A full size Panty - A note for the Ladies

I am sure that my following is not completely comprized of men so here goes a girly note about underware.

I really do not like the word "panty" it just sounds wrong. Maybe it is my country upbringing or my ever practical dutch side, I don't own panties. I got me sum underwares or gitch.

Actually to be honest I grew up calling them "brukes" (dutch made simple in english)

So here is my latest story about life. I had to go shopping for new underware. My current ones are not working with my ample pregnancy expanded rear! So off I go. Not wanting to spend too much money on just underwear for basically the summer I went to Walmart. There I found quite the selection. Hi Cut, Classic Cut, Bikini, Hipster and Thongs.

Although a Thong makes complete sense, for an expanding rear end, I was looking more for country comfort of a bikini.

Well so I purchased the size above what I thought I had been wearing. I even splurged and got some cute Hanes Her Way Hipsters that I use to have and loved. Due to Grayson being with me and being all together way to helpful with bringing every elastic, lacey item to me while I was trying to read labels I grabbed and ran sure of my purchase.

Got home all proud, excited to put on a pair of underwear that fit! Ha - I should laugh. They did not fit not at all. And guess what you cannot return underwear. Hmmm.... $20 bucks down the drain. I am hoping that they will fit post baby. (x - cross my fingers)

So I go back, and low and behold, walmart and zellers do not sell a bikini in a larger size. My only option was to go to a granny panty - or classic fit! NOOOOOO way. besides that would never work with my expanding belly. All the bunching and sagging. No thanks. Great so now what do I do.

Orillia has a small mall and thank fully it has a La Senza. I go in. Before I get all excited with all the colours, sale tags and options. I go to the counter and ask what their largest size is. XL. Well I need bigger. Well the young lady behind the counter could read my under lying frustration of having to go commando or go with a "classic" full brief. She looked around and found a style that is total elastic and stretches all over the place. Wahoo! not to mention on sale. (as long as you do not need white, black or nude) For underwear that fits I don't car what colour it is.

I am now happily sitting in my new gitch happy happy happy!

I know all about the struggles of going "intimate apparel" shopping only to find a size has changed up or down, larger or smaller. But here let me say don't get depressed and go on a celery diet. Bodies change and that is normal. And they are all lovely. And so much more lovely when then garment meant to hold us up or in, actually fit no matter what the tag says.

A note about being Larger.... and Pregnant

So I think that ladies from the time they find out they are pregnant look forward to the day that the belly - evidence to the world of the expected bundle - pops out so we no longer have to feel / look "heavy" but pregnant - with a purpose. Well not so for anyone who is a little on the larger side when they become pregnant.

I have been telling my self... just another month, then that fat middle will turn into a rounded cute belly. Here I wait. It is almost 5.5 months.

I have joined several forums about babies / pregancy etc. and each has a picture section of ladies fondly showing their bellies off in their bathroom mirrors for a picture. I have decided that this will probally not happen for this baby number 2. Maybe by my due date I will look pregnant. But then I will be grossly pregnant and in no mood to have a picture taken of my bloated body full of excess water. Funny how that goes!

So any way here is a little shout out to all the ladies that find them selves in my position - waiting for the inside to match the outside.

Yes we are beautiful and pregnant