Baby Blog

Over the last few weeks I have accumulated a nice pile of maternity clothes. But do they fit me well? Am I comfortable? Of course not I’m hormonal and pregnant and trying to find something that fits that makes you feel confident enough to leave the house is becoming a daily chore.

My friends have given me a lot of clothes but they are not built like me at all. I am very short and curvaceous (to put it nicely) and my friends are taller and slimmer than me. Its a nice thought but their clothes look odd on me; they fit in the wrong places if you know what I mean.

I have other maternity clothes that I found at the thrift store and a few more that I bought in a box lot online. Some are super cute and make me feel confident but the rest are merely adequate, will fit better in a few months or I just don’t really like them.

The first time moms out there may be asking why I don’t just go to the mall and pick up some clothes from the maternity store. Well besides the fact the thought of entering a mall makes me shudder, maternity clothes are very very expensive. A pair of maternity pants on clearance may be $25. Most long sleeved shirts are in the $25 to $35 range. That may not be expensive to you but as a professional writer earning my pennies from scribbling that’s a lot of money to waste.

I guess I’ll just have to keep scouring the thrift stores and hitting up friends for their old clothes. There is nothing worse than being pregnant, running out of maternity clothes to wear and resorting to wearing regular clothes. I assure you at four and a half months a regular waist band cuts into your tummy and normal shirts are bursting at the seams around my ever growing chest.

And so what’s the moral of this blog? Buy and collect as many maternity clothes as you can and plan outfits out days in advance. You never know what morning you are going to wake up, hate the world and just sit and cry because you can’t find a comfortable pair of pants. Better to have as much choice as possible and a plan. But don’t plan past a week in advance because you never know what the next week will bring.