Maternity Jeans

How to choose maternity jeans?

Under Bump Maternity Jeans

Popular with first time pregnant women are the under-bump style. These sit low on your waist and naturally curve under your bump. Many women prefer under the bump as their tummies are sensitive, and they don't like anything on it.

These are great for first and second trimester (and the post-baby "fourth trimester" too) - gravity may win the battle during your last few months.

If you choose below you can always invest in a separate bump band to cover up any exposed skin.

With below the bump jeans and trousers look for how they expand with your bump. The important thing here is that they do expand, but you can still keep them reasonably tight, otherwise you will spend your days hiking your jeans back up! The majority have elasticated sides, internal button adjusters or elasticated waistbands with a tie-adjuster.

Over the Bump Jeans

This style sits high on your waist with a soft and supportive full jersey panel.

Many women feel these jeans offer two key advantages, the support of the jersey panel and the comfort of what is essentially a soft elastic waistband.

They may not look sexy but you can hardly see them once they are on, and they do offer the assurance that if you stretch up you don't expose too much flesh and they are so very comfy.  With this style check when trying them on that the seam where the belly panel meets the denim doesn't dig or cause discomfort.

Mid Bump Maternity Jeans

The on-the-bump style sits at the fullest part of your bump, the waist is cut from a soft elastic material.  These are really a first and second trimester jean. Only the tiny of bump will suit these towards the end of pregnancy.  The advantage of these jeans is that early on you will hardly tell you have maternity jeans -with no large panel showing under your clothes.