I did wear compression leggings from weeks 13-40 of pregnancy. I have varicose veins (genetic – started getting them in my teens – thanks mom & dad!) and wanted to do what I could to prevent them from getting worse.
Yes, they are tight and take a bit of time to put on.
I actually bought a belly band and intended to wear it postpartum, but sold it on ebay a few weeks after delivering w/o ever wearing it. It just seemed like a sad, weird way to treat my body – almost like punishment – after it had just done tremendously powerful and wonderful things.
Anon says
I’m Anon @ 10:27am, and just to clarify based on reading some other comments – I did not have a csection, so I did not feel any particular need for support/feeling pulled in. I might have approached the belly band differently if that had been the case.
Anonymous says
I did not have a csection but got one of those bands at the hospital and wore it constantly the first few weeks postpartum because I found the compression feeling helpful until I felt like I got some sort of abdominal strength back. Not sure if it did anything for appearance but I felt more comfortable in it.
Mary Moo Cow says
I used compression socks for the last trimester and use them now for weight lifting and depending on the degree of compression, yes, they are tight and it is work to get them on. If it leaves you sweaty and exhausted you are either doing it right or might want to size up or go down a level of compression.
If you are looking for post-birth support, you might try the Upsring panty. I had two c-sections and a third similar surgery and used it after my second pregnancy and third surgery, and it made a difference in my recovery. Like someone else said, I just felt more pulled in and supported, especially when sneezing or moving unexpectedly.
Pogo says
Agree with others that the reason for the leggings makes a difference. I wore compression sleeves on my shins when I was pregnant and had very low blood pressure because it kept me from fainting. I never wore any kind of compression thing on my belly… but I did wear a belt when I ran to support my pelvis/bump.
Ok to wake clock says
What type of okay to wake clock do you recommend for a 3 YO? Other suggestions for teaching son how to not turn on the lights and start the day when he wakes at night or very early in the morning?
NLD in NYC says
I’ve been having moderate success with the Hatch light with my 2 year old. He was waking around 5am (sigh). We gradually set the clock back in ~10 min increments until we got to 6:30am. He still wakes before 6:30am most days (around 6:10/15), but he’s more content until the light goes on. We make the light going on a big deal.
Realist says
A nightlight or string lights on an outlet timer worked better for us.
Anonymous says
I think we had the OK to Wake Owl, which looks discontinued. I don’t remember it working that well, but it did have one really cute side benefit – one time when my son was about 3, he came in to our bedroom on a weekend morning and announced it was time to get up. I grunted groggily about wanting to sleep more. He said earnestly, “I’ll go get my owl” and ran off to retrieve it, evidently thinking that if I just saw the owl I would magically be well rested and, you know, OK to wake.
anonM says
I do like Hatch. Both the 2yo and 4yo pay attention to it, even if they don’t always follow it. I have it set for nap, and then to play background calming music during their bedtime routine, then a soft light/sound machine at night, and then the light turns green at wake-up time, but I don’t change the sound machine noise because on rare occasions they will sleep past the green light. I helped kids and us parents stay consistent enough to get through DD’s 5am wake-up phase, so works for me! Oh, and we have a cheaper one we use for travel with a speaker that now sounds horrible. Hatch still sounds good.
AwayEmily says
Hatch forever! We had ok to wake clocks with both our kids when they were babies and then switched to a Hatch when they started sharing a room (at 2 and 4). I much prefer the hatch because you can assign different colors two different things. For example, purple means they can talk but need to stay in their room, yellow means time to sleep, and green means they can leave their room and come downstairs. Being able to adjust it with our phone is also great because realistically both bedtime and wake up tends to fluctuate and a half hour window or so. So we manually change it every night and every morning.
EDAnon says
We have an okay to wake and my 3yp totally gets it and complies with it.
Realist says
At what age did your child start bathing themselves? What did that look like?
