Worth noting: first stranger said something about me being pregnant today.\u00a0 Sorta. Patient, guy in his 50s (I knew a guy would say something first, I don’t know if it’s because they’re gutsier or tackier than women, lol.)<\/p>\n
He didn’t come right out and ask.\u00a0 He was actually a nice guy. He said something like, “So, do you have any kids?”\u00a0 Sometimes I just say, “not yet” …because in the earlier stages of pregnancy, I just didn’t need to tell every random person I just met.\u00a0 But this time I said “One on the way, actually.”\u00a0 To which he replied that he suspected, but he wanted to be sure and phrase his question carefully.\u00a0 Ha.\u00a0 If he wasn’t so cautious, I would have considered him pretty gutsy.\u00a0 Because yeah, I’m starting to show, but maybe I’m just thicker in the middle. =P\u00a0 I wouldn’t have the guts to say something to a pregnant woman unless she was like…wayyyy obvious.\u00a0 And maybe not even then….<\/p>\n
So I thought, if I’m preggie enough for people I just met to say something, maybe I’m preggie enough to go try on clothes.\u00a0 The belly bands are still working alright, and I still think they’re great and everything.\u00a0 But they are getting a little tedious, and now that I can’t zip most of my regular pants up even a little bit, it’s a little more challenging pulling the band down far enough to cover the entire zipper.\u00a0 When I do pull it down over my zipper, it has a tendency to roll up a bit, which is just not okay.\u00a0 Maybe I can just tweak my methods.<\/p>\n
Well, I went to Motherhood and Old Navy to try on some preggie jeans, but they were too big at both places. =(\u00a0 The belly panel at Motherhood felt great<\/em>, but the hips, crotch, and thighs were really loose, bunchy, and awkward.\u00a0 I could order a size smaller at oldnavy.com, and it may come to that later.\u00a0 But I’m nervous about buying something like that online when the return policy is kind of inconvenient and costs money (if it’s a return rather than an exchange).\u00a0 I guess I’ll deal with the belly bands a little longer!\u00a0 Maybe when I’m bigger, I’ll try the ones at Old Navy again and see if I still think I should go a size down.\u00a0 I originally wanted to put off buying maternity clothes as long as possible because I don’t want to be left with nothing to wear again at the very end (I’m NOT buying two sets of maternity clothes!), but I was just getting a little tired of the belly bands.\u00a0 Overall, minor inconvenience I can deal with just fine.\u00a0 If\/when I visit Tulsa or St. Louis in the not-too-distant future, I may go to one of the Gap stores that carry maternity.\u00a0 They have smaller sizes.\u00a0 Bleh.\u00a0 But I didn’t want to spend that much.<\/p>\n One last thing!\u00a0 One of my friends (also pregnant, about 7 weeks ahead of me) posted something on facebook about enjoying a peanut butter and dill pickle sandwich.\u00a0 I LOLed thinking wow, that is quite the pregnancy food.\u00a0 But apparently, her dad<\/em> has been making them and enjoying them for years.\u00a0 As weird as I thought that sounded at the time (very weird), tonight I can’t help but think that I would really <\/em>like to try a PB and dill pickle sandwich, just to see.\u00a0 It doesn’t sound all that bad to me right now!\u00a0 But alas, I have no pickles.\u00a0 Or bread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Worth noting: first stranger said something about me being pregnant today.\u00a0 Sorta. Patient, guy in his 50s (I knew a guy would say something first, I don’t know if it’s because they’re gutsier or tackier than women, lol.) He didn’t come right out and ask.\u00a0 He was actually a nice guy. He said something like, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/babyg.brainstormwarning.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/babyg.brainstormwarning.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/babyg.brainstormwarning.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/babyg.brainstormwarning.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/babyg.brainstormwarning.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/babyg.brainstormwarning.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/babyg.brainstormwarning.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/babyg.brainstormwarning.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/babyg.brainstormwarning.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}