Maternity Style // Week 38

Dress + Jacket : c/o Lulu's | Boots : c/o Seychelles | Necklace : Free People
Hat : c/o Moorea Seal | Photos by Dan

Maternity Style // Week 37

Final stretch!  My due date is one week from today, so I've cleared my schedule, am almost finished with all my client work, and am on the lookout for signs of labor.   I've always felt like this kid will hang out in there as long as possible.  So comfy and cozy in there, why come out into the cold world before you have to, right?  And cold it is.  This weekend our highs are in the single digits and lows are below zero.  So if I was an infant, I'd most definitely stay in a warm cocoon with an ambient temp of 98.5°F too.  Although next weeks highs in the teens isn't much better.  That's what happens when you decide to be born in December.  

It's been weird thinking I'll have a different body very soon.  Not necessarily my "old" body, but definitely something more what I'm used to dressing.  I got away with only getting three maternity specific items, but left most of my non-pregnancy-friendly clothing back in Washington in storage.  Anything with a defined waist is down in storage, so maybe in a couple months I'll be able to snag some of that and infuse some different silhouettes back into my wardrobe.  It's been sort of nice, though, having a fresh start sartorially.  

Top : Motherhood Maternity | Scarf : Pashmina
Cardigan : c/o Modcloth | Coat : Coldwater Creek
Leggings : Jessica Simpson via Motherhood Maternity | Boots : c/o Cat Footwear

Maternity Style // Week 36

Falling behind on this maternity outfit thing, or rather, the posting of said outfits.  But I figure as I approach the end of this pregnancy and am busy focusing on a.) finishing up all my client work so I don't have to worry about it when baby comes and b.) preparing for the actual having of a baby thing, I'm allowed to fall behind a bit.  

These photos were taken while I was in Tacoma earlier this month to shoot my final wedding of 2016.  My BFF (and doula!), Kristina, took these outfit photos for me during a coffee outing to one of my favorite Tacoma coffee shops, Bluebeard.  The lovely folks at Bluebeard gifted me a bag of coffee beans as a baby shower gift and it felt a little like things coming full circle.  Back when Dan and I got married we had Bluebeard coffee beans as our wedding favors, and now we have a little taste of Tacoma back home in Anchorage.

Kristina comes up to Anchorage this Thursday, actually, and will be my birth doula, so I'm hoping this kid holds off on the arrival until at least Thursday, ideally Saturday, when my other friend from Tacoma, Amy, comes up and will be my birth photographer!  It's weird to think that now I'm getting so close that it's a possibility that I could go into labor before the end of the week!  Ah!  I've been keeping busy making padsicles (for postpartum lady-bits relief), calming and nausea tinctures (for during labor), labor massage lotion, and DIY bum spray for the babe.  Hopefully I finish all my apothecary-ing before labor, but at least the bebe den is nearly complete!  If you follow on snapchat (@liz.morrow) or my instagram story, you've been getting some peeks at the room so far!  

Top : Thrifted | Jeans : Jessica Simpson via Motherhood Maternity
Boots : c/o Cat Footwear | Jacket : c/o Moorea Seal | Photos by Kristina

Maternity Style // Week 34

Today I voted!!  Here in Anchorage we had some early voting polling places open, so I took care of business before the madness next week, mostly because I'm traveling on election day and I'm not sure if I'd have enough time in the morning to get it done!  I'm actually glad I'll be traveling that day, it'll keep me distracted from the stress, though I suppose most of the stress is in the evening when polls are closing and votes are getting counted, so perhaps I won't avoid it after all.

This pregnancy, or rather the part where I have a baby at the end, is getting super real these days.  An acquaintance who had my same due date had her baby 7 weeks early and posted a photo of him on facebook and my mind was blown that that's basically what is living inside me currently.  A (nearly) full grown, human child.  WHAT.  My mind can't really wrap itself around it.  I posted my fun baby wish list yesterday but I've actually been taking steps toward purchasing practical things, getting my stash of cloth diapers ordered earlier this week.  I still need to figure out feeding accessories (I plan on breastfeeding, but would like to be able to pump and have a milk stash), and other practical things.  Not as fun as buying cute things, but probably a better use of my money.

I wore this dress super early on in my pregnancy when I was, like, not even showing at all.  I thought it'd still fit in my later weeks since it's super tent-y and loose and it still does!

Dress (similar): Free People | Leggings : Jessica Simpson Maternity via Motherhood Maternity
Hat : c/o Moorea Seal | Boots : c/o Cat Footwear | Necklaces : c/o Jewelmint + Tribe Jewelry

Maternity Style // Week 33

If you guys follow me on Snapchat or Instagram stories, you probably saw how excited I was about the snow we got last friday.  After years of not having a snowy winter (I luh you, PNW, but I missed me some snowy winters!), that first morning of waking up to a crisp, white landscape felt like waking up on Christmas morning.  Usually that first snowfall doesn't stick around very long either, but it's been cold enough that it's stayed put!  

These days I feel like I have the opposite of a phantom limb.  Instead of feeling something that isn't there, I don't feel something that is there: my bump.  I forget that it's so big and then I'll go to touch it and it's like, whoa!  It is certainly a most bizarre experience to have your body be taken over and change so drastically in such a relatively short amount of time.  I've been going to some prenatal yoga classes and it's funny to be among a group of other women who are all dealing with the same thing, but who are all at varying stages of pregnancy.  It's weird to look back on the days when I wasn't showing yet.  I'm entering the final stretch here pretty soon, and I think with the holidays fast approaching it'll make everything go by even faster.  Honestly, I still wake up in the morning and look in the mirror and feel like I'm still dreaming.  Being pregnant still doesn't seem real, even though I'm, oh, almost 8 months into this process.

Coat : Tulle | Leggings : Jessica Simpson via Motherhood Maternity | Boots : Vogue Footwear
Top : Motherhood Maternity | Plaid Shirt : Thrifted