Nursing/Postpartum Tuesday: Nursing Dress, Robe, and Baby Blanket Set
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Heading to a spring baby shower? This matching nursing dress, robe, and baby blanket set would be an excellent gift for the mom-to-be.
This soft, lightweight set is perfect for warm-weather new babies and their moms. The nursing dress has a button front for easy nursing/pumping access, while the crochet-trimmed robe keeps out the chill.
This set from Angel Maternity is $99.95 at Nordstrom and comes in sizes XS-XXL.
Psst: Looking for info about nursing clothes for working moms or tips for pumping at the office? We’ve got them both…
Sales of note for 5/8:
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Ann Taylor – Mother’s Day Event: 40% off your purchase. Readers love this popover blouse, and their suiting is also in the sale.
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Brooks Brothers – Dress & sport shirts, 2 for $149
- Express – $39+ summer styles + 25% off everything else
- J.Crew Factory – Up to 60% off everything + extra 70% off clearance + 40%-50% off the Weekend Shop
- Lo & Sons – Mother’s Day Sale: Up to 40% off — reader favorites include this laptop tote, this backpack, and this crossbody
- M.M.LaFleur – Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Nordstrom – Up to 25% off
- Talbots – 50% off wear-now styles and all markdowns + 30% off tops, pants, jeans, and shorts
It might be too late in the day for responses, but related to the discussion below:
Would you stay in a relative’s home with an ungated pool with a non-swimmer? My oldest is 7 and a strong swimmer, middle is 5 and okay, youngest is 3 and can’t swim. My husband wants to take a trip to a relative’s house in a great location but they have a backyard pool that isn’t gated (pretty normal in their area but not in ours). I want to see these relatives but am really nervous about the pool and concerned I won’t be able to relax the entire time we are there.
Is this essentially the same decision as in the lake house convo below, or are there other considerations I’m not thinking of for pool vs lake?
My daughter is in kindergarten and wants to do a playdate with a girl in her class. But the girl has a twin (a boy if it’s relevant). Should I invite both kids? I don’t get the sense she plays much with the boy. Thanks.
My 11yo daughter has a sticky social situation, and I think I know the right answer, but would appreciate the reality check.
A friend, though not a super close one, invited DD to a birthday party on the last day of school. Even when the mom texted me the invitation, I thought it was a strange time to do that. They’re all “graduating” from 5th grade and my experience is that there’s usually a parent-organized class party or something. This was a few days ago and I haven’t RSVP’d yet.
Yesterday, DD got an invite to a class party with all the girls from her section. The birthday girl is not in this section, so she was not invited. DD really wants to go to the class party.
Unfortunately, both parties are at the exact same time, right after school ends. I totally get why DD wants to do the class party, but I sorta feel like it would be crappy to skip the birthday party she was invited to first. Like, I would feel bad for the birthday kid.
She should go to the birthday party, right? DD is usually pretty socially aware and never wants to hurt anyone’s feelings, but she is not getting it this time.
Is there a good screen-free, “dumb” device that lets kids stream music? My 8 year old is not very into pop music yet, but a lot of her friends are and kids often ask to listen to Spotify at our house. I have Spotify on my phone, computer and iPad but don’t want to hand over those devices for several reasons. I know Alexa and the like can play music but we don’t want one in our home for privacy reasons. Is there a good solution here? We do have a CD player but they want to listen to current pop hits, not my old high school and college CDs lol.
last night right before falling asleep, my daughter asked me if there was a time when people hated Jewish people (we are Jewish) as I guess it was mentioned in a book she got from the school library, ‘I survived D-Day’ about WWII. my other daughter chimed in that it was a long time ago, fortunately saving me from having to answer. But it also made me really sad to think that while yes, the Holocaust was a long time ago and nothing like that is happening to Jewish people right now, there is still so much hatred out there
What are your thoughts on staying in homes that have a lot of uncontrolled water access when you have small kids (lake house, beachfront house)? I’m so conflicted about whether to take the opportunity to do this over the summer – on the one hand, it could be SO much fun as long as supervision and general precautions are good, but on the other, the water hazard is much higher than a fencer backyard pool. I don’t want to deny my kids the chance to have fun just because of my anxiety about drowning but the risk also feels very real.
