Do you find yourself asking the question “But, what size AM I???” Yes.
Pregnant is not a measure.
- There are guides on how to dress your shape if you’re an apple or a pear, but what if you’re a pear – with a cherry?
- What size do you need a cherry and will it fit a honeydew melon?
- Is it “normal” for your clothes to grow bigger when you carry cherries?
Dressing while pregnant is like dressing a moving target, but, it can be done with ease and a lot of style and fun.
So, first,
What size am I now?!
The easiest answer to this is: with average weight gain you will wear the same size while pregnant that you wore before pregnancy. Yes. From raisins to watermelon. For the whole 40. Your shoulders do not grow. Your back feels like it’s growing because you want to rip your bra off because it’s tight, but that’s actually your rib cage, not your back.
While pregnant, everything you buy should be stretchy or flow from your clavicle bone to about 5 inches below your hip, because, you’re pregnant! If you go up 2 sizes, that will take you about 2 months, not term.
And, another disclaimer besides the “average weight gain”, which for these purposes is about 35 pounds, is that most of us are different sizes in different styles. That’s why on our website there are four different charts for XS-L because different designers run differently, one designer’s XS is a 0-2, while another might be a 2-4 and so on.
Get the size that fits you where your baby isn’t growing, and while it may feel like your big toe, it’s actually between your clavicle bone and about 5 inches below your hip.
Don’t go up a size just because you’re pregnant. If we had a penny for every woman who came in with jeans falling off her, we’d be rich.
Do I need different clothes for different months?
We encourage people to buy clothes they like, bump and more. In fact, it is in our mission. So try to buy things that suit you each trimester! Even within a trimester a lot can change, and how one person carries a pear- or looks at 17 weeks- is different than the next. Don’t compare, your pear is perfect.
Things that get when the baby is a lemon should still fit without a problem the day before you give birth. There is a chance that you can buy things that you won’t be able to finish the whole term because your watermelon is sitting horizontally, not vertically and there are things that don’t fit. It happens. If you buy something you like, you wear it on the return trip. Because that’s a thing, you don’t deliver and it looks like *poof* there’s no fruit! Don’t worry about it, just wear it after delivery. (And, if you’re planning on nursing, keep this in mind from the start.)
Besides: jeans are another thing, people have 3 different sizes in 3 different jeans, so, read the descriptions and hit the base and ask!
When should I start wearing maternity clothes?
Ah, like so many things about parenting, and life, there is no right or wrong.
Do you feel fat?
It’s time.
Even if you are only on kumquat/10 weeks. Happens all the time. If this is not your first baby, then you will almost certainly break into stretchy earlier than your first.
Do you have to unzip your pants when you sit down?
It’s time.
When will these things happen? Everyone is different. Even mangoes come in different shapes and sizes.
just me enter a week and it doesn’t fit, is this normal?
Normal is a term we try to stay away from. In parenting and in life.
If your clothes don’t fit, your clothes don’t fit. A crash diet won’t help this time, because, woohoo, you’re pregnant!
As a very wise husband said to his wife before she went in “I know you say you’re “just a little bit pregnant”, but, the truth is pregnancy isn’t like that. You’re either pregnant or you’re not. , and, you’re pregnant, so please be good about it!”
In the store, we see most people entering at this stage, but many enter before, and many enter after.
It is also important to remember this; Your baby may be the size of a lemon, but there are other changes happening in your body like a placenta, amniotic fluid and more!
No matter what week you’re in, try to find things you like and feel good about. If you feel too big, you probably won’t look good in it unless you love oversized clothes (and there’s nothing wrong with that!). If it’s too long but you feel self-conscious, that’s not good, try to find something that fits your shoulders and gives you room everywhere. This is the time to be open to new things, from blueberries to watermelon to forever.
Embrace this body! It makes a man! Be nice here! And FEELING GOOD!
