Destination Maternity

This store complex is closed and went out of business. I wasted time and money getting here only to find locked doors and an empty interior. This should be updated.

Closed. I would tell you all about how much I disliked this location, but looks like their terrible customer service likely helped shut them down anyway.

Beware of the fine print. 30 day limits on returns for full refund. If you order online, you can only return in-​store for store credit. I feel like this place takes advantage of already vulnerable, frazzeled, and vulnerable preggos by way of their return policies.

I wish I had known about the store earlier in my pregnancy. They have a great selection of both expensive and inexpensive clothing, great nursing options, and great bridal shower options. I found the sales people to be quite helpful, always offering a drink or a place to sit down. Definitely wait for a sale email because they happen often enough that you can get huge discounts before you go in there. Definitely recommend it to anyone entering or in pregnancy.

I love this place! The ground floor is, indeed, quite pricey as it’s ‘designer’ but upstairs has a great selection of affordable casuals and smarter wear for under $ 100. I love that the sales girls are not pushy but if you do decide to utilize them, they are endlessly helpful. The first time I went, Shonnette helped me, setting up a changing room and giving me some juice. I left with some lovely spring colored sweaters, comfortable day-​to-​nighttime tops and jeans. When I checked out I was given a bunch of coupons, magazine subscriptions for like $ 3 and other goodies.
I went in again yesterday with my coupon to find an outfit to a cocktail event tonight. Sheena helped me find the perfect outfit including a designer jacket (I splashed out on one of those designer ones on the 1^st floor!), very wearable but chic LBD for $ 58, tights and a bra which she measured me for and ran upstairs to fetch.
The only negative is that both times I went, quite a few things were not available in my more petite size. However I am over the moon that I found this place and will be returning for my summer pregnancy wardrobe.

This store is filled with the most incompetent and rude salespeople & managers I’ve ever encountered. That coupled with the fact that DM has the most inflexible return policy for online purchases makes for an awful and frustrating sales experience. I am not sure if they count on pregnant women to lack brain cells or if they’re riding on the fact that nobody bothers to cross reference prices online, but they’re sure making a ton of money on schmucks who buy their overpriced garbage. All I have to say is cross reference your prices online and remember that these morons don’t accept online returns in the store and will only be willing to offer you store credit. FURTHERMORE, they change the style number on the same exact item season to season enabling them to resell the same exact item at full price & they’re unwilling to make any price adjustments to accommodate the customer. The manager of this store is rude and unapologetic and just walks away when a customer expresses their frustration. I will be taking my business somewhere else!!! And stop stuffing every purchase with those damn Viacord promotions… nobody needs that shit to be pushed down their throat. STAY AWAY!!!

Best place in the city for maternity-​wear shopping… but that’s not saying much.
If you enjoy being chatted with and assisted and offered water/​juice, this place is great. If you prefer to shop on your own and ask for assistance only if you need it, this place leaves a little to be desired.
Between the 5 stores under one roof, almost every mama-​to-​be will find suitable clothes for gestating. Also, they accept returns from the website, even if they don’t carry the item, so if you got the wrong size or something just looks awful on you, it’s low-​hassle to get your money back.
HOWEVER, they won’t let you checkout without providing a due date (beyond obnoxious), and they sell your information to marketers even when you ask them not to, and they insist on throwing samples in the bag even when you ask them not to (I don’t need samples of things I know I’m not going to use)… years later, I’m still getting mailings from Gerber even though I’ve never used a single Gerber product… This kind of thing makes me grouchy and makes me not want to shop there.

Poor quality clothes at expensive prices.
It’s a good thing that you will only wear these clothes for about 6 months because that’s about how long these clothes last. .. if you’re lucky. I purchased 1 pair of black dress slacks which were worn and washed approximately 10 times before they fell apart at the seams. I called customer service as it is clearly a defect, but to nothing can be done…
To sum it up this store carries very poor quality merchandise and has poor customer service so don’t bother shopping there. I suggest you save yourself from the disappointment of service and poor quality of clothes and take your business elsewhere.
My $ 20 items from Old Navy have withstood the test of time (i.e. 4 months) so I highly suggest all you expectant moms shop there.

People should come here to take lessons in customer service– it’s fantastic. Immediately upon entering, I was greeted by several associates, all of whom remembered my name and helped familiarize me with the layout of the store and the various brands housed under the same roof.
I was offered a small granola bar and a juice, and the staff made sure to check in with me periodically to hold items in the dressing room while I shopped (nice for pregnant women not to have to carry things around).
I stocked up on a whole wardrobe during the summer clearance (buy one get one free!) and saved a bundle– be sure to check out the ongoing clearance section in the back of the store. There are usually also sales going– buy two get one free nursing bras, etc. — take advantage of that. Take advantage of the free bra sizings as well– that was helpful to me.
I’ve also hopped in for little things here and there– support belt, maternity hose– always a great experience and worth the trip.

I am extremely disappointed with this company. Not only did it take several attempts to reach someone to discus the return of a product, once I did, they said they never received the product. Note– they do not provide return shipping, so I paid for it via USPS. Since I just used the postal service, I did not receive a tracking number and the representative basically said I will not receive my refund. When I asked to speak to a supervisor, I was told, that was not possible.
I will never shop at this store again or use their products and services. Very bad customer service!

Purchased a gift here, wrong size, management was great and so helpful, returned my item, very kind staff.