Kid has been able to take a shower by themselves with a quick hair check for over a year, but they prefer baths and DH and I have been feeling that bathing should be getting more independent. So we’ve been leaving kid alone more often to do the steps by themselves and have been doing a (mostly) independent bathtime 1-2 times a week. But kid does not like it and wants one of us in the room to babble at. Kid is about 8.
Part of this is definitely having some mom guilt that I don’t really enjoy bathtime conversations with kid (kid mostly makes sound effects and silly jokes and doesn’t really seem to have “conversation” conversations). And kid has been sleeping less and has always had low sleep needs (unlike mom) so I could really use a few minutes from bathtime to get stuff prepped for the next day.
As fun info, the words “I thought you would help me take a bath until I was at least 20!” were said in our house recently.
Anon says
As for actual help, I really think this depends on your child’s hair. My DD has long, thick and and still sometimes needs help at 8 yo.
As for company while showering, I think that’s just a habit. Would playing music help?
Realist says
Music is a good idea, thanks!
Anonymous says
My son is almost 10 and still doesn’t like being in the bathroom or shower alone – he’s scared to be alone in the upstairs in general and really likes to chat. I sometimes read to him (instead of a seperate bedtime story later) to make it easier for me, as I too find it rather claustrophobic, hot and splash-y in there.
Realist says
Yeah, we do connection time before bath and then read a chapter book after bath. With pandemic parenting, I think I am just over the bedtime gauntlet and it would be nice if bathtime was more independent even if kid would rather chat.
SC says
There seem to be two separate issues here–(1) the actual tasks of bathing, and (2) using bath time as a time for conversation/connection. It sounds like you’re at a developmentally appropriate place with respect to the first issue–your kid is mostly independent, and mom and dad check hair. The second is really more of a question of emotional needs and expectations of how/when/where you fulfill those. Even if the conversation isn’t particularly intellectual, it sounds like your kid is getting something important out of these bath time interactions. So, I’d probably try to compromise–for example, “I have X minutes to sit and chat with you while you bathe, and then if you want to stay in the bath, it’ll be time to find [toys/book/podcast/whatever] or get out and put your pajamas on.”
Anonymous says
+1 to this. It sounds like your child is really using that time for connection, and I would be hesitant to take that away completely. A time limit (15 minutes?) sounds like a really good compromise to me.
So Anon says
This is a great point. My 11 year old bathes entirely independently (other than screeching when he got soap in his eyes last night) and my 8 year old needs her long hair checked to make sure all of the conditioner is out. My 11 year old, however, loves to chat about whatever is on his mind as he is getting ready for bed. It is his time to info download (his love language). I can manage about 5-10 minutes of the latest on minecraft/roblox/game de jure before I say that I need to go check on his sister.
GCA says
+1 to this. Kid may be physically capable of all of the actual bathing tasks, up to and including hair, but enjoy the time to connect with you. My almost 7yo has short hair and is totally capable of showering by himself (almost by necessity – we moved into an apartment without a bathtub a couple of years ago) and, separately, needs time for 1:1 parent interaction. Agree with setting a specific amount of time – even five or ten minutes could be enough – or finding time to connect with kid another way.
Realist says
Yeah, I think this is it. Our recent compromise is to stay with them for bath except for 2 nights a week. So mom and dad each get a night “off” from bath but really whoever is still on bedtime duty is checking in on bath, just not sitting there the entire 15-20 minutes that kid sits in the tub and we can attend to evening chores instead of sitting by the tub. We always eat dinner together (only child) and do family connection time before bath and read a chapter book right before bed, so even if child wants more connection time during bath I feel like we are meeting that need as best as we can.
I think I have just been feeling the time crunch lately because I can’t get hardly anything done between putting them to bed and going to be myself, which was a big part of handling daily tasks through the baby/toddler years. It used to be about an hour between when kid went to bed and when I would need to get ready for bed, but now that is down to 15-30 minutes for many evenings. I know it doesn’t work 100% this way, but I think there is definitely this feeling of “if you are going to be sleeping so much less, shouldn’t more of your bedtime routine be independent by this point? Why hasn’t that happened?” So we have been pushing that expectation a bit just because the parents are so exhausted by the end of the day.
