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mrswarman07
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Maternity clothes
mrswarman07
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This is the first for us so I'm not sure about maternity clothes. I'm only going to be 5 weeks on thursday but I'm finding that I'm so bloated that some of my clothes are not fitting me at all. So, do I go ahead and buy a few maternity clothes or wait a little longer?
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Re: Maternity clothes
This is my second, and I'm only 4 weeks, and also feel super bloated and I'm struggling to comfortably wear some of my clothes. I already have maternity wear so I'm not facing the same dilemma.
If you want to get some clothes, go ahead. The only suggestion I have is too not buy too much. At the end of my first pregnancy, some of my maternity shirts wouldn't even cover my belly and some of the pants were getting tight. So you might want to buy them a little big.
I am 11 weeks now, and I found that for me the bloating kind of went away around 9 ish weeks, but I think it's starting to be replaced by actual bump, because my pants are still not fitting. (It feels different though...no longer feels like bloat, even if it still looks like I've been eating too much chocolate to people who don't know about the baby!) So for pants, I've been wearing the belly bands.
For shirts, I found that my chest got larger even before the BFP (that was my first pregnancy symptom) and I now have to wear button-downs with a cami underneath and the top few buttons open. This hasn't gone away when the bloat did. Tshirts are still OK for the most part.
I am just now starting to shop for maternity clothes, I think I will need them in the next couple of weeks.
A lot of non-maternity clothes now are early-maternity friendly. I've been looking for tunic-type or empire waist tops that I can wear now and also post-pregnancy, until I really need maternity sizing.
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If you don't want to go crazy, get the bella bands. You can get them at Target for pretty reasonable. They come in different sizes and 3 different colors.
I remember maternity shopping last time. I got a few things early on. My capri pants got too small eventually, so beware of that. I wore a lot of dresses.
This reminds me, I have to go through the few maternity clothes I kept. I gave all my stuff to one of my patients (she was hospitalized her whole pregnancy, from another city, and she lost everything to a robbery... she was so embarrassed when I asked why she kept wearing her hospital gown, I brought everything in the next day) except for my bathing suit, 3 pairs of work pants (now too small) and 3 work shirts, which I must try on. Can't wait to shop!
You could, but you might find the pants to be hard to keep up. You could get a Bella Band, though, which is a nice transitional piece of clothing -- it will help hold the preggo pants up until your belly gets a little bigger, or better yet, they allow you to wear regular pants but you leave them unbuttoned/unzipped and just held up with the belly band. I did this until maybe...17 or 18 weeks for my first pregnancy, until I popped and needed maternity pants for real.
By the way, I bought all my pants at Target -- couple pairs of slacks and a couple pairs of jeans, which got me through the pregnancy. They fit well the whole time. I normally do not shop for clothes at Target, but I found their maternity line to be comfortable and well-made. I also bought some preggo tee-shirts and tops there that i really liked. My other tops and sweaters I got at Motherhood Maternity.
You are awesome. That is all.
Oh, also....... I paid $45 for the jeans and I know I will need a larger size eventually, but I literally wear them every day. Knowing how much more comfortable I have been.......... if someone told me I had to pay $200 to continue wearing them I would go rob a bank and make it happen. The bella bands didn't work for me but seem to work for everyone else. I'm overweight so maybe they work better for smaller bodies.
Additionally................... get a new bra. I asked my doctor what I could put on my dry, painful, cracked nipples. She told me, "a new bra." She was right.