Cold Hands

Also: The Pros and Cons of Maternity Pants

 

Around the week fourteen mark (so almost fourteen weeks ago now) I ditched the hair tie bound jeans of pre-pregnancy for the inevitable maternity pants. In hindsight, after pulling some of my old "fat clothes" out that I had saved specifically for maternity shirts, I realize I probably could have waited even longer to begin wearing the pants if I wore some of the jeans I have from two to three sizes ago. The only downside? My "fat pants" are too big when I am standing or walking around and I would CONSTANTLY be hitching them up. But I still like them for wearing around the house.

 

Okay, back on track here. One thing I have found quite interesting in this, my first pregnancy, is that I am almost always cold, or on the verge of being cold. This was abnormal for me even before I got knocked up, but with the significant weight loss action prior to the pregnancy I was noticing that I was cold more often than ever before. Now, (naturally) everyone I tell that I am cold 85% of the time I am awake tells me that it's weird or not normal especially since I am with child... But that is yet again one of a million things I have been told that makes me weird.

 

With this inevitable coldness my hands get colder as my blood pressure gets lower through the pregnancy. Now, if you have never worn maternity pants, or anything highwaisted such as Spanx, or similar undergarments I will give you fair warning:

If your hands are cold having to pull these types of garments down or up becomes a chilling nightmare.

 

Even just hooking with my thumbs, there is the inevitable brush of FREEZING cold skin to nice warm torso. That or snapping the material against my skin... Not fun.

 

So we shall begin the Pros and Cons list!

 

Pro - Super comfy with lots of give for those days where there seems to be more of you than there should be.

Pro - Next to impossible to have plumber's crack.

Pro - You feel like you can do yoga in them; well most of them...

Pro - As long as only your midsection grows you can wear the same couple pairs from the first trimester until you are ready to squeeze back into your pre-pregger pants.

Con - (maybe it's just me) I miss having pants with a waist band.

 

Con - If it is warm/hot out you have an extra layer of material suffocating your skin.

 

Con - I am always terrified I am going to get a tear in the belly band much like you would see in stockings.

 

Con - If your underpants try to fall down it's nearly impossible to pull said underpants back up discreetly.

 

Con - There are no belt loops or other sort of thing you can use to pull the pants themselves up (not that preggos have a need for belts, but the loops serve multiple purposes).

 

Obviously, I have listed more cons than pros and that's because I really miss my regular pants... I just keep reminding myself I can start working back towards them in about three or four months. Especially since I had just bought a new pair in my next size down when I found out I was pregnant so I only got to enjoy that feeling for a few weeks before I went back to wearing the size I had been in before then, and then a few more weeks later and I was sporting the maternity pants. -Sigh-

 

Soon.