Our plan for the summer was to have my autistic kid (7) in his old daycare summer camp, with an aide with him for most of the day to keep him on track, help him calm down, etc. We did this last summer at the request of the daycare and it went great. Unfortunately we were just informed by the company we used last year that they don’t have anyone available for him this summer. I’m kind of at a loss for what to do. I think we could probably try to do the camp anyway and see how it goes — he doesn’t have any aides in school now and does fine, though he does get regular pull-outs with the speech teacher and counselors. Or we could try to find him some babysitters. Or I could quit my job! I have been toying with that idea for a while now anyway, but we’ve been very busy with mission-driven projects that I’m interested in so I’ve been trying to make things work for now. Any other ideas? Thank you!
Help me pick a birthday gift for a 2 year old girl. The parents requested no messy crafts. It’s a summer birthday so maybe something she can use outside?
DS’s school has a monthly tea with the principal for parents. I’m intrigued, but don’t feel like I have anything to discuss. If you’ve done one, what issues/questions have you brought up?
Lately my 4yo gets wound up every night at bedtime, first bouncing off the walls and then tantrumming when I tell them to stop. Shoving me, kicking me, screaming and growling. Often I end up needing to take the baby out of their shared room, which leads to 4yo hammering on the door with anything they can find.
I know a lot of families struggle with bedtime. But isn’t this beyond the norm? Any advice?
My almost 5.5 year old is doing great in school/academically, is off to a fairly competitive private school for K, is a blast socially….and BIT SOMEONE YESTERDAY AT SCHOOL. Obviously not okay, and there were consequences and a long talk. Fortunately, the other kid was fine, and the teacher didn’t see it as a big deal because it’s never happened before with my kid in her class but ugh to toddler behavior at this freaking age.
I was taking a break doing some internet shopping yesterday, and was eyeing a new purse. Then I realized I bought myself a new purse last year around this time, and never got around to using it! Switching out my purse just seems daunting for some reason. Gotta convince myself to do it tonight.
Query for the group — I’ve seen some posts here recently about how parents generally think youth activities – sports in particular – have gotten way too intense too early. But I’ve seen an equal number of posts where posters say they would “politick” on behalf of their kids to make sure they got placed on a team or got to participate in some activity. The two seem at odds to me, but I’m curious to hear – what politicking would you do on behalf of your kid, and what do you think goes too far? I’ll answer below.
I’m still snorting over what happened last night at a neighborhood mom’s meet-up thing. I’ve gone a few times and there’s one woman, “Susan Jones,” I don’t know all that well who always seems to have something to be superior about in her parenting – made a dig at me once for registering for a SNOO. Really dumb stuff. Last night she told a mom of an only child (by choice) “I don’t know, I just didn’t even feel like a mom before I had my second.” The other mom came back right away with “So you asked [firstborn] to call you Susan? Or Mrs. Jones?” So much muffled laughter into plates of food before our hostess got everyone distracted and Susan looked actually stunned. You might have had to be there but boy, I enjoyed seeing such a tame but effective shutdown of her constant judgment. Insecurity or whatever it is, it’s like enough.
I love this baby swaddle. Looks like he’s just escaped from an old timey jail…
We moved! Came down to the 11th hour due to a problem further up the chain. We’ve downsized (2 beds + box room) but due to the high ceilings, and good storage, it feels really spacious. All the boxes are unpacked – now just refining storage and putting up artwork. Everything we need (school, climbing lessons, music lessons, great playpark, cafes, green grocer) is within a 15 minute walk, and it just feels like such a nice neighbourhood.