[name]Hi[/name] everyone!
how long after birth did you fit into regular pre-pregnancy clothes again? Any idea?
I still wore my regular jeans (low cut) until 20+ weeks the first time. I was back into my fat jeans by 6 weeks postpartum, and my regular ones by 8 or 9 weeks. But that was the first time. The second time I wore pregnancy jeans much sooner, and maternity clothes for much longer. Same with my third. I think your postpartum body is little bits of genetics and luck. It also depends on the time of year. My second was born in late spring, and because my summer clothes are generally tighter fitting and more revealing, I couldn’t wear any of them that summer. My third was in [name]November[/name], and I could wear all my bigger sweaters and winter clothes almost right away. I did still hang out in maternity jeans for about 3 months, partly because they were so comfy.
I’m almost 11 weeks now and not in any maternity clothes yet, though I’m anticipating the pants switch in about a month. Hard to say how my body will bounce back after #4. I’m a size 0-2 pre-pregnancy, but it typically takes me at least 6 months to get back to that size.
My regular clothes fit up until the 35th week or so, then I had to start unbuttoning my jeans and wearing a maternity cami under all my shirts so my belly didn’t pop out. Haha. But I have a somewhat large frame and a muscular build, so I think it depends on your body type/frame. A friend of mine who is very petite (about 5’2, 105 lbs) has to start wearing maternity pants around 14 weeks, she’s also had 3 children so it also depends on how many kids you’ve had. [name]Hope[/name] that helped!
I’m pregnant with my first and had to buy maternity jeans around 20 weeks. My shorts still fit, but were lower rise than my jeans, so when it got cool enough to switch from shorts to jeans is when I had to get maternity ones. I think it depends a lot on your body, how you carry and your wardrobe. I’m about 29 weeks now and my original yoga pants still fit fine, but they’re stretchy-waisted. A friend told me she was in maternity pants at 8 weeks, but she was having twins.
With baby one, most of my clothes didn’t fit by about week 16. With this one I didn’t fit into the clothes by about week 10.