HELP.......Maternity DRESSES!!!

flikkerty

I think you have all been massively helpful.
I am at 27 weeks and have been walking round in oversized tent dresses looking like someone out of Son's and Daughters.

But I have just come out of hospital where I have been on a drip to reyhdrate due to an infection and hyperemisis, so today I have sat around in me pants with the homebase airconditioner (some other moneysavers recommended) on full wallop waiting for this torrential rain (to clear the air) we have been promised.

I shall definitely go through all those websites while I sip through that 14th bottle of water I have to drink... Ladies don't forget the water!

jellyhead

oh you poor thing - i was in hospital for that in march and it was too hot then, you must have been baking *HUG*

s@sha

Quick update to my earlier post re: Jojomamanbebe. I didn't realise that to get the free P&P on the sale items you need a code from a brochure that is mailed to you...I didn't get the brochure even though I'm on their mailing list & have shopped with them before, so I rang them yesterday & they told me to use code SA51.

I am assuming that this code is available for everyone & not just personal to me, but I don't know for certain. I just thought I would post it so if people want to try it they can.

Jojo told me that if for some reason it didn't work to ring them & they would sort it, so if anyone has any problems ordering, just ring & they'll probably give you a code anyway.

plumpmouse

Can really symathise with you all.

I was heavily pregnant summer two years ago and it was a really hot one, which it looks like its going to be the same this year.
In fact just this morning I said to my mum that I was really glad I wasn't pregnant at the moment

Anyway back to the question. During my pregnancy I wore hardly any maternity clothes. Just brought bigger size normal clothes. Can understand for work and some occasion maternity clothes may flatter slightly better but for everyday use any clothes should look ok. Even if it is just for a temporary measure your wife could just do this for the hot spell

HTH

jellyhead

my large skirt's in the wash and my maternity trousers are too hot (they're not cotton) so it's back in maternity jeans today, i'm sooooo hot!!

i'd say you do need some maternity things though - personally i can't just wear bigger clothes - tops big enough for my belly have enormous arm holes and they fall off my small shoulders. i'm a pear shape, fat belly area, tiny shoulders and ribs - so larger tops just slide around showing off my sexy huge maternity bra and looking ridiculous. it wouldn't matter so much if it wasn't summer and i could choose long sleeved tops. in my first pregnancy i didn't buy any maternity clothes and you could barely tell i was pregnant, but this time around i've gained more than a stone, probably a stone and a half by the end of the pregnancy and i'm very large - i couldn't not have maternity clothes now. my friend gained 4 stone in her recent pregnancy, she certainly needed maternity clothes - massive belly lol!

Yoga_Girl

Oh this thread is bringing back memories of being very pregnant in the summer so you all have my sympathies!

I used to wear some loose cotton trousers, t-shirt material type ones, that wern't maternity just a very large size, and I'd roll the top of them down so it would sit under my bump (I had a HUGE bump!). Think they were from Matalan or somewhere like that. Then I bought some maternity vest tops and t-shirts from dorothy perkins to wear on top. If you've got a H&M near you they also did some good comfortable maternity wear when I was pregnant.

Once it was so hot I filled the children's paddling pool up with cold water, donned my maternity swimming costume and lay in the paddling pool! It wasn't a pretty site (and unfortunately there is photographic evidence) but it did feel nice!

mummytofour

I had my son at the end of sep 2004, so last summer i was very big.
Evans is fab fab fab fab, basically they are bigger size clothes, from 16 plus not sure what size you wife is, but basically they reackon that you go up two sizes when pg, ( me it was three!) so just get her some bigger clothes, cheaper than maternity, i had some really nice linen stuff last yr from there.
Vxx

taniar

All the other tips above look great - I'll be following up a few myself.

I got some lovely linen wrap around trousers from Noa Noa (not a maternity shop, but the choice in my town is very limited). And I'll be able to wear them next summer too! :j

mrcow

Just wanted to add my sympathies to you all :A

I'm 37 weeks and have resorted to wearing my PJs cos everything else is too hot, especially whilst chasing my three year old around the house.

Think I'm gonna lie under the garden sprinkler tomorrow if it gets any worse.

jellyhead

we were talking about this in the playground today and i was told that lots of women gain weight all over, so larger size clothes would be fine. i've stayed the same size and just grown a space-hopper in my belly, that's why larger tops don't fit right, i haven't even got a larger chest.