So those who read WIT's blog

[MrsCampbellBlack]

Now I love her blog and think she seems lovely. But I am such a meanie as follow her on twitter and am just smiling to myself at her hunt for a coming home dress - I'm assuming from hospital post-birth.

She has just linked to a cream silk dress.

So is the coming home dress from hospital a new thing? God knows I love an oppertunity to shop but that really never occurred to me.

I had 5 going home outfits for DS1

Can't remember anything about my first borns going home outfit or mine.....just the fact I couldn't sit down in the car and had started to wonder what on earth I had done........Much easier 2nd and 3rd time round. Although did leave dc3 coming home outfit to be chosen by DH. 9-12 month coat and clothing then argument over the fact he was adamant it was the outfit ds1 and ds2 wore home from the hospital!!!!

I didn't wear maternity clothes so that's doesn't seem odd to me but the rest is very laughable

at cream silk. I remember I wore my uber stylish (cough cough) and frighteningly comfy maternity trousers. They were marginally looser when leaving the hosp than when I was full term. I wore them for 6 months post baby .

I was more thinking of cream silk and huge baby poos that travel up as far as the baby's neck.... and stain everything an irremovable attractive mustard.

I wore DH's t-shirt and my pyjama bottoms to come home in, mainly because I was in for longer than I thought I would be and had got through all my clothes. Even though DH had to go home every evening he didn't think to bring me more and I didn't think to ask him to! Her optimism is rather lovely.

I remember the young girl next to me being utterly bemused as to why her stomach wasn't falt immediately after birth.

I think I actually got bigger immediately post-delivery as had dreadful water retention. That coupled with the white dvt avoiding knee high socks and the disposable knickers - it was a look.

Had forgotten the disposable knickers!!!!! Oh yes- style indeed! Do we think WIT will give into such items???

I remember my brother in law asking why my stomach hadn't returned to normal less than 12 hrs after I gave birth gggrrrrrrrr!!!!!!

I didn't take anything to come home in, and my jeans got wrecked in labour (waters, blood). I had to wear nightie plus coat. It was February. I froze.
Will be packing a cream silk dress this time round .

I vividly recall shuffling through the hospital car park in a massive purple dressing gown and getting looks. I'd had a c-sec and wasn't really ready to go home, but I hated the postnatal ward so much I'd have commando crawled my way out.

Good luck to her though - I'm sure she will be vehr stylish postpartum. It took me about 4 months to feel like I could wear actual fashionable clothes and not look like a hideous wreck.

Loving these looks - coat over nightie, commando crawling in purple dressing gown - not that is a blog waiting to happen

Speaking as someone who was actually back in pre-preg skinnies on day 3 first time round (not second, mind) even I would have thought cream silk was cracked. I would emphatically not want to be in her NCT group - bet she'd be one of those mothers...

She's just updated to say she's going for the Chloe cream silk :)

dry cleaning will never get those stains out

Gotta love her optimism. And her budget.

Someone do her a favour, and introduce the word "leaking" into her vocabulary. Or would that be cruel?

that level of staggering narcissism and motherhood isn't going to turn out well

I don't think that WIT is particularly narcissistic - that's mean.

I agree - I don't think she is narcissistic, just mad about clothes and optimistic about what will be happening to her body after birth!

I thought about what I would wear coming home. Sure it had to be comfortable, but I did my make up, fixed my hair and also had a special jacadi babygro for my DD's.
Its her first so maybe the leaking thing hasnt quite dawned yet, I know I was clueless until the waterworks started

Think the truth is Pre children most folk hearing "leakage" think a dribble, that post partum bleeding does not mean proportions of almost dam bursting, a natural water birth with candles and whale music is yours if you put it on the birth plan wasted paper if ever there was one and that a small child can't cause that much upheaval......otherwise women would never have kids!

Good luck to her! I kept a diary when I was pregnant first time round.....it's hysterical to read now! Guess its better to be optimistic than crying into the decaf coffee worrying about how you have signed up to sleepless nights, stretch marks and years of machine wash clothing!

I took nice nighties to wear post partum on the ward. They looked great teamed with mat pads, leakage and catheter. Fool.

I like WIT. She's just naive, I think. I gave birth 5 weeks ago and wore silk trousers home. They were black though.

Yes I don't think anything really prepares for the level of leakage post-birth.

I think she's sick of people talking about comfy leggings and is therefore digging her heels in. She'll learn there is a middle ground but I think her world is different to mine - I avoided the camera post-birth where as she is planning her photo opp outfit.

Of course she is gorgeous and still looks amazing at 9 months pregnant.

Haven't looked at the blog for a while but sounds quite nice.

(Just get big maternity pads, now that doesn't sound glam).