A way to look better in hospital photos with your new baby
Categories: Pregnancy & birth, Life & style, Celeb parenting, Mommy musts
Let's face it, very few women look like pageant material in photos taken at the hospital after giving birth. And it's not just the fatigue, puffiness, and lack of cosmetics (unless you're Christina Aguliera, who is said to have been in full hair and makeup during the delivery of her son) that is to blame, those hospital gowns wash out everyone.
A woman who didn't want to feel crappy knowing how crappy she looked in the standard hospital issue started Dear Johnnies, a company that specializes in attractive hospital gowns (or at least as attractive as one can reasonably expect a hospital gown to be.) In addition to the gowns, coordinating robes and wee matching swaddle blankets are available and would make a great baby shower gift.
Dear Johnnie gowns are even said to be packed in diva-extraordinaire Jennifer Lopez' hospital bag,so they even have the celebrity seal of approval!
And since you can wear them to the procedures to repair what pregnancy and childbirth destroyed, they are also recyclable. Yay for saving the environment!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Melissa 2-01-2008 @ 6:23PM
At first I thought this was kind of silly and funny, but now I'm thinking: The hospital gowns I had barely covered my pregnant belly and bulbous bottom. It might be kind of nice if these are meant to accommodate the belly. I spent an unfortunate amount of time walking the halls while in labor. It would have been nice to not be exposing myself the whole time.
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Carolyn 2-01-2008 @ 6:28PM
I'm all for fashion, but really - can we not have one day when what we look like doesn't matter? And surely if there is ever a day when that should be true, it is the one spent in the endless hard and painful hours of childbirth.
Besides, is a pink Dear Johnnie gown really going to hide the fatigue and broken blood vessels any better than a hospital issue one? Is your baby going to look up at you and be disappointed that your nightie doesn't match his swaddling blanket?
I admit I can be as vain as the next girl and spend too much time in life thinking about the jiggle of my thighs, but I can honestly say that when I was in my washed out hospital gown with my screaming & beautiful baby at my side I didn't think for one second about what a wreck I must have looked like.
Carolyn
http://www.momsontheedge.typepad.com
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queenoqueens 2-01-2008 @ 8:53PM
You go Carolyn!
And as for the gowns.....um, no.
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bko222 2-02-2008 @ 12:29AM
I had my baby at home, so I wasn't too worried about what I was wearing. These look comfortable, but they're still pastel and patterned. Yuck. Also, why take photos right after the birth? I have the sweetest memories of those few days, and photos of me looking like crap would spoil the recollection.
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