How do you manage your wardrobe if you are having babies?

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I have a lot of clothes. Which is a situation I’m quite happy with - I haven’t a minimalist bone my body. But I’m mid having babies and it’s all getting a bit much. As well as summer and winter and work and going out and casual there is a little pregnant, extremely pregnant, breastfeeding post baby, a size up for post baby, and back to my usual. I can’t follow the get rid of it if you haven’t worn it for a year / it doesn’t fit as it will fit and be my target wardrobe in a year, before the cycle starts again... I’m just wondering if there are any magic tips for this!

Put them all into labelled vacuum pack bags and store them until required.

My pregnancy clothes are vacuum packed. I hope to take them out again sometime soon but for now they don’t exist.
Breastfeeding clothes overlap with normal clothes for me.

I wore most of my normal clothes the whole time I was pregnant. My indoor t shirts and tracksuit bottoms fitted the whole pregnancy, and I just got non maternity jeans leggings and tops in the next size up. My others just stayed in my wardrobe.
I was back in my normal jeans the month after giving birth.

I have the same problem op. It sucks but vacuum packing and shoving everything under the bed is my only solution really

I'm halfway-pregnant and in no way could I just buy a size up. My waist has gone from 30 to 40 inches! I'm currently ignoring any summer non-mat wear and will repurpose some winter things like cardigans and checked shirts. If I were having lots of babies close together I definitely would weed out the before stuff. After 5 years/3 kids close together for example I'd be sick of looking at it all and want new stuff!

To clarify there’s no simple you don’t need these clothes solution. I couldn’t possibly just wear a size up in pregnancy and look decent for work etc, I lose weight the first 4 months and develop a relatively enormous bump, so non maternity shapes especially bottoms are out. If it fits the bump it might fall straight off everywhere else.

Good also for those who are back in their jeans a month later, I’ll be lucky to be back in them 4-6 months later and that’s not including anything high waisted. Babies aren’t (incl planned) that close together so I’ll be back to my size and back at work again between 2&3 and possibly 3&4 (and was working for a couple of years between 1&2), so I can’t possiblg ditch my whole pre baby work clothes and buy again each time! (Although fair point about getting sick of them)

I stored stuff that wasn't being worn, when I was nearing the end of one phase would get the next lot of clothes out and ready. I would have everything together for that stage. I even knew what bra size I'd be by the 4th time so it was very organised.

I am a minimalist so I loved getting rid of things the final time instead of putting them back into storage.

I'm pregnant with my first, vacuum packing away normal clothes as they stop fitting, I supposed I can get them back out in reverse order. Bottoms were the first to go, I had lots of clothes to wear and now I don't .

My waist was 66cm and not the biggest part of my bump is 80cm at 23 weeks. Buying a size or 3 up worked for the first trimester but now I'm in the awkward in between bit of being a bit to small for maternity clothes and to big/wrong shape for normal clothes.

I see - I thought you meant you were keeping things that weren't being worn for a few years at all due to being pregnant a few times one after the other. I can't really suggest much other than vacuum bags as others have said.

I wish I were more organised / better able to organise everything. We don’t have much space but maybe I need to group everything maternity non bf and everything regular but I can’t bf in the wardrobe so I know it’s n/a and the maternity can get vacuum packed when the work stuff comes back out.

I totally, identify with this. Not a minimalist.I have just had baby no three and drowning in different clothes. Had each baby in a different season too. I know I am done now so have gleefully packed up my maternity stuff and chucked it in the garage. Waiting to find someone or somewhere to donate it too.
I am lucky that I have a lot of wardrobe space, but it has encroached on my kids wardrobes. I also I have big ikea under bed storage. And big supermarket bags in the loft. I tried vacuum packing but it seems such a faff. Will be breastfeed8ng for a while and a good two dress sizes off my pre baby weight each time. Normally takes me about a year to get to ,y pre baby weight. There is no easy answer.
My minimalist friend just chucks everything and starts again each pregnancy but she has more money to burn than I do. Nothing more s
atisfying to me than digging out my old bf stuff at the mo and finding it working for me again. I hardly spent any money on maternity wear this time, got a few hand me downs from friends that had summer babies, a couple of summer dresses in the sale and my old stuff recycled.

Just look forward to the day you can chuck it all and treat yourself to a big spend for being so thrifty.

Oh I’m not really thrifty at all