Video: Maternity Clothes Sizing

Maternity clothes sizing can be confusing for many pregnant women. Learn how maternity clothes sizing works with tips from a pregnancy expert in this free video on maternity clothes.

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Hi. I'm Roxanne Beckford Hoge and welcome back to dressing for pregnancy. Right now we're going to cover how maternity sizing works. It's a confusing area for a lot of people because your body's changing so you think you need to change your size. Not so. If you were a 6 before you got pregnant. You're a maternity 6 now. If you were a 12 before you got pregnant you're a maternity 12 now. There's one exception. That's if you're pregnant with multiples and we'll cover that in the next segment. Here's how maternity clothes work though. Generally as you get further along to the point where you're showing you're going to need to get maternity clothes. The tops are going to be cut a little bit wider and they're going to be dealing with comfort. There'll be a lot of elastic. There'll be empire waists and there'll be a fuller cut to the clothing. The other place where there's a difference between maternity and regular clothes you might not notice is in the hem lines on dresses and shirts. They're cut longer than a regular hem line. So when you accommodate the belly you're not walking around like this. When you order on line just use your regular size. If you go into a store you're going to get the thrill of wearing one of these maternity bellies. You put it on under your clothes and you'll see a general idea of what you should look like. Now on to pants. My two favorite cuts are under the belly and the comfort waistband. An under the belly waistband does what it says. It'll fit right under the part of your belly that's growing. These have a comfort fit waistband. They're thicker and a wider band of elastic that'll definitely give you some support. There's also the panel waistband but that's on it's way out and I'd have to say these are your two best bets.

Maternity Clothes Sizing

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