Pregnant In Heels.....my review

So it would only be fair that I acknowledge that I have watched every episode of Bravo’s “Pregnant in Heels” series.  I had to throw in my two cents on this one.  I went into this thinking that it was going to be primarily about Rosie Pope who has her own boutique for maternity clothing whose niche is that you can wear the garments after baby as well.  

After the first episode, I wasn’t impressed-but thought that I would give it another shot.  Now I purely watch it to complete the season but find myself turned off by the entire thing.

So this is the deal-on top of being a boutique/clothing designer Rosie Pope performs a variety of tasks to help the wealthy mom-to-be of NY with a very broad range of services on anything that they want for a price. 

After the first few episodes I found myself frustrated with the majority of the content and unable to identify with any of the clients or Rosie Pope herself.  The only time that I have felt some type of connection to her is when she is talking about the process that she is going through trying to get pregnant-but that literally is only like one minute of the half hour show.  I would have been interested in seeing that as more the focus and her clients secondary.  I would also say that it was a huge let down to see this person as a designer of maternity clothing (which let us face this fact-we just never see those designers anywhere!) not designing clothing!  We don’t even get to see her boutique or what/how it is doing unless she is sitting there for 2 seconds asking what the day is going to be like.  What a letdown!  I didn’t even realize that her clothing was what she was wearing in the show or that the niche was you could wear it AFTER pregnancy until a couple of episodes in when it was lightly mentioned when a client asked her to do a fashion show for charity.  

I had thought that the show was going to be more geared towards something like…well…”The Rachel Zoe Project.”  I never really got into that show, but when they would show the repeats I watched all of them because I found the fashion interesting.  I believed that the meld between fashion and motherhood would be right up my alley since that is where I am right now-attempting to start a clothing line and a new mother!  Boy was I wrong.

FRUSTRATING:

• ·         The new mommy quiz she does-it is unrealistic and just bottom line stupid.  It is obvious she is only going off of her children and her experience and not taking anything else into consideration-sooooo unrealistic.  I can’t think of a worse way to make a new mom feel like a complete failure and the bottom line is it serves no purpose!

• ·         Baby proofing for a newborn-REALLY?????  This is just absolutely ridiculous!  I know of NO child that comes straight from womb to running around your house the first week.  Yet again-just another way for her clients to feel like idiots and it is not necessary.

• ·         Lack of her fashion and boutique in the episodes

• ·         Smack talking-how on earth are you able to see clients after this shows on TV and you have called all of your clients crazy and out of control????  If I had paid for her services and heard her smack talk about me on Bravo after the fact…hmmmm lawsuit???

Anyways, that is just my little voice on the subject.  I was largely disappointed and had been excited about this series.  I keep holding out that something will change with the show, but I doubt it.  If it happens to come back for a next season…I won’t be tuning in.  The show has made it impossible to identify with anyone including the main star of the show!

Want to watch the episodes yourself..here is the link http://www.bravotv.com/pregnant-in-heels

The Mommy Blues

So I took a break from the posts because I had a lot going on and for lack of better reason just really needed to get organized.  I thought a lot about why I started the blog in the first place and what it means to me-and now I am back.  The break although small in duration had a lot of things happen on the baby front.  We attempted swim classes, started second foods and I can see teeth trying to emerge from my little one’s gum line.  Also during this time, my husband is starting his last semester for his Master’s program, he had a gout attack and things with my stuff started to get busy.

With everything going on and the craziness, this week I started off fired up and ready to go.  Monday everything was going well, I got some housework done that was long overdue-the endless laundry pile had finally been conquered; I got project lists setup and to-do for the week all ready to go.  Then Monday night hit.  My husband walked in the door - frantic with work he needed to get done and one of his classes found out that a paper they thought was due Friday was due by midnight.  With his group on the East Coast, this left little time and add drama and lack of organization to the mix and we knew it was going to be difficult.

I hit a panic.  The call that they do is through a WebEx and with us being in a one bedroom and the living room really being the only place I can play with Isabella-it also serves as our office.  I knew that it was going to be high stress trying to keep the dog and baby as quite as possible and even the microwave warming up a bottle is too loud.  I felt this deep sorrow that I had no where that I could just take Isabella that was setup for her and without knowing how many hours to be gone and that I had spent my entire energy on the day I suddenly got exhausted and missing my mother.  

So I took Isabella to target since I needed to get formula anyway and wandered up and down the isle’s to kill time.  She ended up falling asleep-which was a disaster because it was so close to bedtime.  We lasted an hour and a half out at the store and then I brought us back.  The rest of the night was trying to keep her in the bedroom with story time with the dog and trying to be as quiet as possible.  Due to the fact that she slept in target, she didn’t want to go down for bed and by the time it was all said and done I was frustrated with our living space, upset that I didn’t get to go out for a run for some alone time and although I hate to admit this-was frustrated that my husband didn’t have any Isabella time for the day.

When I woke up today, it was stormy and cold outside.  I looked around the house and although I have a ton of things to get done I really didn’t end up doing anything that I needed to.  When baby Bella went down for her first nap I tried getting out my sewing machine to sew, but ended up turning it off and going and sitting on the couch-TV off, music off and dealing with a bad case of Mommy Blues.

So what are the Mommy Blues about?  Why do they creep up on you and take hold?  When baby Bella woke back up again we had a great play time together, I felt better and then when she went back down again – same thing.  Now this is not an everyday thing.  It just happens every once in a while.  Luckily I have 2 great friends that I was able to text with today and not feel so alone.  Maybe I spend too much of my day with my baby being my entire focus, or maybe I don’t spend enough time with her being my entire focus.  Maybe I need to get out of the house more or maybe I do get out of the house enough.  With the new job of parent I don’t think that I will ever know the answers to any of this.

I find myself frustrated and annoyed with everything including myself.  I know this will pass, but hate that it even happens.

I questioned so many things today, if I needed to be a SAHM, maybe I should focus less on other things and more on my baby.  The list goes on and on.  Maybe there is something that is even deeper that I don’t acknowledge.  OR maybe I am just tired.  Who knows????????

Anyways, there really isn’t a point to this post other than how I was feeling today…but maybe that is why my real mother story is and maybe that needs to be shared so that if another mom is feeling the same way…she knows she isn’t alone.