Maternity Monday: V-Neck Pencil Dress
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Happy Monday, mamas! April’s on vacation so I’m filling in her for her this week. I don’t think we’ve featured the Queen Bee line of workwear before on the blog, but I like that it’s affordable, classic, and a sleek, polished look — and one that is supposed to fit through all stages of pregnancy. Nice! It’s $76, available in US sizes 4-14 in navy and red. Queen Bee v neck pencil dress in navy
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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?
I’m looking for advice on how others keep things “in order”. We had our first Christmas get together with Family this past weekend and have a number of hand me downs from cousins. Does everyone have a system on how they purge out grown toys, clothes, etc. Organization is not my strong suit and looking for help/guidance.
Also side note I’m donating changing tables – just called around to a bunch of various charities and it doesn’t seem like anyone accepts them. Anyone have experience with this?
Thanks in advance!
venting here because i feel like i can’t complain too much more IRL. when when when does it get easier? My boys are 2.5 yrs and 1 yr old. I feel like every day is a little bit harder than the last day. I was thinking this my whole drive to daycare this morning. Then when I arrived at daycare I realized “OOF i forgot my son’s napmat” (it gets taken home every weekend to either be washed or more likely to return to daycare Monday dirty). Only I didn’t say OOF. And when I got back in the car to go home and get said napmat I burst into tears. I’m swamped. It’s just so hard. I’m so unorganized I wish I could get my act together. Oh and bedtime last night was one of the worst I’ve had to so far.
also, a comment on this maternity dress. My tatas would have been all over the place in this number.
A) This is lovely. Really like it.
B) I know that I’m on the frugal side, but $76 for a maternity dress would definitely be a splurge for me. That doesn’t read affordable at all, IMO, considering that you only can wear it for a few months. I really bargain-shopped for my maternity clothes (and most of them were fine for 2 pregnancies).
for those of you with more than one kid – do you have a favorite? i know that parents always say they love their kids equally, but people on this site will say that one kid is an easy, one is hard, etc. so is that really true? i feel like i can’t say this IRL, but i have twin boys (9 months) and I feel so much more connected to one than the other. one is such an easier baby. i feel like the worst mom ever for having a preference and i know that it will likely change over time, but i always thought parents weren’t supposed to have favorites. looking for some honesty – does anyone have a preference for one kid vs another? or more patience for one kid vs. another?
Heading back to work next Monday after a 12 week maternity leave. It’s been 7+ years since I had an infant, so I’ve forgotten a lot! 1) Do I need a special bag for my pump/parts/milk? I see fancy ones on Amazon, but are they worth it? I drive to and from work and have a short commute, so the milk would be fine without being in a cooler from work to daycare pickup to home. I’m tempted to get a cheap tote bag since I will only be using it for less than a year at most, unless you convince me that a special pump bag would be better. 2) Bras. I have 2 decent nursing bras and a few nursing tanks. Do I wear my nursing bras to work since it will be easier to pump? Do I get some decent wireless bras and work around while pumping? Do I need a hands-free pumping bra? How do those work exactly? I’m probably a 36DDD (at least) right now, so I need something supportive. Any other tips for heading back to work? Thanks!
Venting as well. Just so so so tired. 15 weeks pregnant with an 18 month old that is up screaming 1-3x nightly. My husband and I take turns going in to give her a hug and tell her its time for bed and repeat every 20-30 minutes until she’s asleep. Her sleep goes in SUCH wide swings. She’ll sleep through the night without a peep for a week then she’s up for an hour or two in the MOTN for a few days. There is no pattern, it’s just so awful. I never know what the night holds. She falls asleep within 5 minutes at 7 pm and when she sleeps through the night, she’s up at 6 am or it’s closer to 7 am. Her naps are only about an hour to hour and 15 minutes.
I feel despair that I have a kid that will not consistently sleep through the night, dealing with toddler tantrums during the day, worried that I can’t possibly have a healthy pregnancy having interrupted sleep, and how will I possible handle this and a newborn as well. Ugh, just not finding a lot of joy in anything right now.
For those that pump at work, how long does it take you? And can you manage to work while you’re doing it, or how do you use the time?
Right now every session is taking 30 minutes and I haven’t figured out a way to go faster or make the time very productive. I want to stick with this (I know it’s fine not to, but this is what I want.) Any tips?
Do any other pumping moms live in fear of forgetting to put your shirt back on before you walk out of your office? Or is it just me? I’m so tired, I feel like it’s only a matter of time.
My almost-5-yo asked for a “big girl paci” for her birthday. As far as I know, she hasn’t had a paci since she was… 18 months? Maybe? It sounds to me like she desires some self-soothing device – obviously I’m not getting her a paci, but does anyone have experience with this or suggestions? FWIW, she is my youngest and in daycare.
We have our first parent-teacher conference this week. For context, we have had a bit of a rocky year with this teacher. She tends to give us a lot of detail about what our son (five and in kindergarten) does wrong–can’t sit still, can’t control body, etc. Sometimes it is just once a day or week that he has trouble and yet we get a paragraph on how he behaved. We get almost nothing about what he is doing well and learning beyond getting his work sent home on Fridays.
Any advice for making the most of the time? What questions should we ask? I have zero idea what to expect.
so many people having rough days/weeks/times. I am sending you all hugs and please know that you aren’t alone! I posted last week about my husband having a psoriatic arthritis flare up right before my business trip and how worried I was to leave him and kiddo. thank you all for your advice and kind words! It ended up being ok! Husband got a cortizone shot to help with the flare up and managed just fine. Kiddo and I both had a long-lasting stomach virus so this week/end was ROUGH even though everyone was home. We made it out though and everyone is feeling better and I just feel so grateful for this respite from illness for a little bit.
Inspired by some of the comments above and my own life: What do you mamas do to foster independence in your kiddos? With recent events, I’ve realized that I just cannot do everything for them, and also, that it is not good for them to have someone do everything for them. My kiddos are young elementary school (K and 2), and I’m trying to have them do as much on their own as they can. For example, instead of getting up in the middle of dinner to get DD a new fork because she dropped the old one and refuses to use it, I tell her that she is welcome to get a new fork and put the dirty one in the dishwasher. I think this is more of a mental shift for me than a “task list” for my kids. I like the idea of chores, but I thinking of more day-to-day things. Any ideas?
What do you do with your old baby clothes? Since my girls grew out of them so quickly they are still mostly in good shape. Donate? Sell in a box on Craigslist? I have friends who will likely have babies, but we have a small house so I don’t want to hold them forever for people that might not want them anyway- I know I was gifted so many clothes I didn’t need hand me downs.
OK, I need some reassurance here … DH had a vasectomy three years ago, so it’s highly unlikely that I’m pregnant, right? Except that I feel pregnant, and I know that we had s3x around the time I ovulated this month. B00bs are killing me, I’m fatigued, I’m having daily headaches. I’m pretty attuned to PMS symptoms, but this started EARLY. Like within days of having s3x, and not letting up. It’s too early to test, but I’m starting to freak out. If pregnant, this would be our third kid, and we are in no way prepared to deal with that reality. It would be a happy surprise, eventually, but omg, would our lives change. Last baby was born in 2014.