{"id":1328,"date":"2009-02-17T06:40:02","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T14:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.homewiththekids.com\/blog\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2009-02-17T06:40:02","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T14:40:02","slug":"what-i-learned-about-maternity-fashion-this-time-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homewiththekids.com\/blog\/what-i-learned-about-maternity-fashion-this-time-around\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Learned About Maternity Fashion This Time Around"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You get to feeling like an old hand at these things on a third pregnancy. Been there, done that.<\/p>\n<p>Except for all the little things that are just a bit different every time.<\/p>\n<p>This time around I had most everything I needed to be pregnant without buying much at all. Except maternity pants of any sort and nursing bras, each of those having aged rather badly during past pregnancies.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26x%3D0%26ref%255F%3Dnb%255Fss%255Fgw%26y%3D0%26field-keywords%3Dmaternity%2520pants%26url%3Dsearch-alias%253Daps&amp;tag=homewiththeki-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957\">Maternity Pants<\/a><\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=homewiththeki-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Does the fashion have to have them cut so low?<\/p>\n<p>Most ways this didn&#8217;t bother me at first. Maternity shirts are generally long enough that the height of the pants really didn&#8217;t matter.<\/p>\n<p>Until my stomach got big enough that the wide elastic started rolling down. And until winter hit, and anything not long enough as a shirt or sweater, or just too loose meant cold air along my stomach.<\/p>\n<p>I now really and truly loathe low cut maternity jeans. They were less comfortable than the ones that always covered my stomach, yet really don&#8217;t look all that different. All that ugly fabric should be covered by a maternity top anyhow.<\/p>\n<p>And to make things worse, they are amazingly uncomfortable after a C-section, when regular clothes still don&#8217;t fit. That low riding elastic is rough on the incision when it&#8217;s healing. I&#8217;ve had to resort to my husband&#8217;s sweat pants and my Ren Faire elastic waisted skirt to be even slightly comfortable.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26x%3D0%26ref%255F%3Dnb%255Fss%255Fgw%255F0%255F7%26y%3D0%26field-keywords%3Dnursing%2520bra%26url%3Dsearch-alias%253Daps%26sprefix%3Dnursing&amp;tag=homewiththeki-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957\">Nursing and Maternity Bras<\/a><\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=homewiththeki-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These things are just miserable to shop for. Generally unattractive, and just to be different from maternity tops, they&#8217;re often designed to cover rather a lot. Why is this when so many maternity tops seem to take advantage of the more generous cleavage of most pregnant women? It&#8217;s kind of a contradiction to be stuck with bras that mostly show up under such tops.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me started on the constant presence of underwire when you&#8217;re strongly encouraged to avoid underwire when breastfeeding, so as to avoid mastitis. It took some searching for me to get around that one with nursing bras. It&#8217;s hard to get good support without that underwire, making things even more challenging.<\/p>\n<p>And whatever you do, don&#8217;t get me started on cost of maternity clothes in general. I am so glad that I saved most of my maternity wear from past pregnancies. Saved me a lot of money I&#8217;d rather use on clothes that I can keep wearing for years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You get to feeling like an old hand at these things on a third pregnancy. Been there, done that. 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