Post-partum Vanity and Wardrobe
It is a serious pain in the heart of vanity to find a pair of jeans that look right on my post-partum body. I am skinnier than I was when I got pregnant, so that's not the part that's the problem...
The problem is the extra skin. It's not terrible. I didn't even get any stretch marks. I just have this muffin top now... one that totally did not exist before. In the morning, I'll put on a pair of jeans and they look just fine... but then I get to moving around and the extra skin sort of comes out the top of the jeans and pushes the waist band down. Then my midsection refuses to sit nicely under a shirt. I feel bad complaining about something so utterly banal, because for the most part my body looks very nearly the same AND I have a beautiful baby... but, dudes, I'm really annoyed about this unexpected turn of wardrobe events.
What I really need are a pair of slightly stretchy jeans with a high waist... but this is practically impossible to find. Rich and Skinny introduced a line of skinny high-wasted jeans 2 years ago, WITH a delightful satin-lined waist band at that, but they are no longer possible to acquire. And so I wear dresses, every day, and worry about what to wear when it actually gets for-real cold.
Frankly, I don't think I should have to sacrifice style because I'm a mom. I don't understand what sort of jeans other moms are wearing and looking good in. They must all be in jeggins as far as I can see. But those don't last like a good pair of jeans and seem so trendy, anyhow.
IN OTHER NEWS- Either Niko has a cold or Niko is experiencing fallout from his last round of vaccinations. Either way, kid has a runny nose. That guy is a HORRIBLE sleeper to begin with... and when he has a running nose he pretty much doesn't let any of us get any sleep. He's just up and complaining about the fact that he can't breathe through his nose all night long. I feel for him, but after two days of NO SLEEP, following 6 months of VERY LITTLE SLEEP, and now with Buster out of town for a few nights, I feel a real bout of selfishness coming on. I woke up this morning saying that I would give a baby toe for 10 hours of uninterrupted sleep, and I wasn't kidding. I honestly would. Anyone want a baby toe? I'll take a hotel room with a king sized bed, heavy weight drapes, and the sound of silence. All this not sleeping is fucking with my sanity, serioustimes.
For those of you who have never been seriously sleep deprived - symptoms include feelings of worthlessness, feelings of inadequacy, permanent frown lines, and voices in your head that complain that you that you're the only one who ever gets any laundry/cooking/cleaning done- when usually that's something you try not to care about. It's not pretty.
The problem is the extra skin. It's not terrible. I didn't even get any stretch marks. I just have this muffin top now... one that totally did not exist before. In the morning, I'll put on a pair of jeans and they look just fine... but then I get to moving around and the extra skin sort of comes out the top of the jeans and pushes the waist band down. Then my midsection refuses to sit nicely under a shirt. I feel bad complaining about something so utterly banal, because for the most part my body looks very nearly the same AND I have a beautiful baby... but, dudes, I'm really annoyed about this unexpected turn of wardrobe events.
What I really need are a pair of slightly stretchy jeans with a high waist... but this is practically impossible to find. Rich and Skinny introduced a line of skinny high-wasted jeans 2 years ago, WITH a delightful satin-lined waist band at that, but they are no longer possible to acquire. And so I wear dresses, every day, and worry about what to wear when it actually gets for-real cold.
Frankly, I don't think I should have to sacrifice style because I'm a mom. I don't understand what sort of jeans other moms are wearing and looking good in. They must all be in jeggins as far as I can see. But those don't last like a good pair of jeans and seem so trendy, anyhow.
IN OTHER NEWS- Either Niko has a cold or Niko is experiencing fallout from his last round of vaccinations. Either way, kid has a runny nose. That guy is a HORRIBLE sleeper to begin with... and when he has a running nose he pretty much doesn't let any of us get any sleep. He's just up and complaining about the fact that he can't breathe through his nose all night long. I feel for him, but after two days of NO SLEEP, following 6 months of VERY LITTLE SLEEP, and now with Buster out of town for a few nights, I feel a real bout of selfishness coming on. I woke up this morning saying that I would give a baby toe for 10 hours of uninterrupted sleep, and I wasn't kidding. I honestly would. Anyone want a baby toe? I'll take a hotel room with a king sized bed, heavy weight drapes, and the sound of silence. All this not sleeping is fucking with my sanity, serioustimes.
For those of you who have never been seriously sleep deprived - symptoms include feelings of worthlessness, feelings of inadequacy, permanent frown lines, and voices in your head that complain that you that you're the only one who ever gets any laundry/cooking/cleaning done- when usually that's something you try not to care about. It's not pretty.