{"id":213,"date":"2013-02-10T08:22:41","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T13:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=213"},"modified":"2013-12-26T16:48:07","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T21:48:07","slug":"too-little-too-late-for-leotards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/10\/too-little-too-late-for-leotards\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Little, Too Late (for leotards!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another Saturday passed, another ballet class done.\u00a0 Though I can\u2019t call it successful (felt like I was going to pass out the last half and had to sit down for jumps for fear of ending up on the floor anyways), I did have a few interesting realizations and firsts:<\/p>\n

1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 My leotards (the largest ones I own) no longer accommodate my baby belly and baby breasts (even the tiny little backbends I\u2019m capable of right now posed a flashing hazard\u2026) and my wrap skirt I wear will not fully wrap my belly much longer.\u00a0 Guess I will have to rethink my dancing wardrobe when I return to the studio in 2 weeks.<\/p>\n

2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 At 27 weeks and what\u00a0 I think is pretty obviously pregnant, apparently I don\u2019t look so?\u00a0 Or people are too polite\/shy to ask? \u00a0I wear what has been my standard class attire since highschool: \u00a0leotard, tights over and wrap skirt. \u00a0Not much is left to the imagination and there is NO hiding anything. \u00a0I\u2019ve been dancing with the same core group since July and one had a baby in September so it\u2019s not like the group is unfamiliar with me or babies, just weird that it\u2019s not come up.\u00a0 Even the teacher hasn\u2019t asked.<\/p>\n

3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I felt the baby move for the first time while dancing.\u00a0 I quit dancing with my two girls before I felt them move and this baby has remained calm during previous classes.\u00a0 It was an odd experience.\u00a0 Trying to balance while having a little being sloshing around in your belly proved to be tricky.\u00a0 It also does not help that this baby is a wild swimmer, sometimes I think s\/he is doing laps in there, and often moves so violently it makes me yelp.<\/p>\n

4)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Baby hates adagio as much as I do:\u00a0 while doing everything in my power to keep my eyes focused and not fall on my face\/butt\/anywhere while extremely dizzy, little baby was flopping around like crazy as if to say \u201cMommy, knock it off.\u00a0 You\u2019re squishing me, this sucks!\u201d<\/p>\n

Next week we’ll be out of town so I have 2 weeks to figure out how I’m going to dress for class so that all my parts (belly included) stay covered. \u00a0Hmmmm….<\/p>\n

\"hannah<\/a><\/p>\n

My attempt at a “dancey” shot during my maternity shoot with Honeybun\u00a0(about 37 1\/2 weeks along). \u00a0My complete\u00a0lack of ability to stand up combined with a photographer who has probably never seen a ballet before left my dreams crushed. \u00a0Maybe when I go for pictures this time I’ll be able to get something better!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another Saturday passed, another ballet class done.\u00a0 Though I can\u2019t call it successful (felt like I was going to pass out the last half and had to sit down for jumps for fear of ending up on the floor anyways), I did have a few interesting realizations and firsts: 1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 My leotards (the largest ones […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ballerina-mama","category-mommy-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2547,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/2547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}