I'm Outgrowing My Clothes!!

Actually, most of them are still fine, the advantage of having a wardrobe of mostly elastic or drawstring waist skirts & loose t-shirts LOL. But this Sabbath I put on a skirt that I wear pretty often for church and by halfway through church the elastic was cutting into my skin to the point of being painful. So it's now in the "pack away till next summer" pile LOL. Nice to know it's not my imagination that my belly is growing though LOL (and since my weight has actually gone down slightly, it's not just that I'm eating too much).

Overall I'm feeling pretty good. The busy weekend last weekend (at my parents') really wore me out and made me appreciate the fact that most of the time our lifestyle lets me intersperse activity w/ sitting down and resting. And I continue to not deal well w/ having to eat so early in the morning on Sabbaths, that was actually worse this week I think, I felt icky/not hungry most of the day. But the rest of the time when I can wait till 9:30 or 10:00 to eat breakfast I do fine.

Last weekend when I was in MD, I got my maternity clothes back from Kim (the ones she borrowed) and borrowed hers too. As I expected/remembered, both boxes were mostly pants. I tried wearing a pair of the pants last week one day & while they fit fine and were comfortable, for pants, it made me realize that I'm just not comfortable wearing pants anymore! I'm hoping that some of my non-maternity skirts will last most, if not all, this pregnancy since they're stretchy/loose and trying to find the ambition to turn at least one pair of my maternity jeans into a skirt (to see how I like it, and how hard it really is). I'm also watching goodwill for maternity skirts/dresses but so far the few I've seen have been short, sigh . . . I did find a reasonably priced site online that makes modest dresses/jumpers and will modify for pregnancy &/or nursing for no extra charge so I ordered one dress and one jumper from her last week. And hoping to talk mom into making me at least one dress . . . so if need be I'll just make do with that (in the stuff I already have I have one casual dress & 2 "Sabbath" dresses, one short sleeved, one long sleeved) so that would give me 4 dresses for everyday, the only time that might not be enough is when we go to FL next month (leave here on Wed, don't get home till the following Sun night so that's 12 days) I'm assuming at least 2 of my non-maternity skirts will still fit me at that point (I'll only be 4 mo) and as long as that's the case I should be fine . . . and if I get ambitious and make the skirt out of the jeans, even better (if it's easy and I like how it looks I have several pair of maternity jeans that I could alter, so then I'd be set for sure).

In other clothing news, last fall I bought a modest swimsuit from Sewn by Di and I have LOVED it this summer for Sesame Place. I'm not comfortable wandering around all the time in a regular swimsuit (even a "modest" one) and it's a pain to have to take clothes on/off for every ride. But it occurred to me the last couple times I wore it (since being pregnant) that there's not an easy way to nurse in this suit w/o exposing my belly. Additionally it occurred to me that this suit WOULD work as a maternity swimsuit if the shirt part were longer (the skirt is stretchy enough that I think it will go over my belly for most of my pregnancy & w/ a longer shirt, the skirt could sit under my belly at the very end of pregnancy (though it's more likely that the only time I'll need a swimsuit this pregnancy (except now when it's a non-issue) is in FL and I think the skirt will still be fine then). So . . .I started thinking . . . it's not worth buying the longer length shirt just for the FL trip, BUT . . . if she could make one that is longer for while I"m pg and also adapted for nursing (there's a shelf bra in the shirt, if she just extends the fabric down beyond the bottom elastic of that so it's "fully lined" that would cover my belly & then a center slit in the shelf bra would give nursing access under cover of the outer layer) then I'd get at least 2-3 years use out of it (the girls weaned at age 3, no way of predicting when this baby will wean obviously . . . ) which would make it worthwhile. And since the skirt of my current suit is plain black I can just get a shirt and continue to use the same skirt. So, I e-mailed her this weekend & she said she can do that so now I just need to send her measurements and we're good to go :)

I think that's about all going on here. Tomorrow night we go to the Birth Center for orientation (oh and a friend of mine who lives an hour or so away said that she had a friend who used this practice and loved them and that she'd have used htis practice if she'd done a homebirth, so that makes me feel better about it, since I feel like I'm going into it blind LOL). And then next week is our first appointment.