Nursing Tuesday: Swiss Dot Wrap Dress
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I’ve known a lot of women over the years who have loved this dress, and if you like to pump or nurse in a wrap dress, you should definitely check this one out. It’s machine washable, and the style is great if your weight is fluctuating and you’re adjusting to a a post-baby body. If you like this, you should snap it up right away because BCBG doesn’t seem to be doing too well — they’ve closed brick-and-mortar stores and I just read that they’re preparing for bankruptcy. This is a great deal at Saks Off 5th — it’s marked down from $198 to $30-$40 and they seem to have a lot from the brand. (Note that it’s final sale.) BCBGMaxAzria Swiss Dot Wrap Dress
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Sales of note for 4/16/25
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – 5,521 new markdowns for women!
- Ann Taylor – 40% off your entire purchase + 50% off one full-price item
- Banana Republic Factory – 50%-70% off everything + extra 20% off
- Eloquii – $29+ select styles + extra 40% off all sale
- J.Crew – Spring Event: 40% off sitewide + extra 40% off all sale
- J.Crew Factory – 40%-70% off everything + 60%-70% off spring faves
- M.M.LaFleur – New collection just dropped! Use code CORPORETTE15 for 15%
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – 40% off select tops + 30% off dresses, skirts, shoes & accessories + 40% off all markdowns
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?
Question for the more attachment-parenting-minded folks –
Looking for thoughts/considerations on planning a trip with just my husband and I this coming fall, after my daughter turns two. (She is 18 months now). We co-sleep and nurse, and I plan not to wean until she’s about two, unless she weans earlier. After she weans, my husband and I are thinking about going somewhere by ourselves for a couple days, and would have my mom take care of the toddler.
I have never missed a bedtime or a wake-up. She has never spent an entire night away from me, and has never spent a full day with anyone except me or my husband (she has done half days with our nanny or my mom since she was little).
Is 24/26ish months too young to spend a long weekend away from us? We could put the trip off, there’s no particular reason we have to go anywhere, just thought we’d go somewhere non-kid-friendly before we have another baby.
If we go, should we have my mom come stay at our house (same environment but no mom/dad – confusing?) or bring her to my mom’s house (which has the advantage of having dogs and horses, which she is currently obsessed with, but is more unfamiliar)? Probably we should work up to this over the next 6-8 months by having her sleep in her own bed the whole night, and having my mom put her to bed, etc., right? What would make this easier or harder on her?
I know many parents feel comfortable leaving their kids for an evening or weekend well before the age of two, but we don’t feel that way and I haven’t found an attachment parenting group in our new city to ask for advice yet (not a lot of extended b-feeding/cosleeping/etc. mamas at my biglaw office…)
x-posting from the main site. I know many of you are in-house counsel.
I am a law firm associate and applied for an in-house counsel position. On LinkedIn I found out that a grad from my law school is an AGC there. I have a call scheduled with him on Monday to “talk about the position” and to talk about the transition from law firm to in-house, but I haven’t been contacted for an interview (yet, hopefully).
Any tips on what sorts of things I should ask? And when we wrap up the call, what’s a good way to say PLEASE FLAG MY RESUME FOR HR AND TELL THEM TO INTERVIEW ME? without saying it exactly like that, of course? Thanks in advance!
Honest question: I haven’t done laundry in way too long because neighbors keep using the shared laundry facilities on the weekend and kiddo has been falling asleep later than usual. Would it be inappropriate to “work from home” for a day so I can do my laundry? I legitimately have lots of writing projects that can be done from home right now, and coworkers work from home regularly, but it feels somehow wrong to work from home just so I can get my laundry done.
Very specific question here. I want to get one of those play tents for Baby AIMS but we live in a NYC apartment so I’d really like to find one that’s got a relatively small footprint. Anyone know of one?
I am at loggerheads with my husband about how to approach our toddler’s eating habits. She’s 3 and really doesn’t care to eat dinner much at all, will sometimes take a few bites and say she’s done or that she doesn’t like it, and then asks to go play. She eats well throughout the day and doesn’t have any growth or behavioral issues that would lead us to think she is undernourished.
My philosophy is that we choose what to serve her, and she chooses how much to eat. I am happy to let her mostly skip dinner every once in a while so long as she sits down with us and tries what’s on her plate. But my husband wants her to eat, so he will negotiate with her (i.e., eat 5 forkfuls and then you can [have yogurt for dessert] [go play] [skip your bath] etc.). The negotiation almost always works, so he sees that as a win. I put a stop to the method he would employ when the negotiation didn’t work, which was to basically force food into her mouth while distracting her with a book or a game or something, sometimes resulting in her tears.
I want her to know that she is in charge of her body and what goes in it. I don’t want her to think of food as a tool of manipulation or a means to an end or anything else that might give her food issues later in life. Am I just projecting here? What is typical for a 3 year old and how should a parent approach dinner? Bonus points if you can link to some literature that I can share with my husband.
to follow up on yesterday’s thread re: organic cotton, this list of requirements for GOTS certification does seem to address many of the social justice/human rights issues in addition to the health and environmental concerns.
https://support.coyuchi.com/hc/en-us/articles/205437885-What-does-it-mean-to-be-GOTS-certified-
cross posting from the mail s i t e
Visiting family in LA in April and planning a two night trip to Catalina Island. We will have about 8 adults, two toddlers, and a baby. Advice? Recommendations? Looks like it is pretty small and walkable.
Where does one look for part-time in-house jobs? Or in-house jobs where full time means 35-40 hours/week? I’m in Silicon Valley and it seems like most in-house jobs come with the expectation of working a ton.
Hoping for some advice. We had a significant amount of trouble getting pregnant and have been told by our doctors that we shouldn’t wait to try for #2. We are going straight to IVF but were waiting until my baby’s first birthday since I had a c-section. My baby is 9.5 months now and takes a bottle (of breastmilk) at daycare but has been having oatmeal mixed with formula for a few months now. Eats lots of other solids but still takes two bottles a day and nurses two times a day with me. Because my period hasn’t come back and because of the effect the nursing-related hormones have on their ability to figure out what sort of hormones to put me on, I have been told to wean in the next 4-6 weeks.
As you can imagine, it’s bittersweet. I’m excited to stop pumping, but I love nursing and it makes me sad to stop. Still, not so sad that I want to risk not being able to have a second baby (my situation is pretty dire). So, I’m hoping for tips and experience for how to wean quickly in 4-6 weeks.
Right now, we nurse in the morning, I pump 2x a day at work (down from 3x a weeks ago), nurse in the early evening, and pump before going to bed (though I’m cutting back on this one now). How quickly would you cut out the pumping? I suspect that going from 6x (nursing +pumping) to 2x (nursing) will be easier than going from 2x to zero. Should I allow more time for that transition and focus on a quick stop to pumping?
Any advice much appreciated. I think the babe will do fine with formula bottles at daycare and it’ll probably be harder on me than him to stop nursing, but I do want to make this a smooth transition for him, too.