belly band

I am now 15 going on 16 weeks pregnant. I am still in a bit of denial that I am going to have to pack away some of my favorite clothing items and fall in to the awfulness of maternity clothes. I know there have been improvements, but all in all there is nothing sexy about maternity pants with a giant front panel. Most of my work pants are still going strong and I can still wear them, and I am not able to go up a size yet either.

Last Thursday I felt ambitious and decided to put on my every day khaki pants and belted them to the second belt hole. Yes, ideally if I never decided to sit down they could have potentially worked, but that was not the case. I have never been so incredibly comfortable and I am pretty sure baby Pluid was not very happy with me either. I was sadly tugging at my pants all day as if I could magically stretch them to grow and fit? It was awful, my stomach was cramping due to the pressure and that is when I realized that no I need to get out of denial and come to terms with the fact that my belly is bigger and to embrace it.

Due to this terrible tight khaki experience I went to Old Navy to try on some maternity khaki pants that I could hopefully get for work. OH MY GOSH were they absolutely the worst thing in the world. They hung all weird, had a giant khaki panel covering my entire stomach and the material was just yuck. I am sure a lot of the issues were because my stomach is not extremely prominent yet but still.... do we have to feel so ugly in maternity pants? Pregnancy is one of the most beautiful things and a pregnant woman is just the same, beautiful! But no no no... nothing about a front panel is beautiful at all my friends.

One great compromise to invest in is the Belly Band. It is this wonderful band you can wear around the top of your jeans that covers up the top so you can leave your pants unbuttoned!! It looks just like you are wearing a camisole under your shirt and not a giant blue panel covering your tummy. There are a few different ways to wear it and you can also use it throughout all your pregnancy stages and even after as you are shrinking back down in to what we all hope to be the original size we began at! =)