Maternity Monday: Ruched-Side Maternity Dress
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This ruched-side dress is a bestseller at Amazon for maternity dresses, and considering that it starts at $14.99 and is getting a ton of rave reviews, it really looks like a great dress, whether you’re working from home or going to the office. Some of the options even have lace or interesting cutouts that would be good for a baby shower or perhaps a date night.
As always with Amazon, I love that they’ve got customer-submitted pictures — there are a lot of pregnant woman really looking darling in their dresses. In fact, that’s what led me to choose the striped one to feature; I’m usually a solid-color girl myself, but the striped ones look adorable, especially over the bump.
The dress is $14.99–$22.99 and is eligible for Prime (and free returns on some sizes and colors). Ruched-Side Maternity Dress
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Sales of note for 5/14/25
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Beauty Deals up to 25% off (ends 5/17)
- Ann Taylor – Suit Yourself! 30% off suiting (ends 5/16) + 25% off your full price purchase (ends 5/18) + extra 60% off sale (ends 5/14)
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 25% off
- Eloquii – Up to 60% off everything + extra 60% off sale + $1 shipping on all orders
- J.Crew – Up to 50% off long-weekend styles + 50% off select swim and coverups
- J.Crew Factory – Extra 50% off clearance + extra 15% off $100+ + extra 20% off $125+
- M.M.LaFleur – Lots of twill suiting on sale! Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – 40% off all markdowns (ends 5/18) + 30% off dresses, skirts, accessories, and shoes
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?
For those struggling with sending their kids back, we just saw my kids pediatrician for vaccines. He’s very brilliant and he always tends to err on the conservative side. I asked how he felt about sending young kids back to school and he told me he’d moved his own kindergarten age daughter from public to private school so she could have in person learning this fall. We’re in a large Texas city that’s considered a hot spot. He thinks there’s a lot of misinformation (and clickbait headlines) being spread about the true risks associated for younger kids.
For those with kids back in daycare, how is it going? My 2 year old started back this week and there are so many mixed emotions!
I’m having foot surgery next week and will be on crutches for a month after that. DH will be helpful but also has to go to work and sometimes has to work late. We have a third grader and an almost 2 yo, who will clearly struggle with me being unable to carry him around the house. Any helpful hints for me to navigate this time? I’ll take anything about helping me shower (I hear a stool/chair will be helpful?) or getting toddler a bath or getting around the house better or anything. The last time I was on crutches I didn’t have kids. I did a prescription for a knee scooter; I’m assuming that will help getting around the house.
If you used the Snoo, how long did your baby sleep in it? My kiddo is 2 months old, and after sleeping solid 6.5-hour stretches, has started waking up after 4 hours or so. The key factor seems to be that he wants to fight his hands free so he can suck on his fists, and once he has them out, he’s too awake to fall back asleep (and the escalating Snoo motion and white noise winds him up rather than calming him at that point). The Snoo website suggests that you shouldn’t even start trying arms out until 4-5 months, but I’m wondering if he’s outgrown the Snoo developmentally if not physically. He is hitting some 3-4 month milestones already (can hold his head up for extended periods during tummy time, touch and grab objects, and roll front to back already, and he’s about halfway to rolling back to front) so maybe he’s ready to be done with it even though it’s too early according to the Snoo site?
I do feel like he’s too young to move to his own room, which is upstairs, and I’m still nursing at night, so I guess we would transition him to sleeping either in the Snoo but without turning it on, or in his pack’n play in our room.
We have been asked to serve as the backup to care for our 2-year-old nephew when his mom goes to the hospital to deliver her second baby. The mom is a teacher in a district that is opening in person with no safety measures except a mask requirement that will not actually be enforced. She will be teaching full classes five days a week. Her husband is WFH, and her son attends preschool. She will begin her maternity leave two weeks before her due date to self-quarantine before delivery, but if we are called upon to watch her son she will only have been on leave for less than a week (her MIL arrives a week before her due date).
My own nuclear family has been very strict about minimizing our viral exposure: WFH, on-line learning, masked curbside grocery pickup. We feel a moral responsibility to take this on because if we don’t then the dad will have to stay home with the 2-year-old and will miss the birth, but I’m frankly terrified of having this potentially infectious child in our home. There’s about a 50% chance that we’ll actually have to step up. WWYD?
I would like to get my 6 year old daughter a nice necklace. Where do you buy nicer jewelry for kids? I would like to spend up to $50, so more than Claire’s but not Tiffany’s. I have looked at Etsy, but am overwhelmed by the options and I am not sure which seller to trust.
What is your go-to gift for an expectant friend? A friend is expecting a baby girl this winter and I am seeing her for the first time since she announced. We are not super close, but I would like to get her a little something thoughtful to celebrate. Any ideas?
Last week of work before maternity leave. After working a half day yesterday to cross off some of the remaining things I need to do before leave, I have exactly zero motivation to do any more work. Really hoping to go into labor sooner (today would be great).
On a related note – we have a 3 year old at home whose world is going to be rocked by the arrival of a sibling. We’ve been talking to her about the baby’s upcoming arrival, but she obviously doesn’t understand what it really means for her. Tips for easing the transition for her?
I have to share some good news on the working mom front since things are bleak right now. I am working from home through the end of the year, if not longer. For the first time since becoming a “school mom” five years ago, I am actually getting to walk my kids to school instead of dropping them off at the before-care program. It has been lovely. Our mornings are much more relaxed than when DH and I were pushing them out the door at 7:15 a.m. I always knew this, always felt powerless to fix this part of our routine, and the pandemic finally forced what I wanted all along. This is one of the few pandemic-related changes that I want to hold onto, somehow. I also feel more connected to the neighborhood moms BECAUSE I ACTUALLY SEE THEM EVERY DAY. When our world feels so small, that matters a lot.
When do you turn from rear facing to forward? My daughter is 2.5 so technically we could but we should keep her rear-facing as long as possible, right? She has been asking to face forward, but she’s also asked to ride 1) without a car seat, 2) in the front passenger seat and 3) in the driver’s seat, so I’m not inclined to give her preferences too much weight. She never gets carsick. She’s tall for her age (40”) but doesn’t seem uncomfortably squished in the rear-facing seat.
any advice on the going rate for a part-time nanny in DC proper (shaw if that matters)? also what types of “light housekeeping” tasks are reasonable to include?
looking for someone for 3 days/24 hrs a week. Want to pay above board. they would be taking care of one 4 month old. i would be working from home.
We should be leaving this week for our big, fun family vacation. We should be getting on a plane with a mess of kids and too much luggage and dragging the kids around on a vacation with ice cream and meltdowns and big smiles and my husband and I swearing that we’re not travelling with these kids until they’re older.
Instead, I’m slightly anxious that my kid went to Target with Daddy for the first time since March. I’m wondering if it was irresponsible that we did a meetup with daycare friends outdoors yesterday.
I miss the innocence I had 8 months ago.
Ugh, back at nursery for 2 weeks and we’re all sick – as is the rest of my son’s nursery class. My husband is on holiday this week in hopes of letting me catch up on work but I’m definitely going to have to call it and take a nap. We went to the drive through testing centre on Saturday and the results were negative, I just think we all have the immune systems of newborns after nearly 6 months of lockdown. This is what the next 6-12 months are going to look like, aren’t they?