Short people get pregnant too!

You've seen quite a few posts on here about how I want to be a stylish pregnant woman and mommy, they way I haven't been before. Well, over the last two weeks I have made my first couple of shopping excursions for maternity clothes. It seems that being a stylish mama if you are under 5 feet tall is just as difficult as being a stylish young petite not-pregnant woman. Apparently, the maternity clothes-makers are even less aware that there are short pregnant women!

On lots of blogs, and from other people, I hear about how women pass maternity clothes back and forth. That's something I don't think I'm going to be able to do-- I've never really been able to share or trade clothes with my friends because I am so much shorter. I did inherit a blouse from a friend who is even tinier than me (yes, there are people who are tinier than me, and I am not even talking about a "little person"). She said it was a blouse she hardly wears because it makes her look pregnant, so she thought it might work. I was able to wear it a couple of times but of course, my chest expanded much earlier than my belly, so anything with buttons has become a problem.

The fortunate thing is that my belly still isn't very visible. This, combined with the fact that most of my pants were too big for me to begin with, means that I am having no trouble with my pants (yet). I did buy two "bella band" devices. These are basically just bands of lycra that you put around your waist. You can wear your pre-pregnancy pants without buttoning or zippering them, and you put the lycra on top so they don't fall down, they lay flat, and no one can see that they are unzipped. It's a cool concept. I got one knock-off from Motherhood Maternity ("one size fits most") and one from Target "from the makers of the original Bella Band", which actually came S-M-L. I like the concept but I'm not sure if it's going to work for me. The bands are so wide that they are literally like a tube top on me-- they go from my chest all the way down to my hips. I know that once my belly starts to get bigger, it will take up some of that fabric, but I am afraid that once my belly gets big enough to take up enough fabric that I won't be able to wear the pre-pregnancy pants anymore anyway! But we'll see...

From the recently pregnant on here, any suggestions?

The upsides to this: this is a temporary state, at least. And really, it's not NEARLY as complicated as trying to buy baby stuff! We've been shopping for that recently too and it makes my head spin.