Thursday’s Workwear Report: Tweed Peplum Blazer
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I’ve featured this suiting blazer over at Corporette before, and there are two notable things about it, one of them new: 1) it’s on sale, and 2) it’s machine washable!! I was surprised to see the care instructions — but if you’re looking for a suiting blazer that’s machine washable, this one may be for you. It was $159 but is now marked to $95; it’s available in plus sizes and has multiple matching pieces. Vince Camuto Tweed Peplum Blazer (L-all)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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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?
Any suggestions for getting a 2yo to stop using what I can only describe as his pterodactyl voice? Whenever he drops something or is struggling with something, B will let out a completely ear-piercing shriek. When he wants something and is told “no,” shriek. And then more shrieking. This isn’t just the angry crying he did as a younger toddler, which seemed more like just the feeling coming out of him in ways he couldn’t control. This is entirely intentional. He’s angry and he’s telling everyone about it in his loudest voice. Mostly my approach is to tell him I know he’s angry and I’m sorry it has to be this way, and then to 100% ignore him, although it’s really hard to, say, sing going to sleep songs to his twin brother and pretend that we’re in a quiet room at bedtime when B is shrieking at top volume. I’ve also tried putting my hands over my ears and saying “oww! That hurts my ears!”, saying “that’s a good outside voice. Can you try saying the same thing in a quiet inside voice?”, saying “you can be mad, but you can’t make that sound. Can you stomp your feet to show me how mad you are instead?”, getting on eye-level with him and saying sternly “do not make that sound!”, and I’ve even tried shrieking back at him. Nothing works. And it really, honestly hurts when he shrieks like that! Will he just grow out of it? He has a good vocabulary and I’m trying to encourage him to use his words (I also will say “I can’t understand you when you scream like that. Can you tell me what you want using a quiet voice?”) but when he gets upset, it all goes out the window and it’s just all high-pitched loud screaming all the time (and it is ALL THE TIME — he probably does this 2-5 times per hour).
Question for the hive…would you go to a work conference with a 2-month-old baby? Travel involves drives/public transport on both ends of 2-hour flight.
Conference is huge in my field but entirely optional, in that I can find others to take my place for my presentations (although I’ve already paid for my flight and registration, but I don’t mind being out the money).
Part of me REALLY wants to go because it’s my annual fun conference, I get to see friends and do some important networking. Another part of me thinks this is insanity (I’m 11 weeks postpartum!! Baby is too little! What kind of networking can I do anyway if baby has a bad night and I’m frazzled). Part of me wants to do this to prove to *myself* that I can. But another part says this is a stupid thing to do because it sets a precedent that women should be ready for intense work so soon after delivering (I try to be conscious of the example I’m setting). FWIW, I’m an academic so I’m back to work but at my own speed.
Traveling without the baby is not an option – I’m not willing to be apart from him as we have a great nursing relationship and he’s just too little.
I just booked some major travel plans over Christmas – we are flying to Kuala Lampur! With a newly-minted two year old!!??! We are flying Qatar Air, which is supposed to be very family friendly (their in-flight system has a kids mode, etc.) The first flight is 15 hours, the second is 8 hours. Please tell me all your best tips about how to keep kiddo entertained, asleep, etc. He is not good at watching TV (with or without headphones). He may still not be potty trained by that time. I am so excited (we’re going to see family) and also giddy with terror at what we’ve signed on for. Thankfully we (me, hubby, kiddo) each have our own seats.
Has anybody successfully used a CARES harness on a plane for a <2 year old? My baby meets all of the requirements (weight, height, sitting), but is not over 2 years old. The last time I flew, the flight attendant said I had to hold the baby during takeoff and landing since he wasn't over age 2. I don't think this is a real rule because I haven't seen it anywhere, but honestly just wondering if people have had success using it with a smaller child in their own seat.
I also need some sleep help! My 8-month-old daughter has been sleeping through the night consistently for several months, but 3-4 nights the past week has woken up crying and screaming around 3 a.m. She calms down quickly if she’s picked up or rubbed on her back, but starts up again when we try to leave her in the crib. Any thoughts or advice? I don’t think she’s teething, since she has 8 teeth already and her gums don’t seem to to be bothering her.
I think some variation of this question has been asked a number of times, but I’m struggling, so I hope you’ll humor me.
My husband and I are about ready to try for another baby. However, we have a week-long trip for Christmas planned to a part of the world where Zika is endemic. My husband’s parents live there, and are not well enough to travel to visit us, and his other siblings and their families are going at the same time. I basically have no choice but to go. This means that if we follow the guidelines, we wait 6 months after returning to start trying to get pregnant, so eight months from now. That feels like forever, and I already will have a longer gap between kids than I would have preferred. My in-laws live near the sea, my husband says he’s never been bitten by a mosquito where they live, and I would slather myself with insect repellent. I obviously would not be able to forgive myself if I put my potential baby at a real risk for birth defects from Zika but I also don’t want to make this kind of a sacrifice based on a pinhole risk. What would you do? I think we need to wait until after we get back, but six months on too of that to even begin trying is a long time…
18 month sleep regression. Oof. Any tips to get through it? My daughter has had a rough 1.5 months between illnesses and molars, and now this. She is waking up frequently throughout the night and can’t get back to sleep without sleeping on someone.
