Your belly will look like an empty sack. (Coming Home Clothing for You)

Member Name: Claribella

Product:	Coming Home Clothing for You
Date:	06/01/09 (87 review reads)
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Advantages: You can wear any old crudge because you have just had a baby.

Disadvantages: You will feel like poo because of the way you look.

So you've just gone through the most emotional experience of your whole life. Your waters broke all over your maternity jeans in the bread aisle at Tesco, you coped with some of the contractions at home but when they got to every thirty minutes you felt like you couldn't cope any longer and ring the hospital to ask for an emergency C-Section, they say 'No' which makes you angry. Finally after bathing, rocking and all sorts of other methods to control the pain you head into hospital. After an examination you are told that you are only a centimetre dialated and it will be long time before you have your child in your arms. This makes you angrier. You are at the point of dying when you are examined again and you are finally dialating. They give you Pethadine and all of a sudden the pain is in the distance and it feels like you are on a road trip with some hippies back in the sixties. Next thing you know the pain is getting stronger and your mind just can't take it anymore, you wonder why you let your partner anywhere near you in the first place and the next time he says something to you, you scream and shout at him with any might that is left within you. Finally you decide to ask for the Epidural and just as you are taking comfort in the fact that you won't be in this pain for much longer, the midwife explains that you are too far gone to have it. You procede to shout and scream at her when normally you are a doormat and wouldn't say 'Boo' to a ghost. Eventually you are pushing and it feels like your whole body is about to split in two horizonally. You push your baby out and everything is instantly hunky dorky forgetting the fact that a midwife is stitching you back together from your chest down. You are in love and your family feels complete. Ahhhhh bliss!

You are overwhelmed with the chores that go into looking after your little baby and spend a few nights in hospital before even attempting to take this fragile little soul out of the hospital doors. When you get a minute to yourself you look down at what was once a flat, toned stomuch and you see a saggy bag of skin that is covered in red marks because it has been stretched beyond all reason. As you walk you kick the bottom of your tummy because its so saggy that it hangs to the floor. You still look like you are 6 months pregnant and are expecting to go into labour again any moment soon. When this doesn't happen you stare longingly at your size 8 jeans and wonder if you will ever get back into them again! You pack them into your bag and wonder what you will wear when you take the pyjamas (that you have had on for the past couple days) off.................

If you've never had a baby before then don't be scared. Some of the above may be a slight exaggeration for the purpose of this review. My second labour was nothing like this! LOL! (Neither was my first!). Being very honest though, most woman will experience the whole 'belly' situation unless you are like my friend Kate who walked out of the hospital in the same jeans she had worn before being pregnant. Listen carefully ladies........SHE IS ONE OF THE LUCKY ONES! I'm afraid we are not all blessed with this talent and if you are then 'Good for you' (She says through gritted teeth!). Most of you will probably get that depressing moment where you have no idea what to wear home from the hospital so here is my helpful list to you all:)

1) A nursing bra
If you are planning on breastfeeding then go and measured a few weeks before you are due. Mothercare measure you but I don't think they have te most attractive nursing bra's in the town! Even if you aren't breastfeeding them make sure you are wearing a maternity bra because your boobs will probably be sore and tender.

2) Big 'Bridget Jones' pants.
After having a baby you will bleed a lot so you will be wearing maternity pads that are about the size of a toddlers nappy. Your pants will need to be roomy enough to stand all of that and your arse that has grown ten times during pregnancy. I would recommend black ones too just in case you do leak.
I wouldn't recommend disposable pants (see my review!).

3)Trousers
Unfortunately I went home in the same maternity jeans that I went into the hospital i. My jeans were very baggy as I like this sort of style. If you are into tight fitting jeans then I wouldn't recommend wearing them home. A good pair of joggers or loose trousers are your best bet and please make sure they aren't white. This could be very embaressing!

4) Top
Your boobs will be huge and so will your belly so I would recommend a loose fitting top. Again I just wore a maternity top home.


Ladies (and men if you're reading) I am aware that this review is pretty negative and scary so to end it I shall give you some hope in what seems to be a hopeless situation. My tummy did shrink back and I was back in my size tens just three weeks after the birth. My eights took a couple more months to conquer but they were conquered. My stretch marks did fade and I am smaller now than I was before I had my first son.

Summary: Most people will wear maternity clothes home.