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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

Totally forgot to tell you guys we met Justing Lee Collins when i had baby Erin.

It was such a bizarre experience it’s kinda like a hallucination because it’s something i wasn’t expecting at all , but i had literally just come out of theatre after having Erin by C-section and i was lying in recovery  when a lady with a clip board came in and said Justin Lee Collins was visiting the hospital (Southmead Hospital in Bristol) for a charity event and would like to meet new parents. Well Matt said yeah sure no worries, i was too busy being sick at the time (the pain killers they give you are mighty strong and made me feel VERY sick, not nice) to really say anything, but thought well i’ll just say hi and that would be it.

2 mins later all the lights blast on, the double doors fly open and in comes Justin but what they PR people failed to say was there were 5 photographers and 3 TV cameras…. yeah 3 TV cameras!!! We are talking proper TV jobbies here….

Well i must have gone into a state of shock because to say i wasn’t expecting that was an understatement , just imagine you;ve literally just had a c-section (30 mins before), can’t move, being sick continuously, sweaty, bum hanging out of the hospital gown, hair which looks like it has been drawn in the style of a OAPs man come over , catheter in , and to make things even worse the drip that was put in had gone a bit strange and was putting saline into my arm rather than the vein so i had a giant arm!!!! NICE…………..

I was gutted and felt like a rabbit in the headlights as less face it i couldn’t exactly get up and go anywhere at the time . As i was going into a state of shock Matt by my side (who was totally oblivious to my distress )went into I’m down the pub mode and started joking and laughing with Justin, i vaguely remember Matt saying to him ” what do you use on that mane timotei ” and Jusitn coming back with a witty remark, they were having a blast.

I must admit i don’t think JLC knew we had just literally had an operation, and he was such a fantastic guy, really really friendly and kind, just the type of guy you’d want to hang out with , maybe not just after a major operation though! He did say Erin was beautiful so hey the man has good taste

Shame the camera guys and photographers weren’t so nice, a one point one photographer said “mum, mum can you just move closer to dad” and that was met with a face like thunder and a mumble of “i’ve just had an operation i can’t move anything you plonker”.

So the pose leave the room and i resume vomiting again – Bad times   and i think of thats the end of that, what a strange experience , feels like a dream.

Later that day Matts phone suddenly start going crazy, texts and phone calls, thought wow all these people wanna say congratulations on having Erin how nice, ahh no turns out we were on our local news. They had run a quite long piece on Justin Lee Collins going to Southmead maternity unit to raise money for charity and there the 3 of us were , me Matt and baby Erin. i looked truly hideous, turns out all my woes about looking terrible were true and just to make things worse i hadn’t realised the angle i was lying on the bed made my 2 chins look like 5….. they say the camera adds pounds but thats just cruel…. Not what you want when you’ve just had a baby and you;re in body shock as it is.

Friends said it’s a shame i wasn’t wearing a Mama FeelsGood nursing tee…hey guys i’d just come out of theatre

Any way, Justin was lovely, and i have a lovely TV clip of baby Erin on the day she was born, not many can say that. I’m sure we will look back on it and laugh….

Nice to know Hollywood stars are “Normal” in some ways too…well apart from being uber rich ha ha.

Nicole Kidman has done an article for a magazine in the states about her pregnancy and breastfeeding , take a look:

Nicole Kidman has always been tall with a svelte figure so she became pregnant with her daughter Sunday Rose, she grew in more ways than one. 

In the issue of Ladies Home Journal, Nicole talks about how pregnancy made her breasts “normal size,” being in love and how her career is taking a backseat to family life. 

Here are some highlights from the interview: 

Nicole on breastfeeding: “They’re not very big, my boobs, so they just became normal size. I loved it! I felt very Woman. When you’ve had a slightly androgynous body your whole life, having breasts is a nice feeling.” 

Nicole on being a private person: “I would never write a memoir. There are things that happen behind closed doors, and that’s where they belong. I’m not secretive. I’m protective.” 

Nicole on being in love: “I love being in love. I believe in the power of love, the way it can heal. The more you keep choosing it—because there are times when you can choose to be angry at the person or to love him—the more it nourishes a family.” 

Nicole on her career taking a backseat: “There are certain limitations to my career because I’m based here. And that’s cool. Keith has enormous ambitions, which I support. His tours and albums are much bigger than what I’m doing right now.” 

Nicole on refusing to sing in front of her husband: Most mornings Urban plays the piano for her and Sunday. “I hum a little. When your husband’s a huge singer, the last thing you do is sing with him.” 

Nicole on her outlook for the future: “Sunday’s third word was ‘wow,’ and I say that word a lot. I hope when I’m 80 I’ll still be saying it. I’ve been given extraordinary opportunities, with huge dreams fulfilled. I’m 42 and my eyes ar

I don’t think Nicole actually meant it as it sounds ! Nicole was referring to the weight she has lost after giving birth the her son Sparrow earlier on this September, she claims that the weight she gained during pregnancy has been lost through nursing her new born son.

