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What makes the Binsi Thankini Birth Top so popular: 90% cotton for breathability, 10% lycra for support, 100% luxuriously soft Adaptable. Unique design with front hooks and side snaps to accommodate medical equipment and breastfeeding Accommodating. Works with any/all medical equipment you may need or choose - even an epidural! Easy off. No need for the uncivilized struggle of yanking it up over your head. Thank goodness indeed! Made in the USA!

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Product Origins

About Binsi

Who we are:

We're a small-but-growing company founded and firmly grounded in a desire to help women feel beautiful, powerful, healthy and in control as they enter their amazing journey into motherhood.

A letter from Carri, owner and founder of Binsi Inc.:

At the birth of my first child, I wore a standard hospital gown. Clinical, uncomfortable and immodest! I felt like a patient: scared, powerless and at the mercy of others; not a healthy excited woman about to become a mother. Later, as a doula, I learned to help other women feel more confident and comfortable through labor and so began the idea of Binsi.

I wore the first Binsi skirt at the birth of my second child. It changed everthing for me. I made skirts for my clients. I gave them as gifts. And suddenly, I had a company firmly grounded in my desire to help women feel beautiful, powerful and in control as they enter their amazing journey into motherhood.

I hope that you too will have a beautiful and fulfilling birth experience.

Miscellaneous

Most women in childbirth are healthy and need to be active - so why shouldn't you look and feel that way? BINSIis the only labor and birth apparel designed by a birth doula and mother of three to work well for midwives, doctors, nurses, anesthesiologists, doulas- and most of all you! Our designs were tested and evaluated by mothers and all other birth professionals to make sure that they are the best design possible. BINSI skirts fit below your belly, so they won't irritate your sensitive skin during contractions or interfere with monitoring. They are adjustable, so they fit your ever changing figure easily, all while keeping you covered and comfortable so you can focus on what's really important. BINSI tops have clasps on the front straps that unhook to accommodate breastfeeding and medical equipment. They also have side snaps to allow the top to be partially, or completely, removed with ease. Make sure to put BINSI in your birth plan and go over it with your health provider before your big day.

Who knows, you might already be wearing your BINSI clothes when you go into labor! If you?re not, you can put them on either before you leave for the hospital, before you are asked to change into the gown, or when you are checked into your room. This is your big day, so put it on whenever you like!

If you are giving birth at a hospital, you may be surprised at how much courage it takes to ask for things that are important to you. But doctors and nurses want the same outcome you do: a happy patient that has a good experience. Whether it is the courage to ask to wear your BINSI clothes, or something (anything!) else that you feel you need- all you need to do is ask. The clothes were truly designed and tested with all the medical interventions, so you can bring a brochure (download it from the web or request one with your order), or just show them how it works. You'll be surprised by their reaction once they see how easy it is for them to work with too!

We've designed and tested all of our clothing to accommodate any medical equipment you might need or choose- even the epidural. Both the Go Go Top and the Thankini have clasps on the front straps that unhook, clearing the way for monitors and medical equipment alike. They also have side snaps to allow partial or complete removal during epidural administration; or so you can take it off quickly and easily without having to thread it over the IV pole, or over your head. So no matter how you choose to give birth, BINSI wants to empower you to look and feel comfortable, and as like yourself as possible.

You may wear any of our clothing before your cesarean, and afterward. Depending on your incision however, the skirts are GREAT for the first weeks postpartum because the skirts rest below your incision, and won't irritate it. That said, during a cesarean, you won't be wearing anything. For sterile reasons of course!

We at BINSI believe that birth is a normal and natural process and women are designed to birth their babies and instinctively know how to do so. We also believe that our birth apparel helps women have a more normal and comfortable birth experience- wherever they are birthing. Our culture has turned birth into a medical emergency, rather than a natural, normal experience. We want to help women move and work with their bodies while laboring, and often medical equipment and the environment can inhibit that ability. Whether it is modesty or inadequate clothing, we feel that our birth apparel offers a wonderful alternative. We do NOT encourage the use of medical intervention, but we do support a woman's ability to make informed choices for herself and her baby. We also sympathize that too often women need to convince their doctors that our clothing will work with their medical equipment "just in case", and that is why we mention our apparel's ability to work with the equipment repeatedly. We feel that in changing what women wear while they labor, we are changing the way women look and feel about themselves, helping to normalize the experience, showing doctors that laboring women are not sick and can move and birth their babies naturally.

Oh dear. Well, that is always a possibility in childbirth. But since the skirt does not hang between your legs, most often, it's only soiled if you sit on it. But, you know, if it does get dirty while you are in labor you can simply throw it in the washer and dryer when you get home, all items are machine washable.

BINSI clothes are stylish and comfortable, and are designed to support you before, during and after labor. They are great for prenatal yoga, Pilates, lounging and stretching, not to mention a walk to the park with someone special. You might find they become your favorite things to wear - long before you deliver, and well into the months that follow too. Wear them in great health and joy!

Because BINSI is made for giving birth and we know how sensitive skin is during labor! We designed BINSI clothing without those scratchy tags that can irritate your sensitive skin. Ok. We'll admit that there IS a care instruction label on the inside- but that can easily be removed.