CPT: What's your preferred method of maternity pants-ing it?

bethughknee · November 2013

If you can't answer this poll because you are still in your regular jeans then please get in line for a throat punch. I jest. (Maybe.)

bethughknee · November 2013

MarBee1214 said:

I voted sweat pants! Unfortunately though, I have to wear real pants for 8 hours each day of the week...and in that case, I go full panel. But as soon as I get home, those suckers get replaced with my oversized camo hunting sweats. I don't even care....they are so comfy and I think I may never go back to my old sweat pants.

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Samesies. I'm lucky that I work in a super casual office so I only ever wear jeans or leggings (with my giant ass properly covered) but it's less than 10 seconds after I get home before I'm into either H's old soccer sweats or my VS boyfriend ones. I disarm my house alarm from an app on my phone so I don't have to waste even more time in my jeans! Woop, laziness!

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KEfam5 · November 2013

Full panel, they're the ONLY ones that don't feel like they'll fall down around my knees.

MrsGraham06 · November 2013

bethughknee said:

MarBee1214 said:

I voted sweat pants! Unfortunately though, I have to wear real pants for 8 hours each day of the week...and in that case, I go full panel. But as soon as I get home, those suckers get replaced with my oversized camo hunting sweats. I don't even care....they are so comfy and I think I may never go back to my old sweat pants.

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Samesies. I'm lucky that I work in a super casual office so I only ever wear jeans or leggings (with my giant ass properly covered) but it's less than 10 seconds after I get home before I'm into either H's old soccer sweats or my VS boyfriend ones. I disarm my house alarm from an app on my phone so I don't have to waste even more time in my jeans! Woop, laziness!

@bethughknee - what do you wear with your leggings, where did you get it from? I've had a hard time finding long enough shirts and sweater dresses.

PreDempsey · November 2013

My pre-preg yoga pants were the fold over kind and I'm so addicted to the full panel so I hike those mothers up. The spandex smooshes me back to looking blumpy so I'm not really a fan of them any more.

daltosostarby · November 2013

PreDempsey said:
My pre-preg yoga pants were the fold over kind and I'm so addicted to the full panel so I hike those mothers up. The spandex smooshes me back to looking blumpy so I'm not really a fan of them any more.

@PreDempsey - that's what I did for a really long time too! It definitely doesn't work as well anymore though.
Now when I'm not at work I wear huge sweats or maternity leggings (full panel) so comfy.

stellar77 · November 2013

Last pregnancy I didn't own a pair of Full Panel whatsoever. This pregnancy I just have to have them. I don't know why but I feel like I have better support?

LimeDrops · November 2013

I hate "full panel" because they only go like two inches above my belly button. #tall people problems. I use low panel or dresses with boots to leave the house.

MiaMyPuggle · November 2013

If I have to look presentable, then it is absolutely full panel. Low panel will be the death of me.
I wear my SAHM uniform: yoga pants and sweats!!!! And H's sweatshirts!

bethughknee · November 2013

MrsGraham06 said:

bethughknee said:

MarBee1214 said:

I voted sweat pants! Unfortunately though, I have to wear real pants for 8 hours each day of the week...and in that case, I go full panel. But as soon as I get home, those suckers get replaced with my oversized camo hunting sweats. I don't even care....they are so comfy and I think I may never go back to my old sweat pants.

edited for clarity

Samesies. I'm lucky that I work in a super casual office so I only ever wear jeans or leggings (with my giant ass properly covered) but it's less than 10 seconds after I get home before I'm into either H's old soccer sweats or my VS boyfriend ones. I disarm my house alarm from an app on my phone so I don't have to waste even more time in my jeans! Woop, laziness!

@bethughknee - what do you wear with your leggings, where did you get it from? I've had a hard time finding long enough shirts and sweater dresses.

I got a couple of tunic length shirts from ON and I usually skinny-belt those so that I look less like a lampshade. I also got a few shirts from Motherhood off a zulilly sale over the summer and they are REALLY long. Like cover my whole butt, long. I'm pretty short (5'2") so I think that helps, haha. They are a little tighter so I always wear a long cover-up with them. I don't buy any cover-ups from maternity stores though unless they are on super sale. I usually get them from Forever 21 or Target because they are cheap!

I think this is the style of the tshirts I have from Motherhood.

SoInLoveCJ2011 · November 2013

Definitely full panel! I don't want to feel like they are going to fall to my knees!

litzo27 · November 2013

I hate full panel with a passion. They just make me itch and pull. I especially love my under-belly Heidi Klum jeans from maternity I got during the last pregnancy. Sadly they don't make that exact model anymore so they get washed a lot. But I never found a good under-belly slacks/skirts so when I do have to dress up for work I suffer through the full panel.

bethughknee · November 2013

stellar77 said:

Last pregnancy I didn't own a pair of Full Panel whatsoever. This pregnancy I just have to have them. I don't know why but I feel like I have better support?

I only wore low panel or under-belly pants with my last pregnancy, too! The 7 years that passed between clearly changed my body shape or something haha. Well, I know it changed. I was 19 and a size 0. Now I was a 4/6 pre-preg. And I have a pretty round hind end for a white girl, I think that has a lot to do with it. The low panel pants just can't deal.

tootsscott · November 2013

I have one pair of low panel jeans, and they make me have to pee more than any other pair.. but they're the pair that looks the nicest on me right now. I'm quickly growing out of everything I own, so though i PREFER full panel jeans, and since I'm not working, I am wearing yoga pants 95% of the time.

