What did you do about pants after you gave birth?

[Jalapeñomel]

I cannot fit in my pre-pregnancy pants, and I doubt I ever will again (my hips and thighs are huge now). My maternity jeans just slide down and I am constantly pulling them up and they chafe my legs.

So I still hope that I will lose some weight at some point I time, so I dot want to spend a ton of money on pants. So what did you do? Wear skirts? Leggings? Yoga pants?

[bonquiqui]

This requires a different type of pants person.  It's a horse of a different color

[SadieBear]

I mostly wore yoga pants because I could fold the band up over my csection incision. I have a hard time with pants now because I still have lingering baby weight and refuse to buy bigger pants!

[laceylaplante]

Yoga pants and maxi skirts were my go to items.

[eddy]

I bought cheap stuff.

[speckledfrog]

I wore my maternity pants for a few weeks and then when I had enough of feeling terrible about myself I bought a few pairs of bigger pants. Worth it. I did finally fit into my pre-preg pants, but it took some time.

ETA:  Yes to stretchy skirts.  I worse those a lot, too.   

[rex]

I bought new pants in a different size. There was no way I was wearing yoga pants longer than a week or so.

[osulori]

Yoga pants, and a pair of inexpensive jeans (ON I think?) for when I have to get fancy.

[DotAndBuzz]

I bought some Gap jeans in my then-current size, and then as I lost the weight, I bought jeans in my new size. The weather was warming up at that point, so I think I did a lot of the Old Navy fold-over jersey skirts and dresses. But I liked having an actual pair of jeans that were relatively well made and fit my new body well.

[underwaterrhymes]

I wore my maternity pants for a few weeks, and then I bought a pair of transition jeans. (Just regular jeans that were a size larger than what I wore before I got pregnant). I wore leggings and sweats a lot too since I was working from home and didn't need anything formal.

Almost nine months postpartum, the transition pants are huge on me now. I'm 2 pounds lower and a size smaller than I was before I got pregnant and am hoping to lose about 10 more pounds.

That in-between stage sucked. It wasn't that I wasn't happy with my weight, per se, since I lost the majority of the pregnancy weight pretty quickly - it was that I just felt like I was shaped differently and nothing was fitting right.

[jena]

I bought new pants.

Also, I hate to be the bearer of bad news... but I did not fit in my pre-pg pants even when I was back to my pre-pg weight. I was about 12lb under my pre-pg weight before they "fit" and even then they didn't fit right because my body was just a different shape.

[Jalapeñomel]

Dec 14, 2013 15:20:54 GMT -5 jena said:

I bought new pants.

Also, I hate to be the bearer of bad news... but I did not fit in my pre-pg pants even when I was back to my pre-pg weight. I was about 12lb under my pre-pg weight before they "fit" and even then they didn't fit right because my body was just a different shape.

I have no preconceived notions that I will ever fit in those pants again.

I did stupidly think that I would actually lose more than 10 lbs after the birth, so now I have about 20 lbs to lose.

[Smallstar]

I bought a few pairs at Goodwill while everything got settled back into place. Turns out Goodwill sells more than just ugly Christmas sweaters!

[VeryViolet]

Luckily I fluctuate in weight a lot not pregnant so I was back into my "fat" pants pretty quickly. Honestly though I have just been wearing a ton of leggings. They are comfortable and I can dress them up a little with boots. I need to check out my work pants soon though because I am thinking I need to buy some in after Christmas sales.

[rupertpenny]

You need some jeggings..

[messykitchen]

I cried. And wore lots of dresses.

Every now and then I will point to a too large thigh and snarl at my kid "look what you did to me!"

It's been 14 years! I should of bounced back by now damn it.

[teeah22]

Cheap pants in a new size. You will always feel better in something that fits properly. Plus everything is on sale right now!

[starlily]

I don't think I've worn pants other than yoga pants during the last 3 years. :/

[Booze Raccoon]

I can still wear my maternity jeans!  shhh
Now I wear mainly yoga pants at home and jeans when I have to leave the house.  Official SAHM uniform.

I gave my old work pants to my cousin who was my original size after she had her baby.  Bitch.

[whitemerlot]

With my winter baby, I bought jeans and with my summer baby I just wore dresses.

[SKP82]

I am wearing a lot of dresses.

[snickers]

A lot of toga pants.
I can fit into my pre pregnancy fat jeans, so I wear those.
I also have a pair of nice mat jeans that I did not get to wear while pregnant, because I got them for the fall, and I went into labor while it was still nice out, so I wear those because they still had the tags on them and I refuse to let them go to waste.

[papie]

Do you have a Bella band?

[BaliHai]

I've been wearing leggings and lounge pants around the house, and when we've gone out I've worn a pair of pre-preg jeans with the belly band (they have a good amount of stretch to them, though, which I am pretty sure is the only reason they still fit). I will probably just keep doing that until everything settles, since we're not supposed to take her out before 8 weeks anyway so it's not like we are going a ton of places, and then buy new pants if I need to.

[Jalapeñomel]

Dec 14, 2013 20:14:06 GMT -5 papie said:

Do you have a Bella band?

Yes. But I don't think my thighs or my huge ass would fit comfortably in my pre-pregnancy jeans anymore.

[Jalapeñomel]

Dec 14, 2013 20:16:53 GMT -5 BaliHai said:

I've been wearing leggings and lounge pants around the house, and when we've gone out I've worn a pair of pre-preg jeans with the belly band (they have a good amount of stretch to them, though, which I am pretty sure is the only reason they still fit). I will probably just keep doing that until everything settles, since we're not supposed to take her out before 8 weeks anyway so it's not like we are going a ton of places, and then buy new pants if I need to.

There is no way I could've stayed at home for 8 weeks. My doc said as long as it wasn't a crowded place like a mall, we'd be ok.

[rupertpenny]

All of you guys saying dresses, did you nurse? I have always preferred dresses, but I find that I can't easily breastfeed in most of my dresses so I'm wearing pants more than I ever have before. I hate it. Seriously, wearing dresses all the time again is what I'm most looking forward to about weaning.

[daisybuchannan]

I bought a few pairs of ON rockstar jeans and even though they were 2 sizes bigger than pre-pregnancy, I felt so skinny zipping up REAL pants! Lol.

They're obviously not maternity, but went into the mat storage bins for next time.

[meganew]

Dec 14, 2013 20:28:25 GMT -5 daisybuchannan said:

I bought a few pairs of ON rockstar jeans and even though they were 2 sizes bigger than pre-pregnancy, I felt so skinny zipping up REAL pants! Lol.

They're obviously not maternity, but went into the mat storage bins for next time.

I did this exact same thing, down to the type of jean! I held off as long as I could, but I eventually needed to buy a pair or two of in between jeans. I didn't finish losing the baby weight for 6 months- way too long to be in yoga pants!

[pollyprissypants]

I just wear yoga pants and sweatpants around the house but I bought 2 pairs of cheap jeans in a bigger size because only one pre-pregnancy pair still fit me. (barely)

I bought the mid-rise rock star skinnies from Old Navy and a pair of cheapy boot cut J Lo jeans from Kohl's. They both seemed to fit my bigger ass and hips pretty well.