Nursing Tuesday: V-Neck Maternity/Nursing Top
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Sales of note for 2/14/25 (Happy Valentine’s Day!):
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Winter Sale, up to 60% off! 7850 new markdowns for women
- Ann Taylor – Up to 40% off your full-price purchase — and extra 60% off sale
- Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything + 15% off (readers love their suiting as well as their silky shirts like this one)
- Boden – 15% off new season styles
- Eloquii – 300+ styles $25 and up
- J.Crew – 40% of your purchase – prices as marked
- J.Crew Factory – 50% off entire site and storewide + extra 50% off clearance
- Rothy’s – Final Few: Up to 40% off last-chance styles
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – Flash sale ending soon – markdowns starting from $15, extra 70% off all other markdowns (final sale)
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?
Thank you to everyone who weighed in on the issue I was having with my child getting in trouble for talking during school. I was so busy freaking out about it that I hadn’t stopped and realized I could ask the teacher clarifying questions
I emailed her to ask a bit more about her willingness to impose consequences for getting to “red” (right now they just fill out a worksheet if that happens) or to assign him extra work since he’s talking after he finishes his work. I haven’t heard back from her yet, but he suddenly started getting “green”, so who knows.
Today seems to be bedtime question day! Tagging on – our 2.5 month old doesn’t go down until 9-10ish (but then sleeps great). We’d really like to get her closer to a 7pm bedtime but if I try to put her down that early, she takes a catnap and then is up again until 9 or 10. Any suggestions on how to move up bedtime? I recall my older son went to bed around 7pm by 3 months-ish, but I can’t remember how we got him on that schedule in the first place.
My 2.5 year old frequently takes a 2 hours nap in the afternoon. And we have to awaken her from that. But, she doesn’t go down until 9pm and frequently takes an hour to fall asleep. She then sleeps until about 8.30. should I remove the nap? she really seems to need it. on the occasional day she goes without a nap, she still takes an hour to fall asleep. am I supporting bad sleep habits?
Question about having a nice-looking house with little kids: The public areas in our downstairs are hardwood except the living room, which is carpet. The carpet looks TERRIBLE. It’s a high traffic area + 2 kids = awful. Any opinions on carpet vs hardwood in the living room? Also – they used flat paint, so the wall in our kitchen is covered in food/milk splatter. In general, wondering if we should replace the floor and paint now, or wait until the kids are a bit older (now 2.5 and 5).
Can you wise working ladies help me develop a strategy for pumping? My baby is about a month old, and after some early challenges we’re finally in a good rhythm with breastfeeding – he feeds about every 2-2.5 hrs during the day and twice at night (about every 4 hrs). While this is working for us now, I will be going back to work when he’s 3 months old, and in the meantime would like the occasional night out while my husband watches him, so I’d like to build a stash. But I find that the only time of day that it seems logical to pump is right after he goes to sleep; otherwise, I worry that I will deplete my supply for his next feeding or simply don’t have much left after his previous feeding. Or I will have to wake up in the middle of the night to pump, ugh. Any tips? Or should I just not worry about building a stash until he’s a bit older?
It’s sad not to have that much time with baby, but believe me — you will be so so thankful in the long run if you put your baby to be early. It’s never too early to establish good sleeping habits. And habits are harder to correct as a child gets older. And keeping up baby past bedtime makes for a very cranky and overtired baby.
At that age, my son was going to bed around 7 pm. Sometimes I literally saw him for 15 minutes before bedtime. And I felt bad, but now 3.5 years later we have a champion sleeper.
What time do your infants go to bed? And what time do you get home from work? I have a 7 month old baby and I did some research about sleep. The sooner they go to bed the better. I am trying to start bedtime routine by 7.30 so that he is asleep by 8.00 pm. But that leaves me with just a couple of hours to be with him.
Anyome have nursing bra suggestions? Im currently 32 weeks pregnant and starting to consider purchasing some. Im very small chested, 32a before pregnancy and slightly bigger now but not by much.
Also, anyone feel like their husbands were not as interested in s** in the third tri? My husband is still very intimate in hugging or kissing me and we even do other things but not the full actual thing. I know he doesnt want to hurt my feelings but i feel like having this huge belly with a very active baby freaks him out a bit. Hoping things will return to normal after birth?
Fun morning project: If you could build an ideal set-up for grandparent involvement, what would you do?
In a few weeks, my mother will be moving across the country to live about a mile away from us. We have the only grandchild she is likely to ever have, and she wants to be able to spend more time with him. He just turned 3.
Mom and I have a fine relationship – both very introverted, both very protective of our privacy. I wouldn’t characterize our relationship as “close” (we haven’t lived in the same town for over 20 years, we e-mail / talk on the phone a few times a month), but no major issues.
To date, Mr. TK and I have raised Little TK without any family support nearby. Mr. TK is worried about the close proximity, and I want to be sensitive to his concerns, but my mom is very open to feedback (and very understanding of boundaries) so I don’t anticipate that will be much of an issue. That being said, for those of you that have grandparent help … are there things we should keep in mind, or plan for? Boundaries or expectations to set early on? Things you would do differently, if it were entirely up to you? Little TK has the option to drop down to 4 or 3 days a week at daycare during the summer … is that something we should consider, or is having a regular “grandma” day a bad idea for some reason?
TIA!
Okay, husband and I arguing this morning: can a 25 month old understand the word “obey”? I was proposing “do what I say” as an alternative but not sure… He thought we should be teaching “obey” if he doesnt already know it?
Favorite discipline tricks or books for this age?