maternity pants

I just have to put this out there…maternity pants are the best invention ever known to man kind.  God knew what He was doing the day He gave someone the idea to create maternity pants for the ever-growing mother and baby!

At the beginning of my pregnancy I felt like I was growing pretty slowly and was fairly small.  I thought that due to this I might be able to get away without maternity pants and just use my belly band for the whole pregnancy.  For those of you not familiar with it, a belly band as my husband explains it is like a “tube top for your pants”.  And really, it sort of is.  With a belly band, the idea is you can where your regular, non-maternity pants during your pregnancy and unbutton and unzip them as you go, but the belly band will keep them from falling down.  I thought I had it made, I was going to where this belly band the entire pregnancy and not have to buy maternity pants…boy was I wrong!  By week 15 I already was wearing some of my work pants completely unzipped and the “tube top for my pants” wasn’t exactly the most comfortable and didn’t always make me feel like my pants were going to stay in place the entire day.

So, this weekend I gave in and bought my first few pairs of maternity pants and oh my goodness I didn’t know what I had been missing!  I no longer looked at it as giving in, but realized I didn’t know what I had been missing out on all this time!  Why hadn’t I bought maternity pants sooner…even when I wasn’t pregnant for those days I ate too much!  My eyes have been opened to a whole new world of comfort and style.  No longer do I have to worry about if my pants are going to button or zip- they don’t even have buttons or zippers on them!  No longer do I have to wonder if my pants will fall down in the middle of the day, they are snug as a bug in a rug around my ever-expanding belly.  Maternity pants are down right heavenly.  

I will be forever grateful to the man or woman who decided one day to make pants for pregnant women.  You forever are on my list of people I greatly admire.

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