During pregnancy, your chest changes and gain volume. In what size to choose your pregnancy lingerie? Brass and bra with reinforcements … for which model to choose? Advice.
The chest is one of the areas that changes the most during pregnancy. It takes volume and adapts to future maternity. To ensure maintenance and comfort, it is better to invest in a suitable bra. Evolving, with or without reinforcements, cotton or microfiber, with opening for breastfeeding … The choice is large. How to navigate? Advice from Pauline Jault, communications manager at Fraise, brand of pregnancy clothes.
What size is to take my lingerie?
Over the months, your chest will change. You can take one by two, or more and have a slightly wider turn. To feel perfectly comfortable and comfortable in your underwear, “We will have to adapt your lingerie to his new measurements and opt for a pregnancy bra from the first weeks of pregnancy, to ensure good breast support“, Specifies Pauline Jault. So, as soon as you feel narrow in your usual bra, measure your background and your hat. Note that most lingerie shops offer you to measure yourself to determine your bra.
How to do it? Bring one meter-riban and measure your chest (This is the strongest place, at the end of the nipple, see the sticker HAS) and your bust tower which corresponds to the circumference of your bust just under the chest (see the sticker B). The hat will correspond to the difference between your chest turn and your bust tower. Refer to the table below to find out your hat. The chest turn gives the size of the bra. For example, if you have a 90 cm chest turn and a 75 cm bust tower, your bra size is 90b. If you have a 95 cm chest turn and a 75 cm waist, your bra size is 95d.
| Difference between chest tower and bust tower (in cm) | 10 | 15 | 17.5 | 20 | 22.5 | 25 | 27.5 | 30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cap | HAS | B | C | D | E | F | G | H |
5 tips for choosing the right pregnancy bra
“”The skin in the chest being fine and fragile, it is important to invest in bras suitable for pregnancy, which combine comfort and optimum maintenance. The ideal is therefore to have several models (at least 3 to always have one on hand!) With which to turn during pregnancy to avoid carrying them every day. But as soon as you feel compressed in your bra, you may have to go to size above and invest in new models“, advises Pauline Jault. And add that”This varies depending on each future mother and her weight gain, but The bras size change approximately each quarter“.
- With or without reinforcements? Supports without reinforcements or bras are the most comfortable and are ideal for cups A, B and C. However, if you go out and want to wear an outfit that requires very good support, or if you have a D cap and more, you can wear models with flexible reinforcements for better support and a nice curve, without them compress the breasts. “”The reinforcement must be wide enough to go around the breast without crushing it“, Ensures the expert. But if you have the sensitive and painful chest, prefer the models without reinforcements whatever your size.
- The right pregnancy bra should not be too tight. Check that you have enough margin at the staples in the back (the thickness of a finger). It also takes a little margin at the hat. Finally, the suspenders should neither shear your shoulders, nor be too loose and fall on your arms. Set them using the plastic fasteners located on the suspenders of your bra.
- Opt for a scalable bra. It contains elastane, which saves up to a cup size. Above all, it has a large strip with several rows of staples in the back to adjust the adjustment of the bra and an opening on the front (the suspenders declips), which is ideal if you have decided to breastfeed.
- What to wear at night? When you sleep, Move your bra with reinforcements for a more suitable bra which is worn like a “second skin”. If you have taken little volume during pregnancy, do not wear anything at night.
- What materials to choose? “”Prefer cotton or extensible microfiber fabric models, which let the skin breathe and prevent irritation“, she adds. Avoid nylon that does not let the skin breathe.
