Mat Bras - when?

Just a quick question as can't really find the info I am after:

When should you start wearing a maternity bra?

Do you need to if you are bottle feeding?

Thanks

I found I got to a stage when the underwire started to annoy me. I was suprised as I never thought that would happen...being large breasted, underwires were my friend! But I think the bumps gets up there and it feels constricted.

I guess if you are solely bottle feeding (without expressing) you might still need a maternity bra for the first few weeks until your boobs work out they dont need to make milk. A badly fitted bra can block ducts and cause swelling, abscess etc. Talk to your MW

I also got told the same thing about underwire bra's. I stopped wearing them a while back and have started using bra extenders, as they have got abit snug around my ever expanding torso (rather than spending even more money on upsizing)! I think I'll hold off buying maternity bra's until I'm at about 38 weeks. I wouldn't bother buying mat bra's if you're going to bottle feed, but would definately avoid underwire.

So it sounds as if I shouldn't be wearing my underwire bras anymore? I didn't realise that   

I wear mat bras now. Only cause ive never liked underwire anyway and these ones are comfy lol

I think wire is supposed to be ok as long as it sits outside your breasts. I found it hard to find a comfortable one so moved to non-wire bras, which are suprisingly nice an comfy despite large boobs, but do I feel like I'm sagging a bit.

I wish I'd thought of a bra extender before coughing up the $$ - that's a good idea!

I have only ever started to wear them once I've had the baby. But when I've started weaning the children & not feeding them during the daytime I've gone straight back into the underwire. I've never suffered from mastitis thankfully, but it can be caused from underwire bras blocking the ducts.