11 weeks, 3 days June 24, 2009

Most women I know have a couple of different sizes of clothes in their closets and I’m no exception.  I have three sizes in there.  There’s Weight-Watchers-worked-and-all-my-clothes-are-too-big size.  There’s well-this-is-about-average size.  Last but not least, there’s I-got-lazy-over-the-winter-and-haven’t-seen-the-inside-of-a-gym-in-months size.  Small, medium, and large!  Before I got pregnant I was working my way back down from large to medium and having some success.  In the last few weeks, though, I’ve been solidly in the large category.  Much to my surprise, I had to retire a pair of pants and some shorts last week because there was no way I was getting into them this summer.  Both were in the medium category but I was hoping to make them last a little longer.  No such luck.

I wouldn’t say that I’m showing, per se, but my clothes are definitely getting more snug, both in the chest and the belly.  To remedy this – and because I was near the outlets in Lancaster the past few days – I ventured out with the idea of buying some bigger clothes.  I debated whether to buy maternity clothes or just bigger sizes.  I decided that I really didn’t want to risk buying bigger clothes and then growing out of THEM too, so I went for maternity clothes.  Yep, I’m not out of the first trimester yet and I actually now own maternity clothes.  2 shorts, 1 caprisfor work, 3 shirts for work, and 2 t-shirts.  And all I have to say about that is… ahhhhh!  It feels good to have some shorts that fit!  All my shorts except 1 pair were in the small or medium category so I was feeling  a little stuck for hot weather clothes.  It’s so, so nice to know that I now have some clothes that will be comfy AND I’ll be able to wear them for the whole summer.  The t-shirts fit now too – mostly becauseheir only “adaptation” for pregnancy is that they’re a lot longer – but everything elsewill have to wait a little bit longer.  Glad to know that they’re there when I need them because I’m starting to bust out of several of my work shirts!

It was a little surreal being in the store, I have to admit.  This was the first money we’ve really spent on anything pregnancy- or baby-related.  I guess that means that I finally believe and am starting to actually trust that it’s really happening!  We have our next doctor’s appointment next week.  Last time they mentioned something in passing about possibly doing another ultrasound then.  I’m kind of hoping that they do; it would be reassuring to see the heartbeat at the end of the first trimester too.  Stay tuned – I’ll let you know what happens.