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K in Tulsa says
I splurged on this dress in two colors during my pregnancy and loved them – even appropriate for court with a blazer or depending on type of hearing and personality of the judge, just a cardigan. I have them both packed away in my “just in case” box despite no immediate plans for another pregnancy.
(was) due in June says
Ditto, two colors. I wish I had purchased them earlier in my pregnancy because I could have enjoyed wearing them longer. No plans for another pregnancy, ever, but these I’m keeping just in case.
AIMS says
This is a cute dress, love that color.
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Betty White says
Forgive the cross-post, but I thought this group would have valuable insight.
So I’ve got a pretty great problem. I’m about to go onto maternity leave with our first baby in a few weeks. My boss, on her own, said that she wanted me to know that, while she certainly wasn’t pushing it, she would be open to me working four days a week at 80% pay — or working four days a week at 100% pay (by putting in longer hours on those four days).
Personally, I’ve wanted to work less when the baby was here (really, I wish I could find a way to work three days at week but I don’t see that happening) but I’m worried that the first scenario (4 days a week at 80% pay) would just mean a pay cut and no real reduction in work. But I’m also worried that signing up for 4 days a week at 10 hrs/day is going to feel like too much schedule-wise with a new baby.
For what it’s worth, I’m going back when the baby is 4 months old and I can work from home most days. (I know, I’m extremely fortunate). Other missing piece of the pie is that I currently make about $125K and my husband makes $85K in a “medium” cost-of-living area. We can afford either scenario but would definitely have to cut back a little more if I took a 20% hit. And it doesn’t seem like our daycare costs would go down because part time is 3 days a week. Thanks in advance!
Betty says
Can you start at 80% with four days and then increase it when/if you feel up to increasing your hours? Do you have to commit right now? If it were me, I would go back at 80% and see how you and the babe adjust. There are so many unknowns right now (will you be pumping, how will the babe be sleeping, will you be ready to go back at that point) that you will not know until you are at that 4 month mark. Make no decision before you have to!
Betty White says
Yes, good idea — I hadn’t thought of that, but I’m sure I could start at 80% and then move up to 100% (spread over four days). I don’t have to decide until I’m close to coming back from my leave so that may be the best way to approach it. Thank you!
Anonymous says
If you are interested in 3 days a week it can’t hurt to ask to come back at 3 days a week for two months or so before moving to 4 days a week.
boots says
4 ten hour days will feel very long at 4 months. I’d just do the 80% for four days and cut back a little. It’ll be really nice to have evenings with your baby and that one extra day! But like Betty, I am wondering if you’ll be able to reevaluate at different points? I imagine you might decide to move back to five days at some point…and if it’s only temporary, you don’t have to cut back for that long…
pockets says
I agree that it will feel very long, and you’d have no time with your baby on those 4 days.
Philanthropy Girl says
I agree with this too. I was fortunate in that I had a LO who slept 12 hours a night very very early. If I would have signed up for 4 10 hour days (an option for me as well), I would not have seen my child four days a week. I couldn’t have done it.
It might have been different if I had the work from home capability – if I could have worked from home 3 days a week and only been in the office 2, or something like that. But only until about 6 months old – once they’re mobile there’s no way I could work from home without childcare.
kc esq says
I went back from maternity leave (with twins, if it matters) at 80% for the first 2 months, then returned to 100%. In my job, being at 100% actually gave me more flexibility in managing my own time in the long run, but it was nice to have the extra day each week to get things sorted and have us all adjust to the child-care situation.
mascot says
I think 4 10hrs is doable, especially since you work from home. You can save time on not commuting/ perhaps less time getting ready, pumping set-up if that’s something you are doing, and on lunch hours. How far is daycare from your house? Would you have to do drop-off/pick-up every day or can you split that with your husband? So long as you can protect your non-working day, I think you’d be fine. You will still have plenty of quality baby time on the weekend and on your non-work day.
Betty White says
Our daycare is a 5 min drive from home and my husband also works from home (and can work whatever hours he wants) so we can sort that out pretty easily between us. What will be harder is being home all day and taking our little one somewhere else!
mascot says
You might welcome the quiet! I was really ready to get back to work and using my brain after maternity leave.
