Maternity Monday: Tweed Maternity Dress
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A lot of maternity dresses look like they’re made from the same material as your workout clothes. Not Seraphine’s tweed version.
This dress is made from a mid-weight, stretch-tweed fabric that accommodates your changing body. It has capped sleeves; a curved, bump-friendly waistline; and front pleats for easy movement. Add the matching jacket for a complete look.
This maternity dress is on sale for $89 (originally $125) at Seraphine and is available in sizes U.S. 2 to U.S. 16.
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
I just finished “Fat Talk” by Virginia Sole-Smith and I would highly recommend it. She examines so many of the issues we discuss regularly here, usually through a lens of eating disorder prevention.
Anyone have any tips to having a good weekend (especially with little little kids)? Do you have a set routine or plan? If so, what is it?
Our weekends are kind of a mess. It feels like we’re constantly negotiating who’s doing what and basically reinventing the wheel every weekend.
We have water days coming up at daycare where they want the kids to show up wearing their swim clothes and bring a change of clothes for after. My neurodivergent kid really hates the idea of showing up at school in his swim clothes. We went through this last year when he was 3, and we got him to do it a few times but otherwise he just got wet in a set of regular clothes and then changed into dry regular clothes. I suppose we can do that again this time, but do you all have any tips for how to persuade him to wear swim clothes?
I’m approaching the halfway point of pregnancy and beginning to get loosening and pain in the hip joint (right now it’s on the inside right hip as a result of pushing something heavy with my foot the other day). Are there any YouTube channels or exercises or other recommendations for getting this under control? I understand it may not go away, but I need to feel like I’m doing what I can to strengthen the rest of the area.
Happy summer all! Sort of on the topic of weekends above, do any of you with multiple kids have one kid who just thrives being out of the house while the other loves being home? How to balance the two?! We recently went on vacation with the kids and my older kid (active, outgoing, adventurous, big emotions) just thrived. He was seriously the best version of himself. While my younger kid (more reserved, doesn’t like trying new things) complained, a lot (like during our ENTIRE short hike). Eventually got somewhat used to it but I could tell he was out of his comfort zone. Whereas they are pretty much the opposite when we’re home and younger kid is so easy while older kid runs around and needs to do stuff. Do we just divide and conquer? Keep trying to get the other used to the thing they don’t like as much?
Parenting: so much is out of your control, as seen by two very different kids! I will say, they do play together pretty well now, but I think my older one really enjoys being with other people out and about more, leaving the younger out a bit.
i know this has been discussed before, but how not to raise spoiled kids? i recently realized my kids (age 6) will be going on 8 flying trips this year. all of these involve family in some way, but one was to disney (grandparents came), one ski trip (grandparents came) and one to a resort (grandparents coming too), and 3 of them involve staying at relatives’ house, and then the last two are visiting family for holidays but involve staying in hotels. growing up, i was most certainly privileged compared to most of the world, but we lived driving distance from a lot more stuff (and most family) so i took on average 1-3 plane trips a year (two of the three involved visiting relatives), but lots more driving stuff and in retrospect i learned that my parents alternated between flying vacations and driving vacations to save money. my kids attend a super diverse public school with people from all sorts of socio economic backgrounds, and have some friends with more and some with less, but i don’t want them to think that going on 8 plane trips a year is the norm. at the same time i don’t know if i want to not do trips we can afford to do, but maybe we should consider that. how do others handle talking about this with their kids?
Oh man I feel like the worst mom ever this morning. My 4 year old got a new spider-man toy this weekend, and he wanted to bring it to daycare today. I said no because it has small parts and I don’t want it to break or get lost at school. He put it in his backpack anyway, and when we got to the school parking lot I took it back out of his bag and put it (I thought!) in my purse and told him spider-man would be waiting for him when he gets home. Then I went home and now I can’t find it anywhere! It might have fallen out in the parking lot, or I have no idea where it went. He’s gonna be so sad when we don’t have it tonight. I ordered another one online but it won’t be here for a few days.
I recall seeing Fair Play discussed here in the past and I’ve read some reddit posts as well. One thing that comes up is what if you and partner are not aligned on the priority/value of a task – I think typically it’s a man/husband not seeing the value of certain emotional labor items like remembering Stuffed Animal Day or whatever.
However in my case, I don’t see the priority/value of some of my husband’s big contributions and I’m trying to work through that. For example, he will spend hours organizing the shed or attic, digging out old/ugly plants/shrubs/trees, etc. To me, those things need to come AFTER you have taken care of everyone’s basic needs like food and clothing and sleep. Sure if a tree is going to fall on the house, let’s take it down. But if it’s in the back of the yard? and you just don’t like the way it looks?? Is that more important than helping pack their lunches and do their bedtime routine?
Trying to shift my thinking on this to help us align on priorities. Does Fair Play take the value/priority of task into account? I feel like we would do it and my pile would be bigger but he’d say chopping down trees is harder (or whatever) and I would say it’s not as important as making sure our children are fed and clothed and we wouldn’t get much out of it. I’m wondering if we both prioritized our tasks and agreed to each drop one of the lowest priority or something?
Any recommendations for hair ties or similar for a none month old? I looked at target and didn’t find anything. My daughter’s hair is starting to be in her face, and I would like a way to pull it back. Thanks
Just a small vent. I have cut my kids’ hair their whole lives. It was fine when they were little but I don’t do a fabulous job and have been trying to get my older kid (9), who has some sensory and anxiety issues, to get a professional haircut for two years. Finally got one this last weekend!! And.. it was SO TERRIBLE!!!!! Super duper uneven, not blended well, weird long pieces sticking up because they couldn’t figure out what to do with his very wavy/curly very thick hair. So much for the “they’ll do a better job than your mom” line of argument!! I think we have a better recommendation for a different spot for next time.
I will be 36 weeks pregnant on Thanksgiving this year. Does that mean we should stay home, or would it be OK to take a 4 hr train ride (DC to NY) to visit family?
What are your summer must-do’s with kids? It’s hard to believe but it’s our last full week of summer break at home (we’re out of town for most of July and school starts Aug 1). My first grader is only doing camp 9-12 this week and I want to do as much summer fun as possible in the afternoons.
My 5 year old keeps getting in trouble last week and this week at summer camp. It’s always with the same kid and they say they are separating them, but it’s yelling and today my son hit him in the face. The teacher said they think it wasnt one sided and both boys are a problem, but I’m not sure what to do at home other than talk about it. I’m not getting a great story other than I dont like him.