Someones 'avin a larff!

[warpig3]

I went looking for maternity clothes yesterday and was absolutley horrified. Have these clothes been designed by some pregnant woman hating person, seriously they were hideous. They looked like rejects from Dr Whos costume department! I should add I that I am not follower of fashon but even I draw the line as these rags. Granted the town I was shopping in may not have the best shops around but really - yuck. Can anyone suggest any decent shops to go to or should I just buy bigger sizes in some clothes? Also, where is my bump? I ordered it on e-bay ages ago and it still hasnt arrived.

[Katie~77]

I found the maternity clothes in the Next directory to be the nicest when I was pregnant.x

[warpig3]

Ah, there was no Next in this shopping centre, will have to look further afield methinks. Thanks Katie.

[jackthehat]

I found the same problem, warpig, when I was pregnant.........flowery dresses with big white collars...........I'd have looked like something out of a Joanna Trollope novel :o)
I used to shop at Mr Byrite and buy stylish mens shirts/tops in larger sizes...........buy a couple of pairs of maternity trousers and wear them to death........ensure you get 'proper' maternity bras, too. Strange things start happening to your chest................

Make the most of being 'bumpless'...............I cleared a table load of drinks in a pub when I stood up and turned around in about month 8... lol

[redcrx]

hiya warpig

I went looking for clothes almost as soon as i found out i was pregnant as none of my trousers fit. I wasnt very happy with what was out there and just grabbed something in the end at mothercare.

As for tops, there are lots of floaty tops about in normal clothes so ive just bought them for now. I reckon they are long and swishy enough to cover a bump almost all the way through pregnancy.

I tell you what i had last time round that i cant wait to be large enough for again...............dungerees! from mothercare. They are they greatest and so comfy in those last few weeks.

perhaps take a look online and see if theres anything different out there. Try http://www.vertbaudet.co.uk/Browsing/LandingPa ge.aspx?CategoryId=781&&Path=781&&ChmCatId=781 for a start

[Katie~77]

Here you go. You don't even have to leave the house!x :-)

http://www.next.co.uk/shopping/women/maternity /1/

[warpig3]

LOl Jack, I went for my detailed scan yesterday and the girl beside me asked if I was there for my 12 week scan. She said she was and I could definitely see a defined bump, when I said I was 18 weeks she looked genuinely shocked thought I am not sure whether that was for me or for her!

I ended up buying clothes for mrwarpig who very kindly said that I would always wear his cast-offs.

[jackthehat]

Aha...............if you follow 'old-wives-tales' that could indicate that you are having a boy..........They, apparently, tend to sit closer to the spine - hence the lack of bump - but sit higher up under your rib-cage towards the end...........I had that.................and I had a boy !!

[redcrx]

lol i had a boy and i was huge!!!! and he'd rather poke my cervix than kick my ribs :)

[Reverandfunk]

Just buy some curtains or write a nice letter to Demis Rousoss lol

[jackthehat]

I had quite a moderate bump until the end of month 7 and then suddenly I looked like someone had inflated me with a lilo pump !!

I used to yelp when he kicked and people used to look at me askance..................until he was born..........with 41/2" feet !! lol

[warpig3]

Thank you for the links girls, I will peruse them at my leisure. Yes, there were loads of tops in the 'normal' shops that would do the trick no problem but some of the stuff in the maternity wear was, quite frankly, insulting. Mmmm, there was the most lovely navy blue sailor dress with a bib and white ribbon trim, bet my mum suggests that one, h e, he, he!

Really the biggest problem was the trousers, they were huge, all over, big flappy flares, wide legs and, what I think was an attempt to be trendy - they had these groovey things printed on them.

[4getmenot]

jackthehat I thought you were male, you little tinker

[jackthehat]

You must have missed yesterdays debacle in R&S..........:o)
Only Waldo and B00 have ever picked up on it apparently ;o)

[warpig3]

4get, Jack is a little tinker, she got Mani good and proper yesterday, oh how I laughed.

Rev............ That is actually not a bad suggestion, couldn't be any worse that whats in the shops.

[warpig3]

Tee hee hee, I know what I am having, remember when I said I thought it was a boy, didn't know why but just thought it, well it just goes to show you that.........................................

[4getmenot]

Awww warpig you agve me 3 stars and I never answered your question. Well I've never had a bump but I often see clothes and think oooh I quite like that top, then while walking round shop with it in my arms I realise that I've been shopping in maternity department for past hour. :-)

[warpig3]

..............................................I know sod all about such things as its a little girlywirly.

[4getmenot]

and earlier this morning jackthehat was describing themselves and just put I wear I hat, so I apologise that I then said and he's called Dave :-)

[jackthehat]

Oh ! I saw that and didn't put two and two together..........d'oh!

But you're right, I'm not called Jack, either ;o)

[4getmenot]

harry??