Mama Feels Good

This week i received THE coolest email ever, it was from a mum who has bought our breastfeeding tops (she has been with us from early on when we started) and she wrote to us to let us know that our breastfeeding tops have really helped her and her friend out and to be able to breastfeed in public without the stress of other peoples comments and stares etc.

Here is a little quote from her email:

“I have to say honestly your tops have made this possible, as they have given me so much confidence as people can’t really tell when I’m feeding, and since having my baby I must have worn your tops all but about 10 days in total – they just make my life so much easier!”

How cool is this

I totally choked up when i read this (the whole email is so fab but can’t show it all as it’s a bit personal ), it is awesome when someone “gets ” you and think yeah i’m totally into that. Personally sometimes i think ladies can get the rough end of the stick, yes we do get those extra cuddles with our babies when we breastfeed which are so lush but we also get all the crap from people who just don’t “get” what we are doing. For starters it’s none of their business, all we want to do is go out with our babies and feed them when they are hungry; it’s not like we are making it our mission to flash our boobies ! SOme countries are so laid back about breastfeeding, i guess here in the UK we just need to get over ourselves and think thats what boobies were made for!

I was so excited when my first daughter was born but i did freak out when i had to go out with her and i knew she would want a feed because some people can be so rude and i didn;t want people staring at me,so hence Mama FeelsGood was created; i;m not saying it stops people staring all together but it definately helps

Yay our Mama’s melons nursing tops in red are now back in stock in all sizes.

This is such a lovely breastfeeding top and it’s funny too. I love the 1950′s and this top really fits thats era whilst being totally functional for breastfeeding in and it’s mega cool because you can wear the nursing shirt even when you stop breastfeeding. You can either leave the under layer in it or snip it out. I have tons of our breastfeeding tops which i wear and i’m no longer breatsfeeding. All our breastfeeding tops are well made and will last so don’t stop wearing them because you don’t breastfeed anymore.

A twitter friend of mine recently had her second baby and she has kept her tops from her first baby (who is now 2) and they are still rockin it, she wore them too whilst she wasn’t breastfeeding because she liked them so ladies don;t feel these tops are just for breastfeeding they aren’t !

This photo above of our melons nursing shirt brings back cool memories, we took this shot on a freaky hot day back in October, it was really bizzare because i thought it was going to be freezing and this freak hot day just came along. This particular photo is taken on a special street in bRistol which has tons of cool street art and Aiofe our model carefully wedged herself in this weird doorway which was half way up an house in order to get thsi shot.

Was a fun day, look forward to doing many more.

What do you consider as plus size?

Some stores class a size 14 as plus size but i can’t say as i go with that as the UK average size is a 16 so how can a 14 be plus size?

We carry breastfeeding tops up to a size 18 and these are a genuine size 18 not a 16- 18 . Here is our size charts for our breastfeeding tops:

Some of of nursing tops have slightly different cuts depending upon style so if you are wanting a plus size breastfeeding top which has a little more room i would go for our new 3/4 length sleeve ones, these have  a more generous cut from our short sleeved nursing tops (these nursing tops available in plain and other graphic prints too) .

We do want to extend our range of breastfeeding tops into sizes 20 and 22 but this will have to wait a little longer as it costs a fortune to do a range of new tops. But i promise you we are working on it and when we have established ourselves further we sill invest in a full range of plus size breasfeeding clothes.

Ok  so maybe a little rant coming on here but as you know i am a twitter lover; i go on it everyday and if i don’t post on it all the time i do read it quite a lot during the day (think i need to ween myself off it a bit) and the things you can find on there are very diverse; so i read a post from the US about a racing car driver tweeting about going into a store and seeing a woman breastfeeding and him getting all uptight about it and launching a mini moan on twitter about it.  Here is the full story

He makes these comments “Just walking though supermarket. See a mom breast feeding little kid. Took second look because obviously I was seeing things. I wasn’t!” he wrote, then graphically described what he saw. “#nasty,” Kahne added, “I don’t feel like shopping anymore or eating.”

My gawd get over it, it’s like 2012. I HATE it that women are sometimes (and i say sometimes as i know not all people are like this guy) made to feel crap because they are breastfeeding. Hellooo Mr if you had ever taken your children out and they became hungry (which they normally do as they are children) what would you do? Never go out? I don’t think so.

Some people just don’t get what it’s like to me a mother and to try and look after you kids irrelevant of if you breastfeed or bottle feed people always get funny about something. When Erin my youngest daughter was about 2 months old i took her out to our local Mall and went to get some lunch and i got moaned  at by a woman to stop her crying. I mean she had cried for like a nano second and get over it lady she’s a baby. See always something to moan about. I think some people either completely for get what it was like or never had a clue in the first place.

ok so that my moan over for today ! What gets on your nerves?

Hey ladies

enjoyable as christmas and the arrival of the 2012 is it messes with my shirt production! So i know some of the shirts are running low in some of the sizes (especially the large in our Owl and One love nursing shirt) but as soon as 2012 is here i will be getting my hands dirty and get back to the printing of these nursing tees. OK i might play with the truth here a little i do get the shirts ready but Paul our printer screens the shirts by hand so technically i’m not getting my hands that dirty; although he has said he will teach me this year but i think i’m being optimistic as Paul has over 20 years experience and he makes things look easy ! But i will try, i totally love seeing the process of our nursing shirts being printed, and i get jibbed about how interesting i think it is, i guess if you;ve been doing the same thing for 20 years it takes something special to rock your boat but to me 3 years in i still love it.

