BF/Pumpers - Are you still wearing nursing bras?

teamsweet · March 2011

I was just curious. I'm hating mine as they aren't very supportive but it's too convenient for nursing and pumping.

ashnoelle · March 2011

Nope! And I haven't in months. They aren't supportive enough and now that I'm wearing real bras I feel better about my self-image.

Nursing and pumping haven't been harder with a normal bra for me. But there are certain types of bras that don't work. Hard to explain, you'd just have see which ones work for you. I can even pump free handed by making sure my bra cup goes over the breast shield. No devices necessary.

btw, I wear the more structured bras with the thin foam stuff in them. That's a terrible description.

missdanib · March 2011

Yeah, but I got really good, supportive ones (with molded cups even) so they aren't that bad. I am only nursing twice a day now, so I am ready to go back to regular bras but realized that my old bras dont fit, and I dont want to buy new ones yet since I'll be weaning soon. Just a couple of more months!

greengirl0909 · March 2011

Yes for convenience, but I hate them. They weren't great quality to begin with and at 11 months, they're all sorta dingy looking. Can't wait to be back in a regular, full of padding, push up bra!

ashnoelle · March 2011

missdanib:

Yeah, but I got really good, supportive ones (with molded cups even) so they aren't that bad. I am only nursing twice a day now, so I am ready to go back to regular bras but realized that my old bras dont fit, and I dont want to buy new ones yet since I'll be weaning soon. Just a couple of more months!

that's the description i meant!

bakedlaurabean · March 2011

No. They are too big now that my boobs shrunk back down. I wear demi cut bras and just pull them aside. It works well. I was happy to be done with the nursing bras. There was nothing sexy about them!

superned · March 2011

I wear nursing tanks still. I really hate lifting the shirt and having my stomach out, and my winter wardrobe is too full of turtlenecks to pull shirts down all the time.

I have already decided that my present for DD's first birthday is going to VS, getting fitted for whatever size I am now, and buying a bunch of nice, new, non-nursing bras!

rach10782 · March 2011

Yes. As soon as I am done BF I am going to go to VS and buy at least three new bras. I am one of those people that was never fitted properly and has probably been walking around wearing the wrong size since puberty. I'm 28 so that's shameful.

katcarls · March 2011

I still wear nursing bras but I SAH so I mostly wear camis or nursing tanks all day.

just.a.lurker · March 2011

I still wear nursing bras, but they are supportive and have the molded cups, so it hasn't been that big of a difference. My old bras are too small, so until I'm done nursing and get new ones, nursing bras it is.

yankeebaby2 · March 2011

I never wore them. For pumping I would take off my top anyway and scoop one out.

shirls · March 2011

I am still wearing nursing bras. Mine are molded cups and supportive. I can't wait to get back into normal bras though.

JMB22 · March 2011

I am, but only for convenience. My nursing bras aren't terrible, but they aren't cute or flattering.

dureem · March 2011

I finally started wearing a real bra again about 2 weeks ago. As comfy as my nursing bras are, I want to feel like my boobs are kind of my own at this point now. Plus my little girl only nurses twice a day, otherwise she gets pumped milk at daycare.