No name says
Can your husband arrange something similar, or do you have flexible family around, to enable you to pay for only 3 days of daycare? That might be worth considering.
If not, I agree that the 10-hour days will be very difficult – the hardest part of going back after leave for me was the realization that I would only see baby for an hour after work, max, if I left at 5 on the dot and hit great traffic. That’s tough.
boots says
Sleep question here: my second baby is just shy of 5 months. From about month 2-4, he went to bed between 6 and 7, had a dream feed around 10:30, and then woke up after 6:30 for the day. 4 month sleep regression hasn’t been terrible. He still goes down for bed at the same time, still gets a dream feed, and then when he does wake up crying (about half the time, but more frequently the last week or two), it’s anywhere between 4:00 and 5:30 and I nurse him. If he wakes after 6am, we call it morning and get him up.
We’re getting ready to sleep train but I’m not sure what to do. Should we wait until he’s back sleeping from the dream feed until morning more consistently and then drop the dream feed? Drop the dream feed, nurse when he wakes up for a while, and then drop the middle of the night session? Drop them both cold turkey?? Other imp info: he just learned to roll back to tummy last night in his crib. And we did sleep training for bedtime already, so he knows how to put himself to sleep and back to sleep (I let him cry for 10 mins before going in and sometimes he’ll do it). Thx!!
Lkl says
Have you experimented with not doing a dream feed? YMMV, but we got longer stretches of sleep by not doing one because our baby wanted that first stretch of sleep to be the longest one and would wake up earlier if we disrupted it by trying to feed him a dream feed. I think many babies drop them around 5-6 months, too. Might be worth a shot to try for a few nights. He might also just need a few more weeks or a month to get himself to waking up at your desired time rather than first at 4/5:30.
MDMom says
It sounds like he’s doing amazing actually. My 11 month old has essentially same sleep pattern minus dream feed. I think it’s worth a shot to just drop dream feed and see what happens.
I’m curious what others suggest for morning… Crying it out for 5am feeding is not likely to be successful from what I’ve heard and experienced so far. Baby is pretty well rested at that point and hungry. I am not a morning person, so I’d rather feed at 5am and get another 1.5 hrs sleep than just get up for the day at 530. For me, I’m hoping the situation just resolves itself without me having to start the day before 6. Baby has already moved wakeup time from 7 to 6, to my great displeasure…
Anonymous says
Sounds like he’s sleeping great. Not clear what part you would be sleep training if he already puts himself to sleep at bedtime.
I’d keep up the dream feed and the feed and put him back to bed in the 4-5am timeframe. Do you always get up? I’d have DH bring you baby to feed and let DH put him back so you don’t have to get out of bed on some nights. After sleeping ten hours (6pm-4am) he’s hungry so I don’t think sleep training will get you much more than a hungry baby crying for a few hours in the morning which doesn’t get anyone any sleep. Could try moving bedtime to between 7-8pm see if it gets you more time in the morning.
You could consider starting solids early if you feel he’s hungry but I think that’s likely to cause more problems than it solves as new foods can make their tummies rumbly and hard to sleep.
Anonymous says
adding that if he just learned to roll back to tummy, I would definitely check on him when he cries especially if you don’t have a video monitor. He could get stuck on his tummy and not be able to get onto his back again.
Momata says
I, also, think you’ve got a great sleeper and I’m not sure what you hope to train out. If you eliminate the dream feed, the 5am is probably going to slide back earlier in the morning. I think you already “trained” him by teaching him to put himself to sleep. He is waking because he is hungry – you can’t do much about that.
Anonymous says
+1
“From about month 2-4, he went to bed between 6 and 7, had a dream feed around 10:30, and then woke up after 6:30 for the day.”
2 months of 12 hours with only one wake up? Thank the baby sleep gods for your blessings!
Anonymous says
I would eliminate the dream feed first and see what happens. A lot of sleep consultants don’t recommend dream feeds as hey can just become a feed that baby doesn’t really need and becomes habit. If he wakes in he middle of the night on his own I would nurse him then. My LO started sleeping through on her own at about 5.5 months. While anecdotally people seem to think solids improve sleep I don’t think there is any actual research to back that up, and the recommendation now is to wait until 6 months.
