To ask what you wore straight after giving birth ?

Haha I did just this I had intention of swishing out of the hospital a la Kate Middleton in lovely dress and shoes wore my husband's tee shirt some awful doggies and slippers.

I wasn't really fussed about "hiding a post partum belly". I grew a baby in there its nothing to be ashamed of and it did come back in a lot in the first month.

I just kept wearing the maternity jeans a bit longer. Who cares?

Maternity clothes to leave the hospital, then I think a mixture of that and baggier clothes, Also it will be autumn by the time you look up again.

Dresses no good for breastfeeding, unless you don’t care about exposing yourself.

My biggest tip if breastfeeding is to wear a vest top under a baggier top. Slide the vest top over your boob (but you’re still covered at the top by the t shirt. The pull the baggy t shirt up at the bottom to stick baby on the boob, while your tummy (that you might not want to look at for a while) is covered by your vest top.

I had friends with breastfeeding tops and breastfeeding capes, but this was always far more effective (and cheaper!). I could do it in company without exposing any flesh.

Maternity clothes I wore before having the baby… my tummy looked like a deflated balloon ! You need to feel comfortable

Loose clothing , probably maternity clothing

I left in jogging bottoms and a hoodie haha. One thing I will say is make sure you are planned for both types of birth. I had an emergency c section at the last minute and hadn’t planned for this so had no big knickers (to go over the scar) and clothing wasn’t very nice to wear on the scar either. Hope all goes well! 😊

Leggings and a baggy jumper but I was back in my pre pregnancy jeans within a couple of days.

Hyperemesis has its compensations for 9 months of misery.

Loath leggings with a burning passion unless for exercise.

Trousers and a blue top and pumps. Oh and we went home via Costa - needed a decent coffee after 2 days on rank stuff. Remember this bunch of old ladies cooing over DS - they hadn’t seen a kid that new since their own!

I wore loose jogging bottoms, a loose top and a hoodie in the car home. From there on I was in pjs for a week.

I’m the same boat OP - I’ve rotated a few maternity summer dresses but don’t think they’ll be the right thing to wear when my baby arrives in a couple of weeks. But equally don’t want to spend a fortune on clothes I might not wear for long.

I’m planning on wearing wearing maternity leggings (having a c section so need high waisted things) with some nursing tops or vests & then cardigans. I’ve not ordered them yet but seen H&M leggings recommended from here. I’ve also ordered some nursing t-shirts from Shein

I left the hospital in pyjama bottoms. At home I either live in leggings or pyjama bottoms. I'm still wearing my maternity clothes six weeks postpartum. 😂

Maternity clothes. They were the only thing that fits.

I had these floaty, hippy style trousers which had shirring all around the tummy and bum area, so they expanded and shrunk with my bump.

I think these were the ones I got. They were ridiculously comfortable for in hospital and around the house.

On top, if breastfeeding then I found the easiest and most comfortable clothes were a soft bralette, a stretchy camisole and a tshirt on top - that way you can just pull out a boob without faffing around with clasps and different styles of nursing clothes. Bralettes like this worked best for me - something with a deep V in the middle so you can just pull your boob over the top. I have smallish breasts, though, so this might not work for everyone.

At home in the early days I would often wear just the bra with a long cardigan over the top for warmth, and for snuggling my newborns in. (And now I'm feeling very broody thinking about it )

A lot of dresses. Jersey wrap dresses were good for breastfeeding, I found.
And very big pants but my god I hated those, uncomfortable things, made me feel less like myself than most other things 😂 I had a c-section so not masses of choice of course.
I could wear my jeans again 3 weeks pp… but I certainly didn’t want to until a little later!!

Just my normal clothes

A lot of baggy button up shirts - can unbutton to breastfeed. Leggings, joggers or pj bottoms.

My bump literally went down before my eyes both times! I was expecting to still have it but nope! (I'm fat now ten years later so I can say this without sounding all smug I promise!).

Leggings a vest top and a loose shirt were my outfits of choice!

In terms of tips, I was breastfeeding and mostly wore H&M breastfeeding vests with a jumper over the top.

Stretchy leggings and a long shirt. Sometimes with a long cardigan over the top. Leggings were comfy and helped, along with big pants, to keep the enormous maternity pads in place. Shirt was long and to covered up the maternity pad and unbuttoned for breast feeding.

DS2 was an emergency c-section and so it was back to leggings again as I just wanted something soft on my stomach. I think I was back in normal clothes in a couple of months, but those early days were all about comfort and things I could curl up and nap in.

Maternity leggings - you still have a bit of a bump (NOT fat, your uterus) for a week or two afterwards. Obviously smaller than when you were full term, but trousers with a soft stretchy band work well while it is going down.

Big joggers, loose top. And get loads of those big maternity pads. I went through mountains of them. Needed them for about 6 weeks

I embraced the leggings and joggers, and bought some new pretty nursing bras and tops, and nighties and pj’s. (I’m one never to usually leave the house in leggings / joggers, and was back to normal within a few months, but just embraced comfort dressing for the early weeks)!

I didn’t care about getting “back in to shape”. You’re recovering from childbirth, not dieting for a holiday. During an 8 day hospital stay I lived mostly in pyjamas and nighties, then at home it was whatever was comfortable with a massive episiotomy and leaking breasts.

My daughters nearly 4 months and I’m still in the big pants 😂

My bump went down before I’d even left the hospital so my plan of wearing my maternity joggers home didn’t go well because they didn’t fit and kept falling down so I left in PJ bottoms. I just wore my pre pregnancy leggings once I was home. I’ve since bought some that have a nice thick waistband to help support the jiggly tummy. Even though my bump went right down I’ve still got some loose skin and I liked the extra support when recovery from my section.

Take a couple of options with you for leaving the hospital as you might still have your bump or it might be totally gone. Same for afterwards really, you don’t know what your body is going to do. I’m 6kg lighter now than when I fell pregnant but I’m a totally different shape so things fit differently and there’s some things I wore pre pregnancy that I’ll never wear again.

Maternity leggings, baggy tops, flip flops for hospital. I remember wondering this exact thing!