The Pregnancy Bra!!!

"I cant recognise my breasts anymore... they are so HUGE." This line is said and heard by most pregnant women.

Breasts increase as much as three cup sizes at times in pregnancy and the whole experience is not a picnic. The increased amount of estrogen and progesterone causes the breasts to swell making them tender. Although the tenderness reduces after the first three or four months.

Now the billion dollar question : will they sag?
Answer: Depends on you. Sagging is most often caused due to lack of support during pregnancy.

How can it be avoided?
NO matter how firm the breasts are, prevention is better than cure and therefore you should wear a good support bra. If the breasts are huge, try wearing a night-support bra.

A support bra is more or less close to the soft full cup bra in design but with some additional features. These features include supportive fabric, extra soft elastic, broader sides and back and a deeper center front.

For the night support you will probably find a soft stretchy cotton sports bra extremely comfy and light.

There is no rule that one has to wear the drab softy bras when pregnant. Stores these days carry lots of options for pregnancy bras which are styled. A store that i would rate 20 on 10 is Mothercare. Those pink and blue polka dotted bras are absolutely cute and they come in sets.

Now some thumb rules of bras and pregnancy:
1. Always support your breasts. They are undergoing a huge change (no pun intended) and therefore need to be looked after.
2. Always buy soft bras as the tissue by itself is tender.
3. Its crucial to be examined every six to eight weeks as the breast size changes frequent upto the 36th week.
4. Avoid using underwired bras when pregnant and nursing .. i know the whole support great support thing but then the wire may press into the delicate breast tissue and therefore can cause pain. One may not be able to identify this pain as the breasts are already tender.

For the male readers, kindly share this information with the lady as uncomfy breasts are a cause of major irritation when pregnant and and after delivery if the breasts sag.

More to come on nursing bras soon.

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I got home at 6 yesterday and invaded the couch. I was trying to set a new record in fast-channel-flipping when W got home from work and goes "We need to go shopping". That dreaded sentence!She said "I need to buy bras". That was comforting. How hard can buying a bra be. I was proved wrong after 2 1/2 hours.

So we go to Macys. W went from aisle to aisle, examining each one with the keenness a gem merchant would reserve for the rarest of gems.I need to give you little intro on Indian women. Indian women like to use the bras they bought in India. Each time they go to visit India they bring back with them a dozen bras. Those things look ugly, make the wearer look out of shape and leave a ghastly scar on the back. But somehow Indian women love to use them. I guess the choice of bras they get in the US intimidates them!W was like that for the first two years she was in the US. After some persuasion I was able to make her switch to American bras. I mistake that dearly cost me in the coming years. Even after she switched, she would only select one of those Indian-bra-look-alikes that are "decent" and ugly.

So, here we are. As she seemed perplexed, I offered some valuable suggestions of my own showing her some of my picks. Her answer would be one of these:
"That has cross-straps"
"Where are the straps?"
"Wrong cup size"
"You know who uses that kind of red bra?"
"That is TRANSPARENT"
"What is this?!!"
"You wish" (darn!)"
"That's a nursing bra and you would know if I were nursing"
"That is padded"

After 2 hours, she trying 25 bras and 4 "customer service agents" asking me if I needed help, she finally found the holy grail of all bras. When I pointed out to her that what she picked was transparent and she had rejected one of my suggestions for that reason earlier. She answered the question with a simple logic, "But this is black, duh!"

Well, the story didn't end there. After dinner, she did a little modeling for me in the bra. Then went to the mirror, looked at herself for about 3 minutes and asked the question to the effect of "Do I look fat in this".