https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:48:52 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/summer-dressesoh-how-i-will-miss-you#post-835358 Thu, 06 Jun 2013 10:11:50 +0000 autumnlove 835358@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wear sundresses with camisole bras! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/summer-dressesoh-how-i-will-miss-you#post-835328 Thu, 06 Jun 2013 10:03:10 +0000 MsLipGloss 835328@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Smurfette: what about strapless and wrap(ish) styles? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/summer-dressesoh-how-i-will-miss-you#post-835269 Thu, 06 Jun 2013 09:47:59 +0000 MamaMoose 835269@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Smurfette: I've never had an issue with it and I have pretty good sized boobalahs. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/summer-dressesoh-how-i-will-miss-you#post-835257 Thu, 06 Jun 2013 09:43:56 +0000 Bao 835257@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have a cute cotton dress from Old Navy that is very nursing friendly! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/summer-dressesoh-how-i-will-miss-you#post-835164 Thu, 06 Jun 2013 09:17:27 +0000 LulaBee 835164@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't wear dresses when I'm out with my LO but I will to work. I lock my door to pump and will pull my dress all the way up. I feel silly standing there in my underwear but at least I get to wear a dress every once in a while! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/summer-dressesoh-how-i-will-miss-you#post-835163 Thu, 06 Jun 2013 09:17:20 +0000 mrs. wagon 835163@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Smurfette: I feel you, girl. I really do. I LIVE in dresses. Now that I'm pumping only once at work I'm back to wearing dresses and I just pull them all the way up. So awkward but I just cannot live in this warm weather in pants or skirts. I can't wear cross-front or button-down dresses because the size of my boobs. </p> <p>I do have a few sundresses that I wear at home and on the weekends that work for me. They're kind of a stretch jersey material, and they're tank style with an empire waist. When it's time to pump I just pull the straps off my shoulders and pull the top of the dress down around my waist. I think I am finally ready to retire my nursing bras because I have switched to coobie bras and I just pull them up. (I didn't do that before because I was afraid of clogged ducts from the pressure around the tops of my boobs while it was pulled up.)</p> <p>Anyway. I feel you. Look for some sundresses made of stretch jersey? I found mine at TJ Maxx. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/summer-dressesoh-how-i-will-miss-you#post-835145 Thu, 06 Jun 2013 09:11:37 +0000 NovBaby1112 835145@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>what about sleeveless/tube top type dresses? I wear these all the time in the summer and you just have to pull them down to nurse. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/summer-dressesoh-how-i-will-miss-you#post-835131 Thu, 06 Jun 2013 09:04:40 +0000 Smurfette 835131@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MamaMoose: So it will hold the shape during the day? I haven't tried any cause I think they would just get all stretched out and I don't want to be hanging out.</p> <p>@photojane: Shirt dresses never work on my body type :( Shame cause I think they are so cute.</p> <p>@sarahbee: That is really cute. I will have to check out ON. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/summer-dressesoh-how-i-will-miss-you#post-835119 Thu, 06 Jun 2013 09:01:03 +0000 sarahbee 835119@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This got good reviews as a nursing dress: </p> <p><a href="http://oldnavy.gap.com/browse/product.do?cid=87838&#038;vid=1&#038;pid=524692032" rel="nofollow">http://oldnavy.gap.com/browse/product.do?cid=87838&#038;vid=1&#038;pid=524692032</a></p> <p>I just ordered it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/summer-dressesoh-how-i-will-miss-you#post-835115 Thu, 06 Jun 2013 08:59:30 +0000 photojane 835115@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Smurfette: I got a black jersey maternity/nursing-friendly dress from Target while pregnant &amp; I still wear it... and I'm not even nursing! It definitely doesn't look maternity. Shirt dresses would work too! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/summer-dressesoh-how-i-will-miss-you#post-835114 Thu, 06 Jun 2013 08:59:28 +0000 Foodnerd81 835114@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm a big fan of skirts and tank tops, too, which is more nursing friendly and for me, more thigh friendly than shorts! That's what I plan to wear after LO is born at the end of July (well once i get out of pajamas and nursing tanks and make it out of the house). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/summer-dressesoh-how-i-will-miss-you#post-835111 Thu, 06 Jun 2013 08:57:56 +0000 MamaMoose 835111@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Smurfette: I haven't had an issue with any stretching that didn't bounce back once I washed the dress. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/summer-dressesoh-how-i-will-miss-you#post-835108 Thu, 06 Jun 2013 08:56:51 +0000 swurlygurl 835108@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't know if it's because I had a large chest to begin with, but pretty much everything I wear is nursing friendly! I can't imagine having to buy new clothes for nursing, or having to temporarily retire part of my wardrobe! :(</p> <p>Hopefully you can find some cute (not obv maternity/nursing style) dresses to wear - it will be such a bummer to go without alllll summer! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/summer-dressesoh-how-i-will-miss-you#post-835096 Thu, 06 Jun 2013 08:53:49 +0000 Smurfette 835096@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@photojane: All the ones I have seen that are nursing friendly look like maternity. I haven't even tried them on cause they look like they would make me look pregnant. And really I don't need to call any attention to my belly right now.<br /> @MamaMoose: Don't they get all stretch out? I have tank tops that are jersey and they are so stretched out from nursing. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/summer-dressesoh-how-i-will-miss-you#post-835085 Thu, 06 Jun 2013 08:50:35 +0000 MamaMoose 835085@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Dresses made of jersey work!! I wear them all the time and just pull down to pop a boob out : ) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/summer-dressesoh-how-i-will-miss-you#post-835084 Thu, 06 Jun 2013 08:50:33 +0000 photojane 835084@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>haha! Have you tried any of the nursing-friendly dresses from Target or Motherhood? I couldn't live without my dresses - my summer staple! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/summer-dressesoh-how-i-will-miss-you#post-835081 Thu, 06 Jun 2013 08:50:01 +0000 rachiecakes 835081@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I made do with dresses that buttoned to the waist or had a cross over top!<br /> Most dresses are a giant pain in the ass for breastfeeding. I was never a fan of "pulling down the top" - uh, no, it just gets stretched out and makes the neckline look crappy. At least for me it did.<br /> But I had great success with some affordable dresses from ON that had buttons or crossover tops. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/summer-dressesoh-how-i-will-miss-you#post-835073 Thu, 06 Jun 2013 08:47:59 +0000 Smurfette 835073@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Summer dresses,</p> <p>I am going to miss you this summer. You see, you just aren't accessible for breastfeeding, reguardless of your style. I don't see how they are going to work. Unfortunately, breastfeeding my beautiful girl, outweighs looking cute.</p> <p>I will miss you hiding my thighs, who will suffer in shorts, on those hot summer days. I will get by at work with skirts and pants, but it won't be the same. </p> <p>I hope that next spring and summer we can continue our love affair. And it will be even better cause I will have lost baby weight and then some, so I will be able to buy all new dress.</p> <p>Until then take care and continue to look so pretty hanging in my closet and the racks at store. </p> <p>XOXO<br /> Smurfette</p> <p>PS. I will make sure to put R in as many dresses as I can to make up for you feeling neglected this summer. </p>