Ingrid & Isabel Women's Maternity Everyday BellaBand

Comment: I am very disappointed with my $26.00 purchase. I was hoping to use the product for its advertised use. I unbuttoned my jeans and tried this on to see if it held...it did not. The slick material just moved up my belly exposing my unzipped zipper. Going from sit to stand, my pants fell down. My size ranges from 12-14, so size 2 seemed the perfect choice....it is too big for me now. This is my fourth pregnancy, so I am "showing" early (not visible to anyone, just feeling its presence). I sit all day at work and at 10weeks feel the need to unbotton most pants now to be comfortable. That is why I made this purchase. I am not ready to go into my maternity clothes yet for two reasons - I'm not big enough, and I have not disclosed my pregnancy yet. There is no discrete way to wear the bella band and have it hold my pants. I think if I stretched it down to my hips, it might hold the waist of my jeans/pants.

I might have been better off with a size 1 considering that I intend to use it at the end of my first trimester. I think they are sized BIG to be used in 2nd-3rd trimesters. Keep that in mind if you order one. If you want to use it to be discrete in early pregnancy, size way down.
Hopefully, this might prove useful in a few weeks, but by then I will be ready for actual maternity clothes. Waste of money and hope!

Comment: My friend suggested Bella Band as an alternative to buying maternity jeans. I was very excited about the product until I tried it first hand. I followed the directions on picking the size I needed and chose the size 1. I don't know if I wasn't big enough - I was about 13 weeks at the time I first tried it out in the real world. My regular jeans were already too tight to button up by then so the concept of the Bella Band was welcomed because I was starting to feel anxious about not having anything to wear. I wore them over my jeans that were unbottoned with a loose tunic to help cover up. The Bella Band kept riding up and I had to keep pulling it down. Plus, they didn't keep my jeans on me very well. I didn't do much activity when I was wearing them. I went to a friend's house to watch the Superbowl - so between walking to the car and sitting and walking to the food table, I was surprised at how much of nuisance it was to me. All in all, it wasn't as comfortable as the description made it out to be. Though, I didn't return it because I'm going to see how it works when I'm a bit bigger and also for post pregnancy use as the description mentions. I'm glad I only ordered one because they offered so many different colors and that made it tempting to order more. I picked Midnight so I could wear it with my dark jeans. The color works well with my dark denim. Let's just hope I will be singing a different tune about how it works.

Comment: Got this around 5-8 weeks to my pregnancy. I didn't find it all that great: the fabric looks fancier in pictures, they could have used a better design or rimming for the edges of the band, mine had no rimming, suprizingly you would think the black color I picked would blend well into my clothes- yet it was noticeable as it was sheer, very sheer.
Size ran small although I used their chart, kept rolling up & wouldn't stay around the hips.
I think they should've picked a fabric type that would have a widder stretch range to the woman's hips (since we change weekly in size; at times we'd just feel bloated.)

Comment: I bought this so I could get a little more wear out of my regular jeans befor buying maternity jeans. It didn't help at all. It did cover the unbuttoned jeans but every time I sat down it rolled up. It was tight and uncomfortable.

Comment: First of all, I was disappointed that they didn't have my size in the color I wanted. I wear a pre-pregnancy size 20W and was looking to order size 3 in Black. Since they didn't have the black I ordered the midnight. It took 2 weeks to get to me (officially 2 days longer than Amazon's "delivery estimate"-very disappointing). Then when I received it, it was way too tight for me. Even though size 3 shows it goes up to pre-pregnancy size 22W, I felt like I was going to throw up wearing it. I emailed the Doula Shop and requested an exchange. Their website said they usually respond within 24 hours - it took 5 days (3 business days). I was told it takes 3 days to process the return. I mailed back the band with delivery confirmation. They received it a week ago and I still haven't heard anything. I emailed them tonight with my delivery confirmation information - I hope to hear something soon!!! I really hope I receive my exchange sooner! I have been incredibly frustrated with both my pre-pregnancy jeans (using the rubber band trick now at 18 weeks) and maternity jeans than won't stay up :(