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How long were you wearing maternity clothes for after birth?

41 replies

MyDingaling · 04/08/2008 14:20

Not sure this is the right place.

I have just had DD2 (13 days ago)and I can't get into any prepregnancy clothes. I know it is very early but I am sure after DD1 I could get into something.

Please do not reply if you walked out of hospital in your size 8 jeans

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Pinchypants · 05/08/2008 10:06

Didn't get back into pre-pg jeans with DD for months. After two weeks, though, was sick of wearing stretchy clothes and my mum suggested I just go and buy a couple of cheap outfits in my 'interim' size so at least I felt human again. Am due in a couple of weeks and will be buying another pair of New Look jeans for the princely sum of £15 to wear with all those hideous bf-ing tops.

This time I also have the secret weapon of the Agent Provocateur post-pg girdle that DH very kindly bought me for Christmas after DD was born. She was nearly five months by then and I was just flabby rather than still looking pg, and I'm looking forward to making more use of it. God only knows why it was designed with poppers on undercarriage, though...

twinkleymum · 05/08/2008 10:16

DD 9mo still cannot wedge myself into my pre-pregnancy clothes. Am in denial and refuse to believe that I wont get back to a size 10 so haven't bought any interim clothes, hence still in maternity clothes . Its getting to be a bit of an obsession actually, I dont overeat but dont get chance to exercise, think this is the problem.

Niceychops · 05/08/2008 11:08

oh God, a good six weeks! Don't worry after 13 days!!

witchandchips · 05/08/2008 11:18

moved out of maternity clothese quite quickly (sent dp to tescos as soon as i got home). Shape hadnot changed but texture had. Solid pregnancy bump quite sexy, big jelly belly a bit yuck. Think i was in my pre-pregancy clothes by about 3 months (but with a couple of spare tyres). Due to magic of breastfeeding (and baby that never slept!) was thinner than before I got pregnant by around 7 months

pigleychez · 05/08/2008 12:55

DD was born 12 days ago and im back to my prepregnancy weight.

Im wearing my maternity jeans ( ones with the button elastic) on the smallest hole, just to be comfy. Havent tried pre-preg jeans on yet but pretty sure they would fit.

Tops are back to my normal ones. Tummy is pretty flat but needs alittle toning.

Havent been trying though... must have been lucky

LadyThompson · 05/08/2008 13:02

Pigleychez, no disrespec' to you (good luck to you in fact) but you are precisely the reason why I should STAY AWAY FROM THIS THREAD. I was a size 10 before I got pregnant. I will not be a size 10 twelve days after the baby is born (far from it). And I am having a cs so won't be able to exercise properly for ages.

Feel like a complete blimp now.

bohemianbint · 05/08/2008 13:12

LadyThompson - if it makes you feel any better some bag in Tescos asked me when I was due - 4 months afterwards.

cheerfulvicky · 05/08/2008 15:59

This thread is cheering... I was size 10-12 before pregnancy, and now at 38 weeks I've put on 3 stone so far. I know it's not going anywhere in a hurry after the birth, even though I plan to breastfeed. Just nice to, you know... realize I'm not alone

Ohh yeah, and I'm dreading the "when is it due?" comments I might get post birth. Wouldn't have a clue what to say and would be so embarrassed for them and for me

LadyThompson · 05/08/2008 16:24

Yes, I've wondered how I am going to cope with that.

I don't think I'm going to suffer in silence though. I think I will just give them a Paddington Bear then lay it on the line and say "I had my baby x months ago and what you have said is incredibly demoralising". I will feel better and they won't ever do it again.

I have actually made a private pact with myself to be slimmer and more toned (eventually) than I was before I was pregnant. But I know it's going to take me a very, very long time.

MrsSprat · 05/08/2008 16:33

3 or 4 months and I was still pootling around in maternity stuff (mainly bottom half). Then, thought stop-the-rot and bought 2 larger than I would like, but properly fitting trousers which I lived in for 2 months.

They are now way too big. Hoooray. So bought clothes to fit in summer sales, that may be a notch above where I want to be; but then we'll see how things stand when Autumn rolls around and I'll need a back-to-work look. I was feeling very deprived after a year of not being able to buy non-mat stuff.

OurHamsterisevil · 05/08/2008 19:57

I refused to wear maternity clothes after having DS1. I had to buy clothes in a bigger size for a while. A looonnng while.

Alishanty · 05/08/2008 21:16

About 3 mths. Was a bit surprised as I'm quite slim and didn't put on much weight but my stomach took a while to go flat again, even though there wasn't much fat on it and my hips seemed wider. Sometimes it just takes a while for your body to go back.

FloriaTosca · 06/08/2008 08:23

For those that need an excuse; Slimming World magazine had an article a few months back about how sleep deprivation causes us to eat the wrong things (something about brain chemistry and needing the energy but going for the wrong sort...sorry still got baby brain (along with baby belly)and cant remember it properly)but its a darned good excuse and with a 10 month old who has yet to sleep through even once and often sleeps for only 2 hrs at a stretch, I'm sticking to it!!!

ggglimpopo · 06/08/2008 08:40

Ages and ages after the last baby - with the other five, I was out of mat clothes in a couple of weeks, this time round it took about four months! And I did nothing different. Maybe it is age - am very old....

I was beginning to totally despair, when out of the blue I lost all the baby weight in one foul swoop and am back to skinny again.

Bluebutterfly · 06/08/2008 08:49

I am back in my normal size jeans now! But ds is over 3!

I was in maternity clothes for about a month, then I had to buy a few larger items because I did not fit in my pre pregnancy clothes until I stopped bfing ds (at 10 months)He also walked at 10 mths and running around after him helped shift the last 5lbs excess ifkwim.

I put on 30 lb with ds (but he was 9lbs of that).

If you had a large baby it can take longer to lose the weight, and bfing can also make it harder because no matter how healthy your diet you tend to be ravenous all the time!

OldGregg · 06/08/2008 09:06

Can't remember after DC1 & 2. Certainly after DC3 I still had to wear some maternity clothes for a couple of months (ie. long floaty skirts with stretchy waists, not smock dresses which shout 'I Am Pregnant And Still Think It's 1974). It was very dispiriting.

I had DC4 10 weeks ago and was out of maternity clothes immediately, purely for my sanity, plus I have a more forgiving wardrobe these days. (But I was back in last summers unforgiving clothes within a couple of weeks ).

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