Anonymous says
I responded above (nearly 10 year old) but key for me is only bathing my son 2x a week. Obviously people have strong feelings about this, but it is working for us for now. And we allow a fair amount of screentime in the evening too, which occupies him.
Spirograph says
I have 3 kids, and they bathed together (still sometimes two of them bathe together), so while I might have been OK with a 5 year old bathing without me physically present in the bathroom at all times, I still needed to be there because there was also a 2 and/or 3 year old in the bath. And then even after I felt they were *safe* in the bath, there was the question of splashing water everywhere without an adult there to tell them to stop. My youngest is 5.5 and bathes without an adult in the bathroom, with the door open. Our bathtub is on the main floor of the house, and we just check in as needed while cleaning up dinner. We still have bath toys — bath crayons, some measuring cups, and bath bomb surprises, etc — which keeps them entertained without someone to babble at. (I mean, they still babble or sing, they just don’t care if anyone’s listening)
Realist says
The bathtub is on the main floor and luckily my kid is not a splasher, so it is definitely more of emotional thing rather than a safety thing. We do leave the door open too if we aren’t in there. I’ve been playing kid podcasts when we leave, but kid doesn’t like it as much as parental attention. As I mentioned above, my kid has dropped about 30 minutes of sleep over this past year (which I think is probably normal), but it is creating more of a need to do dinner clean up and other chores during bathtime instead of just hanging out by the bathtub. Otherwise I am missing my sleep and getting cranky.
SC says
We do bath time before dinner if it falls on a weeknight. On a weekend, bath time could be in the middle of the afternoon.
Anonymous says
My girls have long thick hair and can both independently bathe and shower at ages 6 and 8. Sometimes they’ll want company, sometimes not. I do have to spot check that all the conditioner is out sometimes on the younger one.
Anon says
I have a 20 month old baby and a (very patient) 15 month old dog. They LOOOOVE each other. Last night, baby was covering the dog up with her blanket, enthusiastically whacking her on the back, and yelling, “night night!” It was adorable.
Anonymous says
I love our kids relationships with our pets. The dog is always so excited to greet them when they come home, and they treat the cat like a playmate- he is SO tolerant of them covering him in stuffed animals, playing hospital, etc. Sometimes he even meows outside their door in the morning so he can go in and hang out with them, lol.
Anon says
We have two older dogs and they wax and wane in their patience with our 20mo. Some days they will let him climb all over them. Some days they growl if he walks over.
On Sunday or oldest dog was laying on the floor watching cartoons with kiddo basically reclining on him. It was precious.
Anonymous says
My Golden Retriever lets all the preschoolers in the extended family play vet with her.
*Closely supervised, of course.
ElisaR says
goldens are the best
More Sleep Would Be Nice says
+1 million. Our golden (RIP) was wary at best of DS #1, but omg from when DS was 6 months-2.5 years, until we had to put the poor pup down, the dog let our son just basically lean on him, sit on him, crawl on him, etc.
They are the best dogs. <3
anonM says
My mom’s golden is so beloved by my kiddos. She’s old, and is so patient with them. The only challenge is trying to make sure they know they can’t treat all dogs like her. (Cute side note – DD calls all goldens by our family golden, like “mama, look, it’s a Spot Dog!”)
Anonymous says
Y’all, my husband is finally beginning to get it. After I had a stress meltdown this weekend, instead of getting mad he 1) ordered dinner 2) surprised me by cleaning the bathroom and 3) immediately answered “yes” when I suggested hiring someone to deep clean the house. I just booked the cleaning and I am so freaking relieved.
Spirograph says
I’m sorry it took a stress meltdown to get there, but yay to hiring someone to do a deep cleaning! The money I throw at housecleaning feels like the best return on investment of anything I spend money on.
Anon says
Agreed. We have local grandparents and it would be a lot harder on me to give up our cleaners than the grandparents (though I definitely love that my parents are close by and appreciate their help).
