Postpartum Tuesday: Pumping in Progress Sign
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Happy New Year, ladies! This cute “pumping in progress” sign could be great for the office, I think — it’s clear, easy to read, and will definitely be noticed on your office door — and it’s a great deal more attractive than the hand-written or typed-out “PUMPING IN PROGRESS” signs I’ve always seen taped on doors. For those of you who’ve spent a lot of time pumping at the office, what are your thoughts — what methods did you find worked best to deter people from coming inside your office when you were pumping? (If anyone had to trek to a pumping room or other dedicated space, care to write a guest post?) The sign is $15 at Etsy. Breastfeeding Sign – Pumping Sign – Privacy Sign – Breastfeeding Door Hanging Sign – Pumping in Progress Sign
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Sales of note for 11.25.24 (Great Black Friday Sales!!)
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Early Black Friday, up to 60% off — great deals on Natori, Vince, Theory, Boss, Cole Haan, Tory Burch, Rothy’s, and Weitzman, as well as gift ideas like Barefoot Dreams and Parachute — Dyson isn’t marked down at all but you do get 3x points on beauty purchases.
- Ann Taylor – 40% off your purchase, plus extra 15% off full price styles
- Anine Bing – Shop more, save more (spend $200-$300, get an extra 15-25% off)
- A.P.C. – Shop 40% off
- ba&sh – Up to 40% off Fall/Winter styles, including select colors of reader favorite Gaspard & Guspa cardigans (also included in Tuckernuck’s sale)
- Banana Republic Factory – 60% off everything + extra 20% off (or extra 30% off with your Gap Inc credit card) ends 11/26
- Bloomingdales – Take $25 off every $100 you spend on items labeled BLACK FRIDAY; ends 11/24
- Boden – 30% off on 1000s of styles, including reader favorites like this blazer and these dresses
- Cuyana – Free shipping over $95 (and 10% off your first order over $150)
- Demellier – 20% off with code, free worldwide shipping & returns
- Design Within Reach – 25% off sitewide (including reader-favorite office chairs Herman Miller Aeron and Sayl!)
- The Fold – Black Friday, up to 30% off everything
- Eloquii – 50% off everything + extra 10% off $125 or more
- Everlane – Up to 50% off everything
- Furla – Up to 50% off select styles
- J.Crew – Up to 50% off almost everything – LOTS of winter coats 40% off, down to $204-$230
- J.Crew Factory – 50% off everything, plus extra 25% off orders $125+
- Kule – 30% off sitewide
- Kohl’s – Earn $10 Kohl’s Cash for every $50 Spent – includes Travelpro luggage!
- LaLigne – 30% off in their ONLY sale of the year
- Lo & Sons – Up to 70% off – reader favorite laptop tote is under $200
- Macy’s – 20-50% off beauty brands like Clinique and Armani, 50% off designer handbags, 50-75% off sparkly jewelry, and 40-50% off women’s boots
- Mansur Gavriel – Winter sale, up to 60% off
- M.M.LaFleur – “20% off everything” (but exclusions apply)
- Ministry of Supply – 30% off sitewide
- Mulberry – Up to 40% off, including Bayswater, Islington, and more
- Neiman Marcus – Earn a $50-$1250 gift card, including on beauty and fragrance purchases
- Rothy’s – Everything up to 30% off (some also on sale at Nordstrom)
- Shopbop – 25% off storewide with code, including great blazers from Rag & Bone, IRO, Smythe, and select L’Agence (also lots of nice Black Halo dresses)
- Soma – Early Black Friday $29 bra event (up to 50% off)
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off, plus free shipping on everything (and 20% off your first order)
- Sue Sartor – Week of Joy sale, 30% off sitewide
- Steelcase – 25% off sitewide, including reader-favorite office chairs Leap and Gesture
- Strathberry – Pre-black Friday, enjoy up to 30% off select styles!
