How Important are Support Garments While Pregnant?

You may not think you need maternity back support during your pregnancy, but you might want to consider this. Pregnancy weight can put a lot of pressure on your back and pelvis, which not only leads to back pain, but also to misalignment of joints. Once those joints get out of whack, it’s tough to get them to realign.  Especially during the final months of pregnancy when the baby is nearly at full weight, the strain on your back and joints can become not only uncomfortable, but painful.  Medium support belts and strong support belts are highly recommended to help alleviate this strain.

Maternity garments can take some of the pressure off your pelvis, which will ease the stress on your back and hip joints. A good pregnancy support belt will also keep you from slouching, which is a leading cause of back pain during pregnancy.

In addition to keeping your body aligned and minimizing back pain, maternity support garments can help take some of the pressure off your bladder, decrease leg swelling and varicosities, provide added support during exercise, and prevent premature contractions.  To help prevent leg swelling and varicose veins, you might want to consider maternity support hose as well.

Pregnancy garments come in a variety of styles, including maternity belts, postpartum support belts, pregnancy girdles, maternity support stockings, maternity pantyhose, and maternity underwear.

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Contour Pregnancy/Nursing Tank

It’s not always easy being a mom. Trying to juggle multiple tasks while caring for an infant can leave you exhausted by the end of the day. And if you’re also breastfeeding, it can really be a hassle trying to maneuver an every day shirt and bra every time you need to feed your baby. Some quality, affordable nursing tops can help make that aspect of mothering just a little bit easier.

A nursing top is a shirt that provides easy access for breastfeeding. Nursing tops also provide breast support, and many can double as nursing bras. Most come with adjustable straps and are made from comfortable fabrics, such as cotton, spandex and lycra.

Although tank tops are very popular these days, they’re very difficult to nurse in. Nursing tank tops are cheap nursing tops that come in a variety of styles that make breastfeeding easy. Some of these have easy access openings and others come in drop down styles.

You can buy nursing tank tops and nursing shirts at ContourMD.com – check out our new Maternity category.