PregLawyer says
My 10-month old was the same – great sleeper, had a few kinks to work out around 5 months to be a perfect sleeper. We didn’t do a dream feed unless he actually woke up, so we just dropped that and went to patting him in the crib if he woke up before midnight.
Our bigger issue was with the morning wake ups. He was waking up at around 5:00 to eat, which was then hard because he would go back to sleep, but we couldn’t before work (whichever one of us woke up to do the feeding). We experimented with a modified cry it out, where we would let him cry for a couple minutes to see if he could get himself back to sleep. Sometimes he would, sometimes he wouldn’t. Now he’s a complete snoozer. He wakes up around 5:45, but kind of rolls around in the crib and plays with his stuffed animal and makes babbling sounds. Then he’ll fall back asleep for a little while. This goes on until we get him up at 7:00. It’s great!
PregLawyer says
I should clarify – he’s currently 10 months old. We started working out the remaining sleep kinks at 6 months.
fly or drive says
With 8 month old – would you prefer to do a 7 hour drive or a flight with 1 layover?
boots says
Flight w layover, no question. Unless you can do the bulk of driving after bedtime, but that gets you somewhere pretty late…
Anonymous says
I fly regularly with my three kids (including twins). I would pick the seven hour drive. You have way more control over things when driving – baby pukes on your second back-up outfit – stop car and get fresh clothes out of trunk. No cancelled flights, mechanical issues necessitating return to departure airport (sigh), or missed connections/luggage. I would consider direct flight over drive but definitely not one with a layover as you double the potential for problems.
Try to leave during nap time so baby sleeps. Put one parent in the back to entertain baby when awake but keep parent in front during times you want baby to sleep. Plan at least one stop. Bring a picnic blanket so baby can crawl around for a few minutes.
Mrs. Jones says
Drive.
anne-on says
Drive. Hands down. We had so.much.gear at that age.
BKDC says
We did a 13 hour trip at 10 months. It’s doable, but requires a lot of entertainment along the way. I haven’t flown with a child yet, but I would think that driving would be much more manageable.
RDC says
I’d pick flying. Much easier to entertain a kid when they’re not stuck in a car seat. Don’t have to stop the car to feed, change, etc. Also at that age mine was a great sleeper on flights – the white noise would knock him out. Even as a lap child the baby gets a baggage allowance (at least on some airlines) so you can pack all the gear. Or we’ve used hotel cribs and borrowed gear at destination.
Maddie Ross says
Different perspective – depends on where you are going and whether you need a vehicle there. If you are renting a car once you’ve flown two legs, you’re better off just driving. If you’re getting to the destination and taking a cab or public transit, etc. to where you’re staying, or being picked up by family and that’s it, then flying. For example, we always drive the 7-ish hours to the beach, because there is so much gear and we need our car there. But we fly the 7-ish hours to grandma’s house, because we don’t need a car and she has duplicates of everything but clothes there. Unfortunately, that’s the kind of trip distance that really is 6 of one, half dozen of the other.
Anon in NYC says
I agree with this.
SC says
Probably drive. But even without a baby, the 7-hour-drive vs. flight-with-layover is about the coin-flip spot for me. Neither is going to be awesome with a baby, but I don’t know that one is necessarily worse than the other in most circumstances. I’d probably base my decision on other factors — cost of flight, need for car and other gear at destination, door-to-door times in car vs. flight, risk of flight cancellation and ability to reroute, convenience of flight schedules, etc. Also, you didn’t mention if it would just be you or if you have a spouse or another adult going with you. I would think driving with nobody to entertain or help with a baby could be very difficult. Assuming you have another adult traveling with you, I’d probably drive.
Spirograph says
I did a 7 hour (driving time, total travel time more like 9 hours) drive with an 8 month old (and a 2 year old) last year, and it honestly was not that bad. We took longer breaks and picked places with picnic areas to let the kids stretch their legs a little. Yes, the drive took most of the day, but we could add a rest stop, or otherwise adjust on the fly if the kids started melting down. I think it was much less stressful than having to power through a situation you have no control over like a flight. Plus, we were able to get up and do our normal morning routine, go to the park to pre-tire them, and leave when we were sure we were ready without the “omg we might miss our flight” scramble. And we had a variety of toys and snacks handy in the car that would have been cumbersome to schlep on a plane.
