Pregnancy: C is for Clothes

C is for Clothes ... and how I can get through this without purchasing any more than necessary. Since the current the style is for billowy tops, I thought I could get away with wearing the shirts I had throughout my pregnancy. Never once did I take into account that my breasts would triple in size, making once comfy, cute shirts feel like confining corsets. First thing I got was bigger bras from Target.

As I didn't have a job, I didn't feel the need to go out and get new clothes. Then I got an internship at an advertising agency where I had interned the previous semester. While most ad agencies dress down--scruffy T-shirts, jeans with holes--women at this agency dress up. So I went out an got a maternity wardrobe, which was not as easy as it should have been. I'm 5'2". Maternity clothes are not made for petite women. The Gap and Old Navy have jeans in three different lengths, but they have to be ordered online. Motherhood Maternity has petites. Unfortunatly, I did not learn about that until after getting my first round of clothes. I got away with the Bella Band (the cheap one from Target) until the day it was pressing my jeans painfully into my skin. I must have looked like I was in pain as my boss asked me three times if I had a headache.

I have:

Brown pants, black pants, a black skirt, jeans, khaki capris, jean shorts.
A turquoise top, a green top, three T-shirts, a pink sweater, a brown top, a flowered top, and a button down blouse with ruffles.

My mother went on a cruise and got me a darling Mexican maternity top. Then she dug through her baby stuff and got me her Mexican maternity top.

Around the house I wear Dan's clothes. That means soccer shorts and cycling/running T-shirts. To sleep in, I'm addicted to my Anne of Green Gables T-shirt my grandparents bought me when I was in middle school, a Scarlett and Rhett T-shirt, and an Athens, Greece T-shirt from my parents--I'm wearing that one now.