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Sunday, December 27th, 2009
Yesterday I wore jeans for the first time in two weeks (I’ve been living in two pairs of magical and wondrous black pants with a high spandex quotient), and oh dear - they don’t fit anymore. Two weeks ago, I could still button my various pairs of jeans, though it was more comfortable to wear them unbuttoned with a belly band to hold them up. Now not only can I not button them, zipping them is uncomfortable, too. I tried the belly band trick yesterday, but it really only works properly if the pants are zipped, so I kept having droopy butt all day.
When I got home, I decided to bust out the collection of fat(ter) pants from before I lost weight this spring. I’ve been considering these my ace in the hole all along - the pants that would help me segue into the second trimester without having to spend a million dollars on maternity clothes. Lo and behold, I did find several pairs that still button (for now) - some jeans and even some dress pants to take on my dreaded business trips next month. So yay, right?
Well … though I’m thrilled the baby and I are growing (my waist is expanding at a rate of roughly half an inch per week) and I’m starting to show (at least to myself and D if not the world at large), it was still a bit disheartening to pack away my hard-won skinnier jeans in favor of the old ones in a bigger size. I was hoping never to have to see them again!
But being a fairly practical person and no stranger to the roller coaster of weight loss and gain, I never actually give away the fat clothes (or the skinny ones, for that matter). That’s why I have a full wardrobe in four different sizes. Good thing I have a lot of attic space, huh?
The main thing was just how freakin’ fat I looked in these clothes. My waist hasn’t expanded quite enough to fill in the indentation between my upper and lower belly flab, so my “baby bump” looks less “aww cute, there’s a baby in there” and more “geez, she must eat a lot of Big Macs.”
However, I content myself with the knowledge that it will fill out and look properly bump-like soon enough, especially at this rate. Half an inch a week, people! And I’m only three weeks away from the halfway point, where supposedly even the most bizarrely-shaped among us (that’s me) start looking pregnant enough that random strangers can cheerfully rub our bellies and ask personal questions. Awesome!
Also, in just a few days I’m going to see my baby in action again on the ultrasound screen, which is always a delight. 17 weeks, here we come!
The only time in your life you can say “Yay I’m getting bigger!” Don’t worry we’ll work it off with lots of walking and stroller pushing!
When I was pregnant a year ago, I absolutely loved the old navy maternity jeans with the full panel. They were so comfy yet looked good, and they were cheap.
Just a quick tip. For those garments that button, try a rubber band hooked to the hole which will wrap around the button. It gave me two more months in my regular skirts (with a longish top, of course). Good luck and have fun with this.