How I Walked The Red Carpet Three Months Pregnant With My Fly Down!

Getting dressed during the time between when you find out you’re pregnant, until the time when you actually announce you’re pregnant is tricky!

As I got ready for a night out with my husband to attend a Diesel event at a downtown hotspot in NYC, I had to cleverly come up with an outfit that (1) I could actually fit into (2) kept things discreetly hidden and (3) I felt good in. In retrospect, I did not choose wisely.

At the time, I put on a pair of zippered jeggings and a vintage kimono type top. As I sat in the cab heading from the Upper East side to downtown, I could feel the tightness of my jeans creeping up on me, cutting into my bloated mid section. I thought, “OMG….am I hurting the baby?” and without thinking I unzipped my poor choice of an outfit for immediate relief. Ahhhhhh…Now I feel comfortable.

As we approached the venue, I did my usual checklist before I exited the cab. Lipgloss on….check. Blackberry…check. Wallet…..check. Husband….check. As I walked into the event, I got wisked away for photographs and as I posed and smiled, I thought, “I can’t believe I pulled this off!” And as I was thinking, it dawned on me ….zipper up….uncheck!!! OH NO!! I just stood for pictures completely unaware that my fly was undone!!

Luckily, I was wearing a long tank that covered up 90% of my unzippered fly, so my initial embarrassment was mitigated by the fact that know one will know….until now. (See picture) So with that lesson learned, I figured it was now time to embark on the journey for shopping for maternity clothes.