Nursing/Postpartum Tuesday: Wipeable Changing Pad Cover
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I never used a changing pad cover, but looking at the cracks in my nearly eight-year-old changing pad, maybe I should have.
This changing pad cover is wipeable and washable (for obvious reasons) and has soft, plush, contoured sides. It fits any standard sized changing pad, and while this one has cute little animals, it comes in several other patterns.
This changing pad cover from Cloud Island is $16.99 at Target.
Sales of note for 1/16:
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Cashmere on sale; AllSaints, Free People, Nike, Tory Burch, and Vince up to 60%; beauty deals up to 25% off
- AllSaints – now up to 60% off (some of the best leather jackets!)
- Ann Taylor – Up to 40% off your full-price purchase; extra 50% off sale
- Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Boden – 15% off new styles with code — readers love this blazer, these dresses, and their double-layer line of tees
- DeMellier – Sale now on, free shipping and returns — includes select options like Montreal, Vancouver, and Venice
- Eloquii – $29 and up select styles; extra 50% off all clearance, plus ELOQUII X kate spade new york collab just dropped
- Everlane – Sale of the year, up to 70% off — reader favorites include their scoop tee, Dream Pant, ReNew Transit backpack, silk blouses and oversized blazers! New markdowns just added
- Hannah Andersson – Up to 30% off all pajamas;
- J.Crew – Up to 40% off select styles; up to 50% off cashmere
- J.Crew Factory – 40-70% off everything
- L.K. Bennett – Archive sale, almost everything 70% off
- M.M.LaFleur – Tag sale for a limited time — jardigans and dresses $200, pants $150, tops $95, T-shirts $50
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – Semi-Annual Red Door Sale – 50% off + extra 20% off, sale on sale, plus free shipping on $150+
I’d talk to the teacher about the homework – how long should it be taking, what should you do if it’s taking your kid too long, what are the consequences for not doing it? Personally I am opposed to homework (other than reading alone or with a parent) in kindergarten. If it was a very small amount of homework (<10 mins/day) I would probably try to do it for the sake of keeping the peace with the teacher. But there's no way I would have my kindergartner sitting at a desk doing 30+ minutes of homework a day, unless it was initiated by the child. I believe the primary value of homework in early elementary is to teach the kid to get in the habit of doing homework, and that's something that can be done with a very small amount of homework. Additional homework is just burdensome and doesn't have any value. It's different when they're older and the homework actually has importance for academic learning.
We had “back to school breakfast” for my new kinder. And now I’m stressed about the expectations around reading, the “homework” and the at home math assessment that needs to be completed by Friday but he’s in aftercare until about 5 every day and then totally exhausted/spent during our rush to bedtime. Plus I’m alone with the kids this week while my husband travels for work. My son LOVES learning and I don’t want to ruin it by telling him what he has to do, but maybe that’s impractical. How do you make sight words fun?
Has anyone quit a job because of a long commute not working with childcare schedules?
Recently returned to the office after being remote 2+ years and have a long commute and am in charge of daycare pick up drop off. As you can imagine it is not easy for me or kiddos (long days for them). Being asked to come into the office more. It could work, but not without adding significant stress to my life and kids’ lives. Not sure if this is worth it. Had been considering leaving so maybe this is the impetus I needed?
What is the soonest you’d be comfortable returning to work in some limited capacity after giving birth? I’m new at my job, don’t qualify for FMLA, and am trying to negotiate leave at a place where apparently no one has needed parental leave in recent memory.
I’m getting pressure to come back very very quickly at least a few hours a week, for reasons that admittedly are legitimate. In theory, my partner could probably arrange some flexible work to watch the baby if it was only a few hours a week. But I’m very stressed out by the idea. This is my third kid, and I’ve always have generous paid leave (12 weeks plus I took some vacation to stretch it a bit) so this is a new experience for me and I don’t really know what’s reasonable.
I’m trying not to set myself up for failure here but it feels like no matter what I do, I lose.
I have a tween daughter who is developing curves early as I did. when I was her age, I was so ashamed of my body that I covered it up as much as possible. I have tried to give her a positive body image. One unintended effect of this is that she wants to wear very revealing clothes. how do I reach her to dress modestly without shaming her and undoing the positive body image? if it’s rules for the sake of rules, she will push back.
I feel like I lived a whole day by 9am today – 5yo w/ coughing fit in my bed at 4:15; tossed and turned until 5:30 when toddler woke up and then we were all in bed together. Facetime Dad on his work trip in Europe. Get ready. Out of the house to get them to school/daycare at 7:30, then back because forgot the 5yo’s folder, drop him off, then back again to unload grocery delivering including the toddler’s milk which needed to be delivered to daycare. Driving to the office, on a call, totally on autopilot, and realized I had forgotten the milk at home. Drive back, deliver milk to daycare, finally make it to the office at like 9am.
We used to and I got some interviews from it, but the ultimately hired nanny for me and friends have always been sourced through local nanny/babysitting FB groups for whatever reason. I would not advise against doing it, but also don’t rely entirely on it. I needed full time and a lot of people said they were FT so they showed up in the filter, but upon connecting in real life were not in fact fulltime… took a lot more work than I anticipated to filter through all the candidates.
We’re in a weird spot with babysitting and child care. 2 kids, ages 12 and 8. The 12-year-old can stay home alone for a few hours, no problem, but is not ready to babysit his sibling. (Just … trust me on that. We’re working toward that as a goal, but I can’t see this changing much for quite a while.) 12-year-old obviously bristles at the idea of having a “babysitter” if DH and I want to go anywhere. We don’t have a robust stable of sitters, so if you were in my situation, what kind of person would you be looking for? And where? There is an older family friend (age 16), and that’s worked well because the 12-year-old looks up to him. But if the 16-year-old neighbor isn’t available, we don’t have anybody. I almost feel like we need to find another caring adult to take over because it’s embarrassing/infantilizing for the middle schooler to have a teen sitter.
Has anyone used care dot com to find a nanny? I see it costs $30 a month and am wondering if it’s worth it. FWIW our need is coming up pretty soon so it wouldn’t actually be a big expense. Open to other ideas on finding a nanny too! I have posted in my local moms FB group but no responses yet.
I have about 20 recipes saved on my phone as notes. It was manageable sort of but I’m adding goals and other to do lists and it’s a lot. What do you use to manage recipes?
Can people share what they use for a ‘petty cash’ fund for the nanny/au pair? I’m thinking a prepaid debit card I can reload is the way to go?
…does Apple Pay have one of these? We’d rather she have access to cash if needed to pull from an ATM which is why I’m thinking debit vs. credit card.
Gifts ideas for 2 year old boy? ~$25 budget (I think this is appropriate amount to spend for daycare friend’s birthday party?) TIA!