Metal Meredith

Another photo by Vivienne

For those of you that don’t know me well enough, I am a member of a message board of 60 women who all have kids born in June 2003. I have already made this confession to those 60 friends so I figured there was nothing to lose on here. I even asked Phil if it was ok to post this because I seem to lack that last hurdle of “should I or shouldn’t I?” when it comes to telling things that others wouldn’t dream of.

So, I have been battling this cough which has made it hard to keep on a dry pair of pants for 3 weeks now. Yes ladies and gentlemen, Pregnancy makes you wet yourself on a regular basis. Under much sadness, I bought Poise pads at Target and gave them a try this weekend. So far so good (even if I feel like an old woman in a diaper).

However......

I have been wearing thongs for about 10 years now. (Ahh yes, loving that visual, aren’t you??) The only time I have not is the two weeks after Vivienne was born. And that was really only out of necessity.

So, I found it impossible to keep the “pee pads” in place while wearing (even the fat girl version of) the thong. I cracked out those big ol’ underpants and have been wearing them for 3 days. They are ridiculously humorous and if I had no dignity and no sense of embarassment, I would take pictures. Thank goodness that I have a healthy dose of both, for all of our sakes.

The really sad part? Phil thinks that they are ‘cute’.