{ Koral Boyfriend Jeans; Elizabeth & James Blazer (similar); Bobo House Tee; Nine West Gamin d’Orsay Heels }

This is a topic I'm pretty big on.

Buying a ton of maternity pieces sounds fun…until you realize that they are often on the "dear god, no" side of expensive for things that you're only going to wear for what amounts to a handful of weeks. There are some pieces I'm happy to invest in - like a striped sweater or a silk blouse that I'd totally wear long, long after baby arrives - but as much as possible, I'm trying to just lightly sprinkle those "actual" maternity pieces into my "regular" wardrobe.

Kendrick took these photos when I was slightly less than three months pregnant - that's two full months ago - and I forgot to post them until now, and when I just scrolled back through my drafted posts and saw them I remember how I was so excited to finally be showing, and I thought I'd be all about the body-conscious outfits from that moment on straight through until the end, just because…you know, being pregnant is fun. It's fun to talk about it. It's fun to have strangers stop you on the street and congratulate you, or just smile at you, just because.

Except…I'm sort of not about those outfits, not like I expected to be. I'm bigger now than I was when these photos were taken, obviously, but still at the point where I can hide the fact that I'm expecting if I want to. And I've been sort of surprised by the extent to which I've been going for outfits that are less "hello-I-am-pregnant" and more…normal. Which for me means: loose and layer-y and not hello-I-am-pregnant at all.

Surprising, I guess, because the reality is that this is probably (not "definitely", but probably) the last time in my life I'll ever be pregnant. And going into this, I was so excited about it and so looking forward to everything that came with it that I really anticipated wanting to wear dresses or shirts that effectively showed off what was going on as much as possible. I kind of wanted to…you know…make a big deal about it, even if only through wearing baby doll dresses, body-hugging tops; styles that I wouldn't ordinarily wear.