She joked to Britain’s OK! magazine: “I’m breastfeeding at the moment so that sucks the life out of you!”

Nicole’s partner Joel Madden is more in love with the 28-year-old beauty than ever and is a fan of the curves she has developed since becoming a mother.

Joel said: “She doesn’t work out and she doesn’t need to diet It is so easy for her to look good.”

Nicole and the Good Charlotte rocker also have a daughter, 22-month-old Harlow. The pair admit their group of friends has expanded since they started a family and they have formed close bonds with other young parents.

“You don’t lose old friends, but the time you spend with them is limited,” Joel explained. “Really our interactions revolve around getting together with other people who also have kids.

Wow Holly Wiloughby is one busy lady.

Her son Harry is still only a few months old and she is back to work on the X factor tours and is being talked about as one of the favourites for the presenting job on “This Morning”. 

She is breastfeeding Harry so it just goes to show you can be a busy working mum and still breastfeed your baby. Although i must say Holly must be so much more organised than i was because i found it hard just to get out of the house on some days, let alone work on Tv shows!!

I suppose it is the nature of which jobs we work in as to how quickly we can get back to work, thats if we do at all. Working in entertainment must out extra pressure onto new mums, as people put so much emphasis on image etc. Although Holly has been quoted as saying  :

: “I’m breastfeeding Harry, so I am not going to diet. I have never worried about my weight or diets. I will never be a skinny girl.”

Maybe this could set an example to other celebrity mothers! 

With reference to the This Morning presenter role available  She said: “I would never pass up the opportunity to work with Phillip. He is lovely.
But with ‘The Xtra Factor’, a new baby and ‘Dancing On Ice’, I am pretty busy.”

Sometimes it’s really cool to see celebrities can be “normal” too! 

So it’s good to see there are a few celebs which are vocal about their passion and feelings towards breastfeeding their children.

Gwen Stefani is one of these celebrities. Gwen Stefani has been quoted by USA Today as saying that she believes breastfeeding gives superhuman powers. She admitted that she was still nursing her then six month old son. Pictures of Gwen and her son, Kingston, are numerous on the internet. Gwen seems to be practicing Attachment Parenting, or AP, to it’s fullest as well as breastfeeding.It appears that Gwen practices what she preaches. She talks publicly about breastfeeding and even apologized at one interview for being an hour late because she was nursing. 

I’m not sure about the superhuman bit, but it’s god to see Gwen so open and comfortable about breastfeeding.

Katie holmes is another celebrity breastfeeding mum who breastfed her daughter Suri. Apparently on one occasion her nursing bra was seen poking out from her top and made a big hoo ha in the news. WOW big deal…some people are so old fashioned!!! Maybe with baby number 2 (if there ever is ) Katie holmes would be more than welcome to try one of our breastfeeding tops

Any other celebrity mums let us know

Happy days ladies, we just had some great news about our funky Kat nursing top , seems like a celebrity in the USA has been given one and loves it .

We’re not too sure if we are allowed to say whom it is at the moment, due to confidentuality etc but if we are given the go ahead we’ll let you know We’ll just have to leep our fingers crossed and hope she gets papped wearing it ha ha. But seriously we are super pelased our breastfeeding shirts are going down a storm, and internationally too…thats fabulous

So ladies every one of our customers is a star to us ( did that sound mega cheesy, apologies) and we’d love to get pictures of you guys wearing your Mama Feelsgood nursing Tees. We can put them up on our blog, it will be wicked.

Just a sneek insider info too, we are launching more graphic nursing T-shirts around September time, so all you breastfeeding ladies keep tuned !

The Film The Hangover is out in cinemas today throughout the UK and it’s suppose to be pretty good.

In it, it features a scene where Heather Grahams charater breastfeeds in front of a group of guys on a stag party.

Heather said: “I think it’s a funny idea for a scene but to be honest I was nervous, I wasn’t like ‘great, let’s do whatever’.”

She added: “I just thought it was a weird quirky thing to do and it might create something that was funny.”

Director Todd Phillips insists he put the scene in the movie to play on the comedy of men’s reactions to breastfeeding women, not just as an excuse to see Heather flash. 

Well we’ll have to go see the film to make our minds up about this

He joked: “Her character in the movie has no qualms about nudity because of her job, so it was a character thing it really wasn’t to see Heather Graham’s breast.”

Heather confessed she felt maternal playing a mother, but less so about about some of the babies.

She said: “I really like holding babies. The thing is there were a lot of different babies ‘cos a baby can only work two hours so there were say six babies. And some of the babies I was really in love with and there were a few babies that were very cranky and they did NOT want to be working on a movie. And every time the mom gave them to me the baby would just start crying and crying.

“Sometimes they’d cry for like an hour we’d all just be standing there staring at the baby, going ‘what can you do?!’