Feeding Tuesday: Sugarbooger Jumbo Floor Splat Mat

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Splat mat for under high chairsWe finally broke down and started using a splat mat, and I’m wondering why we didn’t make the switch earlier. It captures the food the toddler throws on the floor and means it isn’t a total crisis if we don’t get on all fours immediately after the meal. We got a clear one that seems to be working fine (no complaints, although I wouldn’t call it “machine washable”), but this pictured alphabet one looks lovely if you want more of a design or pattern. It’s kid-centric without being over-the-top, it’s gender neutral, and it seems it wouldn’t be outgrown for a thousand years. It’s $36 at Amazon. Sugarbooger Jumbo Floor Splat Mat (L-3)

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That was my experience. Lots of walking helped, and just generally being out and about. I found a bar that opened at 2, and I organized a mommy meet-up/happy hour for the early afternoon (way before the bar got crowded). It was the only way I could feel more like myself. You’re doing great, mamma!

If anyone has any tips for getting my 7 week old to sleep during the day for more than ten minutes, and to stop cluster feeding, I’m all ears.

My current plan consists of eating leftover birthday cake and crying.

Does anyone have any advice on helping a SO deal with a big career disappointment? DH is a medical resident and just found out he didn’t match into any programs for fellowship. We were both shocked and disappointed as we had fully expected he’d match at his current institution (they’d been sending signals that it was a sure thing.) I’m 7 months pregnant with our first child and had been looking forward to the emotional roller coaster of fellowship applications being done with a happy ending. No such luck. He’s figuring out a Plan B and then reapplying next year, but in the mean time, I’m the emotional backstop and it’s been tough with pregnancy hormones. Any advice on trying to dole out emotional support when you’re also in desperate need of some?

Any suggestions for toddler socks? My 2 yo seems to have out grown her socks last night and really needs the next size (2-3 yr, shoe size toddler 7). When I search I keep finding baby socks and girls socks, but very little in a toddler size. Do you have a favorite brand/source?

We use our dog as a splat mat. She’s always there and we just point. Keep in mind, we don’t feed baby chocolate and the dog is definitely not overweight, etc. Anyone else do this? Are we just terrible lazy people? Wondering if we should invest just to be adults!

Reposting since stuck in moderation. Looking for a little moral support: Earlier this year, I jumped from a lawyer-centric government organization where I was surrounded by working professional/lawyer mothers, to the private/in house sector. Suddenly, I have found myself to be the only professional working mom with young kids among my cohort. There are some working parents around, but they are either men (with older kids) or worker bees (I don’t mean that even slightly pejoratively). No one wants to see their lawyer frazzled from daycare drop-off or desperately needing advice on a toddler who jumped out of the crib. The other lawyers or managers are older, single, childless and/or all of the above. I have found it to be lonely and tough to act like I always have my stuff together! And it makes me miss my kids all the more.

Anyone have tips on how to deal? I have a prescription for compression stockings, but would love other suggestions. I went from super easy pregnancy to hardly be able to walk in 2 days (I have them badly on one ankle and mildly on the other calf), and still have 10 weeks to go to my due date.

We use a clear shower curtain as a floor mat. Cheap and it’s easy to clean off (literally just hose it down if you live in a house, or shower it off if you live in an apartment).

It’s been a while since I posted (baby born early, etc.), but I wanted to just give an update. It has to do with complications of pregnancy, so if this is something you’d rather skip, please do so.

Baby is doing great- still in the NICU and healthy just getting over typical preemie stuff. Baby is developing a personality and we’re starting to work on discharge stuff as we get closer to baby’s original due date.

Unfortunately, a week after baby was born I developed a very rare and potentially deadly complication that required a visit to the ICU, a week in the hospital, and an emergency surgery which unfortunately means that this will be my first and last birth. This has been absolutely devastating as we had always seen ourselves having multiple kiddos. What makes it even harder for me is that I am reasonably young, healthy, and the complication that happened has been described by doctors as ‘like a strike of lightning- no rhyme or reason’.

I’m even that annoying woman who enjoyed being pregnant and actually liked giving birth. I’ve been going through a grief process of losing the future I thought I had while dealing with the recuperation from major medical problem plus having a baby in the NICU. Because I’m a planner, I’ve already started researching adoption, fostering and surrogacy for the future. I know it sounds nuts, but my spouse and I were basically placed in a position where we had to decide between my life or my fertility and (obviously and logically) picked me living. In that moment that we made the choice, I had this image in my mind of someone handing me a baby girl. I don’t know if that is the soul/spirit of the baby I would have had or a baby who exists out there for us in the future, but I’m choosing the latter and holding on to that image.

Much love and thank you again for all the support. It’s been a really sucky month.

Reposting from yesterday because it was stuck in moderation all day: Looking for a little moral support: Earlier this year, I jumped from a lawyer-centric government organization where I was surrounded by working professional/lawyer mothers, to the private/in house sector. Suddenly, I have found myself to be the only professional working mom with young kids among my cohort. There are some working parents around, but they are either men (with older kids) or worker bees (I don’t mean that even slightly pejoratively). No one wants to see their lawyer frazzled from daycare drop-off or desperately needing advice on a toddler who jumped out of the crib. The other lawyers or managers are older, single, childless and/or all of the above. I have found it to be lonely and tough to act like I always have my stuff together!

This post is so on point, I was just going to come on here and ask for other mat recommendations. I posted yesterday and got some responses (thank you to those of you who responded!) but wanted to post again to see if anyone else had ideas. Right now we are using a towel, but it’s getting annoying to have to put the towel in the washing machine twice a day. We have hardwood floors. Thanks for any additional ideas/thoughts!

Christmas gifts for nannies? And do you give one week’s pay or two? We’ve only had our nanny for a little while, so I was planning to do one week’s pay plus some sort of gift. But honestly, it’s hard to know what she likes! We tend to only talk about my kid! So any good ideas you guys have would be appreciated!

My 22 month old woke up 2 hours after he went to bed last night completely inconsolable. He stopped screaming as soon as I walked in but started again as soon as I left the room, and kept it up for TWO HOURS. Finally fell asleep from exhaustion. He’s never done anything like that before, even during sleep training – he isn’t sick, isn’t teething, no other big changes that I’m aware of … and woke up at his usual time this morning, happy as could be. I don’t think it’s “night terrors” because he was actually awake and interacting with me during the screaming. Any thoughts? It was awful (and just happened to be the night before I have two big presentations and an interview for a major promotion … sigh)

I didn’t post at all yesterday, but I’d posted a few weeks ago, petrified about #3 (I was Schmamortion – haha, my husband is Schmo-Schmife).

Anyway, thanks to everyone who posted yesterday about #3. It was a great list of my realities and my anxieties and I actually sent the link to my husband (I don’t usually share your deepest thoughts, don’t worry). It was really helpful for him to gain empathy and for me to express myself. Thank you.

I also loved the less-deep more-shallow comments – this is a great website BECAUSE Of the commenters. THANK YOU ALL!