Nursing Tuesday: Nursing Bra Tank
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Not only have readers sung the praises of wearing just a nursing tank during those first few weeks postpartum, but I was just reading about how some women prefer to pump while wearing a nursing tank. Both sides can be let down at the same time, allowing easy pump access — and your midsection is covered while you’re pumping, which at least helps you feel like you aren’t naked when pumping at the office. I’ve tried a few different nursing tanks, and the Bravado ones are my favorite thus far (the clips are the best!). They’re $36-$60, available in numerous colors and bra ranges, at Amazon. Ladies, what’s your favorite thing to pump in? Bravado Designs Essential Nursing Bra Tank – Curvalicious Sizing
Psst: my firstborn turns 3 today! Happy birthday, little man.
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I found a brand of pumping/nursing tanks on Amazon called Rumina. I have three tanks and two bras that I have been wearing for the past 6 months for pumping at work. I’m not the most well endowed mom so I don’t need a ton of support. Overall, I’m a fan of the tanks more than the bras. They are long enough, layer well, provide coverage while pumping (you don’t feel naked while pumping) and they have convenient snaps I you want to nurse or need to hand express.
Also the customer service of their amazon shop was excellent when one of the bras I bought started to rip.
I am a huge fan of the cami under, top over pumping/nursing technique, so I almost always wore bravado tank outside of work with a top over it. At work, I typically wore an underwire bra with a halogen tank whose straps I kept loose enough to pull down.
The Bravado tank I had definitely had a lot more support in it than the average nursing tank, and it also had some kind of gathering/ruching to make it more like 2 separate cups instead of a uni-boob shelf bra. The Bravado ones available at Target are in-between the higher quality Bravado ones and the generic Target ones, IME.
I agree with others – not necessarily the most flattering look, but not super un-flattering, just not quite as lifted and separated. It was good enough for me most days when I was first nursing, and I especially liked keeping my stomach covered while pumping or nursing.
Glamourmom are the very very best!! Supportive, long, comfortable, wash well and I prefer that they even provide support when unclipped, unlike Bravado. A little pricey, but for me well worth it. I am a 36I
Simple Wishes hands-free bra is a life-changer if you are pumping! Allows you to get yourself hooked up and be completely hands-free, whether that is to get work done while you pump, do breast compressions if you are dealing with clogged ducts (ugh!), or just to eat lots of candy while you pump (reward yourself for that hard work!!!)
I lived in nursing tanks around the house and wore them to bed, but I preferred a more supportive, padded wire-free bra for work. I needed padding to help conceal the nursing pads that I always had to wear to prevent leaks, and I just liked the uplifted, supported look more for work.
Happy Birthday to your little guy!
I pump in a thin Old Navy, zip-up hoodie and a hands-free bra – I put the bra on over the hoodie. The hoodie is key for avoiding hypothermia in my freezing office, and, yes, for not feeling quite so naked.
I have to admit– I’m somewhat baffled by this nursing bra/tank thing. I’m normally a 32DD, and since getting pregnant have gone up to a 32F (ugh). Is a nursing tank really going to be supportive enough or comfortable for someone like me? How do nursing tanks work? (i.e. What holds you up? Do they have underwires or just a piece of elastic or something? I can’t comprehend a non-underwire bra being supportive) How do you know what size to get? It is my understanding that my boobs will get even bigger when I’m nursing, but then shrink back down? When does that happen? At this point I can’t find a bra that fits for under $70, and I was hoping to not have to spend hundreds more on nursing bras that I’ll only use for a relatively short amount of time. I will if I have to though.
Help me, people who know things! I am so clueless!