Nursing/Postpartum Tuesday: V-Neck Nursing Sleep Top
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I spent a lot of time in my pajamas postpartum, and a lot of time nursing or pumping.
I would have loved several of these nursing sleep tops from Gap. This pajama top is made from a soft and stretchy, modal-blend jersey and features a crossover V-neck for nursing or pumping, long sleeves for chilly nights sitting up with your wee one, and a comfortable empire waist.
It comes in several fun prints and colors, and there are coordinating pants to make a complete outfit.
Gap’s Maternity V-Neck Nursing Sleep Top is on sale for $35 and up and is available in sizes XS–XL.
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?
I just bought two Chicco My Fits because my child has outgrown her NextFit by shoulder height (the straps are behind her shoulders, supposed to be at or above, thought I had 6 months but whoops, growth spurt). I was super focused on max harness seat height (the MyFit is one of the tallest) and failed to realize that harness mode maxes out at 65 pounds. DD is 63 pounds, so we are one good meal away from exceeding the weight restrictions on the harness. I can’t find any other harness seats that go past 65 pounds. How horrible is it going to be having her use the seat in belt-positioning booster mode? Am I a terrible mom if I fudge the weight on the harness by a few pounds to buy us 6 more months in a harness? WWYD?
Do you think Baby Shark Live would be fun for a just-turned 4 year old? My daughter was obsessed with the song a year or so ago, less so now, but I still think the live production might be fun for her.
I need to announce a win! I hired a housecleaner today, and I am so excited. She showed up on time, was reasonable and is willing to do extra stuff like change the sheets. I have decided that my mission right now is to make whatever I can incrementally easier – grocery delivery, asking their dad to bring them home 30 minutes later after their weeknight dinners, hiring a housecleaner, ordering more premade meals and just allowing more chicken nuggets and fries for dinner. Also, we are on day 2 of remote learning and they are both in their rooms on zoom (after each teacher hosting a “parent meeting” via zoom at the exact same time, so I walked back and forth between the rooms).
Has anyone struggled with infertility and elected not to pursue fertility treatments? We have one child, born when I was almost 40. We didn’t have any issues in conceiving him, but we’ve been trying for 6 months for a second with no luck. I just turned 41, so I suspect this is just the natural challenge associated with trying to conceive at this age. For a variety of reasons we would not pursue IVF, so is it even worth seeing a fertility specialist when the answer is almost certainly just “you’re old”?
Also, I struggle some with feelings like I don’t “get” to be sad about this given that we’ve not willing to do IVF. The infertility communities out there are full of people who are willing to go through a lot of medical treatments to do this, and I feel out of place sharing about this – or even in real life – with women who have been through multiple rounds of IVF, donor embryos, etc. But for us if we can’t conceive naturally that will be the end, and it is looking unlikely, and I am very sad when I think about that.
I posted late in the day yesterday so thought I’d repost with additional info based on the responses. Thank you for those who responded!
When should I transition by son from a toddler bed to a big kid bed (thinking a full or queen)? My son will be 4 in April. He’s still not fully potty trained – sleeps in a night diaper – but he’s very tall (about 3ft 9in). He looks like he barely fits in the toddler bed (sometimes he sleeps diagonal with his feet hanging out of the bed). And he’s been talking about our nice big bed. He likes to cuddle up with us weekend mornings. But he sleeps fine in his bed and has never slept in our bed. Am I hurting his back/growth by not putting him in a normal bed with a good mattress? Or is this something I can wait on until furniture delivery becomes easier? The toddler bed is his crib with one side removed and replaced by a rail. Same firm crib mattress. He has a big room so I’d like to get a full size bed rather than a twin so that it can last him until he moves out. We have a guest room but his could serve as additional guest space if necessary too. We’d bunk him in with his younger brother. What age did others transition to big beds? Thanks.
How do you handle pushy in laws that continue to buy clothes for your child after you’ve asked them not to? My MIL, FIL, and SIL LOVE to buy things. We have repeatedly said we have far too many clothes; please do not give us anymore. Yesterday SIL shows up with a sparkly red tutu. I told her daughter will never wear it, but she insisted we keep it “for photos!”
1. my newborn is not a photo prop and
2. we don’t have room for endless outfits!
