Nursing/Postpartum Tuesday: Surplice V-Neck Maternity/Nursing Top
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This polished maternity and nursing top looks just like one of my favorite go-to blouses.
This stretchy top has a nursing- and pumping-friendly surplice V-neck and versatile three-quarter sleeves. Wear this top on its own or under your favorite cardigan or suit jacket.
In addition to basic black and ecru, it also comes in a festive red that will take you from your desk to your next holiday soiree.
This top is $78 at Nordstrom and comes in sizes S–XL.
Sales of note for 1/16:
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- Nordstrom – Cashmere on sale; AllSaints, Free People, Nike, Tory Burch, and Vince up to 60%; beauty deals up to 25% off
- AllSaints – now up to 60% off (some of the best leather jackets!)
- Ann Taylor – Up to 40% off your full-price purchase; extra 50% off sale
- Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Boden – 15% off new styles with code — readers love this blazer, these dresses, and their double-layer line of tees
- DeMellier – Sale now on, free shipping and returns — includes select options like Montreal, Vancouver, and Venice
- Eloquii – $29 and up select styles; extra 50% off all clearance, plus ELOQUII X kate spade new york collab just dropped
- Everlane – Sale of the year, up to 70% off — reader favorites include their scoop tee, Dream Pant, ReNew Transit backpack, silk blouses and oversized blazers! New markdowns just added
- Hannah Andersson – Up to 30% off all pajamas;
- J.Crew – Up to 40% off select styles; up to 50% off cashmere
- J.Crew Factory – 40-70% off everything
- L.K. Bennett – Archive sale, almost everything 70% off
- M.M.LaFleur – Tag sale for a limited time — jardigans and dresses $200, pants $150, tops $95, T-shirts $50
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – Semi-Annual Red Door Sale – 50% off + extra 20% off, sale on sale, plus free shipping on $150+
I am so annoyed at the other parents in the Girl Scout troop I co-lead. None of them want to do anything, and they have no respect for my time or the other leader’s time. I’ve spent half an hour today dealing with the headquarters because one of the parents missed a registration deadline for an event we reminded them about several times and now I have to figure out how to get the kid registered. I really want the kid to be able to come and I know it’s not her fault her mom missed the deadline, so I feel like I have to do this, but it’s so frustrating that the other parents are creating unnecessary work for us. A different parent was 30 minutes late to pick her kid up after the most recent meeting. It just feels like people are using us and taking advantage of us, and it’s a crappy feeling, but if we quit the whole troop will fall apart and all the kids will be sad. It’s a no-win situation.
Gah just a vent about the timelines for public school services. We put in a request for evaluation (for speech) the summer before my kid started K. They were supposed to have 60 school days to do the evaluation. They did a quick screening and said she qualified for full evaluation, but no evaluation yet. It has obviously been way more than 60 school days by now and the latest update is that it “should happen before spring break” which is in March!! Ugh. It seems like this isn’t the end of the world (the teacher says she is understood by peers and adults and doesn’t seem terribly concerned) but I really feel for people with more severe special needs, because it’s so frustrating getting the school to do anything.
I can’t seem to find a max height limit for rear-facing in the Nuna Rava, so crowdsourcing … am I crazy to have my just-turned-5 year old still rear-facing? She is 42 inches tall and 38 lbs. Her legs look a little uncomfortable but she has never complained. My mom thinks I’m torturing her. I also anticipate drama when she turns forward and my 2-year-old is still rear facing, but obviously that isn’t a valid factor to take into account.
My Kindergartener’s friends, who do not celebrate Christmas, have told him Santa isn’t real and my kid feels really badly *for Santa.* Any suggestions on how to navigate, with the added wrinkle that we celebrate Christmas and Hanukah, so I feel like I can’t say that some kids get presents from Santa and others get presents on other holidays? My kid only gets one present from Santa, and its not a big one, but I’m still not ready to tell him Santa isn’t real since he clearly still believes.
Christmas card question: we had our family photos takenover the weekend and I think I’ll get them back by Friday. If I order Christmas cards Friday, I’ll get them late next week. Is that too late to send Christmas cards? Is there a service that will mail them for you or am I being extra? It’s important to me that I am in the Christmas card photo, so for that reason I won’t be using a bunch of candid photos of my kids (trying to get better about proof of mom). Should I just send new years cards? I know this is silly but interested to hear what your opinion is.
Friends, my not quite 12 year old is a woman! I don’t think that it is right to share this IRL with anyone, but I am having feelings. She has been *so* moody, I knew it was coming. My mom never, ever talked about this with me about puberty, and I just remember being so embarrassed. And throwing away stained underwear/pants and using toilet tissue instead of pads, which I would have to ask my mom (who wouldn’t talk about these things!) to buy. And stealing my older sisters tampons. I have been trying to normalize it with my daughter (because, you know, it is normal…) At the beginning of the year (at her pediatrician’s suggestion) we talked, I bought a book for her to read on her own, I stocked the bathroom with pads. When school started, I made sure she had a little pouch of supplies in her backpack.
She felt that she could come to me and tell me about it and that makes me proud of her.. and myself. I guess my PSA for today is don’t wait to have the convo with your kids. Prepare them so they are ready and not freaked out and will talk to you.
I’m the baby shower OP from yesterday – just wanted to thank everyone for their input and kind comments – especially from the poster who told me about her own 32 week baby that’s doing so well now! My shower hosts live out of town and I’m doing a lot of the initial leg work to get a venue booked etc. I am going to reach out to the venue to see if its available the dates that my MIL can make it and keep reminding myself to not borrow trouble.
I’m saying the thing I thought I would never say in that parenting bigger kids feels harder than littler kids. For those of you with infants and toddlers, feel free to ignore this (your days are very very hard too!) My oldest is only 7 but I’m already navigating figuring out what services he may need, seeing if he needs to get a full neuropsych evaluation (where? when? how much $$?), and what our ongoing plan will be in terms of home and school services. And even if we didn’t have these extra considerations, there are friend and other school dynamics that will come up, and also we have another kid who will deal with his own issues. And I can’t outsource this emotional, exhausting work, can I? I thought I could put more into my career when my kids got a little older, but I don’t think that’s going to be possible until they are much much older. I’m still constantly thinking about this during the day.
Anyway, no real question here, just putting this out there if anyone is feeling the same. I feel like my younger kid (5) is in that very sweet spot of not yet being in school, but past the hard toddler stage, and I want this to last but it can’t.
Is she responsible enough to sit properly upright at all times, including when sleeping? For a 5yo (especially a petite one) I’d be inclined to keep the harness. We switched both my kids to booster mode around 6.5, and sometimes I’m tempted to switch my current 6yo back because he can be wiggly.
You could get the Chicco MyFit, which is very comfortable. Harness for now, and then it can switch to HB booster mode. It has a high base. We actually just switched from that to the Chicco KidFit because we wanted a lower base (easier for kid to reach the buckle) and more trim seat. Both are great seats!
Can anyone recommend their high-back booster seat? We’re almost ready to switch my (incredibly petite) kindergartner out of a carseat! Top priorities are a nicely padded seat, a high base so she can see out the window, and (hopefully) the ability to buckle and unbuckle herself. We have one midsize car and our younger kid is in the Clek carseat. A narrow booster would be nice so we can keep kind of using the middle seat, but it isn’t a dealbreacker. I’ve been considering maybe Chicco KidFit or the Nuna AACE but I’m totally open on brand and not super price-conscious. Thank you in advance!