Love! Purchased a maternity swim suit, tons of lounge clothes here. They have great Hudson shorts and jeans as well as tops by splendid! The staff is so helpful. The poor girl ran up and down the stairs bringing me multiple options… Bless her!

The selection of maternity clothes is pretty good here (almost a bit overwhelming), but I have a couple of beefs with them and probably won’t go back if I can help it:
1. The care labels in most of the Motherhood and Pea in the Pod branded garments are AWFUL. They are cheap and crinkly and I’ve had to cut them out of every item I’ve bought, which is annoying because what if I need to remember whether it should be dry cleaned or machine washed? Or if I give the shirt to someone down the road? No excuse for such cheap, horrible labels.
2. The sales people are super high pressure. They follow you around the store. Sometimes they are helpful, but sometimes I just want to be left alone a bit! I once got annoyed with a woman who was working downstairs because she was so high pressure, and I left and went upstairs to shop and she went upstairs for something and acted really snooty toward me, like I was HER customer and didn’t have the right to shop there unless she was helping me. I’m guessing they are paid on commission.
I just wish there were better options for maternity shopping in the city!

These people sold our contact information to countless people — we received innumerable advertisements for cord blood banking, formula, etc., all with the same misspelling of our surname that appeared on their receipt. They then fraudulently sold our credit card number to Parenting magazine (even when we told them not to do this) which required considerable hassle to cancel.
It’s really amazing that they think it’s appropriate or reasonable to behave in this fashion. It shows total contempt for the customer.
Consistent with this, looking back on it, the service wasn’t great either — a bit rude and aggressive. It’s a store that’s managed to deal with, and take advantage of, a subprime clientele, kind of like a low-​end used car dealership, even though the products themselves are actually pricey and often quite high end in nature.
Quite puzzling actually.

DO NOT GIVE THESE PEOPLE YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION! They will send you tons of email, and also share /​sell your info to MANY other companies like formula brands etc!
The pea in the pod clothes are not bad, but they’re really expensive for what they are. The motherhood clothes are cheap but the quality and fit is horrendous. Much worse than target or old navy. The store itself is very comfortable with much needed drinks and bathrooms, and it is a huge plus to be able to try on maternity clothes in person as so many brands only have them online.

Prego lady’s paradise! Great customer service, wide array of high/​mid/​lower end clothing and who doesn’t love a complimentary apple juice or bottled water while you shop?! Fantastic place.

Yes, the clothes are maternity, which is actually something that is hard to find in the city. Yes, the prices are sky high for something you will only wear for a few months. And yes, they give you free water and juice. For these things — fine.
My issue came about a month after I shopped at this store. I was billed, on the credit card I had used during my visit, for a 2 year subscription to a parenting magazine. I recall during my trip to the store that the sales person had asked me if I wanted a magazine trial, to which I replied «No».
Regardless, the charge was made on my card. When I called the same day that the charge was posted, I was told that it was too late to cancel because it had been 30 days and I had already received my first issue. This was despite them having the wrong address for me (wrong street, town, zip).
I suspect that the sales people get commission from signing people up for this magazine, without their consent, and then fill in bogus NYC addresses.
I’m not worried about the charge since I reported it as fraudulent, but others may miss it on their credit card statement. Either way, terrible business practice and terrible company. Buy your maternity clothes on Gilt!

Now THAT’s what customer service is suppose to be !
Great store with excellent customer service.
People that work there are very friendly and they are extremely helpful.
My wife love’s this store.
Highly recommend it.

Yes, the positive vibes from having a baby could cloud the experinece. However, hands down the best service we have gotten from a retailer in the city. We came in for a look, and left $ 600 later. The women helping in the fitting room was outstanding. The added expreinece of the «bump» so my wife can see how the outfit would look months later was a nice touch. The selection is fashionable, sensible and a very wide variety of price options. Spend as much or little as you want.
Offers many other resources and services to new partents. Wife has gone back to attend classes and yoga. Great service, great store.

This was the first maternity shop I had ever visited. And if you are feeling apprehensive about being pregnant and have some anxiety about getting bigger and are worried about how you are going to dress this new found figure. Do not go here because you will ask where the roof is and jump off. But seriously how can anyone give this place a good review? I was shocked to find the lack of style and lack of quality here and the prices are really quite high. At a time when my skin has never been so sensitive, I have never seen clothing made with such rough fabrics, Some of the stuff was so cheap looking it was shocking and the fabric looked like it would give me a rash. If you want a visual think of what the Sears catalogue might have looked like in the early 1990’s.
So I tried to remain calm and deiced to go to the other maternity shop in the same building called Pea in the Pod. It was disappointing too but in another way. The prices were so high I was really surprised. Even the dresses on sale started at about $ 175. I was willing to pony up on a few items at that price point but if I found one I liked they would only have one of two random sizes, so the selection was really poor.
I ended up buying two pairs of tights at Destination Maternity to at least make the trip worthwhile but I was shocked to learn upon opening both different brands that there was no extra room at the top for a belly. I was only about three months at this point and I am petite so I didn’t require a lot of extra fabric but the tights just went straight up. So the only difference between these tights and a regular pair was there were a few more inches of fabric at the top. So I tried wearing them a few times but they were so tight around my baby bump I felt like I was suffocating.
The only good thing about it was that the cashier was really nice and offered me and my friend a bottle of water when I bought the tights.