I bought this striped stretchy maxi dress at Target during my first trimester.  I knew it would stretch so I’d be able to wear it for a long time.  There really is no need to buy an actual “maternity” maxi dress, especially when you can buy a normal dress at a much cheaper price. Plus you’ll still be able to wear it after your baby arrives. 

I bought this tunic tank top at Kohl’s on clearance in the junior department early in my pregnancy. It quickly became one of my favorite tops to wear with my growing baby bump.  I liked that it’s long and loose.  I wore it a lot with leggings and boots during the winter.  It doesn’t have a whole lot of stretch to it, so in my 9th month it was just a little too small, but I did wear it all the time while I still could.

This loose-fitting tank top from Old Navy was another great top to wear while I was pregnant.  I bought it before my baby started to show and I wore it all the way into my 3rd trimester. 

This LC Lauren Conrad blouse from Kohl’s has been a favorite top of mine for a while.  I loved that I was able to wear it throughout my pregnancy.  Since it’s loose-fitting and flowy, it worked great as a maternity top.

Now that I’m no longer pregnant, I’m happy that I don’t have a bunch of maternity clothes that I can’t wear anymore.  Instead, I get to get back to wearing my normal clothes without my bump.

Today, I would have been posting my weekend wardrobe maternity outfits for my 40th week of pregnancy.  Thank goodness I’m not doing that today.  Instead, I’m snuggled up with my little baby boy.  I’m still recovering from my surgery, but I’m slowly getting better.  I highly doubt I will be putting any cute outfits together anytime soon or going shopping for a while.  I still need time for my body to heal and I need to get used to having a newborn in my life now.  What I can do is to use this time to look back on my maternity style during my last three months of pregnancy and share some of my favorite looks that I wore. 

The third trimester was pretty rough, especially as it dragged on into the last 2 months.  Finding cute outfits to dress my enormous bump was hard, but I didn’t give up.  It’s not easy to have an extra 30 lbs of weight on you and still feel good about yourself, but the more I tried to put myself together, the better I felt.  I really didn’t buy too many maternity clothes, so finding clothes that fit me was a pretty big challenge.  I mostly stuck to anything that would stretch over my belly, long tank tops worked out great and I still used my belly band a lot for wearing my normal jeans.

Here are some of my favorite outfits that I wore during the last 3 months of pregnancy. 

37 weeks 

Over all my third trimester was filled with lots of ups and downs.  Like most women, I was extremely uncomfortable throughout my entire last trimester.  In the last couple months I could barely sleep at night and work was getting really hard.  It’s not easy trying to keep up with my energetic Pre K children all day.  However, I do feel like I kept nice and busy during the third trimester, just trying to pass the time.  We took a trip home to Michigan for Christmas and Kevin and I spent a lot of quality time together; going out together and organizing the house on our Saturday’s off.  The best part of my third trimester was that I got to meet my baby boy 10 days earlier than expected.  I was so relieved that I didn’t have to worry about an over due baby.  The doctor had wanted to induce me today if the baby hadn’t been born yet.  I’m so glad that didn’t happen and he came naturally on his own.  Now I have a very healthy little baby boy at home with me.  My heart feels full.

Have a wonderful week!