Mama Feels Good

It’s all quite exciting, end part of last week we had a fabulous email from a London Stylist who would like her client to have some of our maternity tees for a photoshoot she’s doing later in the week. Yeah a celebrity client woo hoo. Can’t say too much because as fabulous as our maternity T-shirts are they might not get chosen for the magazine picture.

I’ve got to admit it’s all a bit new to me so after i got the email i couldn’t sleep i was mega excited then sunday night i watched The City on MTV and saw Olivia was getting clothes together for a photoshoot for Kesha ( you know the singer who sang the song Tick Tok)

Careful this song is very catchy warning warning you’ll be singing it all day!

Anyways Olivia from The City had approached all the designers and companies for freebies for the Elle photoshoot and the celeb came in and picked 3 things from like a whole table of stuff. So this kinda kept it real for me. I would be SO chuffed if they are used so i guess i will have to wait and see. But it did help that a friend of mine is a stylist for 2 well known celebs and he have me lots of advice so that was real cool. So next time when Angelina comes a knocking i’ll know what to do !!

We’ll let you know how things pan out.

The cupcake is apparently making a big comeback and is now “in fashion” well in my household i can tell ya it never went out of fashion! Yum yum, it’s hard to beat a`quality cupcake and a nice brew!

So in the spirt of all things cupcake i have found some gems not only for you mama’s but you children as well.

First up is this absolute gem of a baby girls dress from a lovely website All About The Boys

Bespoke Cupcake dress

These little beauties are 100% cotton and totally hand made to a really high standard. Hey i’d wanna eat my baby Erin up if she was wearing this! So many cakes to choose from ha ha. But seriously this Cupcake dress is a good investment great for this current summer but can also be worn in the winter months & beyond because it has no arms it can turn from a dress into a top. Lots of Amelia’s dresses she now wears as a top, just pop some legging on underneath and way hey you’ve got yourself a new outfit. OK i know it’s not rocket science but it’s cool to make a such lovely dress last longer.

Cute close up on buttons

Going off the cupcake theme but i couldn’t help myself All About The Boys also carries Ralph Lauren babies clothes , i thought they were a lot more expensive than this (that’s one benefit from buying from a quality independent store, you get much better deals sometimes) , this little pink number with matching pants is mega cute

Ralph Lauren

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Cupcakes...hmmmm

If you are feeling rather lazy or aren’t blessed with the skills of nigella then try this cupcake site out, yes thats right a website that sells cupcakes and they DELiver…. OMG. Though Krispy Kreme doughnut delivery was cool but cupcake one too, i’ll never leave the house, well if i carried on eating all these cakes my butt wouldn’t make it out the door!!!!

They are from a website called Classic Cupcakes they look super lush so might have to order sometime and let you know how they taste..

We are super pleased to say Pregnancy & Birth magazine have featured our Island nursing top in the August edition of their magazine. It was in a review of the best nursing tops around and our breast feeding top got a Pregnancy & Birth love woo hoo, ie it was one of their favourites out of the 8 tops. I will scan the article in but if you want to check it out it is on page 90 of this current edition.

So they running a competition where they are giving away everything featured in the magazine ( well not sure if absolutely everything but loads of stuff) so why not enter, you can win tons of stuff for you and your baby and of course could pick up a Mama Feelsgood nursing shirt

Check out our Nursing Top page 90 !

Happy days!

I know this can be REALLY painful so anything which can help is a blessing!

Always get help from your midwife or health visitor but for some on-line advice i thought this video from You Tube was quite helpful.

Cabbages seriously rock to help the pain weird but true!

Hi guys, we have lots of free breast pads to give away with your orders if you want them and they are for FREE !

They are the disposable type and they have sticky bit on the back to keep them in place.

We bought them a while back for a promotion ( plus i have been using them too, i had my baby 15 weeks ago now and they are very handy) and have a few boxes worth of them, so if you would like a few popped in for free with your nursing shirt order no worries. Just send us an email on help@mamafeelsgood.com  or via the enquiry page on our site stating your order number and we can hook you up with some freebies.

