Screw anonymity ~ it's time to come clean.
My daughter has been outside my womb for almost 3 years now and I still wear maternity clothes!
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I am not a flat-chested, 14 year-old beanstalk. I have hips, and thighs, and a lot of flab thanks to the weight I put on carrying a human being inside me. I don't want to wear clothes that cling to me. I want to hide my rolls, not define them with spandex. I want to be able to lift my arm over my head and not subject the people around me to pasty skin and stretch marks. I choose to wear my maternity shirts because they are longer, there is more fabric. Sure, I probably look ridiculous. In fact, my hubby has even said so on occasion, but I'm comfortable. Listen, I'm a young mom. I don't want to be wearing maternity shirts. I want to wear cute t-shirts. So Issac, Stella, Calvin and heck, even the people over at Kohl's and Old Navy (where I do most of my shopping) can you please help a mother out. Try designing clothes for real women with real bodies. I am so sick of always hiking up my jeans so my ass crack doesn't show. I want a wardrobe that flatters me, not one that shields me.
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What's your mommy secret?
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16 comments:
I am right along with you about the hiding things. Now that the weather is getting warmer, more is going to have to show, and I sure don't like that.
My secret is SPANX. I wear these bad boys every day. They hold you in where you want to be held in, kind of a stocking material. They are great, and help me to feel a little more confident.
I'm with you. I don't wear maternity anymore but I do search high and low for longer looser t-shirts and higher cut jeans. And sweaters with long sleeves and full length pants. It seems threquarter length pants and sleves are all you can find in the stores. I live in Canada. It is cold here in winter. I want a sweater to cover my arms. We should start a website petition and send it to the buyers at Old Navy
Rhonda beat me to the SPANX -- those things are amazing.
And like Moe, my secret in the summer is to wear those light fabric tunics with long sleeves. I can't stand how the prevalence of summer clothes are sleeveless items or have very short cap sleeves. Does not work for moms that might have a little flab under the arms.
With respect to non-clothing items, my secret in the evening is a glass of mommy-juice (red wine) to make me feel like an adult. Heavenly.
OMG I'm not the only one, my son is about to turn 3 and just the other day I wore a maternity shirt LOL
My friend said to me "I love that shirt, looks so comfortable" and I replied "well that's cause it's meant to be, it's maternity LOL".
hehe I still wear my maternity shirts to bed and around the house!! I am not alone!!!
My mommy secret is...as much as I hate her watching tv I let her so I can read blogs!!!!!!!
Well, I'm not a mom yet but my secret for now is I reallly, really want to smoke cigarettes!!! I quit before getting pregnant and the cravings now are almost as bad as when I first quit. :( Hrmph.
I hear ya on the stretch marks and stretched out skin...or whatever that stuff is. I'm only 29!
I stopped wearing maternity shirts, but only because I discovered that J. Crew makes really long T-Shirts and tanks. I wear them under shorter shirts and pretend I'm going for the layered look.
I may just have to check out J Crew! LOL I've got the biggest gut from having 3 kids by C-section the past 5 yrs. I have no muscles at all down there now. :( I don't wear maternity but I like to find longer shirts like some of the other girls said.
Is that the Brokeback Mountain dude?? WHOA!
I AM SO WITH YOU! I have a few (no, many) extra pounds on me from my babies, too. Youngest is also three. Just this year I got tired of wearing Boring Big Girl clothes, and am trying to keep up a nicer image. Can you believe I found seven7 jeans at Target for only $40, and they FIT??? I NEVER spend much money on my clothes, but I absolutely had to have that pair of pants. I feel so "cool" wearing them!
On another, more practical note, I find decent priced, good length T-shirts, polos, etc. at www.lanebryantcatalog.com . I don't like all of their stuff, but they have some good basics.
That said, I am still working to get healthier, loose weight. But it took years to gain, it's going to take a little while to come off. Good post.
Spanx. Absolutely.
well, I'm supposed to be giving up being an XL for Lent, but as I sit here writing, eating Ben & Jerry's, looks like God is not to happy with me. My secret is: my husband calls my panties: parachute panties. It's so embarassing. Really kills the romance, ya' know. NOTE: these are NOT even the white cotton type, but Karen Nereburg? or something with flowers. *sigh*
Thank the stars that we didn't have to wear muumuus that were popular mat wear only a generation ago. yikes!
I was looking through a clothing catalogue and saw all kinds of cute, long, flowing tank tops. I'm not dreading summer so much anymore.
Ditto for me too!
It was not THAT long ago that I gave up maternity shirts. But as another poster mentioned, there are so many cute summery shirts out now that are longish and flowy. If I had any sort of life beyond my kids and blogging, I'd be out loading up on them right now!
I still wear mine too. That shit was cute!
I had a sort of opposite problem (please don't throw rocks at me, I didn't do it on purpose). During the whole pregnancy, from say, day 7 after conception and until day of birth I was throwing up. Therefore not much eating. I ended up weighing approx. 2 kg more than at the beginning of the pregnancy because I had lost so much weight in the first three months (that was the worst of the morning-day-evening sickness).
So anyway, I never got to wear maternity clothes. Snif. Pregnancy ripoff. :'( S'not fair.
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