Wearing a Swimsuit While 27 weeks Pregnant: Cue JAWS music

28 weeks!! 12 weeks left!! AHHH!!! Maybe if I'm lucky it will be 11 weeks!! I want to meet Baby S!

JN asked me last night how I was feeling about pregnancy. I still maintain my love/hate relationship with it, but I think I like it a bit more now that I have a belly. Now if I could only get some sleep, I might just take hate out of the equation.

One of the things I was not looking forward to with an August due date is that I would inevitably be wearing a swimsuit while pregnant. And not just a little pregnant - THIRD TRIMESTER pregnant. I have already covered some trials and tribulations of shopping for a swimsuit. I wore my new swimsuit for the first time while being pregnant. Wait, I should say that I did wear a swimsuit during Week 6 while on a cruise with my in-laws, but that doesn't really count because beyond my slightly larger bosom, I wasn't visibly pregnant and could still rock my string bikini selections. I'm not normally shy wearing a swimsuit but I definitely was a little anxious about wearing a bikini with a belly. Granted, I now feel like I am "pregnant" rather than just fat, but still. Definitely weird.

I bought this target maternity dress/shirt thing on clearance before we left to wear as a cover-up. I did not take that cover-up off for a very long time on Day 1. Finally I just got so HOT (more on being hot tomorrow) that I took it off. And you know what, the world did not end. People did not stare. (Granted, we were in Myrtle Beach which is probably not known as the beautiful body of the world capital!) By the end of the three days on the beach, I was practially prancing around in that bikini...or at least frolicking in the ocean enough to lose a pair of sunglasses to the waves. I kept wondering if Baby S could hear the pounding waves and if he/she was thinking, "WHERE ARE WE?!?!". That ocean felt so good that I wanted to transport it home with me. I am hoping WI lakes will be just as good to carry me through a pregnant summer. I highly recommend this swimming suit - it stayed put, was supportive and I think still more sophisticated looking than any maternity tankini that I was able to find. It is way more than I have ever spent on a suit, but very well constructed and worth it. I have it in plain brown because when you need advanced bosom support, your color options are limited, but it also comes in fun stripes and polka dots. I actually hope they still have this suit next summer - I would get it in my non-pregnant size for sure.