I have been privledged to have experienced some of the typical pregnancy symptoms like uncomfortable sleeping, heartburn, morning sickness, forgetfulness. Nothing too crazy until yesterday.
You see I have a rather large chest. I bloomed at age 25 to a rather large 38D. On my frame, it looks normal, as I am no where near petite, but being pregnant, my chest has swelled. To a 42E. And they are getting bigger. Oh my god, they are huge. And they hurt. My honey loves it. I am loathing them.
My bras don't fit. I am in dire need for a maternity bra. Desperate is a better word. The problem is finding large size maternity bras is no easy task. After getting some direction on where to go from a cheap maternity store in a cheap mall, I visited the so-called up-scale store only to find that they have 25 styles for smaller chested women, but they don't carry anything over a 38D. The sales woman saw me staring at the wall of bras, mouth agape, not knowing what the heck to do, and said to me "I know, it's overwhelming". I replied, "It's frustrating". I enquired about larger sizes and she stated that I would have to special order them online or go to a specialty store in NYC. Tears swelled in my eyes. I lost it. I stormed out. I found my honey in the food store next door and I broke down in his arms. Right next to 2 women wearing full length fur coats in an organic food store gossipping about some other poor woman's bad plastic surgery. Then I made the mistake of driving.
On the service road leading onto the highway, I sobbed. Buckets. Uncontrollably. Hysterically. While driving. Trying to describe my horrible experience of being uncomfortable and the woman pissing me off and that my boobs are going to be huge and how bad will it be when I start breastfeeding and what will they look like after breastfeeding and me driving was a BAD thing to do. I almost ran us off the ramp. I had to pull over.
Ten minutes later, I was fine. But man, when those hormones hit, they don't mess around. And I still need a bra. Now.
Sunday, March 20, 2005
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3 comments:
Oh honey, what a royal pain in the ass. I don't suppose you care to embrace the hippy side of yourself and just go braless?
i can't say that i've been in your situation per se (since the largest i go is DD) but why don't you try NOT getting maternity bras? go into a regualar store and buy something larger - it should have enough support for you without being maternity.
all a maternity bra means is that it's another way to charge you more money. "oh, yes, dear, it's 100% exactly the same as the 38E in the department stores, but since we slap the word MATERNITY on it, we can charge you double the price."
Ummm - yeah - what's the difference between a maternity bra and a regular bra? A nursing bra and a regular bra - well I know the difference between those - but a maternity bra? Is that like maternity thongs? Just an excuse to charge us more $$$?
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