Maternity Monday: Ribbed Knit Long-Sleeve Maternity Top
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Expecting and need a top you can wear every day through month nine and beyond?
This versatile long-sleeve top comes in seven colors. It’s made from a soft and stretchy ribbed fabric that accommodates your growing bump. Wear this knit top Monday through Friday with a tailored jacket and on weekends with a nubby cardigan.
This top from PinkBlush is $46 and comes in sizes S-XL.
Building a maternity wardrobe for work? Check out our page with more suggestions along both classic and trendy/seasonal lines.
Sales of note for 9/23/25
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Ann Taylor – 30% off tops and sweaters
- Banana Republic Factory – 40% off everything + extra 15% off
- Eloquii – 50% off select styles with code
- J.Crew – Extra 30% off sale styles, plus up to 50% off layers they love
- J.Crew Factory – 40-70% off everything + extra 60% off clearance
- M.M.LaFleur – Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Nordstrom – Fall savings event! Also get 15% off select beauty items and 6x points on beauty.
- Talbots – Anniversary event! 25% off entire purchase, plus fresh fall classics from $34.50
Not sure if this is too late, but we played “musical rooms” in my house, and my home office (I’m full time WFH) went from being in a sunny, well lit room with full afternoon sun that overlooked my backyard trees, to a dark room that never gets full sun without a view. It’s a better room for a multitude of reasons (the old office was in an attic loft and was SO noisy), but I’m realizing the darkness/lack of view is getting to me. I feel like I’m in a cave! Any tips to warm it up, make it feel less … cavey?
I’m at my wit’s end with my almost 4.5 year old (he’ll be 4.5 in January). This weekend was one long tantrum – yelling, kicking, hitting. Getting out of the house was a struggle, with repeated total meltdowns. I have to admit that I don’t handle it great, while I try to stay calm I sometimes resort to “fine, then we’re not going to soccer if you can’t handle getting into the car” and I walk back into the house, which of course just makes him even more out of control (I know that approach doesn’t work, but I get so frustrated after it takes 30 minutes to get out the door and we’re late for everything).
What are some resources for me to be a better parent and help him through this? I’m trying to work on what I can control – make sure he’s not hungry or tired, and give him plenty of notice of what we’re doing and clear rules. I always offer a hug when he’s tantruming, but usually just get punched in the face. He could probably do a bit better with sleep. I aim for 8pm to 7am, but it’s realistically often 8.30pm to 6.30am (he will not go to sleep earlier – if I start earlier it just makes it a 2-3 hour bedtime ordeal). He naps at school and sometimes that means he’s not tired enough at night, so he goes to bed late and then is tired in the morning. I have a doctor’s note asking the school to wake hi m after an hour (in our jurisdiction they’re not allowed to wake sleeping kids unless there’s a doctor’s note). He doesn’t nap on the weekends.
This morning was just horrendous. He was yelling and tantruming non-stop. I was crying. At school he’s extremely well behaved – kind, careful, verbal. I know it’s normal to have the after-school release of emotions, but it also went on the entire weekend. I’m a solo parent so there’s nobody to tag team with, so it weighs really heavily on me.
If this is normal for this age, when did it start getting easier for you?
I posted in response to a “win” thread recently that a full year of better eating and moderate, regular exercise has helped me feel better. The number on the scale is still stubbornly higher than I’d like, but I feel better overall. I wanted to come back and add that after turning 40, my PMS was off the charts terrible. And like three times a year, I’d have a really, really, really heavy flow, with especially horrible PMS/PMDD. I’ve realized that – in addition to feeling better overall – my PMS and length of these really bad periods has also significantly reduced. I just went through a weekend, and it’s amazing how much shorter my periods are now than they were, even a year ago. Much more like they were when I was in my 20s and 30s.
I miss the days when my exercise “wins” were measured in terms of faster times in races or rocking an outfit that I felt awesome wearing, not incremental changes that are evident only to me, but yeay, for feeling better after being on a downward spiral for a few years. And…it’s giving me motivation to get back out for my lunch run :)
Does anyone have a not-fancy (i.e. available at Target) foundation and/or tinted moisturizer/bb-cream that they like? I need it for evening out skin tone, mostly. I currently use Maybelline BB Fresh and it’s fine but I’d be up for experimenting.
I did do the “go to a fancy place and have them try a bunch and then sell you one that is supposedly perfect for your skin” thing a few years ago and I ended up really disliking the one they sold me. So, I’m sure there are fancy ones that are amazing but I just don’t want to spend the time/money again.
For those of you with kids, when did immediate family (parents, siblings) meet your first? Did proximity (whether they could drive vs. fly) play a factor? Seasonality (cold / flu season)?
