Starting to Show

Although all the baby books and internet queries suggest that I should not be showing, I am having a very hard time fitting into any of my old clothes. I have been wearing sweatpants, dresses, super big skirts and maternity tops for a couple weeks now. I would not say that I definably look pregnant, more so of a girl that has put about 10 pounds of extra weight around the mid-section that needs to go buy herself "some clothes that fit". Matt suggest that girls that are super skinny (as I was before) have no choice in the matter, and anything that may be growing from the size of a plum to a grapefruit, has no where to go, but out. The other downside of my past clothes is that they all fit "just perfectly". I have been the same size for several years now, so I never bought the new fashion style of pants/shorts/shirts etc. that are all currently made out of that stretchy material - which unforgivably leaves no room for growth in all of my old clothes.

I am trying to wait as long as possible to go out and buy actual maternity clothes. Although I have bought some things like tank tops, or t-shirts - they don't really look like maternity clothes. Since I am so tall - they actually tend to fit me better then normal clothes because of the extra length in the mid-section. I always had this preconception that maternity clothes were "wider" instead of "longer". If I would have known about this sooner, I probably would have been shopping in the maternity section for the last several years. I have temporarily renamed the "maternity section" as the "tall section" in the shirt department.