Maternity Monday: Skinny Ankle Pants
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These bestselling pants at Loft are an online exclusive and look like great skinny ankle pants if you’re looking for a maternity style like this for work. They come in navy and black in regular and petite sizes and are machine washable. When I was pregnant, Loft had some of my favorite pants, but where are your favorite maternity pants from, ladies? Do tell! Maternity Skinny Ankle Pants
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Sales of note for 3/15/25
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Spring sale, up to 50% off
- Ann Taylor – 40% off everything + free shipping
- Banana Republic Factory – 40% off everything + 20% off
- Eloquii – 50% off select styles + extra 50% off sale
- J.Crew – Extra 30% off women’s styles + spring break styles on sale
- J.Crew Factory – 40% off everything + extra 20% off 3 styles + 50% off clearance
- M.M.LaFleur – Friends and family sale, 20% off with code; use code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – 40% off 1 item + 30% off everything else (includes markdowns, already 25% off)
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?
Does anyone have recommendations (books or otherwise) about what to do when your toddler (almost 2.5) tells a loved one (grandma) to go away? I am just wondering whether we are supposed to look past this behavior and accept it as a normal developmental phase or whether we should be using this as a teaching moment of how to be kind to other people …
Thanks in advance for any advice!
Phew!!! After our fantastic after-school program with transportation to sports practice abruptly decided to stop serving the middle school less than two weeks before school started, I have managed to cobble together another after-school program for non-practice days + a carpool for practice days. The new program is not as awesome as the old one, but it will be cheaper and she won’t spend much time there anyway so it should be all right.
Blah, anyone want to commiserate with/comfort/advise me?
I feel like I haven’t seen my husband in forever. I see him all the time – live with him in fact! – but for the past two weeks we’ve both been sick, and now kiddo is sick, and it’s a bajillion degrees and everyone is cranky and there’s no date night in sight… I dunno, I miss him. Is this just a thing that happens?
Ugh, I just have my first experience spilling pumped milk all over my lap. Having done this for a year with my first and 9 months with my second without incident, I am completely unprepared and have no backup outfit. Do I need to change? Am I going to smell bad?
My oldest is just starting preschool, with no “hot lunch” option, and has a classmate with a severe nut allergy. We switched to sunbutter (one of the few foods she’ll eat reliably is PBJ) and look at every label before we send lunch to school. However, this morning I just realized our bread also has nuts in it! I didn’t even think to look at bread! (So clearly didn’t look at EVERY label.) I quickly switched out the lunch for today, but I feel bad that I sent it twice last week, and will run to the store tonight to get nut-free bread.
My husband is frustrated with this – basically our house needs to either become nut-free as well, or we need to keep two sets of food, so we have nut-free foods to send for lunch. We’re struggling to come up with lunch ideas in the first place, since we’re new to packing lunch. He was annoyed that lunches aren’t provided for preschool, and he thinks this nut-free requirement is just making it harder than it needs to be. Like me, he’s happy the school takes allergies seriously, but he’s frustrated and feels forced to follow a diet that he didn’t choose and isn’t applicable to anyone in our house. I’m sure he’s just venting and picking the wrong thing to complain about, but anything I can say to gently suggest he reframe this in his head? (He didn’t say this around my daughter, nor would he ever.) Or is there another solution that we’re missing?
I developed a nasty case of mastitis last week, which sucked and had me in bed with a fever and body aches for almost three days. I’m back at work today and feeling totally recovered except the affected boob is still plugged up and I get random stabbing pains. I’m doing every suggestion I can find to clear the duct, but in the meantime, any tips for reducing the random pain, or at least for not reflexively grabbing my boob at work when this happens?
Reporting back on our camping trip:
– Camping with friends (6 adults, 3 kids aged 1.5-3) was a great success. Kids entertained each other, adults got to hang out and chat.
– I left DH in charge of our food and it went perfectly: fancy ramen + veggies, cheese, instant oatmeal, hot chocolate, s’mores to feed a small army, and enough snacks for 3 kids (because if one kid has a particular snack the other two have to have it as well). Food functioned like a potluck and so we also shared tater tots, hot dogs, fruit, etc.
– We’re used to hike-everything-in camping trips (pre-kids) and forgot that with drive-in car camping, you can essentially bring your entire house. Pillows, blankets, Coleman stove, camp chairs, seriously everything. Bring it all.
What do you do when your child refuses to poop on the toilet, even though she is capable and should not be constipated? As in, refuses to poop at all and goes on a poop strike. She’s about to turn 3.
Just a vent this morning. Caught an illness from my daughter over the weekend. Went to urgent care yesterday but I’m still within that 24 hours of being contagious window and still have a fever, and, so as not to infect my office, I’m working from home. I’m getting lots done and available by phone and I’ve already gotten grief from one partner this morning about working from home. What do you want me to do? Infect the whole office? I’m probably more productive from here while sick than in the office potentially compromising others’ productivity. I give up.
Now that babies are supposed to sleep in the parents’ room for a while, what do you do about middle-of-the-night diaper changes? Walk down the hall to the nursery to change baby? Set up a separate changing table in the parents’ room? Am I totally gross or naive to think I could just throw a towel down on our bed and change the baby there? We’re buying a co-sleeper, so baby will be right next to me and I’m really hoping to not have to turn on the lights every time she wakes up in the middle of the night – and even walking across the room to a changing pad on top of our dresser would require turning on the lights and a lot more disruption than just feeding and changing her in bed.
These pants are a bit too wide at the ankle for my taste… Or maybe a bit too long? I don’t know, something is off though. I have some gap maternity skinny ankle pants I bought after seeing on this site, and I’m enjoying them.
(Cross posting on regular site)
Any recommendations for a Boston-area obgyn (individual doc and/or practice)? Strong preference for Cambridge/Boston/Somerville.
Recently moved to the area and newly TTC so need a well visit soon-ish plus (hopefully) teeing up a good OB practice.