Makeup & Beauty Monday: Single-Use Mud Mask
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Sales of note for 2/14/25 (Happy Valentine’s Day!):
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Winter Sale, up to 60% off! 7850 new markdowns for women
- Ann Taylor – Up to 40% off your full-price purchase — and extra 60% off sale
- Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything + 15% off (readers love their suiting as well as their silky shirts like this one)
- Boden – 15% off new season styles
- Eloquii – 300+ styles $25 and up
- J.Crew – 40% of your purchase – prices as marked
- J.Crew Factory – 50% off entire site and storewide + extra 50% off clearance
- Rothy’s – Final Few: Up to 40% off last-chance styles
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – Flash sale ending soon – markdowns starting from $15, extra 70% off all other markdowns (final sale)
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?
I had an unmedicated birth and really drew on meditation and yoga skills, so I recommend that (and good for you anyway beyond the birth benefits). Overall core strength and health also make a big difference in recovery, so swimming, lifting weights, or whatever works for you. I took a breastfeeding and 1-day baby are classes but they were pretty generic and not that helpful – probably makes more sense to save the money and spend it on post-partum doula or lactation consultant for specific, concrete help or PACE group to make friends.
Late in the day WWYD – I have an optional 2-day work conference scheduled out of town during week 35 of pregnancy. It’s a 1 hour flight or 5 hour drive- dr said no problem with the flight itself but the risk is potentially going into labor early. Upside to going would be knocking out a few more CEs before end of year, having 2 glorious days to myself in a hotel with great food, seeing out of town contacts again.. Downside is obviously travelling at 35 weeks pregnant unnecessarily, albeit a 1 hr plane ride away. Pregnancy has been complication-free up to this point. Should I book the plane tickets?
Who makes the best version of this toy? DD played with a version at a friends house and I want to buy for her. cossy Magnet Tiles Building Block, 76 PCs Magnetic Stick and Stack Set for girls and boys, Perfect STEM Educational Toys for Kids Children https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0793LKF4B/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_h8ntBbD0TQXJG
Looking for advice on how to integrate kiddo into a house hunt – she is 4.5, and vaguely knows that we will be moving in the future. Do I take her out to look at possible houses? Do I solicit a wish list from her? Do I just select the one I think is best and then show it to her? It will be a big transition for her.
Any suggestions for backpacks, water bottles, lunch boxes, and labels for 2 day a week mothers day out type program for 2 year old?
Anything else I’m forgetting?
Can anyone recommend a post c-section support band thing? I’m not look to “shrink” or “reshape” or whatever the description says on a lot of these Belly Bandit products, I just want to support my midsection for comfort while I’m recovering. My doctor said they will give me one at the hospital, but that it’s kind of scratchy and many people prefer their own.
Testing: both my responses on the first thread this morning have vanished into the depths of moderation, no clue why. Anyone else?
I know there have been some posts about combo feeding in the past, but can someone talk me through how to get started? I had a terrible bfeeding experience last time (severe tongue tie, lots of pain/bruising/bleeding, stopped after a month even after tongue tie revision). It was terrifying at the time to know you can’t just stop cold turkey without a lot of pain and potentially mastitis. Took a month of cutting out pumping sessions to be done. This time I’d rather see if combo feeding helps me bfeed longer, but still have memories of waking up painfully engorged multiple times/night, being unable to skip a feeding for any reason without pumping, etc. How do you physically make combo feeding work???
I woke up on the wrong side of bed this morning. Please give me your best tips for “getting over it”. (Specifically, a little miffed at DH for having to be the bigger person and apologize over a trifling matter and not getting one in return, but also hair wouldn’t cooperate, etc. etc.)
For Artemis (I don’t think it’s going to thread on mobile)–that’s great. Also, so great to model politely advocating for yourself. Growing up something like this would have been a confrontation and now as an adult it always feels wrong to me to say something even though they is nothing wrong with asking politely.
Just a complaint: I received several emails over the weekend from healthcare dot gov saying I was approved for insurance and need to log in and make my first payment. I tried to log in several times this morning and I just get a screen that says “we need you to wait here.” Um ok.
When someone requests donations instead of gifts, do you tell them that you made a donation? I’m finding orgs that don’t have a “in honor of” or gift donation option so the org is not going to send anything. If so, what do you do? Note in a card? Print something? Thanks!
Has anyone tried those reusable make-up removing cloths? You supposedly just wet them, and they take everything off and then launder and reuse. Any success? Thanks!
I love the Forever 35 podcast! Doree also has a podcast with her husband about IVF — Matt & Doree’s Eggcellent Adventure.
I don’t think you can do math that way. It’s really hard to predict what dropping a session will do to your supply. It may have no effect, and it may reduce your output during your other sessions. I’m all for dropping and supplementing with formula if needed with an eight month old (I did that starting at six months) but if you don’t want to, I think you need to keep pumping.