The kids actually slept a substantial portion of the time, but you can’t count on that at all. I would NOT drive at night — rear facing car seat means the headlights of the cars behind you are shining in your baby’s eyes. Mine were pretty sensitive to that, and I only made that mistake once.
hoola hoopa says
We also tried night driving once and only once. It was a complete disaster. What works for us is to leave early in the morning, so the kids finish their ‘night’ on the first leg of the trip.
I’d drive. There’s so much stuff to haul and flying is a PITA for carseats/strollers/everything. We flew once with a baby that age (we’ve done lots of car trips), and they oddly really loved flying so we didn’t have the horror stories that most people having – but the STUFF was such a drag.
Drive three hours, then take a one hour break. So plan on a ~9 hr journey. I recommend scoping out a good stopping point, such as a park.
Anonymous says
I got this dress in coral for $45 (pea in the pod sale) and wore it all the time.
Frozen Peach says
Anyone have recs for good face masks for postpartum? My LO is almost a year and my skin is just…not what it was before I was pregnant. I don’t even know what it needs, hydration, I think? I can’t afford to try a bunch of different pricey ones, so I’m asking the hive.
TK says
Dermalogica age smart multivitamin power recovery mask. It’s the only expensive cosmetic thing I have – meaning, I’m super cheap and rely almost exclusively on drugstore brands for everything else, but find this mask totally worth it. I started using when my skin was super dehydrated during nursing, and it did wonders. I use it once a week.
Samantha says
Are you sure what you need is a face mask? If what it needs is hydration, maybe a good deep exfoliation (I love my clarisonic) followed by daily moisturizer? Sorry I’m not answering your question, but I don’t use masks.
Another option – if your skin is very dry, maybe slather with coconut oil before (partially) washing it off when you shower?
Frozen Peach says
Ooh, I’ve never tried a clarisonic. Thanks for the tip!! And TK, that mask is immediately going on my list.
I will never, ever put oil on my skin. One of my besties got involved in the “oil-cleansing” fad a few years ago. Her skin looked great for a few weeks, and then she got the worst acne I’ve ever seen in my life, even on Google. Some of them got infected and she ended up having to take multiple antibiotics. It was like, people gasp when you walk in the room awful. (P.S. she is beautiful and her skin is also beautiful (now))
MDMom says
Oil cleansing works great for me. I have combo skin that is breakout prone. I use mix of castor oil, olive oil, and a little bit of tea tree. I’ve been doing it for years and its better than any cleanser I ever tried.
Have you ever used a retinol? I use an otc version (so pretty weak) maybe every other night or so and it really helps my skin look more fresh.
Meg Murry says
Hippie weirdo tip here that works – if you are still nursing, when you finish pumping, wipe off the parts with a paper towel and then wipe your skin with that. My skin was super soft and pretty well moisturized when I did that. After all, there’s a reason “milk baths” are a thing.
Otherwise, I also got good results just by making a point to thoroughly slather on moisturizer every time I washed my face – it was one of the things I started slacking on in a rush to get out of the door. Swithcing from a harsher cleanser to basic cold cream also helped me in the winter, but now that it’s no longer so cold and dry I don’t need something quite so heavy. If you find a face mask or cream that you like, once your kiddo reaches the point where you no longer have to keep 2 hands on him in the bathtub to keep him from drowning himself, bathtime is a good time to go ahead and put on some kind of mask or heavy cream, since you are in the bathroom anyway.
Thx says
Sounds super-hippie but good.
lucy stone says
My husband’s cousin is getting married two states away next month. I’ll be 28 weeks pregnant and barring any crazy complications, I’d like to attend. It would be an eight hour drive (all interstate) or an hour long flight with a two hour layover and then a 90 minute flight. Assuming cost is not an issue, which would you do?
mascot says
Drive. 2.5 hours of flight time, 2 hours of layover plus security lines and flight delays could easily put you at 8 hours travel time. Plus, if you drive, you get to control the music, snacks, bathroom breaks, and can stretch out.
hoola hoopa says
Agreed. I’d go flight if it were 2.5 hours direct, but that’s not a good enough time savings for me.
