Week 30 – Goodbye Shoes?
July 17, 2006
If you have ready any of my previous posts on my current condition, you know that I frequent both Baby Center and Pregnancy Weekly for information, as well as What to Expect When You’re Expecting (of course) and another pregnancy book that Jenny gave me. In all of my reading, the “experts” talk about mild swelling of the hands and feet. Up until now, I had managed to avoid this affliction. I started to notice my feet were looking larger than normal last week, which was mildly concerning. I followed the suggestions in the literature though – drank more water (which seems contradictory, since my feet were swelling with water…) and keep my feet up as much as possible. The swelling did go down some, but I’m not sure how long that will last. The other thing that a lot of the literature, and some mothers that I have spoken to said, is that a lot of times women’s feet grow during pregnancy – and they don’t shrink back! If that happens, most women go up a 1/2 to a full size larger. As someone who has never met a shoe store she didn’t like, you can perhaps understand why this would be so disturbing. I have closets full of shoes, and when they fit, I will sometimes go a week or two without wearing the same pair twice. If I won’t fit into my shoes anymore, then I’ll have to start all over with the shoe collection. Since I still have shoes from the 9th grade that fit me, this is a huge and costly undertaking. So this week I’m mourning the loss of my shoes. I’ve been wearing the same pair of flip-flops for the past three months, and I’m too afraid to try on my shoes right now. I think I’m still in the denial phase. So, please send small feet thoughts my way, and hopefully after the baby, and the deflation of excess water in my body, my feet will return to their normal size, and I’ll be able to enjoy my shoe collection again.
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Hi Sara,
Don’t feel too bad about the whole big feet thing, spare a thought for my sister’s poor friend, she has to shop at transvestite shoe shops just to get a pair of “women’s” shoes that fit, and she’s never had a baby!
Hi Miranda – thank you for putting that in perspective – I am definitely more lucky than your sister’s friend – what a challenge to find shoes that fit. I hope if that lady ever does have a baby her shoe size doesn’t change, it sounds like she would have a heck of a time finding even bigger shoes!