Well, I have officially done it. I am wearing maternity pants. I know I could probably have held off until the start of my second trimester (which was my original goal) but the three pair of pants I can still fit into comfortably were all in the laundry when I got dressed this morning. I could have squeezed into one of my smaller pair of pants (I even tried!), but it would have been pure torture and possibly causing injury to passersby should a clasp happen to fly off at any given moment. Everyone has recommended the rubber-band solution, but my work pants don’t have buttons, they have clasps/hooks, leaving me with the option of just not closing my pants. Which in my mind, really isn’t a solution as much as begging to humiliate myself.
In preparing for this sort of “emergency” I have been slowly acquiring some maternity clothing. Months ago even. What can I say? I am a planner (and a bit of an optimist). I watch the sales and when something cute is really cheap, I pick it up. It’s just good sense. So I have a (very tiny) section of my closet reserved for maternity clothing. It goes against all the organizational logic of my closet (clothing sorted by shirt sleeve length, then pants, skirts, and dresses–all broken down by color within the sections) but I have heard the horror stories of pregnant woman crying when getting dressed in the morning, surrounded by the entire contents of their closet, because they can’t find a single thing that fits. So I have interrupted the system and created a special “maternity” section to prevent any mental break-downs.
And let me tell ya, this morning I was very grateful for the special section.
hehehe, preggers clothes. when one of my other friends was preggers, i was so jealous that she got to wear nice empire waist shirts and elastic pants. the empire shirts are sort of in but when will elastic pants???
Oh to be that organized… Have you seen my closet? Lol!
I guess this is the time that you make your choices. There are those that spend their entire pregnancy mourning the loss of that figure they once had, and there are those that bask in the glory of the belly. I am a belly basker my self. The bigger my belly gets, the prouder I get. (Is prouder a word?) So no breakdowns for me! Besides…I won’t see a flat tummy or perky boobs unless I have surgery.
Here’s hoping you bask…even if your closet isn’t organized exactly how you want it.
Arn’t maternity pants the best. You will need another round of pants around week 30.
I just want to say that I did not sleep last night – not a wink. It was awful. I guess the insomnia comes and goes…..
Hey, that’s totally okay! I had to undo the top button on my favorite pants the other day too, so I ordered two pairs of maternity pants. I know it’ll still be a while until I need them, but the midwife warned me that since I’m so small I should be prepared to start showing "in five minutes."
At least now you can be really comfy!