I’ve done much longer drives when pregnant at various stages, and I’ve never found it any more uncomfortable than when not pregnant. Even when I had really, really bad morning/motion sickness (through 30 weeks!) I much preferred to puke on the side of the road than in a bag while arms reach to a dozen strangers people.
Clementine says
Fly. Absolutely fly. If for no other reason than that you’ll have easy access to a bathroom.
Anonymous says
I was actually going to say drive for this exact reason. I was stuck in turbulence once while pregnant with the seat belt sign on almost the whole flight- being able to see the bathroom and not being allowed to get up and go to it was a special kind of torture.
Anon says
You can get up in this scenario. Nobody will arrest you. It’s for your own good, and you are making the decision to get up and potentially get hurt.
Signed,
Have on several pregnant occasions gotten up to pee because the only other option was wetting myself during landing or take-off.
The flight attendants sign and roll their eyes, but that’s it.
Anonymama says
Hah, on my very first international flight, I flew by myself and really had to pee, fasten seatbelt light was on, I desperately asked the flight attendant if I could get up, he practically had to do a pantomime to convey to clueless, rule follower me that I should just go (“I’m not allowed to TELL you it’s OKAY to go,” eyebrows raised, meaningful look, wink, nudge, repeat a few times…)
BKDC says
I had no problem doing a 12+ hour car trip at that stage. I wasn’t that uncomfortable, but, of course, it depends on your car and how you are feeling.
Anon says
I”m 28 weeks pregnant right now. I could fly or drive easily at this point (and it’s not my first so i’m extra large).
Not knowing the destination of the wedding, I’m assuming it’s not at a hotel near the airport, so I’d probably suck it up and drive so I have a car there in case I need to run around and get anything. This assumes you have a comfortable car and that your 8 hour drive is truly 8 hours..and not say, Boston to DC. If there is a train option (like Boston to DC), do that. Way faster, fewer hassles.
If you do fly, wear compression tights/socks and stay hydrated. And make sure you have someone else do 100% of the schlepping. Do not even think about putting your bag in the overhead bin (I know you CAN, but don’t.)
Betty White says
I was fine flying at 28 weeks and definitely would have preferred that to driving (if only because sitting in the same position is also hard). Only caveat is if you’d be traveling alone and have to carry your bag yourself. Then I’d do whatever option meant less schlepping!
anon says
Fly. I could not have managed an 8 hour drive, physically, at 28 weeks.
Navy Attorney says
THANK YOU to whoever mentioned switching away from the pink-and-green L’Oreal waterproof mascara! The dark circles under my eyes from inadequate and rushed face washing are mostly gone (I still have two terrible sleepers, so they’re not totally gone)! I also switched from black to brown which probably helps. I picked…something else, I couldn’t tell you what brand.
Anonymous says
I made the switch away too but have yet to come up with a good replacement. Any suggestions for good daily mascara?
Clementine says
I like Clinique High Impact. It doesn’t bother my eyes at all, lasts all day, but comes off in flakes rather than leaving me with full on Alice Cooper chic.
anon says
I switched to a black waterproof l’oreal one for the same reasons as OP and my dark circles are much improved. Waterproof was the trick that did it for me. It’s in a silver or gold tube. It also removes easily with face wash or wipes.
Clementine says
Yay!! I’m so glad it worked for you!!
Those almay eye makeup remover pad thingies which I keep in my nightstand drawer (inevitably I remember when I’m already in bed) plus switching mascara helped me look SO. MUCH. BETTER.
Samantha says
First time parenting a girl! What do I do about my toddler’s hair – it looks messy, and it falls into her eyes.
– Hair band? The ones I’ve found are either too tight (baby ones) or too loose.
– Hair elastics to pull into two ponytails?
– Should I attempt cutting bangs?
Anonymous says
Hair clips! So many cute options available!
