Maternity Monday: Ruched Maternity Top

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A woman wearing Ruched Maternity TopI love a good kimono sleeve, and the swingy circles — it’s just a very airy and fun way of distracting from a growing (or already huge) baby bump. I like this Kimi and Kai top in black we’re picturing, but it’s also cute in the emerald. It comes in sizes XS-L and it’s $48 at Nordstrom. Myah Ruched Maternity Top This post contains affiliate links and CorporetteMoms may earn commissions for purchases made through links in this post. For more details see here. Thank you so much for your support! Building a maternity wardrobe for work? Check out our page with more suggestions along both classic and trendy/seasonal lines.

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  • 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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Today, I dropped kiddo off at her regular preschool, and half the kids were crying while the other half were screaming and committing mild violence against each other. She just looked at me and said, “Mama, I not wanna be here.” I know it could be a rough transition to the new preschool (next week!) but I hope it’s better than this….

PSA: Kleenex are very strong! I went to get a tissue to (Kleenex ultrasoft) to wipe my daughter’s nose today, and when I came back with it she promptly puked right into the tissue. The issue did not rip and valiantly held all the puke until I got it into the garbage. I personally was very impressed.

+1 to everything else, but also take time to hit the gym or jog if you can. If it’s a nice city jogging is my favorite way to get some exercise and see the area – usually on the afternoon that I arrive, or otherwise an early morning wakeup one or two days.

I’m headed to a work conference at the end of this week (Wednesday-Friday). Aside from the 6am flight out, I am looking forward to a few days away from “real” work and a break in my routine. I know this is not a vacation, but with two little kids at home, this is about as close as I get. Any suggestions on how to make this trip feel more like a break or luxurious?

This is such a weirdly specific question and I kind of feel bad bothering anyone about it but it’s been frustrating me for awhile now and I could use some input from more experienced parents. My 13-month-old currently nurses right when she gets home from school (~5pm), and then she is not hungry for dinner. We’ve tried just feeding her dinner at 5 instead, but if she sees me she gets hysterical (and I do pickup most days). I think it’s partly hunger and partly wanting to reconnect/reset after daycare.

I don’t know if we should try to train her out of this, or just figure it will stop on its own eventually, or what. She’s getting enough to eat during the day, so it’s not a nutrition concern. Mostly it’s just annoying because dinner is when we’d like to introduce her to new foods, and if she’s not hungry, that can’t happen.

She doesn’t take a bottle at daycare, and has a snack and sippy cup of milk at 3pm.

Do any of y’all have experience with babies and allergies?

I suspect my kid is allergic to something in our house/her room — am terrified it’s our kitties! Every night as we do lullabies she starts coughing, and she has 5-or-so-minute coughing spells in her crib like every hour all night. This is beyond the regular toddler cold thing because it’s constant, week in and week out. We do have a humidifier (immaculately cleaned daily) running in her room, which helped a few months ago but now we’re back to the constant cough.

I don’t even know where to start? Do you take a two-year-old to an allergist?!

My brother is getting married in October to a woman from Taiwan. Their October wedding is about a six hour travel destination from our house – no problem. (Although on a Friday, which I don’t love, but whatever.) Her immediate family live in the US and will be there. Her extended family is in Taiwan, so they are traveling there for a traditional Taiwanese wedding reception in December. My family really, REALLY wants us to go. If this was a few years ago – hell yeah! I was single, had disposable income, lots of vacation time. But now – I’m concerned about traveling about 24 hours from door to door with a 16 month old. Who hasn’t flown anywhere yet. Then being in a different time zone for a week. 24 hours travel back and adjusting back to our schedule. And dealing with a carseat. And figuring out nap time. It feels really, really overwhelming to me. And I would not feel right going with my husband and son and not taking my stepdaughter, so we’d also have an 11 year old.

My mom and brother keep telling me how much they want me to come, and offer to pay for one of our flights with points, and point out how they scheduled it over the holidays when my workplace is closed (my husband’s is not, he’d have to take vacation), and how “once we get there it would be free” because my mom assumes we’ll stay with Fiancee’s family – which is even worse because then I’d have to stress about how my baby freaking out and crying and not sleeping will disturb people I don’t know in their own home.

I absolutely love the idea of being there for my brother and I love to travel internationally but doing it with the baby seems INSANE. Am I the worst person for just putting a kibosh on it? Should I just go alone? I worry if I do the second, they will somehow hold it against my husband, because my family is just weird that way. (Like, “LSW’s husband really just does not like our family, look at how he didn’t travel to Taiwan with us.”)

Ugh. Can I just say no? Can I just go alone and then ride the fallout from this somehow being my husband’s fault? (I always feel really bad when he gets flak from my family, he is a great guy and they can be weirdly unfair to him.)

Does anybody have experience with this Kimi and Kai brand? I don’t remember seeing it during my first pregnancy and some of their stuff looks cute at Nordstrom online.