Maternity Monday: Plus-Size Maternity Dress
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Whoa: readers have noted in the past (with a good deal of distress, too) that it is next to impossible to find plus-size maternity clothes for work. (We’ve rounded up the few options that exist in the past, here.) This dress isn’t the most professional thing on the planet, at least as styled here, but: DESTINATION MATERNITY NOW HAS AN ENTIRE LINE OF PLUS SIZE MATERNITY CLOTHES! This seems like great news, and cause for celebration for a greatly underserved market. There are also some great sales happening now — this dress was $45, then was marked to $19; there also seems to be a “buy one get one free” offer. (Um, hopefully this isn’t a bad sign for the line.) Plus Size Side Ruched Maternity T-shirt Dress
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Building a maternity wardrobe for work? Check out our page with more suggestions along both classic and trendy/seasonal lines.
Sales of note for 4/24/25
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – 7,710 new markdowns for women!
- Ann Taylor – Friends of Ann Event: 30% off your entire purchase, including 100s of new arrivals
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 25% off
- Eloquii – Spring Clearance: Up to 75% off + extra 50-60% off sale
- J.Crew – Mid-Season Sale: Up to 60% off sale styles + up to 50% off summer-ready styles
- J.Crew Factory – Extra 50% off clearance + extra 15% off $100 + extra 20% off $125
- M.M.LaFleur – 3 pieces for $198. Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – Friends & Family Event: 30% off entire purchase, includes markdowns
And — here are some of our latest threadjacks of interest – working mom questions asked by the commenters!!
- The concept of “backup care” is so stupid…
- I need tips on managing employees in BigLaw who have to leave for daycare pickup…
- I’m thinking of leaning out to spend more time with my family – how can I find the perfect job for that?
- 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?
- What are your tips to having a good weekend with kids, especially with little kids? Do you have a set routine or plan?
I’m sure this is late in the day, so I’ll probably post again tomorrow when I have had time to think more: Klan fliers were left in my neighborhood this morning. I’m beside myself. They were left at bus stops. I don’t even know how to talk to my son in elementary school about this.
A post on the main page got me thinking…how do those of you with a parent or parent-in-law with an addiction issue (pills and/or alcohol) manage that person’s interactions with your child? I don’t see any unsupervised interaction happening, but even things like having this grandparent hold a small child freak me out–is that overcautious on my part? I have some sense of when this person is using versus not, but there is also some grey area, and I don’t trust the person to be honest about it.
I think my marriage is over. We’re still working on it, but I just feel in my gut that this is it. I’m the one who posted last week about my husband’s depression. Based on things that happened over the weekend, I’m not sure even “fixing” the depression would be enough. I feel some lightness at being done with this. But overwhelming sense of loss at everything I thought I knew about my life being over. My mom (who divorced my dad when I was four) told me just to worry about what I have to do today. Not about “how do we deal with the house” and not even what to do next week. I’ve the things on my checklist for today (trying to get an appointment ASAP with my own therapist) but now I’m struggling just with how to “do” today. I had a meeting this morning and people asked how my weekend was. “Well, my husband and I were up fighting until 5:00am, I was worried enough about him to both call the suicide hotline and plan out to get the kids, au pair, and me out of the house safely until he considerably calmed down and I felt it was safe to stay. And I think my marriage is over. How about you?” I have a meeting across town at 1:30 and I just want to lie on the floor of my office and cry for the rest of the day.
This is my third week back to work, and I am just not pumping enough (despite having access to a hospital grade pump) to keep up with what my three month old baby is eating during the day. I am also pumping on the weekends to try to keep my freezer stash stable (because I was hoping to save it for business trips), but I think I’m fighting a losing battle. Despite my head knowing there is absolutely nothing wrong with supplementing with formula, I get really weepy contemplating it. Advice for getting my supply up? Anyone else go through this too, and what did you do? Thanks! Leaving my baby everyday is just so so much harder than I thought it would be, despite everyone telling me it would be hard.
Does anyone have recommendations for side panel maternity pants for the office? I’m looking specifically at the Old Navy pixie pants right now (they’re on sale!) and also at Gap. TIA!
Is anyone else afraid of staying in a city in light of the current US administration? My husband and I have made a great life in DC. I have an awesome low hours job, kids are in a really good care set-up, and after 15 years of working his @$$ off, my husband has landed a great job. We own a house in a great neighborhood and school district, and have a wonderful community of friends who are like family. I went to law school here, and my husband went to undergrad here, and we were lucky enough to make close friends at school who had kids around the same time as us. I feel like things really coalesced for us in the last two years. But I am afraid, really, really afraid now – am worried about being apart from my kids during the day if unrest comes to this city, and am even more worried that it won’t matter based on the type of war that make come ashore.
Pulling up stakes in DC means we’d walk away from all of it, though. If we leave now, we could still get the equity out of house (who knows what will happen here long term??), and probably buy something in cash in a smaller Midwest city. I could try to get reciprocity, and find some kind of practice while my husband looks for something else to do. It seems irrational and extreme, but I hate, hate, hate this worry. I also know that leaving doesn’t mean that we won’t be safe, but I feel like I’m walking around with a target on my back here. I can’t decide whether I need anxiety meds, or if I’m thinking ahead.
Any success stories (or just general feedback/advice) from an ECV (manual inversion)?? Scheduling mine for next week at 37 weeks and just crossing my fingers it will work. Have tried chiropractor, spinning babies techniques, yoga, swimming etc…but nothings worked so far. The little one is just stubborn. TIA!
Any advice for a chronically and emphatically clingy 18 month old? My son has always been a mama’s boy, and has always wanted to be held (specifically, on my right hip while I’m standing up). Over the past couple of weeks it’s gotten REALLY BAD – if I am in the room or in the house he wants nothing else and will whine and cry until I pick him up. He won’t eat if I’m there and I certainly can’t shower or get dressed. I cannot hold him while sitting down or lying in bed – that doesn’t count. My husband says that when I’m gone he plays happily and independently, and he’s sleeping fine, so I don’t think he is in any sort of pain or physical distress. I have tried to spend extra devoted time with him; hold him the way he wants for a while in the morning on the theory that maybe I can fill his reservoir; and yesterday I just took some self-care time and gtfo of there for a while. It makes me not want to be with him and is upsetting me to the point where I’m crying and I need to put him down and step away before I get upset at him. Any help or commiseration most welcome.
Has anyone dealt with potty training a kid who has has chronic issues with constipation? She’s on daily miralax but still doesn’t go on a daily basis. She’s fine with peeing in the toilet and has been doing that for a couple of months but has only ever pooped in the toilet when we run and carry her when she’s already started pooping. She does not have any kind of reliable schedule and frequently goes several days without pooping. Is this ever going to get better? Do I need to take her to a specialist or something?
Has anyone seen any good articles on how to talk to kids about the Muslim Ban?
We’re Canadian but we had booked a week in Florida for March break with our neighbours/friends and we’re cancelling the house share/trip. The dad is Iranian Canadian and is worried about not being let in if we go which is a situation we really don’t want especially with kids in tow. We’ll go somewhere else together because our girls had been looking forward to the vacation together but not sure how to talk to them about why we aren’t going to Disney anymore.