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I gave up trying t figure it all out. I am big chested but I just wore Coobie bras (basically a comfy cushy self bra) with room to grow. Then I went to non-wire nursing bras, and now back to Coobies now that I weaned. Eventually, I'll get a bra..

@simplyfelicity: Same here! I followed their size guide with no issue.

I sized up once during pregnancy and bought a soft no-underwire bra in one cup larger than I normally wear. That bra did not fit me at ALL after my milk came in. My ribcage expanded a lot during/after birth plus of course my boobs were enormous. I bought a stretchy sleep bra and a couple nursing tanks once I was a few weeks postpartum.

[ETA] I looooved the Coobie bra for most of my pregnancy but it is not a good bra for nursing and pumping. The clips require too much effort to do/undo all the time.

Following! I'm on my third bra size and I'm only 23 weeks!

I wore Coobies until 36 weeks when I couldn't handle any binding on my rib cage at all. So then I wore tank tops with soft shelf bras and put cutlets in them to hide the nips. After I gave birth I pretty much just lived in nursing tanks with disposable Lansinoh nursing pads in them. The nursing bras made my ribcage uncomfortable still so I wore them rarely. My favorite nursing tanks were actually these über cheap ones from the Walmart website - like 2 for $25. The kind I got were flared so they were looser over my PP belly, good thick straps, and the clips snapped and unsnapped so easily. They weren't much to look at but I actually liked them better than my Bravado ones.

I wish I had gone ahead and gotten nursing bras. If nothing else, it would have been one less thing to worry about getting once she was here.

I liked cake nursing bras from Nordstrom. They are stretchy.