Wondering where I’ve been the last two weeks? Unpacking my maternity clothes. I’m kidding, but seriously, I forgot how many ugly maternity clothes I have.
I must have been deluded by all the progesterone scurrying through my body of late, but early on in this pregnancy I actually got excited to see my maternity clothes again. I remember picking them out lovingly the first time around, even thinking that $300 wasn’t a lot to spend in one outing at Pea in the Pod. (It bought me a sweater and a pair of pants, for the record.) I spent a lot of time trying to look pregnancy “cute” (which, for the record is the single most annoying thing someone can tell you when you’re pregnant besides “you’re barely showing!”) the first time around.This time, though, I’m lucky if I can put on some black sweats and a t-shirt that will cover my ever-expanding girdle. Granted, the black sweats are lululemon, but it’s still not an excuse for wearing them EVERY day.
So now that I’m four months along, I felt it was the perfect time to unpack what’s been sitting in my closet for three years. I should have known better. A sampling of the horrors of my closet.
As my friend said, it’s knocked-up schoolgirl chic.
I cannot believe I saved something with this many stains on it.
Even a black maternity swimsuit won’t make me look svelte.
Attack of the killer bras. I like my flat chest much better.
I just showed you the worst of my worst. Will you show me yours and then we can all laugh together? Please?
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I don’t have photos since we left all of my maternity clothes on the other side of world, but I had/have a maternity CAPELET that I just had to have from the Gap. I thought it was the cutest, most stylish thing to complete my cuteness…
Do you need further proof that pregnancy eats your brain?
Yeah, but capelets were kind of cute a few years ago. Emphasis on kind of.
I got rid of allll of my mat clothes after last time. So I get to lots of shopping
I would have burned the one pair of pants that fit me at the end, but they disintergrated before I could do so….
I gave birth to peanut in August. In the south. Meaning everything is either sweat or ice cream stained. So NOT attractive or worth pulling out ever again.
I didn’t save many clothes…knowing that if I got pregnant again, it was out way out of style. I’ll have to go digging for ya thou.
i’m right there with ya. i just threw out ALL of my maternity clothes since this was our last pregnancy. i had things all the way from 2003 that in 2008 are so wrong. Just plain wrong.
Have you hear that Ann Taylor LOFT now has a maternity line? Not quite as pricey as Pea in a Pod, but should have some halway decent pieces.
I think I have that same swim suit…
Most of my maternity clothes from #1 didn’t work for #2 since one was a winter baby and the other a summer baby (there’s something scary… summer maternity clothes… just when you don’t *really* want to bare all). But during my second pregnancy I LIVED in long skirts with big simple waistbands. I had a brown and a black and they were seriously the best things around. $20 from Motherhood (I think) and people were always complimenting. (Pair with knee socks because maternity pantyhose or tights are for masochists.)