Maternity Monday: Peplum Maternity Top
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This is a cute spring top from Motherhood Maternity. (We’re picturing it in the plus-size version, but it also comes in regular sizes.) I can see wearing it with jeans on the weekend, or wearing it underneath a coordinating blazer for work. The cap sleeves will stay low-profile under a blazer or cardigan. I really like the bold double stripes on the section above the bump; it is especially striking on the black-and-white print with the electric blue accents. I am not really sure why they had to add a little tie to it — depending on how it’s attached, I’d probably just cut it off. This is one shirt where I actually really like every pattern that’s offered, but if I were purchasing, I’d probably do the black/white or the leaf print. This top is currently available for $29 (marked down from $34.98) and is available in XS–XL and 1X–3X. Peplum Maternity Top
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Sales of note for 9.10.24
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- 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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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?
Crossposting from main site! We have a 4 and 2 year old and a newborn. Looking to get a backyard playset that will last a long time. Does anyone have experience with tree frogs, rainbow, gorilla, cedarworks, other?
My DH thinks we need a platform height of 5.5 feet for it to last a long time – does that ring true to you if you have older kids?
I’m also concerned about footprint – some of these would take up a good 40 percent of the grassy area. We def don’t want a pool but does anyone regret giving up their open area? Maybe better off just having open space for kids to run around? (Our backyards probably 30 x 50 though, so not small).
Any other thoughts? TIA! Everyone we know with Playsets inherited them with their houses, and I’m finding this hard to learn about.
My almost one year old twins are going through what I hope is a phase. They used to not mind being left alone in a room for a minute or two while we went to change the other one. Now they freak out and sob uncontrollably like they are being left alone forever. They don’t seem to mind being alone in a room, if they are the ones who crawl out of the room, they don’t seem to mind being alone. One twin in particular, really freaks out now when I leave for work in the morning (we have a nanny). Again, she doesn’t mind going somewhere without me, like this weekend sister was sick so she hung out with daddy most of the weekend and they had a great time. But if I do the leaving, forget it. She is HYSTERICAL. Please tell me this is a phase? I used to try to sneak out, but that doesn’t really work anymore, so now I always acknowledge that I’m leaving and that I will be back. I do a decent amount of solo parenting, and it is just so unpleasant to listen to so much crying and makes me feel bad bc if they weren’t twins, then this would be much less of an issue. How long does this phase usually last?
Posting on behalf of a friend who can’t really access the internet during the work day. She is in a relationship with someone with some mental health challenges and is trying to decide how to proceed and I was mentioning the story of the internet stranger online (so many hugs to you – you really sound like super mom and your kids are so luck to have you) and she had a couple of questions about the situation/history with your STBX. Were his mental health issues diagnosed before you got married and/or before you had kids? Or did they just start to present themselves more recently. She herself has struggled from some anxiety issues herself and so doesn’t necessarily want to end a relationship with someone based on that, but also doesn’t want to sign herself up for something that is more than she can handle.
Anyone else watching This Is Us? (slight spoilers below)
I’m really identifying with Beth and Randall’s marital struggles. It’s such an honest portrayal of what it’s really like to parent young kids with two careers. Yet I also worry that real life isn’t TV, and we won’t find the “door.” Anyone else?
Milia – has anyone else struggled with this/found something that worked? I developed bad skin including milia with my first pregnancy. Though the cystic acne has died down significantly, I have lots of milia on both cheeks. I am still nursing my 11 month old and am 18 weeks pregnant with my second so any products/treatments need to be pregnancy & nursing safe. This is really bringing down my self-esteem and causing a lot of stress (which I know may be silly, but it’s my reality) and would love to hear from anyone that has successfully eliminated milia.
Do any of you New Yorkers have guidelines for what kind of restaurants its ok to take toddlers to? I live in a small city in the Midwest and there aren’t really any restaurants here that we can’t take our 15 month old to. We’re visiting my in-laws in NYC in a couple weeks and they want to go to what seems like a pretty fancy restaurant with us and our daughter. It’s not a tasting menu place, but it’s $$$$ on Yelp and looks like it has a pretty upscale ambiance. We’d eat super early (5 pm-ish) but I’m still skeptical.
My husband and I live in NYC and have decided we need something bigger than our Subaru Outback (which we love) before baby#3 makes his appearance this August.
(I think) we’ve narrowed it down to the subaru ascent or the toyota sienna. Just wanted to see if anyone is driving either of these cars and has similar needs to our family and can weigh in with their experience.
We live in NYC. We use the car almost every weekend–often to run to Trader Joe’s just outside of the city, go to the zoo or the Children’s Museum, to visit family out of state, or to go up to the mountains (we’ve been out of skiing for the last few years but have aspirations to start up again once the kids are old enough to teach–our oldest was introduced to tubing this year and can’t wait for skiing starting next year). So we feel like AWD is needed.
We currently have our (almost 4 year old) in a clek fllo carseat which we just switched forward facing this past weekend (to his great delight) and our (very very small) 2 year old in a clek fllo carseat rear facing (and I’d like to keep her rear facing for as long as is possible). We will put baby#3 in a bucket car seat. I had been thinking that by the time baby#3 outgrows the bucket we would be able to move him into our oldest’s carseat and move our oldest (who will then be 5) into a booster. I am thinking that we need a 3rd row vehicle and that we will put our oldest in the backmost row and the rear facing baby and toddler in the middle row.
My husband really liked the honda odyssey. But it doesn’t come with AWD. In fact, the only minivan that we can find is the toyota sienna.
I’m not sure if I’m being ridiculous, but I just didn’t love the sienna. I am not anti-minivan but it just felt outdated and boxy.
If we don’t go minivan and instead go with a mid-size 3 row SUV: we really liked the subaru ascent (and we admittedly have a pro-subaru bias). But I’m worried it might be too small for all the baby gear we inevitably bring on our annual two week summer roadtrip back south to visit family. And my husband is worried that the backseat is going to start to feel really small as our kids get bigger.
Does anyone drive either? Does anyone have a subaru ascent with a rooftop carrier? Do you feel like you have enough space? Do I need to just get over my sienna minivan concerns?
I feel like there were some people here who said they’ve been to Paris with babies/toddlers? We’re going next week with a 14 month old who isn’t walking yet. We hope to do a lot of walking around the city (with her in a stroller) and a lot of eating, but beyond that we have no real plans. I would welcome any suggestions for what to do! We’re staying in a pretty central location and don’t plan to use the subway, because I’ve heard that’s a pain with the stroller (and we like walking anyway).