Anita Soft Cup Maternity Bra
Buying a maternity bra is not really one of the more thrilling aspects of pregnancy. It is, however, a necessity. If you think your pre-pregnancy bras still fit just fine, you are very likely wrong. And if you aren’t wrong today, you will likely be wrong in a few weeks. Investing in unattractive bras you will only wear for a few months isn’t everyone’s first choice for what to do with your coveted maternity wardrobe budget, but it really doesn’t matter how gorgeous your dress or outift is if your bra doesn’t fit properly, right? And it’s hard to wear nursing bras underneath fitted jersey maternity T-shirts and dresses, as the nursing clips are easily visible.
My suggestion? Buy only two or three maternity bras and be particularly neurotic about cleaning them often. Like I said, you only need them for a few months, so you don’t need to worry about preserving the elastic. And if you find one you like that is particularly comfortable and wears well underneath your maternity wardrobe, buy three of them and be done with it. These bras are purely functional, there’s no need to waste time worrying about monotony in your lingerie drawer.
I recognize that bras are a very personal choice, especially when you are a pregnant woman dealing with new and unfamiliar assets. But my personal favorite maternity bra these days is the Anita Maternity Soft Cup Bra
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When it becomes time for all of you to shop for nursingwear, I am happy to say that there is now a good selection of nursing T-shirts and nursing camisoles out there from which to choose. When I was first shopping for nursingwear just four years ago, there wasn’t near the selection there is now. Several nursingwear retailers have also introduced nursing dresses, allowing the postpartum fashionista to spruce herself a bit without worrying about nursing access.
Many thanks to my friend here in Jerusalem, Victoria, for alerting me to the going-out-of-business sale currently going on at 
Amoralia’s beautiful Nougatine Nursing Bra is also on sale, reduced from USD $55 to USD $44 here. This is a beautiful nursing bra to look at–and it does OK in the nursing access and convenience arena as well. I wouldn’t advise wearing it every day but I found that when you are nursing a hungry baby every three hours and wearing the same boring nursing bras day after day, sometimes it’s nice to do something a little different and wear some nice lingerie–even if you and your baby are the only ones who are going to see it.
Speaking of hungry babies, Leighton is 6 months old today and I just want to give him a little shout out. The poor little guy puts up with a lot for a baby–his three older brothers use him as a punching bag once in a while and they particularly like to try and feed him disgusting things like what they’ve picked out of their own noses. But at a very hefty 22 lbs, he is positioned to end up bigger than all of them, and I like to think he’ll have his revenge soon enough.
A big congratulations to my friend and the founder of nursingwear company Milkstars, Jamie, who launched her online boutique this week 
Milkstars’ T-shirts come in five different styles, the newest of which are the “Rachel” and the “Joan,” both of which are pictured above. The Julian (named after Jamie’s adorable daughter) is their bestseller and I wore this T-shirt all summer while I was nursing. In the pictures here, you can see both the shirt with both of the layers pulled down and then how it works as a nursing shirt when you pull the top layer up. The Julian was such a reliable, nice-looking nursing shirt that I chose to wear it on the 12-hour plane ride from Tel Aviv to New York.
Jamie has since updated the design based on customer suggestions, perfecting the fit and adding some length to the bottom of the shirts–always, always a good thing when you are nursing and often forced to contort your body into unflattering positions. I first blogged about the shirts 