- Stuart Weitzman – Extra 25% off full-price and sale styles
- Talbots – 40% off your entire purchase + daily deals
- Theory – 25% off sitewide + up to 40% off select outerwear
- Tory Burch – 30% off $250+
- Tuckernuck – 20% off sitewide
- Universal Standard – At least 30% off sitewide, up to 70% off all styles
- Victoria’s Secret – 30% off everything, and 7/$35 panties
- White House Black Market – 60% off clearance, 30% off sitewide for WHBM members
- 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
- BabyJogger – 30% off sitewide
- BestBuy – Lots of deals on gaming consoles, including PS5, XBox Series X, and more
- Carter’s – 50-60% off entire site and store
- ErgoBaby – 25% off bouncers
- Graco – Up to 30% off sitewide
- Hanna Andersson – 50% off sitewide
- J.Crew Crewcuts – 50% off almost everything, prices marked
- Nordstrom – Lots of deals on Stokke, Maxi-Cosi, BabyJoger, Posh Baby, Silver Cross, and more
- Old Navy – Everything on sale
- SNOO / Happiest Baby – 30% off Snoo, up to 50% off sitewide
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 have 2 girls, who will be 23 months and 4.5 when my 3rd girl is born. We have 4 traditional bedrooms, but one is a “railroad style” or walk-thru which has a 5th room behind it. It’s about 10×10.
Currently, we have a girl in each regular bedroom and we use the double room as an office (in front) and the small back room as a guest room.
When the baby comes, my plan is to put the two older girls in the big double bedroom, either in 2 twin beds (or one twin 1 crib) together and make the front room a playroom, or keep ODD in her full bed in the back bedroom and YDD in her crib in the front room.
I’d move the baby into ODD’s current room, which has a full bed in it, and add the crib.
The last bedroom that is crrently YDD’s (which is small and also had attic access) will be a guest/office hybrid. It’ll be a little right to get our queen guest bed + my desk and files in there, but maybe with a small or no dresser it would work.
Does this make sense? Should I bunk the older 2 in the same room or since I can split them up a little, keep them separate? They are both sound sleepers once alseep, but YDD will often have a 3am rage until she cries herself to sleep.
Also, I’ve been talking this idea up and my 4 y/o is all about it. Do we do it now? Closer to June when I’m due? Push YDD into a bed or keep the crib?
My office has signs in the kitchen to the effect of, “your mom isn’t here, clean up after yourself and we’ll tell your mom the next time she stops by”. (A) would this bother you, and (B) would you say anything? I’m not a partner but am the most senior female lawyer at my small firm and well respected. I am 100% sure these signs were the result of our admins getting tired of cleaning up after people and were not some misguided attempt to pigeonhole women as homemakers. But, as a working mom, my antennae are all up lately for this sort of quiet perpetuation of stereotypes and it drives me bonkers. Complicating factor is that these signs have been up for months; it was only recently I started to get annoyed by them so I feel like the time to discreetly mention something to HR has passed. Is this a time to just let them be and pick another battle?
I’m incredibly moody and worried that it’s at the point where it’s damaging my marriage. It’s better at work because 1) it’s earlier in the day and 2) less personal interactions. Any advice? I’m going to research therapists tonight but am not sure if that will help at all. I think some of the problem is that I’m not very good at telling my husband when/why I’m frustrated so a therapist might help with that (good for the long term too).
Hi ladies. I’m trying to wean from pumping. I’m currently only pumping about 4 oz, one time a day and have been for about the past 5 days. I go on an international trip Friday and wondering if I can fully wean by then to avoid bringing the pump and all the supplies. Thoughts? This is actually my second baby, but I have no recollection of what weaning was like last time around, probably due to lack of sleep!
I definitely would not use a sign like this. It’s way more awkward than just putting up a do not disturb sign and locking the door.
I do not need this sign. I do need a sign that indicates I am going to run out briefly in between 3 consecutive hours of meetings/ calls to throw up, because morning sickness.
For those of you with toddlers at the pool or beach, what have you found to work best? We are going on a beach vacation with our kid – will be 2 then – and I’m wondering whether to do a wetsuit style, or a rashguard shirt and shorts – basically what will keep him protected from the sun best? Also, is there a hat in the world that will stay on his head??? We bought the LL Bean sun tent, but I know he won’t stay in that.
Our 16 month old has started waking up around 2-3 am and the only way to calm him is to put him in bed with us. Is this safe? I felt fine about it (he’s very strong and 99% weight for his age) but some things I’ve read online suggest I might be putting him at risk with the pillows and blankets. Thoughts? And I know this situation isn’t sustainable – I am working on figuring out how to keep him in bed but until then, I want to ensure he’s safe!
Help me decide whether or not to say something about all the christianity at my daycare.
