Maternity Monday: Shirred Maternity Dress
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This maternity dress by Ingrid & Isabel has been around for years, and I highly recommend it. We’re featuring it today in the plum, but it also comes in black, gray, navy, and other colors. The boatneck and long sleeves and ruching make for a classic style, and this will definitely stick around for multiple pregnancies. I think you can wear it while pregnant, during postpartum, and possibly even beyond. It comes in sizes XS–L. Shirred Maternity Dress
Two plus-size options are this long-sleeved dress and this three-quarter-sleeved dress from Pink Blush Maternity. 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.Sales of note for 9.10.24
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- Ann Taylor – 30% off your purchase
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Boden – 15% off new styles
- Eloquii – $29 and up select styles; up to 50% off everything else
- J.Crew – Up to 50% off wear-to-work styles; extra 30% off sale styles
- J.Crew Factory – 40-60% off everything; extra 60% off clearance
- Lands’ End – 30% off full-price styles
- Loft – Extra 40% off sale styles
- Talbots – BOGO 50% everything, includes markdowns
- Target – Car-seat trade-in event through 9/28 — bring in an old car seat to get a 20% discount on other baby/toddler stuff.
- Zappos – 26,000+ women’s sale items! (check out these reader-favorite workwear brands on sale, and some of our favorite kids’ shoe brands on sale)
Kid/Family Sales
- Carter’s – Birthday sale, 40-50% off & extra 20% off select styles
- Hanna Andersson – Up to 50% off all baby; up to 40% off all Halloween
- J.Crew Crewcuts – Extra 30% off sale styles
- 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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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?
Calling solo parents — I see a lot of y’all commenting, and I was hoping I could string together your advice. I solo parent my infant pretty much every week day. So what are your biggest time-saving and/or solo-parenting hacks? Also, do you have a life outside work? I’m currently in a wonderful baby phase where baby is fun and sleeps from 6:30 pm-7:30 am (still eating once or twice), but being the solo parent (with no local family) means I’m stuck in the house all night too tired to do anything productive, so I find myself watching Netflix pretty much every night. I used to be involved in so much and make so much of my week nights, so this is new, and honestly pretty boring.
Today I’m taking my 2yo to the heart doctor. It’s a heart murmur and I know it’s ‘probably nothing’ but I’m still super anxious. I’m also just worried about the experience — will the doctor be nice to her (and me?!), will it be scary, why is the appointment so darn long?
Any insights?
My two and a half year old has started waking up crying in the middle of the night. It doesn’t happen every night. Maybe once or twice a week. And it’s not a night terror. She’s fully aware of what is happening.
I usually go in and pick her up and rock her. Then she goes back in her crib and a rub her back until she’s no longer upset and I can leave. But this is starting to stretch longer and longer. Last night it took 35 minutes. I also have a three month old, so sleep is very precious right now!
Any suggestions? Is this just a phase we need to ride out?
I should mention that my husband is totally willing to be the one to go in her room, but she of course only wants her (sleep deprived) mommy.
Tips for hiding morning sickness at work? Or from friends/family? the other week some colleagues were discussing pregnancy and i stupidly shared how my mother was the sickest person ever during her pregnancy throwing up multiple times a day, and now I am nervous that as soon as they see or hear me sick they will assume i’m pregnant. granted, i’ve been married for a number of years and am in my 30s, so I’m sure on some level they would suspect that anyway. I’m 7 weeks tomorrow and not quite ready for anyone to know. my in-laws are also coming to visit in a few weeks for the weekend and we do not want to tell them until the 12 week testing is done because they are the worst secret keepers on the face of the earth
Moms, could use a little support. My life has crumbled around my ears in the last few weeks. Last week I ended up taking a week of unplanned vacation because we discovered that my brother-in-law molested my 2.5 year old during a family vacation (she told us, plain as day– and there are lots of other red flags) and because I had to check my husband into a mental hospital for undiagnosed PTSD/possible bipolar. I did the rounds of CPS reporting and law enforcement and pediatrician and getting started with therapy intake for kiddo on my own after getting husband settled.
Today is my first day back at work. I’m our family’s sole breadwinner and my job is pretty high-stress/fast-paced. So far my team and my clients have been amazingly supportive– but I feel like I survived a nuclear attack and am wandering around giving off radiation.
I’m not sure what I’m asking for, except that I know others of you have survived similar “life burning down all at once” events. I welcome advice about maintaining in the workplace most of all– my manager knows what’s going on, and I have told most of my colleagues about the kid stuff. That said, I have had several other major personal issues (health stuff) this year, and I’m starting to feel like Calamity Jane to my childless, unmarried boss in her late forties. It’s hard not to look over my shoulder a lot.
