{"id":969,"date":"2010-06-02T09:38:53","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T16:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/?p=969"},"modified":"2010-06-01T15:15:33","modified_gmt":"2010-06-01T22:15:33","slug":"sizeable-adjustments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/sizeable-adjustments\/","title":{"rendered":"Sizeable Adjustments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, Jon and I spent the majority of the day running from store to store to pick up the final few things that were on our &#8220;get before the baby comes&#8221; list.<\/p>\n<p>We picked up some linen and pillows and some vitamins that I&#8217;d run out of and Jeremy&#8217;s ADD meds and we attempted to get some sandals for Siah but were unsuccessful&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>One thing that I had needed to pick up were some nursing bra&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to get a comfy sleep bra and a few nursing bra&#8217;s for everyday use.<\/p>\n<p>I had recently attempted to measure myself and was shocked that I&#8217;m smaller around the ribcage than I&#8217;ve been in a while and definitely smaller than I&#8217;ve been at 36-37 weeks pregnant.  My measurement around the largest part of my chest was larger than I recall it being&#8230;&#8230;.I figured that now was as good a time as any to actually go and get fitted for a good bra.<\/p>\n<p>I have a horrible, HORRIBLE confession to make.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been wearing the same hideous bra for close to 2 years.  To make matter&#8217;s worse, it&#8217;s an old tattered, stained nursing bra that I bought when I was nursing Siah.  Now, to be completely fair, I only stopped nursing him about 6 months ago. but at that point, my two nursing bra&#8217;s could have been considered to have a glorious and fruitful life and at that point (<em>heck even before that point<\/em>) they should have been retired.  The only reason that I hadn&#8217;t bothered to buy new ones was because I wasn&#8217;t entirely certain how much longer I would even be nursing for and then once I got pregnant, I figured that I&#8217;d stop fairly soon and would then buy some pretty regular bra&#8217;s to wear until I actually had the baby.  I had really good intentions&#8230;..was just really bad on the follow through.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing as bra shopping is something that I typically hate with the same passion that I have for bathing suit shopping &#8211; I put it off and put it off and put it off and well&#8230;&#8230;here I am&#8230;&#8230;..Ready to nurse my next little bundle of joy in the not too distant future.<\/p>\n<p>So, seeing as my at-home measurements were a little more bizarre than your average 36C &#8211; I figured that I&#8217;d head to the local lingerie shop to see what they had for selection and I figured that I might see about getting professionally fitted at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>I walked in COMPLETELY intimidated and stressed and was soon in the capable hands of Beryl from Forever Yours Lingerie.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/xangelle\/4660902275\/\" title=\"forever_yours_store_photos-1-2 by Xangelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4058\/4660902275_30d7e6cc2e.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"forever_yours_store_photos-1-2\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>They are looking to have their website up and functional very soon&#8230;&#8230;.<a href=\"http:\/\/foreveryourslingerie.ca\/\">foreveryourslingerie.ca<\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nShe quickly had me sized at a 36F and brought me a few selections to try on&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Within half an hour of walking into the store I was armed with my correct bra size.  I was also 1 sleep bra, 1 daytime bra richer and approx $100 poorer (<em>which I don&#8217;t think is too bad for 2 well fitting bra&#8217;s<\/em>).  I do recognize that it&#8217;s not like I&#8217;m a 32H or anything quite as exotic as that, but this is outside of the 36C to 38DD that I&#8217;ve been fitted at before.<\/p>\n<p>I feel amazing.  The daytime bra is pretty and the sleep bra is well&#8230;.well, it&#8217;s your typical sleep bra.  Nothing terribly exciting.<\/p>\n<p>Best of all, I&#8217;m throwing my old nasty bra&#8217;s away.  I do want to get a few more for regular daytime use and will be looking for a black one and also a neutral one, but to know my correct size and to have it fit well and especially to have a pretty looking bra&#8230;&#8230;well, it feels fabulous and at this point, feeling fabulous is a definite bonus in my books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, Jon and I spent the majority of the day running from store to store to pick up the final few things that were on our &#8220;get before the baby comes&#8221; list. We picked up some linen and pillows and some vitamins that I&#8217;d run out of and Jeremy&#8217;s ADD meds and we attempted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/sizeable-adjustments\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sizeable Adjustments&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":977,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions\/977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}