Maternity Monday: Willow Maternity & Nursing Dress
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Spring weddings on the horizon? If you’re expecting, this versatile dress from Tiffany Rose will work during and after your pregnancy.
This easy and elegant dress has a deep V-neckline, three-quarter-length sleeves, and flowing skirt. The empire waist and soft stretchy jersey fabric accommodate your growing bump while the V-neck makes it easy to nurse or pump.
Just add a few sparkling accessories and a pair of glamorous shoes to make it your own.
The Willow Maternity Dress is on sale for $156 (marked down from $195) and comes in seven colors/patterns in sizes 2/4 to 14/16.
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
This is for older kids, but maybe some of you have done this or know someone who has.
My 13YO needs jaw surgery due to a severe overbite. They can take her wisdom teeth out at the same time. It will be a hard first week of recovery and several hard weeks after that, which we can do when school is out.
I understand that it is what is done now, medically. I am also aware that people have major cosmetic surgery and claim it is just jaw surgery (sort of like how people used to have nose jobs and claim it was fixing a deviated septum). I am a bit afraid that I won’t recognize my kid after or that her face will majorly change. I know that there will be some change but I am praying it will be minimal. Has anyone done this or can you talk me off of a ledge?
Hi all, my first grader is something of a struggling reader. We have been working our way through Hooked on Phonics at home and he is making progress but doesn’t seem to have much interest in reading to himself yet even though he can read easier books aloud when we ask him to (eg he can read most of a Fly Guy book aloud without help). Does anyone have any recommendations for books or series that have gotten your similarly aged/skilled child into reading by him/herself? He does tend to be pretty stereotypically boy in his interests.
WWYD – kid refusing to go to preschool edition
Backstory: We moved from the Netherlands to the US six weeks ago. DS is four and started preschool here in the US two weeks ago. He went to preschool in the Netherlands but speaks and understands English because his dad is from the US.
He has been complaining that he stays here in preschool longer than back in the Netherlands (this is mostly due to us so far only having one car and my husband picks him up after work). He stays until 4-5 pm vs. 1 pm in the Netherlands.
I have been writing this off as adjusting to live here and general homesickness.
I currently stay home with our baby while I figure out how to start practicing law here, so he technically doesnt NEED to go go preschool but I believe that being in a group of peers in beneficial (and helps his English as we speak Dutch at home).
However this morning he refused to eat breakfast, get dressed to go out and cried big tears about how he doesnt want to go and for the first time told us that a kid in his class picks on him. Hitting, telling him that he will eat my son’s food (he gets special food due to allergies) and spitting on other kids (not DS so far).
I broke down and kept him home for the day. Probably a mistake. I am trying to make this day at home as borning as possible to make preschool more appealing. I also have a call scheduled with his teacher around lunch time.
What should we do moving forward? Straight out force him in the morning? Keep him home longer until he is going voluntarily?
Favorite drugstore moisturizer? The girl at Sephora said my skin is dry.
I’ve been doing some politics lessons with the big kids at my son’s school and went to do some French in his class today, as he was jealous I missed out his class. And my goodness, those kids are squirrelly. I thought 1st graders would be able to sit quietly/politely for 5 minutes? I was reading the gruffalo, so a familiar story, and pausing to ask them questions, etc, so not exactly teaching verb tenses.
One kid yelled at me to “speak in a NORMAL language” and half of them were rolling around on the floor! The teacher must be exhausted by the end of the day.
AND my son looked grumpy the whole time, so no good deed goes unpunished.
My daughter (this may be key) was diagnosed as having ASD-1 at 10. Not at 2, which would have been helpful. Is it possible that kids may become more autistic over time? She went to FT daycare at 15 weeks and had no issues there. Regular public school was good — some trouble settling down to circle time, but good grades and no conduct problems. Now, it seems like since the Dx, she has embraced it and even doubled down on it, like having autism is her reason to not do anything she doesn’t prefer and have unlimited screen time (which got out of hand during the pandemic when our schools closed for a year and a half) because it helps her stay regulated. One therapist suggested NOT telling her, which maybe I should have listened to, but she is sharp enough that she figured out what we were testing her for. She is doing well in school now, but only wants to do school and have zero activities outside of school (even ones she formerly liked or at least did). It may be that the other kids are advancing socially where she is not and she no longer can make friends at school (they are more acquaintances; tween girls are much more advanced socially and yet she can’t be rough-and-tumble with peer boys because they also don’t sync up). I am hoping that I can just help find her happy quirky peace in the world that she used to have. Now, she just seems to be fried and OT and a therapist and meds are just not helping her lose so much ground in the happiness / peace / tranquility department. Yesterday she seemed to be annoyed to walk the dog on a greenway she usually loves and it felt like all she wanted to do on a lovely day was play on her Switch. I am scared she will just retreat from the world into gaming (and yet a little bit, I’d be OK with; moderation is so, so hard for her) .
I am getting ready to have a baby next month and be out on my 12 week maternity leave, work has not quieted down for me whatsoever, and I am having so much trouble getting up the motivation to get things done. I’m not sleeping well so I’m tired, all I really want to think about is baby prep, and this is the busy season for the most mundane parts of my job. There really isn’t any advice other than just pull it together, but would love to hear how other people kept motivated through these last few weeks. At this point I’m terrified the baby will come early and I’ll run out of time to wrap everything up!
does anyone have a kid who doesn’t seem to sleep well/how have you addressed the problem? one of my almost 6 year old twins has always been my “worse” sleeper, though compared to some of the horror stories i’ve read on here, she seems better than many (was sleeping 12+ hours a night by 5 months, though we’ve gone through some rough spots). we were traveling last week and bed sharing and I realized just how poorly she sleeps – she sits up multiple times throughout the night, ends up with her feet on her pillow and head on the other end, and switches back some point during the night. when we are at home i’ve occasionally looked on the camera we have in her room, and see the same thing, that she’s rotated her body around, or a few times i’ve looked and don’t see her in her bed and go into her room and she is sleeping halfway across the room on the floor, or one time i nearly had a panic attack because i couldn’t find her (she was under her bed). i have to think that all of this movement is not very restful so even if she spends 10+ hours sleeping she isn’t getting good sleep. she often seems tired, falls asleep easily in the car, and i think some of her behavioral challenges could be a result of the fact she doesn’t sleep well. is this something i should raise with the pediatrician? she doesn’t necessarily seem to have issues falling asleep, but staying asleep
What was most helpful for your partners to do re: parental leave? Specifically, I will have 12 weeks off work for the birth of our baby but my partner only gets 2 weeks — should he take it all at the beginning, or 1 week at the beginning and 1 week later, or something else?