Toribaker171 · November 2013

I bought fake jeans to wear for now..... Basically they're leggings with pockets that look like jeans.. They're comfy and hit right below the bump, so I just don't even care! That or I just wear sweats. Not like I have to put pants on often anyway. Benefit of bedrest, NO pants!

sugarland726 · November 2013

Full panel at work during the day, yoga pants the second I walk in the door at night, and yoga pants all evening.

mrsjenni · November 2013

I only like the Secret Belly Fit full panel pants.

thegosiers · November 2013

I voted full panel. So comfortable! The low panel pants dig into my belly plus they ride low (and somehow even maternity shirts are starting to rise up. How many more weeks????)

ac1259 · November 2013

So...even my full panel pants are falling down these days but I feel really stupid buying new pants for the 2 months left of this pregnancy...So I'm living in leggings and sweat pants in the house and full panel jeans out of the house. Being a SAHM can help with a cheap wardrobe, I don't have to look nice too often!

salsamommy · November 2013

Yoga Pants Rule My World!!! I bought 2 pairs that I could specifically pass off as "work attire"!

AnnikaD20 · November 2013

My full-panel pants are now 75% panel pants. I also love the preggings, but I can't bring myself to wear them to work. Maybe if I had some longer tops that covered my butt, but my bump is eating up most of the material in my maternity tops, and I can't justify subjecting my coworkers to my leggings clad panty lined butt.

bethughknee · November 2013

mrsjenni said:

I only like the Secret Belly Fit full panel pants.

These have definitely been my fav. Although my stubborn short legs fall somewhere between their regular and petite inseams so I have had to buy regular and hem them. Eh, whatever. They are still the most comfortable!

Also, I SWOON at your new sig!

cowscrub · November 2013

I only have 2 pairs of pants because the elastic/stretchy panel againest my belly is miserably uncomfortable! So pretty much this whole pregnancy, rain and cold included, I have been in dresses or long skirts.

MindyBadger1 · November 2013

I'm still doing a belly band and one size bigger on my pants... with only 6 weeks left, I'm hoping I'll never have to buy maternity pants. If I could, I'd live in sweats.. damn work

Hkula · November 2013

I voted sweats! But if I have to put on "real clothes" I go for the full panel. Those low panels are a joke! And I couldn't agree more with the throat punches for you regular pants people!

traumalady · November 2013

I live in yoga pants and sweatpants when I'm at home. If I do venture out all of my pants except one are full panel. The low panel pants are actually my favorite pair and stay up really well. I don't mind the full panel as much now that my belly is bigger but when it was smaller, the panel made me feel itchy and really constricted. I hated them then.

4lilmunchkins · November 2013

I voted yoga/sweat pants. I live in them unless I have to go out in public then I throw on the one pair of low panel jeans that fit me. I hate the full panel they make me feel itchy.

bethughknee · November 2013

KaitiMac said:

I voted "I don't wear pants" because I prefer to let the belly hang out in my robe when I work from home... it's super classy.

When I'm forced to leave the house, I wear full panel leggings or my one pair of mat jeans. I still fit in a few of my pre-pregnancy pants using the hair tie trick, so I've been able to stretch my wardrobe a bit. (flame-worthyyyyyy :P)

I had you in mind when I mentioned the throat punch. Flame! FLAAAAAAAME! (It's just jealousy. I miss my AE jeans! They fit my ghetto booty much better.)

mrsbeers · November 2013

I prefer the full panel..definitely most comfortable in the front. But I wish the panel in the back was taller...my front is so comfortable and then the back panel seems to roll down constantly thanks to the back fat I've obtained. I always try tucking it up in my bra but its out once I sit...or move. It makes me feel disgusting!

worleygirl · November 2013

I voted full panel bc that's what most of mine are. I don't mind low panel though bc I have a big ole booty that holds them up.

bethughknee · November 2013

worleygirl said:

I voted full panel bc that's what most of mine are. I don't mind low panel though bc I have a big ole booty that holds them up.

See I feel like my big booty is part of WHY I can't wear them well anymore. They were okay until about a month ago. (27 weeks?) Maybe it's just a weird line between where my belly and my big butt land on either side of my body. Ugh.

megngregk · November 2013

I voted low panel, but I'm really not sure that's what they are. I think they must be full, though they only come half way up my back and just above my belly button at this point, which annoys the everlovingshit out of me.

At home, yogas and sweats, baby.

mommabird77 · November 2013

Full panel. When I get home, I wear a nightgown. Not having anything on my belly makes me feel so much better. I also wear dresses at work a lot as well.

nancyvi · November 2013

I voted full panel. The low ones kept giving my belly a weird shape at the bottom. At home I was doing great in a t-shirt and panties, but now that it's getting colder I've started wearing DH's sweatpants/pajama bottoms. So comfy!!

Jen4033 · November 2013

I voted Sweat/Yoga Pants because that is my preferred since neither demi panel or full panel seem to be comfortable this time around! However I can't wear Sweat/Yoga Pants to work, so I'm just always uncomfy. The low demi panel digs into me & is terribly uncomfortable since LO likes to sit really low on me. The full panel is better in that regard, but it has just been annoying feeling it around the rolls that are forming on my back lately.

I seriously cannot wait til Jan!

Pinknights · November 2013

I use the full panel ones and fold them halfway, they stay in place, but by the end of the day they could use some adjusting. Low panel works fine on me, but it feels strange. I guess I have majically hips lol

wedbliss5 · November 2013

I am sans pants as often as possible, however I'm a full panel girl... which is graet since my shirts are not covering as much as they used to, so I need something to cover that severely pale map of stretchmarks going on.

cnctf · November 2013

I have a variety of them all. I dont use the low panel ones anymore because it digs into my belly. I love my full panels, but I do love my leggings also. I havent invested in maternity leggings, I just rock the regular ones.