Nursing Camisoles

[HRJ]

Can anyone recommend a camisole for nursing (so when you pull your shirt up, your whole stomach doesn't show)?  Also, is there a nursing bra built into it?  I was going to go to a breastfeeding center and be fitted for a bra soon, so I don't know how many I would buy if I got camisoles as well. 

[PatioGardener]

I love my Bravado nursing tank. http://www.bravadodesigns.com/shop/the-essential-nursing-tank

I am tall, and I love how long it is.

[iowaorganic]

I only have 2 bras- but a ton of tanks!  I love the bravado ones as well- they give a nice shape under clothes.  But I have some glamourmom ones as well that are great LONG tanks (the regular is really short).  Not quite as nice shape- but still awesome.  Sometimes I will wear a regular tank and just pull it down- but that isn't nearly as convienent for me. breakoutbras.com or diapers.com will sometimes have them on sale.

[CheriK]

Do you want a nursing tank for support (like a bra) or simply for more coverage?  That would affect what you look for.

I have one Glamourmom tank and honestly I find it has way too much fabric to "support" so it gets in the way of my nursling latching on.   But that may just be me; I don't wear a bra 90% of the time and only in the early days of breastfeeding to keep nursing pads in place.  Their sizing also seems bizarre to me - I have an extra-large and am in NO way an extra-large woman (normally wear small or medium). I started wearing Target's nursing tanks with this baby and like them better because when you unclip there's nothing around the breast to interfere w/ your nursling.  They also don't feel as hot (again, less fabric).  I have some really stretchy tanks w/ a built-in bra (not nursing) that work just as well and are MUCH cheaper.  I got them at Costco & they came in 2-packs for less than I paid for one of the Target tanks, which itself is less than 1/2 the cost of the glamourmoms.

With my twins, I "made" some undershirts by cutting vertical slits in old teeshirts or turtlenecks to wear underneath my regular clothes.  Those worked fine for covering my tummy.  If you're going to wear a bra anyhow, you could try that instead of a tank.

[HRJ]

I went to the nursing boutique at our hospital to be fitted by a IBCLC today, and I bought a Bravado regular bra but she discouraged me from buying any of the tanks/camisoles until the baby was out - said it was harder to gauge what my size would be in those once milk came in and they are tight around the tummy which wouldn't work well w/ my 38 week belly.  They carry Medela and Bravado only.  I liked the Bravado much better.  So if I like Bravado, will I like glamourmom?  I'm not a naked arm kinda person, so I wasn't going to just wear them as a shirt but more like a layered thing that would make nursing in public easier.

[maddymama]

Hi Mama,

I love the Bravado nursing tanks much more than the Glamourmom ones.  I also really like the newer Target ones... the ones that support  your breasts a bit more than the shelf bra ones..the full sling ones rather than the side slings.

http://www.target.com/Gilligan-OMalley-Full-Sling-Nursing/dp/B0039II962/ref=sr_1_9/187-7969561-4767643?ie=UTF8&searchView=grid5&keywords=nursing-tanks&fromGsearch=true&sr=1-9&qid=1297885069&rh=&searchRank=target104545&id=Gilligan%20OMalley%20Full%20Sling%20Nursing&node=1038576%7C1287991011&searchSize=30&searchPage=1&searchNodeID=1038576%7C1287991011&searchBinNameList=subjectbin%2Cprice%2Ctarget_com_primary_color-bin%2Ctarget_com_size-bin%2Ctarget_com_brand-bin&frombrowse=0

~maddymama

[nononose]

I love my Bravado tank.