Product review: Nursing bra

[ailbhe]

Pretty bra; Cotton bra; Nursing bra; Pick any two

I recently solicited a Livejournal community for information on nursing bras, because I had been able to find pretty nursing bras made of various synthetics, but none that were more than 60% cotton. Many people suggested various retailers of pretty nursing bras, but almost none of them had a good proportion of natural fibres. Anyone who recommended a good brand of cotton bras knew that I had to make do with black or white. Except the people who found pretty cotton bras! with no accommodation for the whole nursing thing. No-one makes them, apparently...

Bravado, however, do. I ordered the "Original Nursing Bra", basic design, in lilac gingham (OK, so my definition of "pretty" now means "anything but black, white, or animal prints" but ANY colour is good) from Mother's Bliss and it arrived less than 48 hours later.

Pretty bra: It's nice to look at, if you can stand lilac gingham, and most nursing mothers of my acquaintance can stand anything that relieves the monotony a little.

Cotton bra: It's 92%cotton, 8% spandex. That's as good as it gets, isn't it?!

Nursing bra: It has drop cups which fasten with poppers, rather than a hook and eye, which I'm not thrilled about, because poppers are harder on my fingers on a bad hands day. But it's built like a crop top - it has a big back with no fastening at all. That's a definite bonus. The cups at the front have a funny overlapping design, so it looked odd from the top, but it looked perfectly normal when I went and looked in a mirror, and unusually good under clothes. Also, when dropped for feeding, they didn't seem to creep back up the way my Mothercare and brand-I-forget-begins-with-R ones do, so Linnea didn't end up sucking fabric. It is so comfortable I'm wearing it again tomorrow, and ordering another as soon as I finish writing this. I'd wear it in bed but then it really would be unfit for wearing again tomorrow, even by Mum standards, which can put up with a lot in the way of noxious odours.

9/10 because well, lilac gingham isn't all it's cracked up to be, and I prefer hook and eye drop cup fastenings.

Comments

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

well, i'm all excited about the leopard print non-nursing bra. woo!

Animal crackers

[ailbhe]

As long as I don't have to wear it, woo to you too!

I'm all excited about the variety and the fact that omigod it's so comfortable AIEE! How will I cope?

[firecat]

http://www.decentexposures.com has natural fiber nursing bras in colors and ships to the UK (if rather slowly). They have both velcro and hook and eye fasteners. They also claim their regular bras work as nursing bras.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I'd just grab bras from http://www.decentexposures.com, but I'm not particularly interested in *pretty* for bras.