wearing lately: maternity jeans!

If you saw yesterday's post, you'll know that the kids (!) had a special new wardrobe addition recently. And actually, the mom required a new acquisition as well... Surprise - the jeans I have been wearing in the past several outfit posts are actually maternity jeans.

 

Turns out that the belly pops way faster when it comes to a second pregnancy, and normal pants became very uncomfortable for me by week 11-12. Living in leggings was easy enough to do for a while, since I don't really go out anywhere still (actually, quarentimes turn out to be an easy time to conceal a pregnancy in general when you're not ready to share it yet...), but when I got sick of those as my only pants option, I was pleased to find that my one regular source for jeans - Madewell - has maternity options. It's been rather a while since I was last pregnant, so I'm re-exploring many aspects of this arena, but pleased that I've got jeans covered already, and with my go-to brand to boot, so they fit me well.

 

Also turns out that I'm having to revise my wardrobe on the top half sooner than I expected to as well, because the style of clothing I have in my closet these days is much more of the cropped variety when it comes to sweaters and shirts than what I had last time around... just a couple of my sweaters are long enough to cover up the giant maternity panel on my jeans, but luckily this cozy-but-not-overly-wintery-for-March option still does the trick at 18 weeks - as does last week's striped option, which at 17 weeks made for a great "now you see it, now you don't" optical illusion. If you look closely, the bump is there!

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