Victoria's Secret Maternity Clothes

I simply adore the clothing from Victoria's Secret.  The quality is great. The selection is enormous. The sales are often to die for.  So many color choices! Amazing! I scour victoriassecret.com at least once a week.

So naturally, I looked there for my first maternity clothing purchases.

Come again????

Yes, I took my first plunge into expandable tummy wear by buying baby doll style tops with sexy empire waists that will continue to show off my narrow rib cage and support my growing cleavage (yay for puberty finally setting in at age 28!) while having enough flowy fabric to last the next couple months PLUS hide the post-baby jelly belly.  And I bought a couple of trapeze-esque styles as well to allow for a clandestine growing belly. Hopefully my coworkers will start to wonder, "Is she pregnant or just wearing a preggo shirt?" rather than, "Look at her trying to fit into that sweater. Is she pregnant or just fat?"

My shipment came yesterday and everything is super comfortable and still sexy!

Take a look at my sexy new wardrobe that will help me wean myself off of super tight, cinched-tummy garb:

Definitely my fav! Need to buy in more colors, for sure.

All of these shirts are currently available on Victoriassecret.com and all images are taken from the site. Click here to browse their tops.

Doctor Visits: An update

I haven’t given too many real details of pregnancy on this blog yet aside from funny anecdotes primarily because it’s easier to be funny for me than show fear or sadness.  So I didn’t post about the bad news we received during our first Dr. visit on December 23^rd.

LUCKILY, the news we received on January 6^th was all positive!

So here’s what happened:

Based on the date of the first day of my last period, PLUS the date that we thought we conceived (Nov. 17^th), we should have been 7 weeks pregnant at our first Dr. visit on December 23^rd.

After looking at the ultrasound, our Doctor said that the size of the embryo was closer to 6 weeks than 7.  After talking with us about alternate dates of conception, we were pretty adamant about Nov. 17^th because we remember having unprotected sex that day and didn’t recall an encounter like that later on that week.

So based on that the Doctor told us that it’s possible his calculations were wrong OR that our embryo had stopped growing. He assured us that we were young and if we lost this baby it wouldn’t mean we couldn’t have children. But he did tell us not to get too excited about the pregnancy yet and he referred us to an imaging center to have a second ultrasound.

The ultrasound on January 6^th showed that the fetus progressed in size the correct amount, so we’re doing fine!

It just means we didn’t conceive when we thought, and that my menstrual cycle was super-wonky that month so I didn’t ovulate at the “right” time based on my period start date—which makes sense because that was the month of my wedding and my period actually came 4 or 5 days EARLY that month.  (Awesome for us since then I didn’t have it on our honeymoon! That would have been a bummer!)

So we’re still cautiously optimistic that the pregnancy is sticking. For a while my husband kept asking me on a daily basis if I still felt pregnant and I did/do!

My official due date is now August 14^th. Tracking due dates based on last period alone it should have been August 10^th. So it’s a difference of 4 days which seems like soooooo not a big deal. But at early stages of development, it’s really important for the baby to stay on track, which I think we are.

Going to the doctor again this Friday, followed by genetic tests the following week so hopefully everything stays on track!!

Fingers crossed J

P.S. Our kid is now the size of a prune. Hence, this photo.

Weekly Weigh-In #3 & 4

Last week: 127lbs (Thanks to Colace for getting rid of my yucky constipation!)

This week: 129lbs (Thanks to eating lots of food and gaining two pounds of fat in my ass and tummy and neck.)

Currently above wedding day weight by 4 pounds. Below normal Ms. Conceived Notion weight by 3 pounds, so I'm slowly getting back to normal. I did commemorate my wedding weight loss by buying a fantastic pair of size 2 jeans while on my honeymoon. Haven't put them on in two weeks--doubt they still fit or will ever fit again, but that's okay--I have photo evidence of my supermodel-esque-ness.

While I've been having nausea and some dry heaves, I haven't actually thrown up at all during the pregnancy and I've been hungry constantly. If I don't eat breakfast within a half hour of waking up I get ravenously hungry, so I've had to alter my morning schedule to allow for eating on the way to the subway instead of once I get to work. 

I'm also craving saturated-fat-dense foods like crazy. This week, I'm craving cheese, buffalo wings, ravioli, pesto sauce, chicken parm, milk...

Buffalo Wing Photo Source