Maternity Monday: Split-Neck Tunic
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Sales of note for 9.10.24
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- 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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I really like this top, probably because it’s a maternity version of clothes I would wear pre-pregnancy.
(Perhaps I am not coping well with the changes my body is going through, but it helps me a lot to try to keep my pre-pregnancy style.)
Any experience using parents’ night out at daycare? Ours offers it every so often on a Friday night from closing time until 10 pm. I want to take advantage of it as a cheap way to have childcare for a date night (and with a familiar provider). But I worry about messing up my toddler’s bedtime. I should just do it, right? We never let him stay up more than 30 min past bedtime but are desperate for a date night and keep striking out finding sitters.
DH and I are expecting our first baby in early December. I keep going back and forth about whether hiring a doula is necessary (for either during labor or the first few days at home with baby). FWIF, both sets of parents will be nearby. Thoughts and anecdotes?
I think it depends on your goals. If you want a pain med-free birth it’s probably worth it, but I think it would have been a waste on my standard, uneventful labor with an epidural. Nothing happened that I wasn’t already familiar with from my research. Not sure if the doulas help with breastfeeding support, that may be helpful if you are planning to breastfeed. Otherwise at home I wanted to be alone with my husband and baby.
My 3.5 year old is still in her crib, and still wearing pull-ups at night, but she’s been increasingly uncomfortable (and sometimes leaking) in the morning. So, we are using this as a signal that it is probably time to transition her to her “big kid bed” (ie, take the side off the convertible crib) and let her get herself up and go to the bathroom in the morning (we are going to keep her in pullups for awhile, though).
Our plan right now is to tell her she is allowed to get up and use the bathroom, but then she needs to go back to her bed and stay there until her clock turns green. I don’t expect this to work perfectly right away, but for those of you who use the OK to Wake clock with your post-crib kids, does this seem like a reasonable plan?
Red alert!! My two year old can (safely) get out of his crib and thinks its a super fun game to get out and run around the house at bedtime. He shares a room with his 5 year old sister, who passes out at 8pm (thank you, kindergarten!). Um, so what’s next? Do I convert his crib to a toddler bed? He is really exploring his new independence and testing our boundaries and patience. We didn’t transition my daughter till she was 3.5, so I feel totally unprepared.
At what age would you be comfortable bringing a child to a family friendly ballet matinee? It’s specifically advertised as a special family performance. Trying to decide if inviting my fave 2 3/4 year old is wise.
A couple times over the weekend my three yo complained his teeth hurt. Anyone have something similar happen? Not sure whether to take him to a doctor or a dentist or just wait it out. I checked and didn’t see anything wrong visually…
How do I deal with the 4month sleep regression? I go back to work in 2 weeks and ds#2 is up every 90 mins to 2 hours looking for Paci. I insert Paci and feed maybe 3x night. He sleeps from 630 to 7 am.. He was doing one 5 hour stretch then up every 2 hours before this. Do I need to get rid of Paci and sleep train? He is 75%+ for weight and height…
I’m about 30 weeks pregnant with my second and the extreme fatigue and general unwell feeling is wearing me down. Last time, I had some aches and pains by this point but felt pretty good overall. This time, with a preschooler and a more demanding job, not to mention living in a hotter part of the country, I’m feeling close to my breaking point. I feel like I can never get enough rest, my stomach never feels settled, I’m always out of breath, and I have little patience for my sweet but very spirited daughter. My husband is doing more than enough to pick up the slack, does most of household chores, gives me plenty of time on the weekends and evenings to rest, but it never feels like enough. I’m in pretty good shape, have gained the right amount of weight, eat as well as I can, and get a full nights sleep but . . . still feel terrible most days. Anyone else deal with this? Any strategies for making it through the next 10 weeks? This is busy season at work and I know it’s only going to get harder. FWIW, I don’t think I’m depressed but it is depressing to not feel well all the time. Thanks for any advice.
We used some sleep consultants for our twins and sleep trained at 4.5 months (4 months adjusted), right in the middle of the 4 month sleep regression (which they both had bad!). It was…the only way I felt prepared to go back to work, which I did at 5 months.
They got to 10-12 hours of sleep a night and three solid naps pretty quickly (sttn by day 3-4, naps “consolidated” two or three weeks after). We had some bumps with teething, adjusting room temperature, etc (its never perfect) but it is SO, SO much better than 2-3 wakeups a night.
I was dreading it and parts of it did suck but now it is really, really lovely because we have a nap schedule and a sleep schedule and I would say 90% of the time they sleep well, because of this they are happy and cheerful, and because we sleep we are able to parent them and also work and not feel like zombies. Sleep consultants definitely feel like part of the Parenting Industrial Complex but looking back on it (and thinking about the loads of sleep I got this weekend) I think for us – new parents, twins – it was completely worth it. The investment made us stick with the plan and the plan worked.
PSA for anyone else who suffered through the arctic blast in the North last year. After suffering through one too many outdoor hockey/skating practices I finally gave in and ordered a Soia & Kyo puffer. It came today and that thing is SO WARM I was practically sweating in it in my living room. Look, its a down coat so it isn’t SUPER stylish, but I also think this threads the needle between ‘wearing a down comforter’ and ‘I’m freezing but its fashion!!’. Fwiw, the salesladies at Saks also swore that Mackage and Soia & Kyo are warmer than the Canada Goose ones.
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Guys… I’m so demoralized about my physical appearance. DD is 18 mos and we’re officially trying for #2. I was 25-ish lbs lighter when I got pregnant with #1. I’ve struggled with weight my whole life (thanks, PCOS) and have had a few successful stints on WW. Heck, I used to run half marathons for fun (not built like a lean runner, but I enjoyed the physical activity). That feels so far out of reach today. I was flipping through some pictures of me from the weekend and I just look absolutely awful. I have no motivation to lose the weight if I’m just going to blow up again with #2. I know it’s a season of life and I’m trying to be kind to myself, but I’m just … upset. Everything I put on this weekend was tight – bras, jeans, everything.
Tell me this will pass? That I can reclaim my body after #2 shows up?
My husband got hit by a car while running this morning. It wasn’t going really fast (turning right, he was in the crosswalk), but he got knocked down and scraped up a bit. He’s also insanely busy at work right now and our one and three year old are A LOT. I just feel so bad for him, he says it really knocked him for a loop mentally, and I don’t know what I can do to help- any thoughts? Anyone else ever get hit like that?
What kinds of word combinations are expected around 18/19 months? My DD is almost 19 months and most of her talking is still single words although she is starting to say things like “hi mom” and “please cracker.” The ped seemed to think she should have two word sentences with a verb in them (like “mom come” or “dad go”) by now but she doesn’t. Actually i don’t think she really says any verbs at all? She says “eat” I guess, but that’s the only one I can think of. Is that bad? I did some quick internet searching and it seems like using verbs early is important to language development.