DLC says
I swear hiring biweekly cleaners saved my marriage. Only I’m the messy one who doesn’t see dirt.
perspective says
Just some perspective, I was having an utterly shit morning frustrated with my 4 year old basically destroying our apartment, all the crafts, etc all over, and how I feel like I am endlessly picking up stuff and it still looks awful and cluttered. Also my husband complaining about various things and grating on me. There was also an incident where I had to take a toy away due to hitting with it, and a resulting tantrum. I was late to work and when i got to my Brooklyn subway stop, it was being closed up due to an “incident.” If anyone’s been following the news at all today, it was a mass shooting. All those things I was obsessing about earlier seem way less important now.
Anonymous says
Yes, oh my goodness, I just saw that in the news a couple hours ago. I’m glad you’re safe! Also, it’s crazy to think the tantrum and running late could have saved you from harm. I was reading about Mackenzie Scott and her love of the Lost Horse parable the other day (there was a profile in either WaPo or NYT, I forget which), and I agree with her — that parable is everything.
Anon says
When do you start an allowance? And how much? My 4 year old knows her numbers and can do basic addition and subtraction (using her fingers) and is showing a lot of interest in money and spending vs. saving, so I thought it might be a good time to introduce a small allowance.
Anonymous says
We started at age 5 with $5/week. Our rule was that the kid had to buy all toys, craft kits, etc. If you want to teach them to save, you need to 1) make buying the types of items they’d save up for totally their responsibility and 2) give them enough money that they can actually save up for something they really want within a couple of months. You also have to let them make their own decisions and mistakes.
Anon says
So currently we don’t really ever buy her anything she doesn’t need except books and birthday/holiday presents, and I’m not inclined to stop the book-buying because I think it benefits her to have a house with a lot of books and I doubt she’d choose to use her allowance on books. We definitely plan to let her control her own money even if she uses it on stupid stuff and regrets it. I think that’s kind of the point of allowance.
Mary Moo Cow says
Our family rule is you can always have a book from the store but not always a toy. DD sometimes saves up to buy toys and she once saved allowance to buy a pretend princess makeup set. She got it home and was so disappointed by how cheap it was. She thinks long and hard about what to spend her measly allowance on now: mission accomplished!
Mary Moo Cow says
We’re so cheap: my 6 year old gets $.50 a week. We tried an allowance at age 5 but she didn’t keep up with the money, didn’t remember it was allowance day, etc., so we took a pause after a few months and restarted it when she was 6. Allowance in our house is not tied to chores, although she can do extra chores to earn money. I read “The Opposite Of Spoiled” before beginning an allowance, and a lot of it resonated with me: a reasonable allowance at an early age, not tied to chores, and ongoing age/developmentally appropriate conversations about where money comes from and how families choose how to spend money. Unlike the book’s suggestion, I do not make her donate any part of it. Allowance is for fun purchases that I do not want to make: yet another lip balm, a pooping cat toy, etc.
Anonymous says
We started when my son started loosing teeth around age 5 and viewing the tooth fairy as an exciting income opportunity. We do $1/year, so $9/week at age 9 (which does feel high to me). He does have to donate $1 a week to charity of his choice–often a school-based fundraising drive for low-income families in the neighborhood, gift drive, or similar–and we usually match whatever he is donating. He is also supposed to save $1/week but for a big purchase of his own choosing, not college or something. That money has basically gone into the regular pot.
Anonymous says
Also, not tied to chores as we don’t want him to be able to duck chores by saying he doesn’t need allowance that week, and because we don’t get paid for chores. We just have to do them.
SC says
My son is almost 7, and we just started about a month ago. I would have started earlier, but the pandemic started just before his 5th birthday, and we only started taking Kiddo on indoor errands etc. after Omicron. He didn’t have much of a sense of money or why he’d want some until he started going places and seeing what there is to buy. (It’s just not the same on the Internet.) A few weeks after we started giving him allowance, he declined to bring his money to the toy store when we were shopping for his cousin’s birthday gift– and then of course he wanted several items and was disappointed we didn’t buy him anything. I still don’t think he’s spent any of his allowance or tooth fairy money–but we’re going to Disney World this week, so that will probably change.
