Nursing/Postpartum Tuesday: Slow Flow Bottles
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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?
Piggybacking on the lunch thread…how do you ensure “cold” items don’t get soggy or worse, are at room temperature during kids’ school times? my soon-to-be-KGer loves cheese sticks and yogurt pouches but only when they’re cold. can I freeze them and hope they thaw before she eats them for lunch?
Just a minor work gripe. I tend to end every call with ‘thanks guys’ and today it hit me that literally, 99% of the time I am working with…just guys. Sigh. This will be better when our daughters hit the workforce, right? right?
Every few months my husband gets down in a big way about something (never anything tragic – usually it involves work frustrations) and he’ll tell me about his deep disappointment, typically during the day so I can really only email/IM him back. I always feel for him when it happens and will end up writing something I hope will be of comfort – it’s never anything I toss out, but something considered and (I hope) thoughtful.
He tends not to write back, even with a ‘thanks.’ In the past I’ve chalked it up to him just being down and so being selfish in the moment. But today it’s really bugging me. Am I overreacting?
Thanks all who gave me encouragement yesterday re: not being able to give 100% at work due to severe all-day pregnancy sickness. It helped to whine :)
Has anyone used the Dia Method postpartum? Considering signing up for the online workout videos but would love to hear about others experiences. Also, if you used it, how soon did you start after giving birth?
Hi Jax (or apologies if I got your user name wrong), I was catching up on posts from last week and saw your family childcare update- I’m glad that things are going better for your daughter/sorry that relationships with your inlaws have soured! I was one of the posters that urged you to let her distance herself- my relationship with my grandma never recovered once she started criticizing me. Good luck moving forward with everything!
My bf babies also preferred these bottles. One wouldn’t take any other bottle when I went back to work and continued using it (with slow flow/0-3 months top) well into toddlerhood. In the early days, using this bottle also helped my older one remember to latch correctly (and not bite me after having a bottle).
I know, questions like this have probably been asked dozens of times, but I feel like each time, there is a different mix of commenters and new angles than before.
I’m looking for a new job. My current job allows me to have a schedule where I work from about 8:15 to 4:15 so I can leave and pick up my kids. No work from home. The jobs I’m looking at pay much more, so I would expect some work from home, and to go in early if I had to and also to stay late as long as I could plan ahead for that (and as long as it wasn’t all the time–I have to stay late one day a week on the regular? We can probably work that. You want to schedule a late meeting for 2-5 days from now? I can handle that. You come to me at 3:55 with an emergency? Not gonna fly, I can address it after I put my kids to bed).
Has anyone had successes (or failures, actually, looking for a realistic picture here) getting a job offer and then negotiating for a hard end time for personal reasons, as early as 4 or 4:30? Or is that just so gauche in today’s corporate/in-house world?
Weirdly I also feel like people who stay later are given way more credit and credence than people who are willing to come in earlier, even if they work the same hours in the office. But maybe that’s my own hangup. I also feel like my husband doesn’t understand this limitation in my job search because he’s never had it–he takes the kids to school but I’ve been default pickup parent since the beginning. Tell all please!
My mom has been watching our baby at our home 4 days a week for the first year. He starts daycare next month (which I’m super worried about, but that’s another thread!). We want to get her something to commemorate the year and say thank you. I was thinking a photobook, though she is actually making a photobook of her own for him (I think she’s making an A-Z book or something like that), and also she of course has many photos of him on her phone, etc. But I can’t think of anything else that’s sort of sentimental or kid-focused. I don’t want to get just a gift certificate or something. She’s not a big “stuff” person, and she doesn’t drink. My parents also don’t live locally, though they will probably visit monthly-ish. I would love any ideas!
When you offer to make tunafish for your husband and he says “oh, is the steak from yesterday gone already?” and you say “yes” because you just slipped it into your own lunch the second before he walked into the kitchen. Looking forward to my steak at lunch.
DD will be starting kindergarten shortly, and I’m struggling with lunch ideas for her. She will probably take lunch with her at least a couple times a week, but she’s not a big sandwich or wrap fan. Any suggestions? And any advice in general for a successful school year would be much appreciated. She’s our first to go to school, and I think I’m more nervous than she is!
My friend/coworker’s birthday is coming up, and my usual gift to her is a bottle of wine. But she just told us she’s pregnant. Any thoughts on a small gift for her? This is her first child, and she’s only about 8 weeks along.
Sleep, exercise/stretch, and call friends for a nice long catch up conversation, since you’ll prob be too flooded with well wishes and too exhausted to really talk to far-flung friends in the first few months.
What are the best things you did or wish you did in the final days of pregnancy, especially when you’re working full-time until birth and you have a toddler? I think I’m just whining and trying to put a fun spin on it. I feel like I’m squandering my time when my son goes to bed and I’m home alone since my husband works in the evenings. I feel like I should really be living it up and enjoying the time or something, but I’m too large and uncomfortable to start anything physical and I have no interest in anything from television to books. Help!
Ideas for baby’s first birthday party? Our place is small and we cannot accommodate guests. We expect to invite around 10 adults. Rent a picnic table in the park? Restaurant? Birthday gift ideas for boy turning one?