When To Get Out The Maternity Clothes
With my first pregnancy, I literally didn’t wear maternity clothes until I was 6 months pregnant. With each successive pregnancy(and as my age advanced), I “showed” earlier and earlier. With my most recent pregnancy, I’d noticed some changes in my waistline even before the test came back positive.
Because of my history, getting out the maternity clothes is not an easy thing to do. I still remember taking down the crib and packing away the nursery supplies when our son was stillborn 3 years ago. I couldn’t fit into my “regular” pants and I wore maternity clothes to the funeral home to make the arrangements with my husband to bury our son.
That event changed me radically. Since then, I guess I am afraid of “what if”. For example, when our next son was born a year later, my husband and I hadn’t even picked out a name yet! We also hadn’t set up the nursery.
My family was angry because they felt we’d not prepared for this child and that we were irresponsible. That wasn’t it at all. We were just afraid because we knew that in life, there are no guarantees.   I didn’t want to have to pack away more baby things “if” something happened.
This past weekend, I went out and bought pants a size larger than I usually wear to try to hold me over until I absolutely must pull out those maternity clothes. They are a little loose, but just fine for now. Every so often, I’ll look at the maternity clothes I have stored under the bed, but I just can’t bear to go through them right now or think about wearing them. I’m not quite yet 8 weeks along you know.
Monday is my first OB appointment. Perhaps after I emerge from the first trimester, I’ll be brave enough to pull out those maternity clothes, but for now, my “big” pants are just fine.
