come and snigger with me at what Eve magazine thinks new mums should wear

[Cappuccino]

okay the fun starts with:

'A super-stylish maternity leave' - after the birth buy 'an oh-so-soft tracksuit in velour or cashmere (go on - it's an investment buy'

okay so when can a velour tracksuit ever be right?

and how is buying a piece of clothing in a size you hope you'll never be again an 'investment'

it goes on

'wear your jeans with a 'wow' top that you can dress down with a vest underneath'

and there is a picture of a woman in a white top costing £95 for her baby to puke down

doesn't look particularly washable either

by the second page we are wesring the most hideous dress imaginable in a vile print because it 'hides a multitude of sins' (?!) and then we see a lovely woman in her trenchcoat and Mulberry bag which doesn't look a) like it is holding any nappies or b) like it is going to be looped over the handle of any pushchair anytime soon as she doesn't have one with her

oh and as if we hadn't thought of this, in the summer we should 'wear a sundress'

and buy waterproof mascara for the 'baby blues'

Agree about Woman and Home magazine.The fashion and in particular is great,shows there is life after forty!Was forty last week and have decided I quite like looking at glamorous 'older' women, not skinny teenage waifs.Think the fashion in Eve,Easy Living etc can be quite OTT,especially price wise.Still buy the mags though...

must say that is the one thing that annoys me about Easy Living - their fashion things are just too expensive.
Glamour may be ghastly in all sorts of other directions but at least half their fashion stuff is high st and reasonably affordable.

Mrs Badger! Was just about to send you an email!

how happy my dd is with her stable!! You have never seen a child more pleased!!

I cried when, several weeks after the birth of DD2, I still had to wear either maternity trousers and a baggy jumper or DH's jeans (he asked me to never wear them again as I looked so hideous). I love these cloud-cuckoo land articles. How deep are our pockets supposed to be? And how interested are you in your appearance when you feel like shit and sleep-deprived. I was just depressed that nothing fit me, and I always looked horrible anyway, so what was the point. Add to that stitches, a post-baby menstruation that passes 10 gallons of blood a day for about a month and leaking boobs and I would think that washability/disposability were the highest pre-requisites of any clothing purchase. And, like was said before, you are invisible behind a puschair, anyway.

glad to hear it Capp!

ooh I like the posh fashion

do you have a cashmere tracksuit Enid?

do you find it just the thing to wear when carrying your laundry around the house?

nott he eve posh fashion the easy living stuff

I do not posses a tracksuit cashmere or otherwise

I hate this crap. We are women so we can give birth and look after our young, not so we can be easy on the eye for all the men out there. We look like we are supposed to when we have given birth. If any mummy was seriously reading this book instead of getting to know her newborn, I would be concerned.

THis reminds me of my case that I packed for the hospital. After I had dd and had been cleaned up the midwife asked if I had a nightie " I had packed a Janet Reger white silk slip with matching gown- she looked at me and said this is your first isn;t it. my other option was a white cotton embroidered mother earth type gown with matching robe!

Don't panic - I've found one and it's reduced too!

To £245..........

so that's all right then.

Wonder if you can wash it at 60 degrees

Yes, you could wash at 60degrees....and then it would make a perfect babygro

Whenever I read one of these magazines I feel utterly deflated afterwards. I'm sure they're supposed to inspire and motivate but they just make me feel exhausted.

I always come away thinking:

• I need to diet
• I need more exercise
• I need to be more fashionable
• I need to achieve more
• I need to care more for the evironment
• I need to be a better parent
• I need to have more sex
• Need to be a better friend/daughter/sister

And I get semi motivated - sort of in a new year resolution type way - to do all of the above, and then life starts up and I return to my normal average achievement self (who incidentally I'm not unhappy with until I read who i should be) and I vow not to buy another one.

twinsetandpearls - LOL at your white slip nightie and matching dressing gown

JoshandJamie - agree with your stance on glossy mags (though doesn't stop me buying masses of the stupid things). Whenever I look at the fashion pages I wonder who the hell (a) really goes out looking like that and (b) can really afford things like that. Quite often one of their outfits can cost about £1000 when all added up!

As for cashmere tracksuits as a post-partum outfit someone is having a laugh...

I agree there were lots of very impractical clothes in this article, but I really liked the idea of an article focusing on pregnancy & post baby style. Does anyone have any suggestions of USEFUL post baby outfits? I am 27 weeks pregnant with second baby and can't remember what I found useful last time, was also different time of year, but do remember finding it hard to find things I could breastfeed in without exposing my tummy (not a good feeling). Any ideas? Think it is best to do some shopping before the baby arrives... Also would like to get some decent slobbing out clothes (but maybe not a cashmere tracksuit!!!), any thoughts?

Pannacotta (yummy name)

I find for breastfeeding, layering is good. So, a t-shirt with a cardigan/fleece/cotton shirt over - anything which opens in front.

Then you can unbutton the top layer a bit, pull up the T-shirt and feed comfortably without displaying acres of postnatal tummy!

I like cotton pyjamas to slob in.

PMSL at cashmere trackies - who the hell would think that might be a good idea?

How refreshing it would be to find an honest article that doesn't make new mums feel inferior. My DS's 5 and I STILL don't give a shit about my appearance. wonder if that's why I'm single...

my kids are all school age now and i still do the school run in my pyjamas sometimes

but only in the mornings....

lou33

That kind of article would make me want to tear the whole magazine into small pieces then burn them.

Good Housekeeping......yay. Worthy but dull, yes.

100th post woooooooooo

lol

I had a good top from H&M that had an overlapping bit over the boobs so you could pull it down rather than up.