Maternity Monday: Scallop Dress with Short Sleeves
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I like this dress because it does double duty. You can wear it as a maternity dress while pregnant, and then postpartum it’s also a nursing dress. I actually did wear a lot of my maternity clothes while I was on maternity leave for a few reasons. They were comfortable and they accommodated my waistline while it slowly returned to somewhat of a pre-pregnancy shape — and I had no time to transition my closet from all of my maternity clothes to my regular wardrobe. I like that this dress looks comfortable but also is modest enough for an office, and that the nursing part of it looks like part of the design. It’s $48 at ASOS in sizes 2–16 and also comes in pink. Pictured: Nursing Scallop Dress With Short Sleeves
Reflecting the fact that maternity wear in plus sizes is not exactly abundant, here is a maternity dress at Kohl’s that goes up to size XXL and is not quite as subtle with its nursing style.
Building a maternity wardrobe for work? Check out our page with more suggestions along both classic and trendy/seasonal lines.
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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?
After the post on the main s i te about summer camps, I’ve been doing some research on summer camps and was wonder what your plans are? I went to sleepaway camp for a week at a time here or there during every summer as a kid, and loved it. Would you ever send your kid to one of the multiple weeks long ones? At what age? Did you go to one like that? Some of them are pretty expensive, but it just sounds so great to not have to do the mad planning scramble that parents of school aged kids have to do.
It’s a little late in the day so I’m not sure how many people will see this, but I would love any thoughts or advice. My husband and I have been talking about having another baby and we’re just not on the same page. He told me last night he feels that our family is complete. My best way to describe what I’m feeling is to say I feel like I have more love to give. And that I would love our son to have a closer-in-age sibling. (He has a sister, my SD, who he loves and loves him back but is ten years older than him.) I don’t feel like my life is over if we can’t have another, and he says he could be convinced, but I think we are coming from such opposite corners, someone will have to compromise. Can anyone reflect from the other side?
When did you take your baby to swim in a swimming pool? I have a 5 month old and a swimming pool at home. Husband is itching to dip him in t by e pool, but I am worried about chemicals in the pool… any thoughts or experience on this issue?
Found out today that I am having a little GIRL! Had the anatomy scan and everything was measuring on target. It’s a good day :)
Looking for a cute nursing nightgown that I can wear now (@ 7ish mos) which will accommodate ridiculously large nursing bo0b$. Sleeveless, soft, and cute is a bonus.
Please tell me this will get better. We just moved (only a few miles, but still) – this means new house and new childcare for 22-mo DD. She’s taking to the new house amazingly, plays happily, sleeps well, all around champ. New daycare is a different story – her old place was a large center, this is an in-home (there are no large centers where we moved to – all in-home style). She used to love going to “school”, and really thrived there. Now she screams at drop-off and clings to me screaming. Also doesn’t eat there other than fruit and crackers (new place makes food, which is awesome for us but means she gets offered lots of things that are new to her). I get that this is to be expected after only a week and I know I need to give it time. But it should get better eventually, right? I don’t love that the teachers basically pick her up and try to distract her…as she’s gotten older we’ve tried to move away from distraction and let her feel her feelings and work it out, but they’re so up in her business here and I’m finding it impossible not to compare to her old place, and worry about whether she’s going to be scarred by this. Also doesn’t help that I’m 24 weeks pregnant and the a/c at new place went out during our record setting heat wave over the weekend, so I’ll admit I’m on edge from other things!
Highly recommend Softstar shoes!
Reality check: even if I can’t stop thinking about how awful my kid was on our flight home yesterday all the other passengers have probably forgotten, right?
Most of the flight was fine, but about 20 minutes from landing one toddler started crying and was not willing to be pacified with books, toys, snacks, songs, snuggles, or the usually forbidden phone and basically just cried until we got off the plane. I know that people don’t like when kids cry, but we just got so many dirty looks even though we had one 15-month-old happily sitting in his carseat and were actively trying to calm down the other twin.
I’m sure this has been asked before, but: Best shoes for a baby who crawls but is likely a few months away from walking? He is starting day care, and they have an outside area full of mulch etc. and recommend that he not go barefoot, which makes sense. Neither of my other kids ever had shoes before they started walking. I think I need something slipper-like? Recommendations?
