Nursing Bra?

Ok. I have bra problems. And I'm going to talk about them here. You've been warned.

I have always been very top-heavy, no matter what size jeans I was wearing at the time. I have been sized multiple times by multiple people and no matter what the answer, the bra is weird.

This is especially true of nursing bras. There are only a scant few options at my cup size. Like, THREE options. And all of them are softcup, which has meant, for me, that they are at least two of the three:

1. ugly
2. unsupportive
3. mush my breasts together into the center (no separate, even if they lift)

Some are even all three! And all of them gap between the undercup and the overcup, which is lovely. Most of them look like something your grandmother would wear and all of them make up for the lack of underwire with a huge band that flips up.

So I found a tutorial online about how to take a normal bra and convert it to a nursing bra. And I went to an online bra shop and found a panache harmony in my size. I'm not 100% convinced it's the bra for me, but what I do know is that I'm not going to wear nursing bras anymore. It's a balconette bra, which means it isn't a full cup, and guess what. You can slip the shoulder strap down and the top of the cup slips down and voila. Voila indeed. So I'm not going to sew the dang thing and I'm not going to wear those ugly bras anymore. Except to bike. The Elila is a great sports bra that way. But it's a crappy nursing bra for someone who's had her third kid and doesn't need more reminders that she's not a pretty young thing anymore.

Yay Panache.