Nattily Knocked Up

Speaking of pre-baby consumerism... Jo-Elle has been struck by how awful maternity clothes are...

...and how much you apparently have to pay for that awful stuff...

I had to listen to a very long angry soliloquy on baby belly fashion, or the lack thereof, the other day...and I don't blame her one bit. Just cuz you are a momma to be doesn't mean you desperately want to look all girly, does it? Yet it seems baby momma clothes are festooned with flowers, ribbons, and tend to be pink. However, some of the seemingly odd trends make sense. Take, for example, the seeming over-representation of 3/4 sleeved open sweaters. They are everywhere. And apparently its because she will be getting hot and sweaty as Cletus grows.

(As an aside, we saw the YOU! exhibit at Museum of Science and Industry the other day, which includes Make Room for Baby, a fantastic interactive graphic that shows what happens to a woman's internal organs as the fetus inside her grows...skrunch!... Yikes.)

Oh, its not all pink flowers---there's nice stuff out there too. But for ungodly sums of cash. Its not cheap to look pregnant and professional.

Thankfully, it seems that pregnancy clothes are a bit like baby books. Families have a lot of that stuff sitting around and collecting dust and will happily move it on to the next hot and growing momma. And so, the wardrobe grows as quick as the belly...