Can I wear an underwired bra yet?

[Umlellala]

Ds is 17weeks, well established bfing and feeds every 2-3 hrs. I tend to feed in piblic by hoiking my boobs out anyway, so can I wear an underwired bra now?

that's public, obviously.

As long as you make sure it's fitted properly you should be fine. I didn't wear wires whilst feeding but did so all the way through PG without any probs at all.

It's not the hoiking that's the problem , it's that underwires can compress ducts and lead to one of them being blocked, which occasionally can lead to mastitis.

I know lots of people wear underwires whilst bfing with no problems, but I never have, I fed ds for over 18 months and always wore a nursing bra.

I have just had a horrible blocked duct at 9 months in, I wouldn't do anything that could make them worse, but thats just me.

I reckoned that I could wear underwired ones again when I could fit back into the ones I already had! So after the end of BF for me.

That's what I wanted to know WildThings, it is to do with ducts isn't it? (Though I don't get how underwires, under your breasts, can block your ducts - maybe I need an anatomy lesson )

you can get underwired nursing bras so they cant all be bad for you

Even when mine were over a year, if I wore an underwired bra, I got a blocked bmilk duct within an hour or two. Would categorically say no unless you want to get mastitis!

I have since ds2 went down to 2 or 3 feeds a day. But have tiny boobs so maybe no weight to press down onto the wired bit?