What are your must buy maternity clothes? Especially basics, work wear, and items that can be worn afterwards.

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Highly recommend rent the runway - less than $100 a month for 4 items per month. This made the most financial sense for me my last 4-5 months of pregnancy when my body was constantly changing, I had to balance needs for work / event clothes, and I still wanted to look cute. The only things I actually bought for keeps were Lulu Aligns (100% agree), a few long tanks and tees from Old Navy, one pair of jeans (have only worn 2x), and a smocked dress from Amazon. Have not needed any other new clothes between those and RTR (currently 35 weeks) though I work from home 80% of the time.

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Lulu aligns. You can wear them through most of pregnancy and then you have them for afterwards as well since they’re not maternity specific

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