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Calling All Bright Young Minds

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I have a unique opportunity and I need some help taking full advantage of it.

I’m less than an inch over five feet tall and I have huge babies–10’3 and 8’15 (but that one was two weeks early). Consequently, I don’t look pregnant. I look like a caricature of a pregnant woman.

This baby will be delivered on November 3rd. Which means that on Halloween, I will be seriously, comically, horrifically pregnant.

So what I am looking for: a Halloween costume that will do justice to my situation. Ideas?

22 comments for “Calling All Bright Young Minds”

  3. One of my friends won a costume contest while hugely pregnant dressed as a Christmas tree. Don’t know where she got the green dress or whether she used any pine boughs, but she pinned her own decorations all over herself and wore her tree topper as a hat. Might not be the most comfortable thing to sit down in, but staying on your feet for hours might bring on labor and that can only be good.

  6. Julie, I had a pregnant friend that came as an oven, with her belly painted to look like a bun. Her husband came to the party as a baker.

  7. You could go as a basketball hoop with a basketball inside or a globe of the world or heaven forbid, a Teletubbie. *grin*

  8. 1. Human leaf bag
    2. Belly dancer
    3. Pumpkin
    4. Wear black gown with hole cut out to allow belly to show; then paint belly orange or wear something orange over your belly and decorate it as a jack-o-lantern to look like you’re holding one
    5. Basketball player (cut hole in basketball outfit to allow belly to show, then paint belly orange or wear something orange over your belly to look like you’re carrying a ball)
    6. Bowling ball (husband goes as a pin)
    7. Bowler (cut out hole in bowling clothes to allow belly to show, then paint belly black or wear something black over your belly to look like you’re carrying a bowling ball)
    8. Sumo wrestler
    9. Humpty Dumpty
    10. Package (put a special delivery label on the brown box costume along with a label saying “Do not open until November 2004 [or the applicable date]”
    11. A bunch of grapes (purple sweat suit with purple balloons taped on)
    12. Atom
    13. Saturn (wear a hula hoop)
    14. Simply wear a sign reading, “Yes, I’m pregnant” or “If you must ask, Yes, I’m pregnant.”
    15. Clairvoyant (wear sign reading, “I can read your mind. Right now you’re thinking, “Is she pregnant”? The answer is yes.”)

  9. Wearing a costume where your belly is out is not a good idea – what with everyone wanting to pat it etc. You dont want the precious baby inside disturbed in any way.

  10. One of my friends went to a Halloween party dressed as Jonah and the Whale. She was the whale and the baby inside was Jonah. Have fun!

  11. My wife is due on 10/6. She thinks she looks like an ice cream cone. Maybe you could dress up as that.

    -Smac

  13. I say you wear a black cardigan, black leggings, let the belly hang out and paint it as a yellow-and-black internet emoticon.

  14. I was actually due on Halloween. I never dressed up. I was too depressed to still be pregnant (and so sick of hearing, “you’re still here”). I actually delivered on Veteran’s Day–11 days later.

    Anyway, if I could do it again I would dress up as a naughty nun. Or maybe a hard-boiled egg with my belly as the yolk.

  15. The old lady who swallowed the fly–you could do a flannel board with all the animals on your belly. :)

  17. I’m going to date myself here, but I’ve often thought a pregnant lady could pull off being the Fig Newtons’ Big Fig. Retro is soooo in these days…

  18. I have to second Kristine’s idea. So cute, so easy, and does not require a bare painted belly of any sort. (People, did you not notice that Julie said she’s REALLY pregnant????)

  19. My favorite costume is a baby blue shirt and pants with cotton ball sewn on. When you get asked what you are, you respond… Partly cloudy with a chance of showers, and you squirt them with a spray bottle.

  20. A variation on the Shelob idea — dress in black, paint a red hour glass on your tummy, and go as a black widow.

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