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Maternity and babywearing coat

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SpaceDinosaur · 10/09/2016 18:34

Ok. I'm having a NIGHTMARE!!! I'm 5ft 8 and have loooooong arms and long legs. My current coat is from long tall sally.

I am looking for a coat, not an insert for my current coat (which is an obscure unmatchable colour)

I'm pregnant and would really like this coat to be....
waterproof,
have an insert panel for when I'm pregnant.
Have an insert panel for babywearing at the front
Have the ability to insert the baby wearing panel into the back.
And LONG ENOUGH... In the body to cover my bum well as well as long enough to touch my hands dammit!!!

I'm a 12/14

I'm finding loads online but they're all for "normal" length women. Or Noone gets back to me to tell me how long the arms are.

Any recommendations please?

OP posts:
AllTheShoes · 12/09/2016 09:59

Yes, Kindercoats are roomy. I had a small (I'm a size 10 normally but obviously bigger in pregnancy / after birth) and if I hadn't spent a lot of money on getting it posted from Germany I might well have swopped it for an extra small. It fitted a three year old and me in it without any trouble!

jingscrivvens · 12/09/2016 10:13

have to say I had never heard of a babywearing coat until today! I bought a XXXL mens coat from mountain warehouse when I was pregnant (I'm 6ft and was a 16/18 then and I have really long arms!). It did me right through a winter pregnancy, come the next winter DS didn't want to be worn so I didn't use it for that, but there would have been plenty of room for me and him to fasten it up if I had wanted to.

LotisBlue · 12/09/2016 10:14

My ds was born last winter and I'm afraid I never found the perfect coat. I made do with an extra large coat from a charity shop which was big enough to go around me and ds. Not very stylish but it did the job!

I'm with you on pramsuits in slings by the way - they work ok with baby Bjorn type carriers but not with a wrap type sling where the baby's legs need to be open wide. I did carry ds in a tuppence and crumble blanker but only on very cold days; mostly he just wore regular clothes underneath my coat, which is much better if you are going in and out of warm shops etc as you don't need to wake the baby up to take their clothes off when it gets too hot.

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