I don’t think there will be many mums which breast feed that at 1 time or another don’t have a question they need answering about breastfeeding . 1 great website that can help ( to compliment your own midwife or health visitor) is the American site Kellymom , its a well established site with lots of advice on many different topics to do with breasfeeding , feeding your toddler and things like parental depression etc.

It’s really cool to be able to click on a site when you need it and get some good advice, ie when you are up in the early hours you can click on (if you have your hands free!) and get immediate advice.

There is also a forum on there but i have no idea of what it’s like but they have over 18000 facebook friends so they are pretty popular!

Check it out and see if can help you:)

OK so i have a fascination with Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, i think it’s probably because i have never had one and they look so nice! Plus i have totally bought into all the retro marketing, i am a sucker for anything 1950′s and their website is SO 1950′s it makes me wonder what their stores are like.

So on the 20th July Krispy Kreme are opening a new store in Bristol – Hotlight Store
Avon Meads Retail Park
St Philips Causeway, Bristol
BS2 0SP

And they will be opening at 7am on their first day! Apparently they have a drive through any everyhting !!! ha ah OMG drive through doughnuts i can feel my butt getting bigger as we speak, this is the maximum of laziness although i suppose not because on their website Krispy say they delivery woo hoo, can you imagine waking up to fresh doughnuts delivered????

So as i have never had one before i was looking through the menu and thinking which one would be the best to have

Ohh which one?

i love cinnamon so maybe the cinnamon apple filled looks lush, but the chocolate one is lush too, hey no worries they do them by the dozen ha ha.

I can feel my slimming world consultant sigh at me already, but maybe just one to try????

Whats your favourite type?

Light Grey Ray Gun nursing T-shirt

This funky nursing T-shirt was inspired from the 1950′s style B movies, have you ever seen one? They make me crack up, ok so it was the 1950′s and the special affects weren’t up to much but the story lines

The attack of the 50ft woman is genius , can you imagine that a 50ft woman, yeah girl power!!

I love the font types and the retro feel of the 1950′s, there was some really cool things going down around that time, although i do associate a lot of it with the American 1950′s ie Happy Days and milkshakes etc. I was lucky enough to go around california in my 20′s and went into a Rubys diner in Palm Springs (they have the train tracks running around the top of the walls in there, it;s well cool) and that is very 1950′s inspired diner. I think we should have more things like that here in the UK, would make things a lot more cheerful i think.

So back to our Ray Gun nursing tee , i got the idea for the graphic print from B movies which got me thinking about a really lush Foo fighters poster i have framed on my wall in my hall, it’s from one of their tours in 1997

i gotta laugh because my daughter says i look like the lady in the picture, if you point to it and says who’s this she says mum , all i can say is i haven’t trained her to say this but blimey i wish it were true!! ha ha

So there is the inspiration for our Ray gun nursing  shirts. They are quite a complicated design , and look even better close up, like i said the Mama Feelsgood font is very 1950′s comic book book style.

Currently we have 3 of out Ray guns tee on sale which can be found in our nursing sale section on our website , our long sleeve pink nursing top .

Ray Gun nursing Tee long sleeve pink

Our Pink short sleeved Ray gun  breastfeding top

Short Sleeve ray gun nursing top

It’s fun to be funky & different

Have a fabulous weekend, Liz

Yeap this time has arrived already for my baby Erin to say bye bye to her moses basket and hola to her cot, she was in her moses basket on the stand right next to the bed but to my horror night before last she tried to do her best impression of a leaping salmon and nearly launched herself out of the basket ; so time for a change. She’s only 14 weeks old but mega long ( we are talking over the 90th centile) so she’s out grown her basket anyway so night before last we put her in her cot. 

