At what point did you start wearing maternity with your first baby?

nyyankeesg1rl: At what point did you start wearing maternity with your first baby?
I’m curious to hear about other mothers and mothers to be. I was trying to put it off until absolutely necessary and at 21 weeks none of my pants fit anymore. Also, did you just one day start wearing maternity clothes and never used your regular clothes or did you make a slower transition?

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Answer by Laura
I didnt wear them until about 20 weeks, I used a hair tie on my pants so I could wear them longer.

Answer by E
12 weeks….when in doubt go for comfort!!

Answer by parkerpixy84
i was 18 when i was first pregnant, and i was in such denial about it, that i didn’t wear maternity clothes at all. i wore overalls the whole time. this time though, im happy to be pregnant, and started wearing maternitiy clothes as soon as my regular clothes were too tight to wear. good luck.

Answer by jarellsmom
i never wore maternity clothes lol, i had belly belt band things which you can use to extend the waistband of you pants, and also these things that arelike boob tubes you can use them to put over the waistband of your pants so they cant see theyr not done up and also so you cant see your tummy if your top gets lifted up etc and great for breastfeeding too as you can keep your tummy covered etc.. but i only gained weight in my tummy my arms and legs etc stayed the same size…

Answer by stardust_07
I didn’t wear anything maternity except for one maternity skirt during the seventh month of my first pregnancy. I was a small woman with weight gain only in the belly then. I just wore some oversized clothes I already had and packed away the tinier ones. With the second pregnancy, I was a larger woman and started wearing maternity clothes during the fourth month of pregnancy. It was the during the sixth months for my other two pregnancies.

Answer by zirathedarkelf
I think I was in my fourth month when I had to buy them. Only my track pants were fitting, so I went down to a maternity store and bought everything I could afford to get.

Answer by Amanda B
I started wearing maternity clothes when my regular clothes no longer fitted, which was around the 20 week mark. Despite this there are still some regular clothing items I still wore such as my good black work pants, I just got a rubber band and put it around the button and then through the button hole to extend them and then just wore a longer shirt to cover it. I also wore my boyfriend’s jeans alot, they fitted me perfectly while I was pregnant as they were a bit bigger than my jeans and could be worn low.

Answer by k
when I was 10 weeks I bought a pair of maternity pants. I cannot walk around in sweats at work. They frown about that..lol…anyways, now I am 20 weeks and in maternity clothes only. I bought most of them at 16 weeks. I especially needed shirts because my boobs were getting so big. I’m amazed when some people say they didn’t wear them til later on in pregnancy. I was thin when I was pregnant but my boobs got big immediately. If your clothes are tight buy some maternity clothes they are comfy and better for the baby.