Nursing/Postpartum Tuesday: Surplice V-Neck Maternity/Nursing Top
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Get double the use out of this versatile maternity and nursing blouse.
This soft V-neck blouse has a flattering wrap silhouette and comes in three colors. (I’m loving the red for fall.) The stretchy material and deep neckline make it easy to nurse and pump after your little one arrives.
Accouchée’s Surplice V-Neck Maternity/Nursing Top is $78 at Nordstrom and available in sizes S-XL.
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
What’s working really well for you lately?
We’ve put 2 small (tiny European washer) laundry baskets in the hall outside my son’s door, one is for uniforms and one is for pjs, undies, normal clothes. At the end of the week, we wash and dry, and then put it in a 3rd basket in his room rather than putting it in the closet. He can root through and find the “preferred” trousers without making a mess, and we don’t have any “where are the polo shirts?” panic.
We’ve also been doing room tidy by categories – so pick up all the fossils and rocks, then the Pokemon cards, then the Legos. I think the instruction to “tidy up your room” is really overwhelming and by category seems much more manageable.
Thoughts on how to spend 2.5 days in San Diego with an almost 7 year old? (excluding Legoland and Disneyland, which we’re doing in the second half of the trip). We both like food, museums and nature stuff. We’ll be traveling with my mom who is 72 but active and is also content to sit on a bench and read a book if she doesn’t want to walk quite as much as we do.
I was thinking of spending the half day at the USS Midway museum, waterfront park and dinner in Little Italy and then one full day in Balboa Park doing the zoo and a museum or two (we have free reciprocal admission to several of them so I’m ok just popping in at the end of a long zoo day), and the other day in La Jolla with the sea lions and aquarium. Does that sound about right? I’ve been to Coronado and am ok with skipping it; kiddo is not a big beach person.
Would love restaurant recs for brunch, dinner and dessert. We’re coming from east coast time and my mom is a very early riser so bonus points for brunch restaurants that are open early.
Suggestions for things to do with a 9 and 11year old in Wichita? We’re visiting a friend there next month -she’s wildly enthusiastic about the kids, but doesn’t have any of her own and just moved there a few months ago, so I assume it would help to give some suggestions. Open to all suggestions, but bonus points for something low cost so we can mix things up. Any foods or specific experiences the city/area is known for? TIA!
Guys, I am feeling so lost. For the past six months, we have been on a doctor-ordered plan to help our 14-year-old DS gain weight. Relevantly, he has ADHD and has always been a picky eater, but it’s ramped up quite a bit over the past year. Six months ago, we learned that his low weight is delaying puberty and it’s becoming a big freaking deal. Cue the meetings with the endocrinologist and a dietician to figure out how to help him. I wasn’t super impressed with the dietician, as we had already tried most of what she suggested, but we did our best to implement her new ideas.
Over the summer, he was doing great. He gained weight and was eating more, choosing balanced meals, getting more protein, etc. It has all gone out the window now that school has started. He’ll pick at his food and we’ve caught him dumping half of his very normal-sized breakfast in the garbage. We have plenty of options available for snacks, cook healthy meals for the whole family, etc. but he just refuses to eat a full meal and says he isn’t hungry. Food has become a battle in our household, and it’s awful. AWFUL. And makes me feel like the world’s worst mom. I didn’t even know it was possible for a teen to be diagnosed with “failure to thrive.”
I suspect he may have ARFID. It doesn’t matter how many times someone explains the consequences (of not eating) to him. After gaining about 7 pounds over the summer, which was AMAZING, he’s lost 3 since school started. So now we’re going back to the dietician and seeing if she has any new ideas.
I’m so frustrated that we’ve sought professional help and we’re still having issues. It feels like they’re happy to tell us what’s wrong, but we already know what’s wrong! I just … don’t know how to make my kid eat.
I’m sorry. We deal with somewhat similar issues in my house, and it’s so hard. Here are the things that have been helpful for us:
– Appetite stimulant. It’s absolutely essential for anything else to work.
– We deliver a very appealing breakfast and let her eat it in bed. It seems to get her off on the right foot to eat *something.* (It’s currently coffee cake and milk; we’ll do ice cream if we have to. We just need something that overcomes her default “eh, not hungry” response.)
– Playing games (like card games) during dinner. She eats more if she doesn’t notice she’s doing it. Similarly, putting something caloric in front of her when we watch TV or a movie.
– Buying ice cream mochi – it’s easy for her to pop a few into her mouth during the evening and add calories, whereas she won’t stop and eat a bowl of ice cream.
– Finding a nutritionist who had experience with ADHD.
Good luck!!
New format – I saw someone mentioned this yesterday, but is anyone else still having issues with sorting in the new format? I’m on Chrome on a desktop and while comments can be sorted oldest to newest, the replies are sorted newest to oldest (but the sub-replies are then oldest to newest).
I sometimes also read on Safari on an iPhone, where comments are now sorted properly but indentation is missing.
I’m curious if our elementary school is an outlier on this or if it’s standard. After every field trip or class party, parents are encouraged to take their children home and it doesn’t count as an official absence, so a lot of people do it and the kids who have to stay are often really upset, especially if they weren’t prepped in advance for the fact that they’d be staying. I work part time and we also have a local grandma, so this doesn’t impact us but it seems tough for other working parents. It’s one thing to make time to attend a half hour class party at 1 pm on a Tuesday, it’s another thing entirely to take the whole afternoon off work so your kid can come home from school hours early. Do your schools do this too?