Maddie Ross says
How old? Under 3? It likely will just be messy. I just in the last couple of months have been able to get my child to wear pigtails or a pony tail, but really as soon as she gets in her car seat it gets matted anyway. And after nap here is ridic. My LO’s hair is curly, so bangs wouldn’t have really worked. If it’s straight enough, they can be cute, but remember you’ll have to maintain. I would probably just do a small clip or small pony around her face to get it out of her eyes and be done for now. We use the small plastic elastics from Wal-Mart of all places (500 for like $2). You can break them to take them out, which is often easier than trying to slide them back out.
Anon says
hair bands- i buy the adult stretchy ones from the drug stores. They worked well on my daughter around 2 (and beyond).
Hair elastics- we do pig tails, half up, etc. If your kid still has fine baby hair, dollar/drug stores have the tiny elastic bands. We used those until about 18 months/2 years when she started to get real kid hair. Then I switched to the smaller hair elastics from the drug store. She sometimes gets my boring black ones if I can’t find any of her colored ones.
Bangs- we get a “pro cut” about 3x/year (1st haircut was at a fancy kid place, now we go to supercuts). I do bang trim in between. I’m not great at it but her hair is often a little messy so nobody is any the wiser. for a fidgety toddler, she’s great at sitting still for haircuts.
I also use hairspray on her sometimes because no matter what I do, if she has night time baths her hair goes nuts with static in the AM.
Samantha says
Yes, under 2 and she has curly/wavy hair. It gets matted at the back and dry, but the front is long and comes down over her face and sides. Ponytails dont stay long (even when she doesn’t pull them off, they seem to come off after a bit).
Spirograph says
What kind of hair bands are you using? They make little tiny rubbery ones – like they fit around my pinky finger – that are grippy enough to stay in my daughter’s wispy little baby hair all day long. She usually has either ridiculous pigtails or a “whale spout” on top of her head. Basically I just grab the part that would otherwise fall in her eyes and put it in a rubber band. The hair in the back isn’t long enough to bother with. I tell myself that ridiculous is adorable at that age. :)
pockets says
I had a lot of luck using adult ponytail holders wrapped 4 times. I found the tiny ones were insubstantial and hard to wrap around tight enough because there were too small for my fingers to manipulate. Mini pockets fought me around 2, but two things helped: I presented it as a choice between wearing a ponytail or having her hair brushed (i.e., “If you wear a pony I won’t have to brush your hair tonight”) and I switched to a character-themed holder (Frozen is a big hit and now she wears an “Elsa pony” or an “Anna pony” every day).
pockets says
Oh, and DO NOT CUT BANGS. My mom cut me bangs when I was 2 and it haunted me until I finally grew my bangs out when I was, like, 14.
In House Lobbyist says
We use those things plastic holders that fit on my pinky. I considered them one time use and throw them away each day because they stretch out so much. We do a “top pony” to get the hair out of her eyes and she sort of looks like Pebbles from the Flinestones sometimes if it goes too far in the middle. We also use those little tiny clips but they won’t stay all day. And I love spray detangler.
Hair Products for little ones? says
Looking for new shampoo/conditioner for my 3 year old. She’s got hair that’s just too static-y for the “all in one” drugstore type kid shampoos. She really needs a conditioner, which I can’t find for kids–all I see are danglers.
Any online recs? Or adult shampoos/conditioners that won’t burn her eyes if she gets some in there?
NewMomAnon says
I found an Honest Company conditioner in the baby aisle at Target. If it got in her eyes, kiddo didn’t seem to notice. It is scented (I like the smell, but I know some people can’t do scented bath stuff). Otherwise, can you try a leave-in conditioner? That doesn’t need to be rinsed so you wouldn’t have the eye issues.
mascot says
California Baby makes a tearless conditioner I think.
blueridge29 says
We use the California Baby conditioner and it is great. Keeps the babies’ hair soft aand easy to comb.
rakma says
I use Nature’s Gate conditioner on my own hair, and have used it on DD with no issues. It’s really thick, so a little goes a long way, and we haven’t had any eye issues. If her hair isn’t tangled, conditioning every other wash seems to work for static/manageability.
In House Lobbyist says
I use Fairytales conditioner a few times a week on my kids because it is supposed to prevent lice. I don’t know if it works or not but I am paranoid about lice so I’m willing to try anything. I buy it at Amazon and it does make their hair really soft. It smells like peppermint and rosemary which I happen to like.