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Nursing Bras and a Great Shopping Experience

At 28 weeks pregnant, I’ve had to give in and accept the fact that my favorite Victoria’s Secret $50 IPEX bra isn’t really fitting anymore. While I’d love to just buy another IPEX, that doesn’t make any sense, since I plan to breastfeed this baby. So, it was time to go shopping for nursing bras.I decided to start at Kangaroo Kids, which is a children’s resale store and so much more. I’ve actually bought a lot of my maternity clothes there second-hand. And while there, I noticed that they bill themselves as a “Maternity Support Center.” I knew they had a huge line of nursing bras, and when I visited there previously, I heard the owner, Sierra Cortazzo, talking about an underwire nursing bra. I was thrilled to find out that there is such a thing, being that I am, shall we say, blessed in that area, so flimsy, inexpensive bras don’t work for me.Sierra spent a lot of time helping me, and actually discouraged me from the underwire nursing bra at this time, because she ways that while an under wire is okay when you’re nursing, it has to fit perfectly, so she suggests buying it after your milk has come in. She went ahead and let me try some on, but in the end, I took her advice. After all, they’re expensive and I’d hate for it not to fit in a couple of months.

Still, with her help, I found two bras that I really like and that I think give me plenty of support right now. One is an Anita and the other is by La Leche League.

Also while I was there, I watched Sierra give a hands-on demonstration to new mom on how to use a SlingaRoo. I never bought one of these with my first two, mainly because I couldn’t really figure out how to use one, but after watching the demo and seeing Sierra carry her own toddler around the store in one, I’m thinking it might just be a “must-have” for this baby. Check out their Web site for more information – (For those of you who live outside St. Louis, Sierra said they’ll soon be posting a video demo on how to use this sling on their site.)


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