We go to a Montessori-inspired daycare for infant to school age kids. We’ve been there over 2 years. A new teacher came in this summer and she talks to the kids a lot about jesus. My 3 year old now recognizes pictures of jesus and crosses and crucifixes, and last week relayed a fairly detailed nativity story to me, emphasizing that we celebrate christmas because baby jesus was born to save us from our sins and that we killed him on a cross. So, more than just a passing christmas story.
The newer teacher and the owner of the daycare (the owner is the lead teacher) know each other from the church in which they are very involved. It is a small daycare and they are all together, so I imagine that the owner is at least aware of jesus talk, but I do not know if she condones or encourages it.
I am pretty uncomfortable with this not only because it does not match my beliefs, and that the daycare never told us it would begin to incorporate lessons on christianity, but also because it assumes a level of homogeneity among the children and families that rubs me really wrong. We live in a small town and the demographics are such that the other children may well all come from christian-practicing homes. But, that does not describe our family and puts me in a position to refute or contextualize these stories for my kid before I am ready. I feel defensive. Something about the assumption that this is all ok and part of a daycare environment leaves me pretty irked.
BUT, we love the daycare. The environment is wonderful in so many ways and they take great care of my kids.
There are limited daycares in the area and it took us a long time to find this one. We love its emphasis on Montessori methods. We do not want to leave. I am hesitant to say something that will put the owner on the defensive or label my kids as the reason we can’t talk about jesus, or put me in a position to defend my minority beliefs. I am obviously pretty bothered by this, though, so I should say something, right? How should I couch it?
DD will be three weeks old tomorrow! In some ways, the time has flown by, yet it also feels like the longest three weeks of my life. The newborn phase can be so sweet but it’s also so much harder than I anticipated.
My life also feels like it’s been totally turned upside down. Any advice for coming up with a maternity leave “routine” or making the most of your time off? My husband goes back to work next week and I’m worried that I’ll lose my mind being alone with a baby all day.
Also, when should I try to start putting DD on a schedule? Right now, we’re basically in survival mode (anything that lets me shower/eat/sleep works!), but I don’t want to create bad habits that we’re going to pay for later. Sleep is super important to me and I’d like her to be sleeping through the night (or close to it) by the time I go back to work in 4 months. Any advice?
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Solidarity from the other side of the pond!!!! We just go to hit with regression 2 weeks ago but I feel like I’ll never sleep again.
I tried sleep training, and had some success – he’s good at settling himself for the night and has successfully gone down drowsy but awake many many times with minimal crying.
However. Night waking are another story. Doing CIO but still doing night feedings is so confusing. Weissbluth says to only go in at the feeding times and ignor at others, but it’s not like baby can read a clock?! I quit after three nights when the middle of the night crying was getting worse and my heart was breaking. Still trying to minimize feedings and do pick up/put down at other times but….. ugh.
I guess my advice is, doesn’t hurt to try but I can say for my kid at least it wasn’t the magical “oh he cried for 20 min going down but slept 10 hours!!” That you read about.
Talk to me about sleep training? Is it worth it if baby is still in your room? He’s nearly 5 months and we’ve never recovered from the 4 month regression. I go back to work in 2 weeks so the next few weeks are just about getting him in some sort of napping routine and then I think we need to tackle nighttime sleep.
Happy new year! Have you found any toddler coats that aren’t bulky and can fit in a carseat? I know you’re not supposed to wear coats in a carseat, but it is too cold and I want to find something thin but warm that my 4 year old can wear in his carseat.
I saw some on Lands End that looked thin but warm. Any advice would be welcome!
Thanks!
Looking for recs on how to handle petty cash for our (starting soon!) part-time nanny. I would really prefer to avoid an actual envelope with cash and instead use some sort of prepaid or debit card that would make it easy for us to look at what payments have been made and to add more money when needed. Any recommendations? It seems like many of the reloadable prepaid cards need to be reloaded at a store, which wouldn’t be convenient.
I’m a couple of weeks away from my due date and my baby is in position, but resting his head on my pubic bone. Hopefully baby will move, but my doctor said that if not, I may end up with some kind of pubic bone separation post-delivery. The internet is not very helpful and my doctor doesn’t think there is too much that we can do now other than hope that baby moves and try to encourage this by sleeping on the left side with two pillows between the legs. Wondering if anyone has had something similar and has any advice or solutions that I may be missing. TIA.