We have one new design which we will be launching in 2012 too, it’s on our short sleeved breastfeeding T-shirt … thats all i will say for now and you will have to wait to see the actual shirt.

We have our New years sale on right now and we have some great bargains so you should check this out , lots of the nursing tops are

Dudes it’s christmas !

Ok so i’m guessing you knew that already but make sure you have a good one; for me christmas is about family especially as i have children of my own, plus food. I love food ! That is something i have to sort out for 2012 – loose some of the rolls ! Plus get fit , well when i say get fit i mean be able to walk up the stairs without having to call St John ambulance! I’m guessing this goes hand in hand with loosing some of the rolls!

So in relation to Mama FeelsGood  our BOXING DAY SALE is the next big event, i was sorting through our stock and i found some older designs that i had totally forgotten about so these are going in the sale (these are breastfeeding shirts) plus some of our new stock thats only been in our store is on sale; in fact i think nearly everything is on sale, including our fancy Money Penny nursing range.

So make sure you check our website out if you need some breastfeeding clothes, some of the shirts are only available in certain sizes so it will be the first come first served type of thing, and once they are sold we won’t be printing them again, especially the pink nursing shirts.

Have a  good one everyone, liz

Hurrah after what seems like an eternity we have gotten around to getting our new website on-line, it’s taken ages basically because i haven’t got my butt into gear and there is always lots to do; plus (i won’t bore you with all the details) i’ve had so much hassle with people not doing what they are paid to do ie accountants it’s given me a proper headache! But this has all been changed now and i have found someone who is brill

I’ve also been thinking about my blog, i’m sorta fed up with just writing “and here’s our next nursing top” which seems kinda insincere and crappy; i really love Mama FeelsGood, it is totally my 3rd baby (which sometimes can be a pain because i take some things way too personally) so i wanted to write bits about the company, the clothes we produce, why we make them, my daily role in running the company and maybe basically my life. To me this seems more worthwhile rather than churning out spam ! So apologies if this isn’t what you want to hear, trust me my life is not that thrilling , i promise not to blog about going to Tesco etc!

It’s getting close to the end of 2011 and looking back on this year of working on Mama FeelsGood i feel pretty good about what we have achieved : We reached the final of the Practical Parenting awards and also the Mother & Baby awards (this is thought of as THE best awards, sorta Oscars for the nursery world) and to get in the final in both of these when competition is so strong was a real achievement for us.

After all we are a small company so to get recognition is really cool, plus it was the first year we had ever entered any competitions so all is good. Of course if we have won i would have had a party that lasted about a week, but hey you gotta take credit where its due and we got in the final so excellenti !

Also in 2011 we have introduced our new Money Penny nursing tops and breastfeeding dresses – i made sure when these were made that they we thicker fabric so they are durable for breastfeeding and not so thin you can see through them; 1 thing i found when breastfeeding was i had to wear quite a substantial nursing bra because my wongers were maoooosive and it wasn’t the type of underwear i would want everyone to see shining through my garments so ladies i have thought of this and the thicker fabric has been used for our nursing dress ! This also goes for our Money Penny nursing tops too as they are made of the same material (and work on the same breastfeeding access as the dresses).

Also our new boat neck nursing tops are in store, these are SO soft it’s untrue; also the underlayer of the tops is the same colour as the top layer, our previous style nursing tops were mostly white underlayers and different top layer colours  so we’ve changed things up and all new shirts have same colour top & bottoms . For example our Tattooo owl nursing top

So who knows what 2012 will bring ? Hopefully more new designs and maybe a few surprises ?

So October has been and gone and it’s been a crazy month here are Mama FeelsGood ; we are still trying to get our new website up and going , it will function much better than our current one for example you will be able to view more shots of our nursing shirts and be able to zoom in so i know a lot of you wanted this so you could see the graphic prints a lot better. We will be bale to accept Paypal which i good because so many people use it now and we will have different shipping rates so it gives you more choice over how you want to receive your goods.

Thing is it takes forever and with getting our new range of breastfeeding tops photographed and edited and then loaded onto the old site ie this one takes much longer than you think. So hopefully this time next week the new site should be up, although i did say that last week

Another fabulous thing which totally rocked my world, we were picked up by Pregnancy & Birth magazine as the pick of the web for November and were featured in their magazine (page 20 ladies). So good times !

Hey ladies, i finally got around to doing a short video on how our breastfeeding tops work, it’s only taken me like a year ! Sorry about that.

I personally always find music on videos a bit in your face so i haven’t added any, and as the clip is so short i haven’t added a voice over either, so i’ve saved you from my west country drawl!

The video is pretty self explanatory so don;t think you really need a voice over anyway!

let me know what you think

Ok so it has been agreed on moday the 24th of october we are going live with our new website and new range of breastfeeding tops.

I have so much to learn before we go live ie how the admin works on our new site so i think its going to be a steep learning curve!

I’m up for the challenge though and think there will be lots of late nights involved. Our product shot photos have come out really well and i have lots of things planned for them, so make sure you check out our website www.mamafeelsgood.com .

Just a little heads up we are putting on sale lots of our old style shirts and these will either be removed when the new website is up or the price will be raised, so grab some now while you have the chance

Take care guys, Liz