Bras

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Are underwired bras ok to wear still? I'm wearing a non wired bra at night for support... But what about in the day, is it still ok?

I wear my sleeping bra all the time now. Still some support but feels like there’s nothing on

The recommendation is to switch to a non wired bra as soon as you find out your pregnant. Apparently they interfere with milk ducts and make it difficult for your breath to produce milk. I'm glad I switched because my wired bras are now very uncomfortable!

I’ve been wearing a wired bra as i don’t feel supported wearing non wired. I hope to breastfeed and now worried about this. 🤔

@teabagfreak don’t worry about it, plenty of people use wired and still breastfeed. It’s not so much to do with preventing breastfeeding as it may block a duct and make you feel like shite... but they unblock. It’s just not pleasant

The guidance isn’t clear but I checked with my midwife, she said wear whatever feels comfortable. The NHS doesn’t appear to have an official view either way.

In the end I switched to non-wired around 30wks, but that was for comfort rather than anything else. I have pretty small boobs - still only 38B at full term so I’m not sure if that makes a difference.

I wore properly fitting wired bras for all 41 weeks when I was pregnant with my son - no issues and we breastfed for 15 months. I'm 28 weeks with #2 and I alternate between my nursing bras and wired ones depending on what's clean!

For what it's worth, I'm very busty (32HH-J at the moment) and feel more comfortable with the support.

My boobs are killing me at night now so will have to go and buy a sleeping bra today. 12 weeks. During the day I'm still in wired ones but they're getting pretty snug so I'll have to reconsider these too...

As long as they fit well you can continue to wear underwired bras through your whole pregnancy and whilst breastfeeding. The big issue is getting them well fitting.

I changed sizes every few weeks, so just bought cheap primark and asda bras but always ensured they fitted well. .

I HATE non-underwired bras so never changed out of them.

Got good milk supply, never got mastitis and successfully breastfed until 22 months (and counting!).

I had to buy underwired maternity bras at about 10 weeks, as I couldn't even sleep due to the pain. Wore them during the day and at night.

I bought the ones from Mothercare, and I loved them. Felt really supported (32EE) and the pain vanished.

My Midwife told me to stop wearing wired bras at my 1st appointment, if I wanted to breastfeed.

I'm pretty big (38G) and I can usually only wear underwired bras but have up about 6 weeks ago because I was so uncomfortable. I got some maternity bras - not nursing - out of Mothercare and they're amazing. Same kind of support as underwired but much more comfort.

Thank you for all your replies, it's good to know different experiences. 🙂