Bella Band

Are you pregnant or thinking about becoming pregnant? Well if you are ... I highly recommend (if not insist) that you go out and buy a Bella Band.

Don't wait for your second trimester to start. Don't wait for a sale.
Heaven forbid don't be like me and envision sewing multiple bands in various shades of black, khaki and blue so that they will match your pants. Go buy one. Put it in your junk drawer and shut the door. Its day will come ... trust me.

I am not sure why I waited. I think I envisioned having so much time to sew, nest and surf for one online that I just kept passing them up in the stores. I am at the point in my pregnancy where I am in denial about my size and resentful that my regular pants are too tight. Stuff just doesn't fit me right now. My materinty pants are too big and my regular pants are too tight. My waist changes daily !!!

On Thursday, (my birthday no less) I had to wear a summer weight, light as air, thin as a t-shirt type skirt to dinner because none of my real clothes fit !! The outdoor temperature was probably between 45-50 degrees that night. Since I have become obsessively vain and hypersensitive about the shape of my body, I didn't feel like throwing a big jacket over a cute skirt so I teamed the skirt with a thin black cardigan that only buttons on the top (the last 4-5 buttons make the sweater pop open when I sit). Suffice it say, while I was frigid as an ice block, I looked somewhat cute and "slim" as my outfit was all blank and everyone says that black makes you look thin : ) Don't tell Rob, but I had goosebumps on my belly, boobs and arms ... my toes felt like they would fall off ... yeah I had to wear sandals to match the skirt.

BTW, I know when Rob reads this post he's really gonna flip out because he hates the fact that I am in denial about my body changes and my maternity pants. He is not a girl tho ... he does not look like a cow who is carrying 50lbs extra just by simply putting on a maternity outfit. Maternity blouses make me look like I'm sooooo much bigger than I really am. For some reason, I am growing bigger in places that are slightly abnormal. The area under my boobs have expanded at the same rate as my lower waist ... I look like a can of soda. Maternity clothes make me look 50 times more pregnant than I really am.

I need a bella band. I know. I'm going out to buy 2 or 3 as soon as the stores open today. Crisis averted (for now).

-Mommy Smong

P.S. Here's a happy note ... my boobie growth has finally evened out. When my boobs first started to take on weight, the right boob seemed to be growing at a faster rate than the left. (I am not dreaming this, Rob confirmed). Not sure why I seem to grow at an uneven rate but I'm even now so it's all good.

- Always nice to end a post on a happy note : ) Have a good weekend.