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Maternity clothes?
==Daye== wrote:
On 09 Jul 2003 19:41:13 GMT, zeldabee wrote: I'm still wearing my prepregnancy Victoria's Secret bikini underwear. I'm 30 weeks, and comfortable with them so far. My butt is bigger, but I haven't reached critical mass yet. ) Allow me to warn you of something that happened to me. I continued wearing my underwear for a while. Then it was obvious that I was going to have to buy either bigger undies or go to maternity undies. After the birth of the baby and I went back to my normal clothes, my regular pre-pregnancy undies were all strectch out of shape and no longer fit. In fact, they wouldn't stay up anymore. Sigh... I had to buy all new undies again. Thanks for the warning...but I guess I'll jump off that bridge when I get to it. ) -- z e l d a b e e @ p a n i x . c o m http://NewsReader.Com/ |
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Maternity clothes?
"zeldabee" wrote in message
==Daye== wrote: After the birth of the baby and I went back to my normal clothes, my regular pre-pregnancy undies were all strectch out of shape and no longer fit. In fact, they wouldn't stay up anymore. Sigh... I had to buy all new undies again. Thanks for the warning...but I guess I'll jump off that bridge when I get to it. ) That's what I thought too when I read Daye's warning (which was kind of an "ah ha!" for me). Oh well, my current undies are far from fab. It would do me good to get some new ones! -- Em edd 9/23/03 |
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Maternity clothes?
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 19:22:37 GMT, "Em"
wrote: Oh well, my current undies are far from fab. It would do me good to get some new ones! Yeah, it was a great excuse to go out and buy new undies. DH asked why I needed them when it seemed that I had prefectly good undies in my drawer. I demostrated their lack of staying up. We went shopping that day. -- ==Daye== E-mail: brendana AT labyrinth DOT net DOT au |
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Maternity clothes?
"Em" wrote:
"zeldabee" wrote in message ==Daye== wrote: After the birth of the baby and I went back to my normal clothes, my regular pre-pregnancy undies were all strectch out of shape and no longer fit. In fact, they wouldn't stay up anymore. Sigh... I had to buy all new undies again. Thanks for the warning...but I guess I'll jump off that bridge when I get to it. ) That's what I thought too when I read Daye's warning (which was kind of an "ah ha!" for me). Oh well, my current undies are far from fab. It would do me good to get some new ones! Yes, it's not like they're hard to find... I would think, though, that mine would feel tight if I were stretching them out, and they're not. Then again, I've got somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 weeks to go, so who knows how much more I'll expand. -- z e l d a b e e @ p a n i x . c o m http://NewsReader.Com/ |
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Maternity clothes?
"==Daye==" wrote in message ... On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 19:22:37 GMT, "Em" wrote: Oh well, my current undies are far from fab. It would do me good to get some new ones! Yeah, it was a great excuse to go out and buy new undies. DH asked why I needed them when it seemed that I had prefectly good undies in my drawer. I demostrated their lack of staying up. We went shopping that day. -- ==Daye== E-mail: brendana AT labyrinth DOT net DOT au if I had demonstrated that to my DH, he would have told me he liked them better than before I don't think we would have gone shopping, at least not right away Edith |
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Maternity clothes?
But my underwear are
starting to become uncomfortable. Do you buy the same size in materity undies as you wore pre-pregnancy? How are they made? Similar to maternity pants w/an expanding panel? What about wearing bikinis that will go ~under~ my belly rather than over? (I'm accustomed to wearing high cut briefs.) I assume I'll need the support later. I never bought any special undies until the very end, just wore my regular ones (hipster or full-back bikini style) under the belly. I wanted cheap cotton grandma briefs for the hospital -- and even then I didn't buy maternity briefs, just regular ones in a plus size. I dunno about needing support -- for that you'd need a maternity belt, I think, and most of us don't bother. The maternity briefs are the same material and overall construction as regular briefs; they're just cut with more room in the front. They'd probably be much too big on you right now. Just go get some bikini style, or if having the waistband across your tummy doesn't bother you, the same style you're used to but in a size or two larger than your usual. I've noticed a little bit of tightness in my bras now, but nothing too major. When do you generally have to buy a nursing/maternity bra? Is there Buy bras that fit comfortably, and expect to buy new bras in several different sizes as your body changes. Don't bother buying nursing bras, unless you can't find an inexpensive regular bra that gives you enough support, until the last month or so. I wasted a lot of money on nursing bras that fit me midpregnancy and were too small by the time my baby was born! Well, actually, it wasn't a total waste, as I'm wearing those bras now -- my 2.5 year old is still nursing morning and bedtime, and my boobs are smaller again than they were when he was exclusively breastfed. some 'guideline' to figuring out what size you'll be (I plan on breastfeeding exclusively) when your milk comes in? Also, is the gain in the breasts strictly cup size or does it usally affect band size as well? TIA, Wendy On average, go up one band size and one cup size. (So, if you're a 36B now, you'd expect to need a 38C for most of the time you need a nursing bra.) But that is, of course, an average and YMMV. That's why the standard advice is to buy bras in the eighth month, when you can hope you're close to the size you're mostly going to be for a while. You will want something that is stretchy and/or larger for the first week or three when you are likely to get engorged. Many moms like Bravado bras for that; I found a different type that I liked better but if you look at the Bravados you'll see what I mean about stretchy. But after the first few weeks you will probably end up wanting something that is more supportive and looks better under a t-shirt. ;-) Try the Motherwear catalog (www.motherwear.com) if you don't have any local maternity shops convenient to you. Mall stores generally have less of a selection. Holly Mom to Camden, 2 yrs |
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