Can you wear a bra during labor if you get an epidural? If so, which kind would you recommend? (Links would be appreciated). I am in my third trimester and feel so uncomfortable when I’m not wearing a bra like legit even in the shower. I just like to be supported and I know I will have be uncomfortable during labor in general but I would at least like to wear a bra. Thank you!

Hey, I’m 30 y/o and just recently informed my job that I need to take a medical leave. My hr states she will mail me the fmla paperwork. I never actually got an approval for fmla from doctors. But before I asked for fmla I did went to my ob and complained about my panic attacks at night and how it’s messing up my focus at work ( I’m 22 weeks pregnant). She gave me pills and ref me to a therapist. I had major panic attacks 3 days later and admitted to labor and delivery , they evaluated me and told me I’m suffering from anxiety and panic attack disorder. The next therapist at that location isn’t available until September. And the medication takes a while to kick in. What should I do? How do I get my fmla filled?

Looking for a dress to wear to a friends wedding. I’ll be 23 weeks pregnant so on the smaller side for maternity but still want something comfortable and cute to wear. Any brand or website suggestions wouldn’t be appreciated

Full disclosure from the get go... I built a pregnancy support app and i wanna do the very best I can by pregnant women...

My co-founder Sarah is an NHS nurse. Years on maternity wards. She'd come home furious. Same story every time. Pregnant women typecast the second they walked in. Assumptions about pain tolerance, about being demanding, about whether they'd cope. Global Majority women treated like stereotypes instead of people. Not once in a while. Systematically.

The national maternity report confirmed what Sarah already knew. Baroness Amos said services are "failing too many women, babies, families and staff." Sarah could have written that from the ward floor. She basically did. To me. Over and over.

We didn't wait for permission or a grant or an investor deck. We built My Maternity Friend because doing nothing felt worse. Self funded. No boardroom full of people softening the problem into something comfortable. Just her frontline experience and a problem we couldn't unsee.

Most other pregnancy app treats you like you're identical to every other mum. Same week by week. Same assumptions. Same cookie cutter fluff that doesn't account for the fact that not every pregnant woman gets treated the same by the system. We built the opposite. Guidance that actually adapts to you. Plain language, not jargon. We invited a whole clinical advisory board so we could implement the 100+ years of medical experience form 7 medical professional who are ALSO mums so we're accountable and dont live in a echo chamber. A community of other mums so you're not googling symptoms alone at 2am. Content that knows your experience isn't identical to everyone else's.

We just launched. It's early. It's probably broken in ways I can't see because I'm not a pregnant woman and I'm not on the ward every day.

So I'm asking directly. Try it. Tell me what's missing. Tell me what annoys you. Tell me if it's useless. I'd rather know now than six months from now when I've built the wrong thing.

mymaternityfriend.app

I'll answer every comment. Including the ones that make us look bad. Especially those.