# The swollen feet have arrived

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-swollen-feet-have-arrived/406845>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 5, 2007, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-swollen-feet-have-arrived/406845 "2007-06-05T14:52:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2007, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-swollen-feet-have-arrived/406845/61 "2007-06-07T10:15:22Z")

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[QUOTE=Duck Duck Goose]  
…as a Noob you don’t know something…  
[/QUOTE]

Not picking on you, but I’ve seen this in the Dope twice in as many days.

Newbie: someone who’s new and therefore inexperienced.  
Noob: the kind of asshole who does things like ask for help and then insult the voluntary helpers.

Being a newbie is mostly healed by time - for noobs, see my sig.

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**Author:** ![Velma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/85e7bf/32.png) [@Velma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velma)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2007, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-swollen-feet-have-arrived/406845/62 "2007-06-07T16:49:41Z")

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I always just bought the same size in maternity that I was pre-pregnancy. That’s what all the sizing charts told me to do, and it worked for me. I found that even though I gained kind of all over (I wanted to be one of those women who looks just like before but with a basketball in their shirt, but alas) the clothes were usually stretchy and very forgiving. I like actual maternity vs. just buying huge sizes or men’s sizes because the shoulders and stuff were usually too big then, but whatever works!

When I bought the whole rack of sale clothes though, I figured I was safe since I had worn Old Navy maternity last time I was pregnant, and also even if something didn’t fit, I had only paid $1.97 for it and I could always pass it along to a friend or something. Heck, at those prices I was tempted to buy it all and re-sell on e-bay.

I am working harder at not gaining as much weight this time. Last time I gained about 40 pounds and I think it made it a lot harder at the end, and it took me a while to lose it all even though I breastfed. Here’s hoping.

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