Had an interesting discussion with a friend this weekend whose parents commented that “people these days just do everything differently” in reference to not inviting family members to the hospital. Of course, I’m fully team “it’s the couples prerogative” no matter what!
Just a reminder for anyone who needs it – no is a complete sentence and it’s ok to return rude to sender.
We went to a (family-friendly but not solely for kids) Halloween event over the weekend. We parked where directed in a field. To the right of us was another family with a baby and little kids, to the left was a family with grown children. We have a baby. Family to the right unloads and starts getting everyone into costumes, strollers, wagons, etc. I feed baby, who’s crying, while DH unloads our stuff. So stuff is all over the place between the two families. Left family’s dad decides he doesn’t like being parked on an aisle and wants to move. Mom sees that there’s space between our car and right car — just enough for us both to open our doors, which are still open because everyone is still unloading.
Mom asks DH to move our car over by a foot. DH says, we’re kind of in the middle of something here. Mom then whines to me, as I’m soothing and trying to feed my crying infant, “but my husband won’t leave his car like this and we want to go in NOW! Can’t you move??” I consider nicely explaining, again, two families are unpacking, they’ll have to wait. But Im overwhelmed and I figure she’s going to continue to argue. So I say, “no.” She incredulously asks, “are you REFUSING to move??” I say, “yes.” She huffs and tries to get her husband involved, who is having none of her. She then comes back to ask me again. I start to say – and this was a mistake – “we have a baby…” and she interrupts and says, “we have kids too!” Her kids take their beers and walk away. I actually laughed. I didn’t mean to, but it was so ridiculous I couldn’t help myself. I ignored her after that and her husband found another parking space in the giant open field.
I felt a little badly for being brusque, but DH reminded me, when someone makes a rude ask it’s ok to be matter of fact with them. I needed that reminder so I figured others might too!
how does one dress when the high is 55 and the low is 42? (where I live the high today is 84, but we are heading out of town this coming weekend to a place with cooler weather and I can’t recall how to dress myself and the kids)
A friend’s comment is rubbing me the wrong way and I’m not sure why – I’m not even divorced or considering it! She reported that she and her husband are fighting (again) and said “it is what it is. I love my kids too much to only see them part-time.” Something about it is really bugging me – like divorced moms don’t love their kids? Come on. I’m not going to call her out or anything but just want a reality check. I’m sitting here feeling super annoyed.
How do you talk to your kids–especially sons–about g*ns? For context, I live in Chicago, so the adult discourse around g*ns tend to focus on their violent misuse against people. I know some people in my area use g*ns recreationally, but I bet most people’s familiarity or exposure to g*ns is handg*ns, not those used for skeet shooting or hunting. DS just entered kindergarten and I’m surprised how g*ns and shooting have entered his vocabulary suddenly. For one example, I picked him up from the playground afterschool, and the kids had a clever contraption to shoot fabric pompoms at each other while another kid was walking around calling out, “who needs ammo??” On the one hand, the little contraption was super clever and in no way dangerous. On the other hand, some kids were framing it as a weapon and calling the pompoms ammo. I’ve heard lots of kids play good guys shooting bad guys, too–usually they’re shooting something ridiculous (like boogers). Some of the parents in my kid’s class include law enforcement and soldiers. How do I begin to guide a 5 YO through the nuance of all this?
A fun thread as we prep to go on the market move/browse real estate listings in our target neighbourhood.
What are your housing deal breakers? Weirdest things you’ve seen in a listing?
I tried to sell my husband on this weird triangular flat until he rightly pointed out that there’s no logical place to put a bed or bookcase. There’s another one where we can’t tell if the rooms are tiny or if they have California kings in all of the bedrooms? So many weird decor choices (she says, as someone with a terracotta sitting room).
Just a PSA to not brush off suspicious lumps in your breast just because you’re pregnant, postpartum, and/or breastfeeding. I had one myself that fortunately did turn out to be nothing on biopsy, but I just watched the professional snowboarder Kimmy Fasani’s documentary and she had stage III inflammatory breast cancer that she brushed off as a clogged duct since she was 37, breastfeeding her second son, and living a healthy lifestyle. Now she advocates for self-exams (and not going into denial because of lifestyle) because that’s how she eventually realized something was abnormal. Just thought I’d pass it on. It’s also a good documentary – it’s more about the transition to becoming a mother than cancer.
DD10 would like to go to New York City over Christmas break (also have DD8, myself, and DH.) It would be best for my PTO if we went over New Year’s Eve and day, but I’m worried some experiences and restaurants would be closed for the holidays. Plus the crowds — we definitely will skip Times Square, but should I expect larger than usual crowds at other touristy places? Any advice from those of you who’ve been and those of you live there is welcome!