"Bras" for 8/9 year old? - Page 2

[Rockies5]

I'm relieved to read this. My 8yo is head and shoulders taller over all girls (and boys) in her class. I was folding laundry recently thinking of getting her some sets so she's used to seeing them and is comfy with the idea before it's "needed".

very much a tomboy, so I think cami's are a creat idea. It's all I wear

[funkygranolamama]

i was one of the first girls in 4th grade to have a bra . i was teased constantly. i wish they'd had shelf camis back then.

[SamuraiMom]

Don't know if anyone's mentioned Old Navy yet, but me and 9 yr old dd picked up a couple of "training bras" that were more like sports bras, but she is confortable in them and they keep everything under wraps with whatever she wears. They were pretty inexpensive too. This is a rather bitter sweet time , but though she is budding in some ways, she's still my little girl most other ways!

[Morganfyre]

We've just gone through this with our 11 year old. When did our babies grow up? :

[UnschoolnMa]

Dd got hers at Target I think. She was around 9 ish, and then she needed a "real bra" around 10.5 or 11.

[JustJamie]

Please make sure that if you get her a training bra/sports bra, it actually fits her...like have her professionally fitted.

When I developed, my stepmother didn't have me professionally fitted, she just bought me sports bras that flattened my buds, and that was it...I didn't get new ones for another year, despite the fact that I had grown into a full B cup and needed better support. My mom finally took me and had me professionally fitted for real bras, but I had already developed stretch marks on my breasts, which the bra lady ( ) told me were from squeezing my Bs into a "training" sports bra.

Now you can't see the stretch marks because of all the stretch marks that occurred during my first pregnancy, but I was very self-conscious about them during my teens/early 20s.

[Ruthla]

I'd hesitate to take a young girl to be "profesisonally fitted" by one of those pushy ladies in a dept store. Some girls are really self-conscious and could be mortified by that kind of fitting help, if it's not done sensitively. Plus, many dept stores don't even have the girls' sized bras in the same section as the adult bras with the fitters.

I do my own bra fittings. When we buy bras, I go in the fitting room with DD and watch her try on all the bras, help her select the right size, etc. If you also have this skill, IMO it's better not to have the girl subjected to too many people staring at her new boobs!

From what I've heard about stretch marks and boobs- I suspect they got there because your breasts grew very quickly, not because you weren't wearing the right bras.

[AlpineMama]

I remember I had a couple of training bras, although I think I was in middle school by then, so more like 11 than 8 or 9, but not that much of a difference. It wasn't really a huge deal to me. One day we were just at the dept store buying underwear and I saw the training bras and got one.

As a matter of fact, I loved them so much, not for their "symbolism of approaching adulthood" but because of the comfort level, that I've rarely been without a bra since then. I don't have huge breasts by a LONG stretch but I hate being without a bra. I think they're the most comfortable thing ever. My mom hates them with a vengeance and I remember she would rush to take them off whenever we got home, cursing all the while about how horrible they were; the only time I go without is during a shower or during those intimate times. (Or, well, while BF or attempting to!) I even sleep in them.

[bluegrassgirl]

Originally Posted by coldfeet

I hope this is the correct forum for this.

My 8 year old daughter (will be 9 in Nov.) has recently developed little buds. I doubt she's ready for an actual training bra, but I have no idea... what "sizes" do training bras come in?

Basically, it's like she needs two layers to hide her buds. She has some tank tops that have built-in bras and she's fine in those. But for her other knit tops, you can clearly tell that they are there.

I was an early bloomer and I remember that I had to beg my mom for a training bra because I was so embarrassed.

So what brand/where can I find something that would be appropriate for this age and this developmental stage?

Thanks so much!!

I had to start wearing a bra in 3rd. grade, and I remember Mom taking me to JC Penny and some lady in the underwear department measured me, so Mom would know what size I needed. I can't remember the name of the brand, though.
I know that Sears, JC Penny, and Victoria's Secret have bra fitters and can work with preteens to find a good fitting bra.

Jessie
(single mommy to Emma, 3 1/2 years and Angela, 2 years)