bras

I'm going to apologise in advance if this post gets disjointed and rambly, I've done virtually nothing all day bar some shopping and cook dinner, and I'm exhausted.

Anyway, I got a maternity bra today - my boobs are HUGE ! And yeah, I know they'll just get "huge-er" LOL

It's quite a nice one, by Bendon, in black because I didn't want a nana colored one :P It should see me right through.

So my question is, when did you ladies buy your first maternity bra? I know some people don't buy one until 6-8 weeks out from when they're due, but my normal ones were getting uncomfortable, and I figured it would be easy to invest in at least one now, and maybe another one later.

And since I can never hold back when I go shopping (well, almost never !), and because I finally found the perfect way to tell my mum, I picked up a couple of other things as well.

At Baby Factory I found these plain terry towelling newborn bibs for $2 each, and then took them to be embroidered - one with "I "heart" Grandma" ("heart" being the actual shape of a heart) for my mom, and another with "I "heart" Grandpa" for my father in law to be. It's his birthday on Thursday, so the timing could not be better !! I am of course a little nervous as to how he will react, but not as nervous as how mum might go :P I am telling her on Friday, the day after my FIL's bday.

I also picked up another book, 'Up the Duff' by Kaz Cooke. I really like her quirky sense of humor and had actually read it before. Anybody else have it? If so, what did you think?

And to top it all off, I couldn't resist these adorable little newborn booties when I was looking at bibs - they have the cutest yellow duckies on them and yellow piping with white fabric.

That's all I bought, I swear !!

I just had a nice warm bath (not too hot, I promise)... didn't stay in long as I was worried about falling asleep ! Lots of bubbles though which was nice.

Take care ladies and look forward to your responses !

Jax

But... plenty of time yet

Good luck telling your parents! They'll be over the moon!

Good luck with telling the news. I think the way your doing it sounds really special.

I brought my maternity bras about 3 weeks before i gave birth.

I loved reading up the duff. And read the chapters weekly to keep up with what she was writing. I read it with my second pregnancy. With my first i read what to expect when your expecting. I like Kaz Cookes much better.

I bought my maternity bras about 10 weeks out, before that I wore comfy sports bras.

I had the book too and loved it!! I would always read the relevant chapter before getting up in a Saturday morning as that was my ticking over into the next week day...

This is the one I had made for my mum...



And this is the one I had made for the future father in law...



and THESE are the booties that I couldn't resist !!

"they" reckon your boobs wil have got as big a they are going to (untill your milk comes in...) by about 35 weeks, I think. I wore sports bras from when I found out, as mine were SORE, but I didn't actually grow at all, just got a little "fuller".
I got a nice hot pink jobbie from loveable, and a nice triumph one that was only $26 - cheap for a maternity bra! October/november little treasure mag had a good article about bras, and all the dos and don'ts etc, and showed some ones that head been test driven (including my beloved loveable one).

I love the bibs, what an awesome idea!1 Cute booties, as well. One book I read, and loved was Belly Laughs, the naked truth about pregnancy by Jenny McCarthy (you know, the funny playboy scary movie 3 chick..)it was very very funny!!!

Lol i bought my maternity bra's from the outlet shop clearance sale at Bendon in Westgate about a month ago... If you bought 2, you got 1 free, and they were $30 each. Was worth paying that... they're REALLY nice bra's, and soooo comfortable. Lol they almost didnt have my size cuz i was 18DD before i got preggers (and im only 17!!!!)

I bought maternity bras only after quinn was born. I foolishly thought I wouldn't bother!! That didn't last long!! For most of my pregnancy I wore sports bras, and after birth I often wore those sports bra crop top things...

I found that in the first few months of preg my breats ballooned to about three times the usual size and then they slowed down a bit but after he was borna and my milk came in they just got massive!!

I ave the "Up the Duff" book as well I think it is a brilliant book

Hi Aimee. I'm afraid you will need those nursing pads until your supply settles down, which can take awhile. I think Alex was about 5 months old before I got away with not using them any more. I used the washable ones at night and sometimes stuck a couple in just in case. But for me I spent the first 3 months after Alex's birth sleeping on a towel! Sorry! Not much help I know.