Underwired nursing bras - any experience?

[Shivs1974]

DD2 is 1 this month and I'm bfeeding morning & evening. Just wondered whether anyone has used an underwired nursing bra.....would quite like to hoist my breasts from around my waist back to a more normal position but don't want the hassle of having to unhook a normal bra at the back to feed.....Does this make any sense????

Can you actually get underwired nursing bras???????
I thought underwiring was bad while bf????

You definitely can get them - Anita Maternity do them. I was thinking that after a year of bfeeding it probably wasn't as bad as in the early few months - but am more than happy to proved wrong

Have been wearing the anita ones from about 10 weeks as soon as I wasn't getting engorged.

No problems. It is lovely wearing nice bras.

I wear a normal underwired balconette style bra and just flop em over the top they have to be properly fitted though (wires flat to your body and well away from the breast) works fine but I'll probably need the opening ones when DC4 arrives. The underwire thing is about poorly fitted bras pressing on the breast tissue.
Lisa x

well you learn something new every day!!!
I am going to go shopping deffo!!! it's been years since I wore I nice bra - literally!! ds3 is nearly 2 and I didn't stop feeding in between him and dd2 who is nearly 7 months!

I had the anita underwired nursing bras and they were great.

ooh ooh ooh, proper bras (LOL Shivs, know whatja mean - for me its the knees getting chafed not even as high as the waist )

So are Anita bras online?

And any tips on measuring? Just before getting preg I went to Bravissimo for my large puppies and found it a revelation: much smaller chest size but bigger cup. Problem is though the chest size bit fits very tight in their measurements and so didn't work as well while BF (got somewhat sore underneath and had to switch back to larger chest size but smaller cup)

I will wait until supply fully settles down (now 10 wks) but it did with last two babies so confident I can try and underwire...

Thanks for the tip off.

i wore normal underwired t shirt bras and just pushed the cup aside to feed. this was once feeding was well established, not before 4 months i think.

I think the main reason we don't tend to wear underwired nursing bras is that if they fit incorrectly, and the wire is causing pressure on your breasts it can trigger blocked ducts and then mastitis etc. I still nurse my two boys and for the last 6 mths have been wearing lovely underwired bras and just lift up the cup when I feed, however my milk supply had certainly settled as ds1 was 18mths and I wasn't feeding as often. I do tend to rotate with non-wired nursing bras though. I think as long as you let your milk supply settle and are more aware and looking out for tender patches etc from the wires, then you should be fine..
I've heard that in America you can usually only buy underwired bras..

sorry, just re-read that your dds is 1 mth, I would leave it a bit longer until your milk supply has really established (maybe 3-4mths), however everyone's breasts are different. I used to suffer from engorgement and tenderness for probably the first year, depending on the frequency of their feeding and only contemplated a underwired bra around 18mths.