Maternity Monday: Tailored Maternity Blazer
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The black blazer is a workhorse in any wardrobe. For those expecting, here’s a chic option from Seraphine that will take you from desk to dinner.
Tailored to flatter your growing bump, this modern, collarless blazer is made from premium suiting fabric and is fully lined. The empire waist flatters your curves while the detachable ties are a practical alternative to buttons.
Pair with tailored pants or a stretchy sheath dress for the office.
Seraphine’s Tailored Maternity Blazer is $199 and available in sizes 2–12. Right now, you can get 20% off everything at Seraphine.com with code BEMINE, which brings the price down to $160.
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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Did anyone have a kid for whom Miralax didn’t seem to work? My almost 4 year old has struggled with constipation on and off since she started solid food and it’s been especially bad the last few months. Ped of course advises Miralax but we’ve used pretty high doses for weeks at a time without seeing any results. If anything, it seems to me like Miralax makes the problem worse. She’s currently on two capfuls per day (double the adult dose) and hasn’t pooped in 7 days, which is pretty close to her record. This is in addition to daily prune and apple juice, fiber and probiotic supplements, and a diet that includes a lot of fruit and whole grains, pushing her to drink lots of water and limiting dairy. I feel like there is something more going on and am just feeling so frustrated that our ped doesn’t have any advice but upping the dose of a medicine that doesn’t seem to be doing anything.
It is so hard to find a decent maternity blazer. I have depositions likely coming up during my last month of pregnancy. Part of me thinks I can get away with just wearing a nice maternity dress and possibly a nice open cardigan. I am a government lawyer if that matters. Another part of me thinks I should maybe get this blazer. Has anyone here actually tried it? Does it look ridiculous with a 36+ week belly (second time mom with a verrrry large belly haha). Or do you have other recommendations?
To preempt suggestions- I gain all over during pregnancy and my pre-pregnancy blazers even in my postpartum size do not fir my arms/shoulders, so there is not an option to wear those open.
First time expectant mom: I’m lucky enough to have been given a brand new Spectra pump and I could still order a free pump from insurance. Do you all think it would be more helpful to have 2 the same with interchangeable parts, or try different ones and see what I like better? Unless something majorly changes my mind, I’m pretty determined to bf for a couple years, even though I’ll be returning to the office after 12 weeks of FMLA.
When your kids have drop-off playdates, do you ask about guns in the house? We don’t have to deal with this yet, but I was discussing it with DH and he seemed shocked I said I would always ask; he compared it to asking about someone’s privates. I’m not saying it would be the most comfortable get-to-know-you chat with other parents, but it seems like a very basic safety issue to me. How do you guys handle it?
Found out I am getting an admin and I am apprehensive about sharing my schedule. As of late, I have been blocking the shit out of my calendar: Dr appts, afternoons while I’m on kid duty during daycare closures – which also means adding DH important work calls.. and obviously working early/late to accommodate that. I’m also coming up on some fertility treatments which I can kind of ballpark, but I want to keep these private. How have others handled this? Help!!
I’m not yet comfortable asking at other people’s houses, but I always volunteer with my own house. Something like, “Are there any allergies I should know about? BTW, We have a big but gentle dog and no guns.” The other parent then usually responds about their own house, so I know before sending my kid over.
So tonight will be my last pumping session and I’ll nurse for about another week or so. I’ve been excited to stop so that I can get my body and life back but I’m also kind of sad about it. I didn’t produce that much milk so baby has been on formula since birth but I guess I feel like any little ounce helped (but then I was also like is this really doing anything so why keep going? I made it to 8 months.) Did you all have mixed emotions about it? Did you do anything to commemorate it like drink a whole bottle of wine? :)
this morning my kids (3.75 year old twins) had an argument over four pony figurines. kid A was playing (or more like holding) all of them and kid B wanted one. kid B asked kid A for one and kid A said that she wasn’t in the mood to share today. i tried not to get too involved, but stayed close by because kid B can be a hair puller/scratcher, etc. i said some prompting things to twin A about how does she think twin B feels since she has all of them and twin B has none and she stuck to her not being in the mood to share. twin B was throwing a major tantrum at this point and was hysterically crying/screaming on the floor for a good 15 minutes. eventually we moved on from this, but idk if i handled it right. on the one hand i don’t want to force sharing, but on the other hand, twin A seemed to be holding all of them for no reason and then it sort of became about twin B not having them and i did not really enjoy starting my monday morning with a screaming child. how do you handle situations like these?
Avoid entirely. No playtime before school.
When did you switch to a booster seat while traveling? I have a newly 4 year old who weighs more than 40 pounds, so technically she now meets the minimum age and weight requirements for a booster. We plan to keep her in her Britax carseat at home for quite a while longer, but I’m wondering if we can get away with just a booster seat when traveling, especially on trips where we’re not doing much driving.
Question for those with older kids: Where and how do you store the booze? Our home has a nice finished basement with a bar area, and everything has always been stored there. The older my kid gets, the more uncomfortable I am with this setup. I trust him because he’s an anxious kid who isn’t prone to experimentation, but he does have friends over. It’s quite a bit of alcohol, most of which we didn’t even buy! We’ll have an occasional drink on the weekend, but if you saw our bar, you’d think we were heavy drinkers based on the amount of wine and hard liquor present. (Please, friends, quit gifting us booze. We’re not teetotalers, but we don’t drink as much as you do!)
i live in a place where summer practically starts in March. what are the best outdoor toys for the 4+ age group involving water? this is our first summer with a backyard so we’ve never had a water table or kiddie pool or any of those things, so idk at what age kids outgrow them