Anon4This says
Please talk me off a ledge.
My almost 16-month-old isn’t walking yet – plenty of climbing up stairs (watched), pushing the cart toy type thing, cruising, etc. At his 15 month appointment, the ped said to come back in 6 weeks DS wasn’t walking by May 1. Of course I’ll get him whatever medical eval needed, but I feel like he’s RIGHTTHERE. My older one was walking at exactly 1 year…
Spirograph says
I feel like the spirit of “not walking” is “not showing age-appropriate gross motor skills.” It sounds like he’s doing everything except walking, and you’re not otherwise concerned with his gross motor skills. In that case, yes, step back from the ledge!
If you have a sense that he wants to walk, but *can’t* walk independently because of a balance issue, or some kind of physical misalignment, etc etc, that’s a different story. But if it’s more like he’s happy pushing things, cruising and climbing, so he’s insufficiently motivated to walk independently, I’d wait until May 1 to even think about making the appointment.
Mary Moo Cow says
Are you on the ledge because you feel like you must make the appointment on May 1? If so, there’s probably a grace period: that could be a date the ped picked to give you some reassurance. Or are you on the ledge because you feel like your child is never going to walk independently? It sounds like this isn’t likely.
FWIW, my kids were both around 16 months when they started walking. Our ped was not concerned based on evaluation at 12 months and 16 months. I *think* my oldest started walking a bit before my youngest, but I don’t remember, 6 years later. It was one of many lessons in “don’t compare your kids.”
anonM says
I’d really wait until May 1 to worry too much. Both of mine walked after a year (maybe 14 months??), and he probably is really close! Of course, keep an eye on other developmental milestones, but I’d trust your ped if all the other milestones were met.
Anon says
Don’t panic. Up to 18 months is considered normal. 12 months is the median walking age but 8-18 months is the normal range. My ped was firmly against any intervention until 18 months and my kid wasn’t even pulling up or cruising until after 16 months. Mine walked right before 18 months and is now a normal if not especially athletic 4 year old. I’ve heard of kids who walked way later who turned out fine also. I think some kids just kind of prefer crawling. Even at that age they have personalities.
Anon says
Also most of my friends had kids who walked well after a year, most between 14 and 16 months. Maybe I have an unathletic group of friends, but it would never occur to me to expect a kid to walk by 12 months. Mine was only just starting to crawl properly (vs army crawling) then.
SC says
+1. My kid preferred crawling. He was a very fast crawler. He was not walking at 16 months, and by 18 months he had taken steps but was not motivated to walk 95% of the time. He started walking when the other kids at daycare started running, and he needed to walk and run to keep up. They do have personalities at this age–and my kid’s personality is to do things his way until he sees a compelling reason to change.
GCA says
If he’s demonstrating all the other gross motor skills like climbing, cruising etc and all the other milestones are met, my guess is he’s juuuust on the verge of walking – so really I would wait till May 1 and see where he’s at by then. So much can change in just a couple of weeks! (FWIW, I didn’t walk till over 16 months – apparently I was a pretty placid toddler, unlike my own offspring – and these days I run marathons. DH was also a late-ish walker as he had older siblings to keep him constantly entertained…)
OP says
Thank you!!!!!
Anon says
I have twins. One walked at 14 months and one 17.5 months (and yes i was getting nervous). My best friend is a pediatrician and her son walked two weeks after he turned 18 months and i remember her freaking out despite the fact that she literally spends all day reminding parents that there is a wide range of normal. If for some reason your child doesn’t walk at 18 months it sounds like very minimal intervention would be needed given current mobility
Anonymous says
Agree with everyone else that this is well within the normal range. He’s probably just waiting until he’s ready to walk perfectly. Some kids who don’t want to fall down will walk late because they’re waiting until they can do it confidently. I bet once he takes his first steps he barely wobbles.