Maternity clothes and after baby

I found my preggy tops great for disguising the big pot belly I had leftover! Plus without the big bump to accomodate any more, the hung a little lower, so skimmed the hips nicely too! Most of my pants had adjustable waistbands (PP are great for those!), so I could just tighten after baby to fit again.

I had my baby at the beginning of December, so last winter I bought tops from glassons just one size bigger than normal and so will wear those again.   But anything I wore in the 3rd trimester either got way too stretched to wear now or I was completely sick of anyway and think I wore enough to get my moneys worth anyway! So I say you might wear the stuff you're wearing now later but accept anything bought in the last 3 months won't be worn again and maybe just pass on to a friend if you feel it's still got some wear left in it.

I was so grateful to have 3 friends give me clothes - and even then I was sick of everything!!

I had a couple of things that I wore heaps while preggy and then lived in for a couple of months after and they are now being worn for preggy #2. The first is Mobea 3/4 black merino pants, so comfy, didn't not go out of shape, hides the belly after birth, and they still look like new. The other was a mama2b hoody that buttons down the the front low enough to breast feed, also did not loose its shape. The other was maternity jeans that had buttons at the waist, they were max ones, found them good after cos they looked normal, not with big stretchy waistband.

So guess I found that those few quite expensive pieces of clothing were an investment so to speak and I am def getting my monies worth out of them.

I kept wearing my bottoms (so skirts and pants) but needed new tops as I went for the stretchy mat ones rather than loose ones...

I am off to Glassons next week as I noticed a top in there that would be great both now and after and should be relatively easy for bf.... One in each of the the 3 colours... So am keeping my original mat bottoms and getting some new tops.

I just bought things that were stretchy or in a bigger size, none of them seem to have stretched too much and I am still mostly wearing my "pregnancy" clothes now.

I did splurge and buy a couple of pants and some skirts from the PP maternity line, but they were low cut, so I'm also able to wear them all now too, they're not stretched at all thank goodness. Should still be all good for when we get round to number 2