How to handle this? I don’t want to be rude but also don’t want to encourage more
For Business Mom Monday poster from yesterday, I’d be tempted to throw some open requisitions in the FB group.
Anyone have kids with a big age difference? My kid is 6, I divorced her dad 4 years ago and am getting married in the spring. New partner and I are talking about whether or not to have another one. The cons are that we love having alone time when kid is at her dad’s (we’re both introverts with quiet hobbies), and also money is tight (we make good salaries in a VHCOL area, so we’re comfortable but modest). His parents are elderly and need a lot of care, and we both have busy careers. We’re in our late 30s so if we want to go for it, we need to start trying sometime in 2022 (I’ll be turning 40 in 2023) so kid would be 7 or 8 when baby is born. We’re agreed that we don’t want to go the IVF route, so we would stop trying if it doesn’t work out on its own. I would love to have 2 adult or older kids, but the thought of living through pregnancy through age 4 is… daunting, from a money, logistics, exhaustion and noise perspective.
I’m curious if anyone’s been in this situation and what they decided, how it worked out. I’m also curious about the sibling dynamic. New baby would have to share a bedroom with us or big sister until out of daycare (unless we win the lottery). We haven’t asked potential big sister her opinion — she loooooooves her friends’s younger siblings (especially older babies and toddlers) but hasn’t asked for one.
After I had kids I found modal to be really gross to me to wear without a bra – it clings to an area of my chest I just don’t want it to cling to and looks and feels terrible. It’s a shame because almost all pajamas seem to be made of it these days.
I got 2 quotes to replace my A/C unit, and one is half as much as the other ($6000 versus $11000)! Do I need to get a third quote to see if one is lowballing me or the other is way too high? I would just as soon go with the cheaper one but I don’t want to run into problems later. The cheaper contractor was recommended by my realtor.
My kid is 17 months old and still drinks from a bottle at home – I need a gauge for how bad (?) it is that we haven’t fully transitioned her to sippy cups. She drinks only from sippy cups at daycare and will take water from a cup at home, but will only take milk from a bottle. We admittedly give into it because it is easy.
Hoping to get some insight from parents of preschool to elementary school aged kids. My oldest is 4.5, and generally takes the “sidekick” role in his friendships. He spends a lot of time with one particular girl as they go to school and afterschool together (we also socialize with the family on the weekends every so often). I’ve noticed that she uses her birthday party (literally 5-6 months away) as some sort of leverage with my son – in particular, disinviting him from her birthday party when he does something she doesn’t like. He will ask me if the invite has come in the mail yet and express sadness if she told him that day that he couldn’t come. I’ve tried to make it not a big deal, emphasize how far away it is, etc. When he told his little brother that he couldn’t come to older son’s birthday, I shut it down by saying all family comes to all family birthday parties. But now when my older son is upset, he tells me that I’m disinvited from the girl’s birthday party. Leaving aside the suppressed giggles at being disinvited from a 4 year old’s upcoming birthday (yes please!), I realize that this seems to be taking on oversized importance in my son’s mind. Any advice on navigating these emotional waters? Keep down playing it or address it more directly? Not really something I want to raise with the girl’s mom.
Hive, tell me how you thought through whether to stop at 2 kids or go for 3. I have a 9 month old and just-turned 4 year old. It’s been rough with the pandemic, hubs and I are burned out without an end in sight (until kids can get vaccinated at which point we’ll have some more freedom of movement and not be so homebound, etc.). I want to get rid of all the baby and pregnancy gear we’ve outgrown but my husband wants to hold onto it just in case we change our minds in a couple of years. We have nanny on demand help from MIL and sometimes my mom, but I am so sick of everyone being underfoot in my house all the time! I value my alone time and independence and can’t wait to return to normalcy and adult time with kids getting older, and of course as soon as I get back to that good place I will then have to try for the 3rd if we dare (I am 36 and don’t want to do IVF etc. if I have trouble conceiving). My parents and some friends with 2 said that they regret not having a 3rd but I don’t know if that will be me or not! What do you all think?
Does anyone have a good turkey breast recipe? We are doing a small Thanksgiving so I am thinking of doing that instead of the full turkey, but I have never cooked it before.
I am going to introduce my almost 1 year old to a cup. Favorite straw cups? Used an oxo tot cup with my first and it was fine, but it would shatter if dropped one too many times.