Maternity Monday: ‘Audra’ Dress
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Here’s a simple, pretty maternity dress from Rosie Pope, with 5% spandex for a bit of stretch. We’re featuring the indigo floral pattern, but it’s also available in emerald and navy. It comes in sizes XS-XL and it’s machine washable, tumble dry. It’s $178 at Nordstrom. Rosie Pope ‘Audra’ Maternity Dress
Here’s a plus-size option.
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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 1/16:
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Cashmere on sale; AllSaints, Free People, Nike, Tory Burch, and Vince up to 60%; beauty deals up to 25% off
- AllSaints – now up to 60% off (some of the best leather jackets!)
- Ann Taylor – Up to 40% off your full-price purchase; extra 50% off sale
- Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Boden – 15% off new styles with code — readers love this blazer, these dresses, and their double-layer line of tees
- DeMellier – Sale now on, free shipping and returns — includes select options like Montreal, Vancouver, and Venice
- Eloquii – $29 and up select styles; extra 50% off all clearance, plus ELOQUII X kate spade new york collab just dropped
- Everlane – Sale of the year, up to 70% off — reader favorites include their scoop tee, Dream Pant, ReNew Transit backpack, silk blouses and oversized blazers! New markdowns just added
- Hannah Andersson – Up to 30% off all pajamas;
- J.Crew – Up to 40% off select styles; up to 50% off cashmere
- J.Crew Factory – 40-70% off everything
- L.K. Bennett – Archive sale, almost everything 70% off
- M.M.LaFleur – Tag sale for a limited time — jardigans and dresses $200, pants $150, tops $95, T-shirts $50
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – Semi-Annual Red Door Sale – 50% off + extra 20% off, sale on sale, plus free shipping on $150+
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?
Travel-related advice for my EBF baby – my husband and I are traveling for four nights next month when our baby will be 8 months old. He does eat some solids (we are doing BLW) but definitely not that much. He is typically nursing 8 times a day when I’m home, and eating 7-8 a day during the week (I pump three times at work and he eats two bottles; he also nurses 4-5 times evening + night + morning). I am trying to figure out how to organize his pumped milk while I’m gone. My parents will be watching him and I think it would be easy for Mom to feed him All the Milk, so I am trying to plan it out. He eats 4 oz bottles during the day (with two one oz snacks in case he gets hangry) – but 8 4 oz bottles is 32 oz, which seems high (looking at KellyMom and other resources it looks like 25-30 oz is typical for under 6 mo and only goes down after). Maybe six 4 oz bottles and two 3 oz bottles? Am I overthinking this? Probably. I work so darn hard for that milk I just don’t want any wasted – and if I can tell Mom how much to thaw at a time that would really help.
Ugh….I’m beginning to see the signs of seasonal depression hitting. I’ve been successfully fighting against it for months, but lately I’m finding myself missing deadlines, forgetting things, having a hard time getting out of bed or going to bed at night, and my house is getting out of control.
Besides sun lamp, Vitamin D, exercise and getting outside when the sun is shining, anyone have wise words for battling the winter blahs? I’m seeing a therapist, but he is pretty dismissive of CBT (which has been OK, but I CBT think would be helpful for this).
I can’t be the only one struggling with this, but I desperately need to get back into a fitness routine. I’m pretty good about being active when the weather is nice, but winter is rough and my mental/physical health is struggling. My problem is making time to actually do it, without it becoming a giant imposition on our family’s routine or taking time away from the kids. I know we’re not supposed to guilt trip ourselves about self-care, but whatever. I have only 2.5-3 hours with my kids on weekdays; the thought of reducing it further only stresses me out. So, seriously — how are other full-time working moms finding the time to do it? If I read one mom blog that tells me to fit in my gym time while my kid is at preschool, I’m going to scream. I know myself well enough to know that I’m not willing to wake up at 4:30 a.m. to go to the gym, which is what it would take to accomplish a morning workout. I’m already up at 5:20 every day and leave the house at 7:00.
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Happy Monday to those of us in the office today…sigh.
Weird Monday here. Some friends of ours are staying with us for a few days and just got in late last night. We used to live in the same city and hang out all the time, but them staying in our small house is definitely a new level of closeness in our friendship. So we spent the weekend on Project House, which now feels amazing– our guest room is all put together and shiny after months of being a half-finished project, and the rest of the house is clean and at least relatively tidy. But I need a weekend to recover from my weekend. Trying not to be incredibly resentful of those with workplaces that observe federal holidays.