Recs for tops for "in-between" stage

[woowoo]

Hi - I wear a suit jacket every day to work and I'm already feeling as though some of my shells/tops are a bit tight in the bust/belly area.  I tried on a couple of shells yesterday one size up, and they ended up being too long/big in other areas. 

Anyone have any suggestions for professional maternity tops that are good for transitional stage (that can also be worn under jackets)?  

I'm hoping there are some Black Friday specials I can take advantage of!

[pinkpeony08]

I've been wearing mostly looser/flowy blouse type shirts and dresses. I can get away with a shirt and a skirt with some stretch because the skirt waist line goes across the bloated area. I can wear business casual though, so I don't have the jacket difficulty. During days off, I tend to wear a tunic type top and leggings. I'm hoping to hide this for awhile longer given my history... so hoping this keeps working for me, ha!

[Susie]

I wear petite clothes normally, so I am able to get some mileage out of same-size, non-petite shirts before I really need maternity.  If you're not petite, try tall instead of regular, or tunic length instead of regular length, or anything with "swing" in the description.  Basically just try all the things.  I've ordered and returned so many clothes in the last few weeks.

Yesterday I wore a relatively subtle solid navy blue maternity dress from Asos (from my last pregnancy or I'd rec the specific style) with one of my regular Ann Taylor blazers over it.  My belly was super obvious if I took the jacket off, but if I kept it on it was relatively well hidden.  I can still button a lot of my one-button blazers.  Scarves help too.  

Really though it is so trial and error.  There's no magic formula unfortunately.  It's hard.

ETA:  I posted a pic of the blue dress + blazer from yesterday in the HDBD thread.  I also wanted to mention that I find dresses easier than flowy shirts if you need to wear a blazer over.  Often flowy shirts tend to be long, and look weird (at least on me) hanging under blazers, and it's not like you can tuck in when trying to hide a belly.  So, I do dresses instead, aiming for loose, empire, and with no pregnancy-giveaway ruching on the sides.  BUT:  My assistant straight up asked me today if I was pregnant  , so maybe I'm not the best to advise.  I was hoping to wait until I got NIPT results back, which has to be so close (blood draw was 6 days ago) but I wasn't going to lie to my assistant.