Complaints of Pregnancy

Maternity clothes are such a pain! The pants don't stay up, the shirts make you look huge, and for sunday dresses . . . Good Luck!

Okay, so I have 3 or 4 maternity shirts that I absolutley love. The pants though are the biggest pains! Every time you sit down or stand up you have to readjust where the waist band is sitting. I've tried every type of style that there is. The full belly panel, the demi-panel, the no panel, even the roll over panel. None of them stay up! You'd think with people being pregnant all the time, all over the country, one company would have come up with a maternity pant that will stay where it is supposed to!

Dresses are the worst! They are huge on you until 6 or 7 months, and by 9 months they don't fit. Besides the fact that most (and I am saying most because I realize there are some cute dresses. That is, if you didn't have to wear something that covered knee-length garments, and were willing to pay $50+ for them) are jumpers. News flash jumpers look good on no one (over the age of 10), pregnant or not.

So lately I've been trying to find a good jean or kalkhi skirt that I can wear with my cute tops. So far, no luck. It doesn't help that it's getting to be summer, and the skirts are getting shorter. Though who would want to see a pregnant lady in a mid thigh skirt is beyond me. I thought I might be able to find a long one on sale, but no luck. Nothing. I found one jean skirt at Motherhood, but they were out of my size, and wanted $40. So as of now I am left feeling like a tent every sunday at church.

I don't want you to get the wrong idea and thing that I always look amazing, and am one of those has-to-look-cute-to-go-out moms. Most of the time my hair is pulled back, and I hardly ever do my make-up. But pregnancy is hard on anyone I think. Even the second time around, when I know how my body is going to change, I hate the way I look. I feel fat constantly, even if I do only have a little belly. I'm tired, I'm irritable. I don't like being pregnant, and the clothes that are available for pregnancy don't make me feel any better.

And to make things worse . . . there are actually people out there who enjoy being pregnant, some will even go so far as to say they LOVE being pregnant. I know it's hard to believe, but they exist. Who Likes Being Fat??? Now some I think use pregnancy as an excuse to eat whatever they want whenever they want. Maybe they like that idea. Or maybe they are just really happy people who are really good at seeing the whole picture, and think every day when they look in the mirror, 'I'm happy I'm getting stretch marks all over my huge belly it means my baby is growing,' 'I love throwing up as soon as I wake up, in 7 more months I'll have a baby.'

Me, I'm not one of them. I was actually hoping that this time would be twins, whatever challenges they pose, so that this would be the last time I had to be pregnant. We would have our three kids and be done. It didn't happen.