We were so naive, thought just putting her in her cot in her growbag things would be cool, she have more space to stretch , happy days! She went down fine, but around 2am she must have woken up properly (she normally has a feed around this time anyway) and thought what the heck is going on, where my basket and what is all this space , arrhhhh. Yeah night from hell then happened, she wouldn’t go back down anywhere apart from with me cuddling her, so in the early hours after ages of being up with her the smell of  desperation is in the air, you know the feeling,  basically if someone said that tap dancing naked would get her to sleep you’d be looking for your shoes; i let her sleep with me cuddling her and hence i didn’t sleep.

Anyways what i was getting to is we made a bit of a boob by just plonking her in her cot and thinking things would be cool, so last night after some very good advice from a mum at Amelias school we put Erin in her moses basket but in the cot and yeah she slept. Thank you thank you Looks like it’s gonna take a little bit longer for the progression into the cot alone but we are half way there; and no possibility of her leaping out of her cot.

SO you probably know this but if you are as naive as me  putting the moses basket in the cot is a great transitional stage , try it see if your little one likes it too. Although the rate Erin is growing she will be hanging her little feet over the end before long!

Any other tips about babies sleeping is always appreciated

It’s a hard job being a mother and it must be a hard job being a new mother and having the press taking pictures of your every move, OMG i dread to think if i were “famous” the press would have had a field day taking pictures of me looking crappy.  I along with many other women have been guilty of going out with baby vomit in my hair when i thought i’d washed it all out, and milk stains on my top which i had been wearing for about 2 days because i just haven’t had the time to put a load of washing on (my daughter is now 14 weeks old so things are getting better, although you may notice i am writing this entry at 3 in the morning because she’s been up crying for 2 hours and only just been put back down!) and i own a breastfeeding clothing company!! If anyone should have tons of clothes right now it should be me!

So back to DVO, basically she has stated the reason she has given up breastfeeding her daughter is because she doesn’t want to get papped (ie photographed) breastfeeding her daughter, and does not want her boobies to be splashed across the papers. I do get where she is coming from, there are some really scanky newspapers out there which act like immature boys and who would in a heart beat publish a picture like this. Ooh boobies , nevermind the fact that it’s a personal thing between miss Van Outen and her baby they would just invade her privicy. But we all know that breastfeeding is really beneficial so all i would say to Denise is , dude it;s your choice just like it’s every womens choice to breastfeed but if you did want to reconsider there are ways you can breastfeed in public without showing the world what you’ve got. IE Mama Feelsgood nursing tops  

Also ladies you could always express into a bottle for when on the move (surely a person can’t be out all the time , so it would be only the occasional feed during the day) if you are concerned about things. If you want to breastfeed your baby don;t let other peoples narrow minded opinions put you off. Once you get the hang of breastfeeding in public you’ll be wapping them out everywhere (with the assistance of our Mama Feelsgood breatsfeeding tops of course!)

What do you guys think about Miss Van Outen decision ?

Here is an article from The Daily Mail i found on this:

here are many reasons that new mothers might opt out of breastfeeding. 

Some find it too painful, some find it too difficult. Denise Van Outen, on the other hand, simply found it too public. 

The 36-year-old actress said she gave up breastfeeding her daughter Betsy after less than a month, claiming she didn’t like the idea of being spotted nursing in Starbucks. Or, heaven forbid, the Post Office.

probably should have persevered a bit longer than three weeks,’ she said in her first interview since her daughter’s arrival in May. 

‘But I can’t be sitting in Starbucks and breastfeeding, because they [photographers] are taking pictures. 

‘Another time, I was at the back of a really long queue at the Post Office to get Betsy a passport, knowing that in the next half hour she was going to wake up and cry, wanting a feed

‘And, sure enough, when I got to the front, that’s exactly what she did. And I felt so conscious of the pressures of everybody looking, tutting and waiting to see how I dealt with the situation because they knew my face.

Miss Van Outen, who is married to West End actor Lee Mead, explained that self-consciousness wasn’t the only reason for her decision to choose the bottle for Betsy. 

‘I wasn’t producing enough milk and Lee wanted to be able to feed her,’ she told She magazine

Denise appears in the August issue of SHE, on sale Saturday