My All-Time Favorite Pregnancy Looks

This was my everyday go-to look around the middle of my pregnancy: a long, soft tank, a ’70s-style vest, and a floppy hat.

I bought this dress specifically for an appearance on a morning news show promoting my first book, and rarely in my life have I felt quite so chic. (It wasn’t a maternity dress – just a Zara dress that I sized up – but I never wore it again; something about pregnancy gave me a confidence with color that I don’t have in my regular life.)

My favorite maternity wear discovery: Hatch (if you scroll up to the top of this post, you’ll find a few current favorites from the brand). This is the rare company that creates actual maternity clothing that you actually will wear after having the baby.

Evidence: I wore that dress up there a couple of weeks ago, and I am all kinds of not-pregnant.

The number one must-have (in pregnancy attire, and in life more generally): a super-soft, long tunic that you can wear with virtually anything.

I wore this tunic into the ground. I still miss it.

If you click through to this post, you’ll see that what I’m wearing is mayyyybe the single most impractical outfit possible for a pregnant mother of a toddler to wear. But that was kind of the point: to have fun, and play around with items (like clutches that cannot be used to carry things like diapers) that I wouldn’t get to use for awhile after the baby was born.

Looking at these pictures – taken at a roadside Christmas Tree stand in Half Moon Bay the before my daughter was born – makes me tear up every time. I like the outfit, but more than that I love how clearly ready I was to meet her. You can see it, I think.