Taking the Scenic Route

In search of a maternity shirt for my shape-changing belly.

After discovering that Old Navy, JCPenney, and a few other places that carry plus size maternity, did NOT carry them in their actual stores (online and catalog ony), I discovered that Motherhood Maternity had some in their store.  WooHoo!  They had sizes up to 3x.  They didn’t have a huge selection or anything, but it was decent.  I found something that was nice and comfy and looked decent on me.  It used up the last of our cash (except $5-10), but I needed SOMETHING.  I wanted to look pregnant and not just plain huge. lol.  I am not particularly vain, but the only thing I owned that didn’t have holes and fit at the same time was the shirt my MIL gave me.  It wasn’t maternity, but it was 3x, so I still had room in it, but it was the ONLY thing I had I was willing to be seen in public with.  So, now I have two shirts.  In a few days I hope to have time to go by the goodwill and maybe get a few things online since a few places are having sales.  It was nice to walk into a store and actually try on the clothes though.

Whoever designed the changing rooms in the place did NOT have kids.  They had stalls with curtains, located in the middle of the store, across from the cash register.  Zane couldn’t decide whether to stay with me, or go play outside with daddy, and there was no door to stop him.  A 3 year old lacks the ability to consider that not everybody wants to see mama standing there in her bra. lol.  What was even funnier, is when I was dressing, a sales clerk just walked right in to the room to pick up some stuff she left on the bench.  I was like “hello?”  She freaked out and couldn’t apologize enough.  It was pretty funny.  When I re-emerged, she started apologizing again, and I stopped her, laughing, saying that she might have freaked out a first-time pregnant mama, but once you have kids, you just don’t care as much and not to worry.  I wasn’t the least bit upset.

The other funny moment was when I was checking out.  They asked me if I wanted to be on the mailing list for Similac and Huggies.  I said no.  They went on to explain what it meant to be on the mailing list, I repeated no.  They kept asking if I was sure and seemed totally blown away.  lol.  I told them I breastfeed and cloth diaper, I have no use for Huggies or Formula.  It would just require more work for me because I would have to find a place to donate them in the middle of winter, with a newborn and 3yo in tow.  lol.  (I am sure I will still get samples from the hospital, but there is no way I feel like dealing with the 4-6 cases (4 cans of formula in each) of formula I got at Zane’s birth)  BTW, for those who are planning on formula feeding, mark that you will be breastfeeding…they will send you a lot more samples than they sent to moms they know formula feed.