Before becoming pregnant I weighed a hefty 105 pounds. Yeah yeah, hold your “eat a cheeseburger” comments. I could out eat a sumo wrestler ok. Within 3 months of pregnancy I gained a whopping 25 pounds. But here’s the kicker, I barely had a baby bump!! My cheeks and my thighs and my boobs, oh god my boobs!! I gained weight everywhere but my belly at first. It legit looked like I just ate 3 Big Macs and a couple banana splits. I had a food baby.. but without all the food because I couldn’t keep anything down within the first 3 months.

On another note, just because I feel like a big ball of complaints tonight, my self confidence not only went down a shit ton of levels because of being 5’1” and gaining more weight than what my body knew how to distribute.. but the acne, low energy, the shitty maternity clothes, and the psycho hormones!

Acne

NO JOKE. Girl, I got the bacne for days. My skin isn’t oily, I haven’t stopped or changed my daily skin care routine, and my diet along with water intake has been better than ever. But somehow I get more zits on my than a 12 year old boy after gym class and a week without showers. My face, shoulders, back, chest, booty, you name it. It’s honestly embarrassing and made me feel uncomfortable wearing anything low cut in the back and go anywhere without a face full of coverup. So instead of giving advice or any tips on this one, I’m begging for help!

Low Energy

Not only do I not work currently, but I have a wonderful boy friend who picks up after himself around the house. I could stay in bed all day with no responsibilities right now, (temporarily of course), and somehow still manage to be tired the next day. No energy is the real deal. Our bodies are working double time and building and forming a baby! I can’t roll out of bed and walk to the couch without feeling like I just ran a damn marathon. But I finally came to terms with the fact that I won’t have this luxury of being lazy forever. How many others have felt so worthless during your pregnancy? How pathetic right? WRONG. Ladies, we are growing a whole human in our uterus’. If anything is acceptable to do during these 9 months, it’s staying in bed and taking it easy! Don’t be so hard on yourself. Take that nap! And take care of that magical little fetus inside of you by listening to and taking care of your own body.

Maternity clothes

Ok let’s be real. Most maternity clothes are shit. Frumpy, unflattering, and also a little out of my ‘stay at home mom’ budget. I’ve always been super into fashion and throwing together new outfits and looking cute. Loved getting ready and showing off my clothes. It just made me feel good. So transitioning from normal early 20’s clothing to only fitting into big t shirts and sweats, made me feel like straight trash. But of course the further along and bigger I got, the more I felt exhausted and started to not give a shit about not fitting in my ‘normal’ clothes. I found that Amazon is hit or miss. And Just ordering a couple sizes up in regular clothes doesn’t always work for everyone. But! Luckily, I found Pink Blush Maternity! (URL at end of post). Super cute mom clothes without dressing like your great aunt Marsha. Also, Pinterest is a life savor for just about everything, but I’ve been able to find some cute maternity tops via Pinterest as well.

Hormones

Oh god, the horror. It’s like being on a non stop roller coaster that goes from hell to Hawaii. It takes literally something as small as dropping a pen- cue melt down. But normally food fixes everything. Specifically for me, Oreos and milk or pineapple! Fun fact: on multiple occasions I have cried because my boy friend didn’t ask me if I wanted any food before he left the house for work. Even though he actually did ask me. And I said no. Once he left, I was so sad that he didn’t just read my mind and bring me food that I cried actual tears. Yeah… that happened. And I have a feeling it will happen again within these last 2 months. Basically I’ve learned that the hormones don’t go away and you can’t escape the embarrassment of crying over literally anything. Good luck my fellow hormonal queens!!

http://www.pinkblushmaternity.com

I want to start off by acknowledging the fact of yes, this is another pregnancy/ first time mom blog. BUT! I promise to keep it interesting with actual pregnancy experiences, concerns, thoughts, etc. and not the everyday, already known bullshit that you keep reading over and over from Pinterest blog to Facebook post.

First off, I’m 24 years old and live in a small town in Michigan. You know, from the beer drinkin, gun slingin, yeeyee yellin north. (Ok, Totally kidding), but seriously that’s basically what everyone who’s not from the north thinks of us, right? Anyways, I am currently 7 months along in my first pregnancy! Being that I am still in my early to mid 20’s, one of my fav festivities to partake in was going out and drinking with friends. Not in like some big alcoholic way, but just taking advantage of my freedom and young years and having fun! Not to mention, in the midst of my “freedom” days, I had just gotten out of a serious relationship and felt like I deserved to rebel. Like a runaway teenager from a catholic home. But that’s a story for another day. So if you don’t know where i was going with that.. I was just making my way towards recently ending a relationship and enjoying my newly found “freedom”, oh, and becoming pregnant. SURPRISE! No, really. Surprise af.

I was told since a young age that I have endometriosis and that quite honestly, I shouldn’t expect it to be simple to become pregnant. More simpler put, my long time (ex) boy friend and I had unprotected sex for about 4 years and nope, no pregnancy scares. No birth control, no condoms. Yikes. Then, shit happens and we grew apart, broke up, met new people, and now live happily ever after. Blah blah blah. 5 months later, this whore finds out she’s pregnant with her freshly new boy friends baby. I can’t be slut shamed if I call myself out, right? So here we are, 7 months into pregnancy and totally embracing it!!

Let’s call my babies father, Bob. Since this is an anonymous blog and all. My new boy friend of *cough cough* 9 months *cough cough* and my baby girls father, is great. Supportive, understanding, a provider, and just an all around great guy and going to be an amazing dad.

Oh, but don’t you worry.. there’s some dirty details and hormonal outbursts soon to come in future posts. Not all sappy, lovey dovey, happy relationship shit. Stay tuned.

Ok there’s a little background info for ya. Now onto the stuff you came here for and actually care about. Although I’m 7 months pregnant and *thank you sweet baby jesus* almost done with it, I will be sharing experiences, tips, and concerns from myself based off of my whole pregnancy experience thus far. Along with anonymous writers and as well as answering any questions you ladies may have. My email is newmom09@yahoo.com. Send me shit.

I’m going to end my first post on that note. A little about me and what I’m here to do. I have a lot of downtime right now so prepare for pregnancy info overload!!