Maternity Monday: Teddi Faux Leather Trim Coat
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If you’re looking for a maternity coat with a little personality, check out this one.
This soft and warm teddy-finish coat has a stand collar, pockets for your essentials, and a zip panel to accommodate your growing belly or a baby carrier. This coat hits at the knee so it works for both dresses/skirts and pants. Add a bright, chunky infinity scarf for extra warmth when the temps drop.
This teddy coat from Nom Maternity is $248 at Saks Fifth Avenue and comes in sizes XS–XL.
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My 5.5 YO is having a sleep regression….?!
Context: pregnant w/ #2, due in 5 weeks. I’ve had severe physical pain this pregnancy, despite everything being ‘normal’. I’m absolutely, out of my mind miserable. I do my best to keep it to myself but it’s hard when I legit can’t walk some days. She’s also very, very excited to be a big sister and has more context than most unwitting soon-to-be older siblings given some recent births in the extended family she’s close to. But, Saturday she said to me and DH, “I miss my old mom”, meaning pre-pregnancy mom (mom does, too, desperately…). Soooo that’s great. She also started K in September, so #changes.
She goes to bed fine enough (she trends defiant as her baseline no matter the situation), but at any point in the middle of the night things go south fast. Last night we just caved and let her in to our bed at 1am. Prior, like, 7 nights she screams for DH to come with her and DH ends up laying with her for a bit, but sometimes just passing out (sometimes it’s midnight. sometimes it’s 4am. completely random). This is working for no one – we’re all exhausted.
We’ve been very cognizant of over tiredness, bedtime routines, etc. She also had a cold recently so that could be playing in to it too, but that’s a very new development and this habit of hers predates illness. We’ve resorted to/see the most success with downright bribery. “If you stay in bed tonight and don’t call for daddy we’ll do/get/reward you with X tomorrow”. Then, if she does it once, we try to expand it to “do it for two nights” , “do it for three nights” etc. It worked for a solid 10 days but then stopped. Sometimes it’s candy; sometimes it’s something we were already going to do with her that we use it as a carrot.
I’m at a loss. I feel like even if we establish a fix in the short term it’s all going to be disrupted again when baby arrives mid/late Nov. She’s always been a super solid sleeper so I’m convinced it’s just a function of all the crazy around us, which comes back to the baby ultimately. And I’m afraid the bribery is breading some long term very bad habits. SOS.
Thoughts? Stick to the bribery and enjoy it when it works? Other thoughts?
Talk to me about how you moved siblings into sharing a room. We have a just-turned-3 year old and a 9 month old, and the plan is to put the 9 month old in the 3 year old’s room as soon as he stops consistently waking up at midnight-1am. 3 year old is in a toddler bed (and stays in it all night, but generally takes ~30 min to fall asleep once we leave the room – stays in her bed but talks/sings softly to herself). 9 month old is in a crib and is not great at self-soothing if he wakes up. Current bedtime routine is that I do bedtime with both kids together in the 3 year old’s room, and then after she gets tucked in, the baby and I retreat to the master bedroom for nursing and sleep in the master bedroom crib.
What worked well for you? What didn’t? The 3 year old has always been a rock star sleeper and I’m fearful of disrupting that but also figure the first few weeks might be a sh*tshow. Although I’ve started prepping her for the fact that her brother will share a room with her (his crib has been in there since before birth, he already naps in there solo, etc).
She sleeps with a nightlight and always has. Bad idea when there is more than 1 of them in there?
I need help. I’m at a breaking point and have been here for months. I’ve posted about various parenting and relationship struggles recently here but I’m just maxed out on all the issues right now and nothing seems to be improving despite my best efforts.
I have a 10 month old baby, a demanding job, and a spouse with a full time job as well. Baby is in daycare full time but we don’t have any family support nearby. She’s healthy and happy which is a bright spot in this, I know things could be so much worse.
DH was always the one who wanted kids more, wanted to be a dad, and while he’s a very involved dad our division of labor is not 50/50. We tried Fair Play and he went off on me about how hard things are and how I don’t see everything he does, then he storms off requesting a time out from me. This is basically how all our conversations go; he gets mad and storms off. We’ve done marriage counseling where the time-out was recommended and he had court mandated anger management from an assault charge a few years ago where he was recommended to walk away when he gets angry, so basically every time I try to share my opinions in a neutral tone I’m shut down. Also relevant, he told me a few months back when I was in a very depressed moment that if anything happened to me he’d give our daughter up to social services because he can’t take care of her alone.
Over the past few months, he’s been ruder and hard on me for little things and it’s really worn me down. I’ve talked to him about it and asked him to be nicer to me, don’t give orders to me, treat me like the equal partner you married, but nothing changes.
I’ve been pretty clear that I only want one child after my pregnancy and labor experience, the general state of maternal and prenatal care especially as my state moves more towards forced birth (they allowed abortions until 24 weeks after Dobbs but that’s been continually chopped down), and generally feeling maxed out already with one child. On Saturday night, we were watching a show where vasectomies came up and I asked DH when he’d like to discuss the topic as he previously signaled willingness to do this. He told me that I still might change my mind, and given the state of our marriage he wants to leave open the possibility of having a child with another woman. I was in so much shock and started silently crying. He tried to walk it back saying I basically forced him into saying that and don’t I realize how bad our marriage is.
On Sunday morning, I was feeling sick from DD’s daycare cold and I asked if he could go to a family meetup without me. He went off on me again about how I need to do more as a family and be a good role model to my daughter. I started crying, saying again I’m maxed out, I’m trying so hard, I’m doing what I can and don’t get support. He stormed off again. I felt so down, like every day I’m failing everyone, that I just went upstairs and started packing a suitcase with the intent of driving off and never seeing them again. He came in and broke down and said I can’t leave because he can’t take care of DD, I need to stay for her, and he said he’d be nicer to me.
So here we are Monday morning at my intense job where I’ve tried to set boundaries to do daycare pickup and see my daughter, and find out again we need another evening call tonight. I just…I can’t. I can’t keep up my job and being the wife and mother my husband expects, but if I don’t who will pay this mortgage? A point I made to my husband yesterday.
Idk where to go from here. Literally I fantasize about unaliving myself or driving off and never being seen again on a daily basis. I know what I’m in is not sustainable but my job isn’t changing despite my best efforts at holding boundaries, DH isn’t changing despite requests to do so, and I just want the best for DD throughout all of this.
Our preschool teacher is expecting her first baby soon and I want to give her a gift. I can’t find her baby registry online. Should I just give an Amazon gift card?
My 6 year old had his first sleepover and we didn’t get a middle of the night phone call, so that was a win. He told his bestie “This is well past my bedtime!” at about 9pm, but slept really well and was happy enough.
They’ve got 2 kids, so it’s not massively helpful to repay the favour by taking 1 of them, but we try to pick their kid up when we can/when necessary.