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    Posted: 02 September 2007 at 8:55pm

Hi,

I was just wondering if there is a certain time that you should stop wearing underwire bra's?  and... when is the best time in your pregnancy to start looking at maternity bras?
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My midwife told me to stop when I was about 12 weeks
My beautiful 2 girls...nearly 4 and 13 months
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I wasn't told this and I wore an underwire bra right up until I gave birth. I started looking for maternity bras quite early on but got bigger sizes because I knew I would go up in size. I didn't breastfeed so had no use for them at all anyway.
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I'm sure I was told to stop early on, but no way am I stopping with DD's to support! Imagine gravity taking over
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my consulting midwife told me to stop but my midwife doesn't seem to be worried. I think that like most things there is a big element of what you're comfortable with.

Given that I'm now an H cup there's no way I'm changing to a non underwire - no underwire is completely ineffective and very uncomfortable (I had a soft cup bra at the 10F size and even then it was useless).

I've heard the best time to look at maternity bras is in the 8th month - you can go and get fitted professionally and by then you should have a fair idea of your size.

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36/38 weeks...cause by then they should be as big as they are going to get (pre milk)...but i dont know about the underwire. i thought it was only inadvisable after your milk had come in.

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I heard in the third trimester but since i got pregnant mine are very uncomfortable so have been wearing maternity(I'm a 20E atm) and yeah maybe that's why I'm leaking already:)
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I was pretty much the same as you Anna, then again, my boobies got alot bigger even early on, I will be glad when I can get back into a "normal" bra though!
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I bought my maternity bra at about 25 weeks? my normal under wires were starting to dig into me and become really uncomfortable.

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I moved to non underwire in the second trimester. I got advised by a woman in a specialist bra shop that underwire can interfere with milk production & contribute to mastitis. She said not to get fitted for a maternity bra until about wk 36.

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My MW said that when ever you start feeling uncomfortable with an underwire than change...just what ever works for you.
       
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Thanks everyone - that helps. 

I'm DD at the moment, still wearing underwire and think I'll keep wearing them for a bit longer. 

I don't know why the Pamela Andersons of the world pay all that money for boobs.  I'll be glad to be back to normal size.
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