Novelty Maternity Shirts

The World of Stylish Maternity Wear Can Be A Lot of Pressure

It used to be that you just couldn’t find stylish maternity clothes. Not true today. Currently, you have all sorts of maternity clothing options from maternity evening wear to maternity business suits to even fancy maternity lingerie. It’s easy to be perfectly in style no matter what you’re doing during your pregnancy.

However, this gigantic amount of cool maternity wear, along with all the photos of celebrity mamas you see in the news and on television, can be a lot of pressure. You may feel like you always have to look perfect. Fact: even though you can be up-to-date on the latest and greatest maternity wear, doesn’t mean you always have to dress up. Fact: even a certain miss Angelina Jolie dresses her pregnancy down once in a while.

Your main job during your pregnancy is to take super special care of your health and that of your baby. That means relaxing at some point and you’re not going to relax all that well in heels and fancy skirts. Maternity tees are easy, comfortable, and go perfect with jeans, shorts, and even a nice basic skirt. And just because you simplify with a basic maternity tee shirt doesn’t mean you have to completely forget the fun of fashion. That’s where novelty maternity shirts come in.

Why Novelty Maternity Shirts?

Novelty shirts are usually just a wee bit more fun than your basic shirt. They tend to have fun sayings about cravings or can even deliver a direct message to totally obnoxious strangers, such as, “Hands off my belly!”

Besides fun, other perks of maternity novelty shirts include:

• Cost: Most are inexpensive so you can stock up.
• Variety: Novelty tees come in a rainbow of colors, sizes, designs, and tastes. Long sleeves, bright purple, scoop neck...there’s a perfect maternity novelty shirt for you out there somewhere.
• Ease: Most of these shirts are completely wash and wear. No fuss, no muss.
• Growth: Maternity tees, versus other maternity wear, grow with you in more ways than one. You can usually wear maternity tees from early on in your pregnancy and they’ll stretch along nicely with your growing belly. Later, after your baby arrives, they can double as sleep wear because they won’t actually look maternity.

Find Great Maternity Novelty Shirts

There’s almost no end to where you can find novelty maternity shirts. The following is just a small sampling.

Awesome and totally cute, the Buddha Belly Maternity T Shirt by Preggers n' Proud comes in tank, short, and long sleeve and notes “Lovin’ My Buddha Belly.” Sweet subtle colors too!

Mind the Bump has a wide variety of cute Kim Tees maternity tees with sayings such as:

• Spare me your birth story
• "We" are not pregnant
• No, I don’t know the gender

Hip Chick Boutique has many adorable maternity tees, some that are funky or have a bit of an edge to them. Tees such as "Rub my Belly for Good Luck", Foxy Mama, and a Funky Mama Maternity Tube are available

Bump maternity tees have been featured everywhere, are as trendy as a basic tee can be, and come in a wide variety of colors and styles.

MollyAnna has some of the best novelty pregnancy tees ever, many in organic cotton!:

• Sex Symbol-organic maternity tee
• Birth Control is for Sissies-organic maternity tee
• I Can Grow People-organic maternity tee
• Body by Baby organic supima cotton maternity tee

Gorgeous artsy maternity tees and some funny style tees are available from Etsy shop Flaunt It Maternity:

• Does this baby make me look fat?
• Baby on board – surfboard tee
• Sunny Hibiscus Flower Child print

Some random cool maternity novelty tees:

• Goddess With A Bump Pink Short Sleeve Maternity Tee
• Organic Blossoming Baby Belly Short Sleeve Maternity Tee
• Funny Maternity Shirts
• Muze maternity tees – each featuring a movie quote straight from classic Hollywood.