I am having a hard time and just want some advice and commiseration. I am 30 weeks with my second. DS is 22 months and just an absolute joy. I am so excited for the second one and am really looking forward to my maternity leave, when I won’t have to commute to work and can spend more time with both my kids. The problem is this excitement about the future means work feels miserable now. I used to love my job. I was promoted to January to a position with a lot more responsibility and, at the same time, was in the first trimester. I have not felt caught up at work since then and I feel overwhelmed with all I need to do (both at work and home). On weekends, I have completely cut out doing work and just focus on family and getting ready for the baby, but I don’t come back feeling refreshed. I resent having so much to do at work and how much time I spend here. I probably need a vacation, but I am saving up my time off for my otherwise unpaid maternity leave (which I also resent my employer about).
I want to like my job when I go out so I am excited to return, like I was with my first. Any advice on what I should do?
Sunburn + hangover from winery visit yesterday. Work email not working on phone this morning. Conversation with my mother on the drive in that we joined a nice gym so my husband could work out and I could enjoy the (outdoor, yes!!!) pool. “Well, you really need to start exercising.” “Mom, I’m very happy with my functional fitness – I can and do walk 2 miles to the park and back at a decent clip pushing a stroller regularly and I can bench press and otherwise heft around my 25 pound kid (while carrying a purse, diaper bag and cooler) with ease. There is nothing in my life I struggle to do physically. I work 60-70 hours a week, am still barely sleeping, and what little time I have left I like to spend with my family, not at the gym. Oh, and I’m 25 pounds down from my pre-pregnancy weight.” “Well, you gained a lot of weight before your wedding and pregnancy. You really should get in better shape before you get pregnant again.” “Mom, I’m in the best shape of my life since when I was a high school athlete.” “You need to lose that spare tire.” “Mom, I have never had a flat stomach in my life, I had a c-section, so the poufy pouch is pretty much here to stay, and also I wore a bikini to the pool last weekend and looked relatively fine compared to all the other mom’s with similarly aged kids.” “You need to do better, but enough said, how’s the weather?”
hive help: I want to get a ballet themed gift for my niece for her 4th birthday. Her mother is getting her a leotard and the all the actual ballet-gear for class and I don’t want to overshadow that.
I was thinking a cute ballet shirt for regular-wear. Has anybody seen anything cute? I’m hoping for something gap, mini boden, hanna anderssen, that kind of thing…..and maybe i’ll get her a ballet book too so any suggestions on that would be great!
There’s a lot of discussion on her about kiddos with ADD but do any of you moms have ADD? What behavioral strategies help manage your ADD? Mine had been managed ok with medication but a few months ago I started experiencing scary side effects and stopped taking the medication. I’m going to see my pysch to get a new medication but it takes 6 months to get in. So in the meantime would love to hear others’ strategies for maintaining some focus.
Another lifejacket question — I’ve looked through the archives but most of the discussions seem to be about lifejackets for swimming rather than boating. We are renting a house on a lake this summer with some friends and plan to spend a fair amount of time on the pontoon boat with our 2.5 year old and our 6-month old. We’ll get an infant one with neck support for the baby (any recommendations are welcome) but I’m confused about what to do with the 2.5 year old. I assume an infant one also? She’s comfortable in the water but can’t swim. But she is RIGHT on the weight limit edge (she’s around 29 pounds) so I’m worried that they will not work properly for her.
When she is actually playing in the water/swimming (by the shore, not off the boat) we are not planning on using a lifejacket at all; one of us will be holding her. So this is just for the boat.
Pregnant with my third (end of first trimester) and I am about to make a major ask at work- to work remote to move closer to my parents and also switch to our business unit which has a longer maternity leave policy. Has anyone had experience having this kind of discussion at work? I’m very apprehensive about even asking and have been putting it off. We formally have a no remote work policy on paper but its subject to manager discretion. I have been the top performer in our department every year. But no one else has gotten this kind of “special treatment” so I’m cognizant of the effect it will have on group dynamics too. I manage a team of 2. My boss told me last week we may have another layoff this quarter. I was also slated to hire a third employee and that has been put on hold. I am hoping to make the move before my third trimester.