I had planned to write about maternity clothes and pregnancy in general this month, and here the month is half way over and this is the first post! I don’t know where this month is going, every week just flies by!

I’m going to take a few posts and share maternity clothes options with you. Then at the end I’ll do a vlog and show you what my own closet looks like with maternity clothes for my third trimester.

When I became pregnant with my first child I realized that I didn’t want to spend 9 months in dresses only. There are so many cute maternity tops that are meant to be worn with jeans, but I wanted to find some maternity skirts to wear the tops with. My first attempt at ever sewing a maternity skirt was painful. It looked like a huge prairie skirt! I actually did wear it that pregnancy, and then threw it away when I became pregnant again. Who wants to look twice their size when pregnant?

This is a picture from when I was pregnant with my first child with my mom and sister. I have some pretty terrible looking photos in that dress where I literally look like I’m pregnant with twins or triplets! Just ask my family, they all agree.  

I’ve since put together a maternity wardrobe that I feel good about, but it’s taken several pregnancies to get there! If I find something I really like at a garage sale, thrift store, or consignment sale and I’m not pregnant, I still go ahead and pick it up knowing that I can use it in the future! This pregnancy I went through my maternity clothes and got rid of outdated and ill fitting looking clothes. My oldest did just turn eight, so some of the clothes were reflecting that.

We’ll talk about tops later on this week….for now I want to focus on Maternity bottoms. Please keep in mind I normally always wear skirts or dresses, so I won’t have very many tips for pants.

Skirts


Maternity skirts can be challenging. While you don’t want to wear a prairie skirt while pregnant, you also don’t want to wear a pencil skirt that shows every outline of your *ahem* growing backside as well. For many woman their tummy isn’t the only thing that grows when pregnant!

How Many Do You Need?


I have eight maternity skirts in my closet, but I several over and over again so I know I could do with less than that even.

My skirts are:

Midnight black skirt
Denim Ruffled Skirt
Black Ruffled Skirt
2 Floral Ruffled Skirts
A-Line Khaki skirt
Camel color Corduroy Ruffled Skirt
Brown Ruffle Skirt

Do you see a ruffle theme here?

I consider a basic denim, black, and khaki skirt to be essential to a wardrobe. You honestly could rotate those three if you had to. Just remember 9 months does get to be long, and if you have a large family that means you are pregnant quit
e a bit! Don’t get unnecessarily discouraged with what you have to wear by telling yourself you will just “make it by” each pregnancy. I did that the first two pregnancies and I’m so glad I didn’t continue that mindset for the next three!

If money is tight, or you know how to sew there are tutorials online that show you how to make a basic maternity skirt.

For days when I’m feeling exhausted, sick, or just getting really close to having the baby I wear a pair of gray maternity yoga pants. They look similar to these:

They are extremely comfortable! Once the weather turns chilly I sleep in these at night also. I really do try to always gets dressed in the morning, but some days when I’m pregnant and it’s cold outside it just feels like a hot chocolate, snuggle under a blanket kind of day! 

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