I’ve heard that if you leave your job within X months of returning from paid maternity leave, you need to repay some portion of the pay you received during leave. Putting aside the politics/burning bridges aspect of quitting soon after returning from leave, does anyone know if this is true and if so what mandates the repayment? Is this a state law requirement or something that companies put in their leave policies? I’m not seeing anything in our policy handbook that mentions it.
TIA for any guidance.
Thinking of Halloween. What do you do with a baby on Halloween? We don’t get trick or treaters, and I want to show off the adorable costume. Grandparents live too far for drive on a Monday.
Help! My daughter is two months and ebf but I’ve yet to pump enough to leave her for even a few hours. I’ve pumped a few times but only gotten two oz each time and we’ve just given them to her soon after so that she’s used to the bottle. I’m starting to feel crazy and am tempted to use formula to just be able to get away. Advice is much appreciated.
Ladies, my MIL arrives today. Main goal is to avoid any major family blowouts between now and when she leaves (Monday, thank goodness). Send good vibes and ice cream, please.
How in the world do working parents make the school year work? I’m looking at Kindergarten options for DD, and the after-school care is impossible. Both public and private only run from 7:30-5:30. I have a 30 min commute. I don’t have a spouse to trade off dropoff/pickup, nor do I have the space for an au pair. How do I do make this work? Daycare ran 6:30-6:00 but isn’t an option once she hits first grade, so I can use it next year but then I’ll have this same problem the following year. I can’t move closer to work because I can’t afford it, and there aren’t really businesses any closer to my house. Seriously, what do people do???
Update from my first trip away from my baby: TLDR, everything went fine, and I am especially grateful to the poster who told me to be flexible and not freak out.
I landed in JFK and headed off to find the lactation room to pump, which was in a different terminal. I traveled through the airport for about a half hour before an employee told me to get to terminal five I’d have to leave and go back in. I wasn’t sure if I could do that since I had landed and didn’t have a valid boarding pass anymore, and I didn’t want to have to go through security again, so I figured – I’ll just do it at the hotel. Surely they’ll have a room.
I asked the person at the front desk, and she said my room wasn’t ready yet – which I figured. I asked about a room to pump in and she immediately said no. I said, “A conference room, literally anywhere with a plug where I could close the door?” She said no. So I walked to the other entrance where there was another employee and I asked the same thing. She also looked at my blankly so I asked, is there a bathroom with a plug? (At this point it had been almost six hours since I pumped at my house that morning, so I was like – whenever, wherever.) She told me there was a bathroom on the second floor. So I got set up in the bathroom and started to pump over the sink.
A woman came in and said something like, “Oh, I remember those days” and went to use the restroom. When she came out, she said, “So they didn’t have your room ready?” And I said, no, they said there was nothing I could do, so here I am giving you a show in a public bathroom – sorry about that. She said, “I’m going to get you a key.” And I realized she was apparently a manager there. So she left, another woman popped her head in and told me, “We’re working on it,” and five minutes later, I had a key. Five minutes after that, I was in my room and pumping in peace. I was so, so grateful. The first two women were young and (I assume) had never had to pump or anything like that – the woman who helped me clearly had been there.
Flying in with frozen ice packs was fine, and flying out with milk was fine. It seemed like both sets of TSA agents had been specifically trained in what to do with breastmilk/pumping stuff, because they didn’t seem surprised or confused at all. So that was great. Overall, a decent experience! And I am forever grateful to the woman who helped me out at the hotel. I should have asked for her name.
With the recent guidelines that newborns should sleep in parents’ room for a minimum of six months, I’m wondering what you do for the baby’s sleeping surface in that room? Take the crib out of the nursery and put it in the master bedroom (not that I expect a ton of visitors in the early days, but wouldn’t a crib-less nursery look super weird)? Buy a crib for both the nursery and the master bedroom (seems wasteful, expensive)? Leave the full-size crib in the nursery and buy a bassinet for the master bedroom (but a baby would outgrow this before 6 months, no? or are there jumbo bassinets that can fit six month olds)? Space in the master bedroom is not an issue thankfully…we have a small house and most of our bedrooms are quite tiny but the master is enormous.
Curious about a Halloween tradition – growing up the neighbors on our block would always make up small ‘goodie’ bags for the kids just on our street – with a few pieces of candy, some change, small toys (like a pencil) and put it in a special Halloween bag. This was for maybe the 4-6 kids who lived on the block? These were the adults my parents were most friendly with, and I always thought it was nice of them to do, and a sweet way to acknowledge that neighbors were special. I planned to do the same this year for the 10 kids on our block – my husband had never heard of this. Did any of your neighbors do something similar for you growing up?