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Maternity
Clothes -- Gotta Hate 'Em!
Amanda Sykora
Searching...
searching... searching... I KNOW I own something that will fit over this big
belly. I KNOW I do!! But where is it?!
Pulling out piece after piece of clothing from my closet, I finally pull out a
dress that I am SURE will fit. Throwing it on the bed and wading through the
piles of size 8/medium shorts and shirts, I quietly mumble... "This had better
fit."
Unbuttoning the dress and slipping it on past my feet, versus my head, I
suddenly realize there is NO WAY IN HELL it is going past my stomach AKA big
belly AKA BABY.
"Why me?"
As someone who has never owned many brand name clothes or anything truly
expensive, this shouldn't bother me right? Well, although I may not own 'great'
pieces of non-maternity wear, I do value how I look and love all of my clothes.
Being pregnant with a huge tummy just was a little depressing when it came to
getting dressed every morning.
By the time I was 2 1/2 months pregnant, even though it was my FIRST pregnancy,
I was wearing maternity clothes. When I found out I was pregnant I had every
intention to not gain more than 20 pounds and to wear MY clothes until I was at
least 6 months along. Boy was I fooled!! When my belly began to grow and grow
(and grow and grow and grow...) I realized pretty quick that I was no longer
fitting into my size 8's for at least another 8 to 9 months. (Okay, so let's try
a full 12 months... sigh...)
On to the stores to buy maternity clothes. A great excuse to buy MORE clothing!
What a wonderful idea!! Wrong again...
Do clothing manufacturers really think that pregnant women are 70 or 80 years
old? The last time I heard about a woman this age being pregnant was either in a
fairy tale or in the Guiness Book of World Records. Pregnant women are TWENTY or
THIRTY or FORTY. Not 3 or 4 times that number!!
Every rack that I visited in every store, had these huge looking flowery printed
shirts and rather ugly colored shorts to match. Why? Why do the stores torture
us like this? Being pregnant is hard enough on the body. Why do the clothes need
to make you feel EVEN LESS of a person?!
Eventually I had to make a purchase. I could not go on wearing tight jeans and
tight shirts. I had to find SOMETHING to wear that was 1. comfortable, 2.
inexpensive (afterall, you are only pregnant for 9 months!!) and 3. NOT UGLY!
Number 1. comfortable, I could find. But trying to find Number 2. and 3., along
with Number 1., well... that was a joke.
I settled on a few shirts that my belly would grow into. HA! I would never fill
out this shirt. It's too big! Wrong, yet again. These shorts? HA! My butt will
NEVER be THAT big! Was pregnancy not only making my stomach bigger but my brain
smaller?! I kept guessing very, very wrong.
Searching in many stores for maternity clothes I found a few stores were more
helpful than others. Target carried a decent collection at not too bad a price.
The shirts were cute, and the overalls were too. But, warning, the overalls DID
NOT fit all summer. My tummy got tooooooooo big!
Motherhood is another great store. There is not one locally for me, so I
travelled to one in another city. It was well worth it. They carried a great
selection of jeans, shirts, shorts, etc. The prices are great and the fabrics
are NOT all funky.
Even more depressing, was the day that I woke up (granted, I was in LATE
pregnancy) and I couldn't fit into any maternity clothes! No kidding! My 20
pound maximum had turned into 30.... eeerrr, we'll just call it 30 something...
And my butt had outgrown too many things that fit just the day before. I was
forced to wear a dress that I purchased at a yard sale (yet another great place
to find maternity clothing!!) that I swore I wouldn't wear very often. It was
kind of funky. Small flowers, and it was a LARGE! GASP!!! I never will wear a
large! So for about a week, I wore this same dress, hoping not to sweat too much
because I didn't want to be too smelly! And even wore this dress the day I went
into labor with my son. Yes, there really is an ending to pregnancy.... Thank
goodness for that. Because if there's anything that drives a pregnant woman
crazy, it's maternity clothes.
Amanda Sykora is a full time mother to two boys, part time writer of many
subjects, and all the time webmaster of HerDailyDose.com. Visit
http://www.herdailydose.com
for more articles written by her.
This article provided by the Family Content Archives at:
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