Middle Aged Mama

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Pregnant Pause …

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(or how maternity fashions have changed over the past 20 years …)

I am loving how Recycled Fashion, Absolute Amy, Yellow Dandy, A Study in Contradictions, and a number of other bloggers are sharing their maternity style at the moment.

The baby making days are long gone for me – my firstborn has just turned 19, my second is now in Year 12. How the years fly by!

So I thought you might get a chuckle over what passed for maternity style in the 1990’s …

Four months pregnant
Four months pregnant, rocking my hubster’s elastic waist shorts and a men’s t-shirt.
Four to five months pregnant
At work, about 5 months along. I made this dress myself – and don’t you just love the hair scrunchie? I heard they’re coming back in!
Six months pregnant
Last holiday pre-baby. Miss 16 thinks this is a very interesting choice of swimsuit and that I should burn this photo ASAP.
Six months along
Bulging out all over in this bikini from my pre-pregnancy days, on that same holiday …
Six months pregnant and on holiday
And again … Miss 16 is horrified by the thongs, the cap and even the dress! I thought I looked very holiday-ish and cool … at the time anyways …
Last day at work
Last day at work, 34 weeks pregnant. I’m wearing my favourite outfit from my maternity wardrobe, a dress by Addable, a label that was all the rage at the time with women whether they were expecting or not!
Pregnancy Number 2
Fast forward 2 1/2 years and I’m about 8 months pregnant with Number 2, while holding Number 1’s hand. Another black baggy tent dress …
Eight months pregnant
I pretty much lived in this cream tube skirt during my second pregnancy. It wasn’t a maternity number but stretched as I did (just like me, it never fully recovered afterwards either).

So what was your maternity style like?!

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    • Yes it’s a bit sad – people say the 80’s were tragic – what about the nineties?!

  3. You were rockin that bikini!! I had a pair of baggy tie dyed green pants, I remember I was wearing them when my water broke!

    • I filled it out a lot better in this pic, than I did before I was pregnant!

  4. Love the photos! I was a bit of a cheap skate with my 2 pregnancies and just wore whatever maternity hand me downs others passed on to me.

    • Don’t worry Liz I had plenty of those – eg hubster’s shorts in the first pic!

  5. Hahah!! I love it!!! Your maternity fashion is a lot like my Mums from the 80’s! I’m sure ill look back at my maternity fashion and think exactly the same thing. That swimsuit!!!! AMAZING.. They are very fashionable again you know!! x Karen

  8. Those are fabulous Janet, my favourite is the one on the couch – you look so happy, careful and HOT! Isn’t it funny now how everyone wears tight maternity stuff – I used to wear baggy stuff but then realised I looked more tent-like than I needed to! Em xx

    • Yes, the fashions sure have changed. Back then it was about hiding the bump – now it’s all about flaunting it almost!

  10. I think you look gorgeous and a beautiful smile too. My oldest son is adopted (19) and my youngest are six going on seven I lived in maternity pants and baggy tops with them.

    • I found maternity pants just didn’t fit. They’d slip down, or were too tight, or … leggings were all the rage back then, I exchanged the elastic for a drawstring and they saw me through much of pregnancy number 2!

  11. Wow – great photos! Thanks for sharing them with us (and giving us a little giggle!) and how hot do you look in that bikini shot? Very gorgeous pregnant lady 🙂 x x x

    • LOL you think?! The hubster thought so and I guess he is the only one that really matters hey!

  12. Sorry I missed this post when you added it to the link Janet! You look amazing in all these photos – just glowing! Maternity wear has certainly come along way, although I don’t think I was very fashionable in the early part of this decade pregnant either! I was chuckling at Miss 16’s reactions to the fashion 🙂