It’s looking like my husband will be coming home in the next few days to do an outpatient program for a while– can anyone relate? Any advice for supporting a spouse when they come home from a mental facility? This one is new to me. I’m feeling all the feelings– concern, gratitude he’s finally getting the help he needs, fear things will go back to the way they were, wanting to be supportive, anger at being left to manage this whole kid situation as a solo parent, and, oddly enough, concern that I may not want to stay with my spouse. This may have been the thing that broke me– having to dig deeper into my well of personal reserves, buck up, and handle ALL THE SHIT alone. I am telling myself those are normal feelings and I shouldn’t worry too much about them. I just want someone to take care of me for a change.
I posted last week about maybe being pregnant with a 3rd. Follow up: I finally stopped living in denial and took a test this weekend after going to bed at 8pm and waking up exhausted and feeling like I was going to lose my lunch.
Baby #3 due sometime May-June. I’ll have to wait for the ultrasound for dating since I really don’t know at this point when my last period was, probably early sept.
I spent the weekend freaking out about our vehicle situation (3 car seats + a spare for play dates?!?! ), and our bedroom situation (do we give up our office/guest room and give each kid their own? Make them share?), and the logistics of bringing 3 kids *anywhere* much less to 2-3 care situations every day!
But…as DH pointed out, we’ll be done with diapers and college one year sooner than we originally planned ;).
3 under 5? Bring it on…..(excuse me as I vomit).
Toddler can now unlock our front and back doors. Front door is standard deadbolt and back door is a sliding door with a flimsy flip lock. We also have a piece of wood that prevents the sliding door from opening – toddler can lift this alone, and has tried to go outside a few times (while we were present in the room, but still).
Is there a good site that shows how to toddler proof (up to, say, age 5 or 6?) various doors? We will eventually also need to proof the door to our garage (standard knob, no deadbolt).
Anyone have product advice? Thanks.
Please tell me if I was out of line and, if so, how I can make it right. At the tail end of a cold going around her daycare class, my kid (10 months old) came down with a horrible stomach bug last week that ripped through her daycare class. My husband and I both got it on Friday night and spent the weekend feeling so beyond miserable. Like, trading off who had the baby so the other could go throw up. I got her into daycare this AM and the teacher who was there was clearly quite sick with a cold (had been out a few days the past week) and I didn’t see any hand sanitizer in the room in my admittedly quick glance. I agonized and then sent a message saying that I trusted them completely but for my own peace of mind and because the past weekend had been so completely awful for us, I had to ask them to please make sure that they were using lots of sanitizer etc so the teacher wouldn’t pass her cold to the kids. We then got an email from the lead teacher saying that 1) one of the kids in the class has hand foot mouth disease and that we should be on the lookout for symptoms, and 2) what read to me as a very defensive paragraph about how “there has been some concern” about the first teacher’s sickness and they of course take all precautions all the time.
I responded immediately, thanking them for letting us know about the HFM and apologizing/explaining again why I’d asked about hand hygiene. I haven’t heard back. Do I need to mention it at pickup/continue to feel guilty/apologize again? We really love the daycare and the teachers, and my kid is so happy there. But the thought of us all getting a cold bad enough to keep a teacher out of work for two workdays and then a weekend and STILL super sick on Monday, when my kid is still not eating after her stomach bug (or maybe it’s because she has HFM, sigh) made me panic.
Just wanted to whine about all of the school closure days in our district. With both of us working, it is so hard to find care for a 4 year old and the day camps that do take younger kids are $80-100 a day.
Long-time reader, having arguably the worst few weeks of my adult life, posted this morning, it seems the details of Worst Week Ever are so bad that they aren’t going to make it past moderation.
So here’s actually the easy part. Picking my husband up from the mental hospital today after a weeklong stay. He’s never had any mental health treatment before to speak of. Feeling ambivalent. Things are so peaceful with him gone. It would make me the worst wife ever to realize that I don’t love him anymore when he finally, finally went to get some help with his issues, right?
My 3 yo emphatically wants to be a ghost for Halloween. This is a silly question, but do I just get a white sheet and cut eyes in it? Will it stay on him? It seems stupid to buy a ghost costume. I’ve seen some simple DIY ones online, but they require other kinds of fabric and I really just need something I can order on Amazon. I can’t go to the fabric store and deal with all that nonsense. His twin has expressed no interest in any costume so we’re thinking we’ll make him a ghost, too, and then get GhostBuster costumes for ourselves. :) (I still want to buy the Slimer costume for our dog, but my husband insists we’re not bringing the dog trick or treating.)