My First Pregnancy Experience; Maybe It Can Help You
I had no way of knowing what the future held for me when I was pregnant with my first child. It did not take long for me to find out. The first trimester was pretty normal, nothing changed. I woke in the mornings a couple of times with a slight case of morning sickness but that was it. Then the second trimester hit and I soon learned that I needed new clothes badly. I had been putting it off but it was time to shop for maternity wear.
I dreaded going shopping for maternity clothes because I thought they would have nothing in style and I would just look fat and ugly. When I got to the store I was pleasantly surprised to see that they had maternity clothes that looked just like any other clothes you would buy if you were not pregnant.
I was so relieves that I would be able to have stylish clothes while being pregnant. I did not buy more than a couple things because I was in the second trimester and I thought I needed to wait until I got a lot bigger before I bought more clothes.
In the beginning of the third trimester we had been to the maternity store twice already and I was on my way back. I bought a lot of outfits and even some for me to wear once I had my baby. I knew I would need time before I could wear my old clothes again.
When I was in my eighth month I decided that we needed to finish all the shopping so we could have the nursery ready when the time came to bring home my beautiful baby. We learned early on that we were having a girl. I had to buy everything girlie that I could. We found a lot of beautiful little girl clothes.
The one thing I saw and feel in love with immediately was the ladybug baby bedding. I just had to have it. So we get home with all of our new things and start putting them away. The nursery was looking beautiful especially after I added the new ladybug stuff to it.
I went in to labor a month later and had my beautiful little girl. We were getting ready to bring her home from the hospital when I tried to put the outfit I had choice for her going home outfit and it was so big. It would not fit. I ended up having to put her in some of the sleepwear that I had brought along with me because nothing else fit her. For the first month of her life she was so small that’s all she could wear. I guess my point is no matter how prepared you are, your baby will make you seem very unprepared.