Nursing/Postpartum Tuesday: The Momper Nursing Romper
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This nursing romper feels like pants but looks like a dress.
This sleeveless, one-piece outfit features side nursing/pumping access, a self-tie belt, and pockets. The roomy fit means you can wear it while you’re expecting as well. Accessorize it with a light cardigan and some bold jewelry.
Latched Mama’s Momper Nursing Romper is $70 and comes in three sizes: petite (00-6), standard (6-18), and plus (18-28).
Sales of note for 5/8:
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- Ann Taylor – Mother’s Day Event: 40% off your purchase. Readers love this popover blouse, and their suiting is also in the sale.
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Brooks Brothers – Dress & sport shirts, 2 for $149
- Express – $39+ summer styles + 25% off everything else
- J.Crew Factory – Up to 60% off everything + extra 70% off clearance + 40%-50% off the Weekend Shop
- Lo & Sons – Mother’s Day Sale: Up to 40% off — reader favorites include this laptop tote, this backpack, and this crossbody
- M.M.LaFleur – Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Nordstrom – Up to 25% off
- Talbots – 50% off wear-now styles and all markdowns + 30% off tops, pants, jeans, and shorts
Dear husband, please explain why you thought it was a good idea to put an ant bait on the kitchen counter.
How do you store your kids’ smaller pool toys? We have a rolling storage thing for big pool floats but the baby likes to watch bath toy sized wind up toys paddle around the pool. I imagine we’ll collect more small toys as the baby gets bigger. I’d like something that I can toss wet pool toys in, that can remain outside, and won’t mold. Any recommendations?
Give me your best “solo parenting a toddler while really sick” tips. I’ve got a terrible sinus infection and haven’t really slept since Friday. The toddler is a little sick, though not as sick as me, so I can’t send him to childcare.
He’s been a really good sport, helping me get my medicine and a glass of water when it’s time to take more meds and watching more tv than he ever has in his life, but it’s starting to wear on us both.
I genuinely love the recent discussion of kids books and how to get kids interested in reading. But to add a little realism and levity:
1. Despite literally hundreds of better options, my kid lately insists I read him a happy meals activity book every night.
2. After a few audiobooks with surprisingly scary moments, my favorite podcast for nights when I’m cosleeping is literally called, “Boring Books for Bedtime”. This has led to the kid calling everything I read “boring”. And I have no credibilty to argue.
Here’s a fun low-stakes question related to the discussion below: How often do you go on vacation as a family, and how do you decide what to spend? Do you have an annual vacation budget, per trip, or do you just kind of make decisions as go?
We’ve really only gone to visit family since covid (and having kids right before, during, and shortly after), but are ready to start doing some trips of our own.
I’m 39 and have always been highly motivated, organized, and even-tempered. However, I’ve noticed in the past year I’m starting to feel burnt out at work, procrastinating more, getting into anxious spirals, and fixating on new hobbies for a quick dopamine burst (recently, doing my own manicures, but I’ve also gotten super into and then abandoned crocheting and gardening). This is starting to sound like ADHD, something I never thought I had before. Any advice?
does anyone else have a kid like this or was anyone like this as a kid who turned out ok as an adult? one of my kids has like 5 left feet, 4 hands, poor fine motor skills and zero spatial awareness. anything from fitting her lunchbox, water bottle, and folder into her backpack in a sensible way, to realizing that you cannot carry your stuffed toy, and a book while you try to put Rainbow Loom rubber bands into a bag, to braiding string or stacking papers in a pile. it’s like her brain does not intuitively see how to do these things. and even if we show her, it is like in one ear and out the other. we did OT for 2 years and then stopped and now i’m at a loss for how to help her or is this something she doesn’t need help with and she will figure out/won’t matter in the long run?
Overthinking b/c we’ve not done a venue birthday before. School finishes next Friday, goes back mid-August, 9th birthday the week before. We’ve booked a high ropes course for the weekend before school goes back – do I send a save the date now? And a reminder a few weeks out? (All invites here are done via Whatsapp group).
A small party – 6 kids, mix of old town/new city invitees, but assuming a decent decline rate as some people will go away right before school goes back.
Maybe an interesting question for today – did any of you solo travel somewhere when your kids were young because you might never get the chance again? I feel that solo travel as a mother is still fairly strongly discouraged at a societal level, especially if it’s for fun or involves any risk, but sometimes travel does have to happen sooner than later because places get destroyed or inaccessible or because you won’t have parental leave again. I’m thinking about this because a professional kayaker I loosely know (friend of a friend, met a handful of times and I follow her on socials) talked about traveling to central Africa to kayak her favorite river one last time, since it was then flooded by new dam construction (never accessible again). Her kids were like two and five and stayed home with their dad, who also did his own trips to other places. I just thought it was interesting and cool and something that not a lot of women would even talk about. I also know a woman who did a hiking trip to Italy for a week with her husband when her baby was nine months and she had leave. She did say she missed her baby the entire time but was glad she did it.