OK, so as I have mentioned, my pants are too tight. I can still kind of wear my size 10s, but my size 8s are a joke. The Target jeans I bought literally fall off of me, so I don’t feel like they are appropriate to wear in public. There is a device called a Belly Belt that tricks out your too-small pants so that you can keep wearing them. I went to Motherhood Maternity today to get me one of those.

I was eagerly greeted by the sales lady, who eyed me suspiciously to see how pregnant I was. She asked right away if I was pregnant, and I said that I was barely pregnant but wanted to buy a Belly Belt. She got one for me and took it out to demo it. She asked me all kinds of questions about how many months I was along and said that it didn’t look like I was showing yet, etc., etc. I wanted to say, “I’m too fat for my pants, now just sell me the damn thing!” I somehow made it out of there with the goods.

Now I have this contraption, and it does work to make my pants fit, but it sticks out so much that I need special shirts to cover it up. Maybe walking around with my pants unbuttoned all the time isn’t so bad after all.