I admit it, I still wear my maternity leggings around the house, and my LO is almost 3. I don't care! They are so comfortable. It runs in my family to keep a rather big belly after giving birth (lucky us!), so I could pass for seriously pregnant if I left the house in these bad boys.
The rest of the maternity clothing I owned I donated about a year after LO was born.
Do you have any maternity gear you've held on to a lot longer than you thought you would?
pomelo / 5720 posts
I still wear my maternity leggings too and DD is almost 10 months! I still have all of my maternity clothing because I'm in denial that I won't likely be having anymore LO's. I'll probably hang on to it until DD is 2 ish and we make the final decision.
grapefruit / 4355 posts
I still have all of mine to wear for future pregnancies. But I didn't really wear any of it besides tank tops after giving birth (and the tank tops are simply longer than normal so they don't look maternity at all).
GOLD / wonderful pea / 17697 posts
I had some yoga pants and long tanks that I wore well after E was born...straight into getting pregnant with DD 
cantaloupe / 6869 posts
6 months at least. I didn't feel like buying in between clothes like work pants so I made it work.
watermelon / 14467 posts
I stopped wearing maternity when I got asked how far along I was when H was six months old.
cherry / 197 posts
I'm 3 months postpartum from #2 and still in maternity jeans... I can get in my prebaby jeans but I'm still too thick around the waist to comfortably button them... the muffin top is just not cute. Jeans and one comfy wrap sweatshirt are the only lingering maternity clothes. I boxed that stuff up as soon as I could, I've been dying to get back to my normal wardrobe!
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22646 posts
This time I haven't worn any because I have nursing tops and fit into my non maternity leggings and shirts right away.
Last time I wore maternity cardigans and jeans for a few weeks. I packed them away after that, more of a mental kick in the butt to lose baby weight for me.
nectarine / 2115 posts
I never stopped wearing maternity tank tops (I like them for the length!)-- 14 months postpartum and now I am pregnant again, so I'll just keeping going! I wore maternity pants for a couple of months postpartum. I think.
blogger / kiwi / 588 posts
I'm 7 months pp and I still wear my maternity khaki shorts. I have regular shorts that fit but these are just so comfortable that I can't give them up. I no longer wear my maternity tops since I was pregnant during the fall/winter and now it's too hot for them.
wonderful kiwi / 23653 posts
I went into nursing tops right away, but def still wore my maternity leggings for a good 2+ months!
pomegranate / 3658 posts
Um, is it bad if I've spent my entire maternity leave in gym shorts and a nursing tank and therefore have no idea whether my pre-pregnancy clothes fit?
Okay, I did switch from maternity jeans to my old regular jeans around 6 weeks postpartum though they still weren't really comfortable since I still had a poofy belly. I just couldn't keep wearing the maternity jeans since they were starting to slide down. So disappointing, I had fantasies of wearing those amazingly comfortable maternity jeans forever.
pomelo / 5607 posts
I still wear some of the non-maternity stuff that I wore while pregnant, but not anything that's actual maternity. It's too depressing. (Still sad that preterm labor meant I missed out on the last couple months of my pregnancy.)
grapefruit / 4455 posts
I didn't wear it at all. I was so over it, even the non maternity stuff I bought during/for pregnancy.
pineapple / 12793 posts
I never stopped wearing the maternity tanks from my first pregnancy. I love the extra length.
I was in regular clothes around four months after my first. I was filtering in regular pants again around 4 months pp from my second and was frustrated to still need some stretchy pants around the 5.5 month mark and then found out I was ten weeks pregnant again so I've pretty much just not stopped wearing maternity clothes for 16 months.
I'm looking forward to a big shopping spree when I finally get my body back to myself.
grapefruit / 4321 posts
I was in pre pregnancy clothes about a week after delivery. I moved to nuring tanks but all the maternity clothes were packed away until I got pregnant again.
GOLD / papaya / 10166 posts
I was in regular clothes (but still big) around 3 months pp... but I didn't give up my maternity yoga pants until just recently (3.5 yrs after the 1st kid). Some stuff was just too comfortable to let go.
@oliviaoblivia: Yes! I had a hard time going back to regular-length shirts.
wonderful olive / 19353 posts
3 months? I was comfy in my maternity jeans so I didn't buy new ones until I went back to work.
wonderful cherry / 21504 posts
Maternity bottoms stopped fitting well pretty soon, so I pretty much wore stretchy yoga pants. I wore some non ruched mat tops forever but pretty much everything I packed away after a few weeks. It's not that I was my old size, but the maternity stuff just looked silly and pants wouldn't stay up.
persimmon / 1281 posts
I'm 2 weeks PP & pulled on a pair on pre pregnancy jeans this morning so I think I'll be giving up the maternity stuff pretty soon. Which makes me sad cause I got some cute bottoms! I'll wear the tops forever though. I'm long waisted so I love the length on them.
coconut / 8279 posts
I wore my long stretchy GapMaternity tanks until they literally wore out, I loved them!
honeydew / 7622 posts
I'm 5 mo pp and I still wear a lot. I have an abnormally long torso for my height and will keep buying maternity (without gathering) because it's longer than tall.
persimmon / 1367 posts
LOL, still wearing some maternity pants at 9.5mos PP! I have a few pairs of maternity work pants that fit so well, I may never give them up. I have major difficulties finding skinny pants in the right length, and one maternity brand makes the exact right length...I seriously considered buying another pair even though I'm not pregnant and don't plan to be! 
eggplant / 11287 posts
I stopped immediately. I didn't have a lot of maternity clothes in rotation so I wore everything I did have A LOT. I was very ready to be done with it all!
pear / 1657 posts
I am wearing a maternity sweater right now - LO is 14 months. Granted it is just extra long in back, roomy and comfy
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