How cool is this, of course you have to have the hair to be able to do this but great way to get out the way and it doesn’t take THAT long. I did this but didn’t do the plait around the base on piny tail because i am lazy!

Mermaid Tail braid

This Mermaid tail braid is SO easy to do and is cool when your hair is a little bit dirty too, you know the days your baby chucks up a little and you haven’t got time to wash your hair again lol. I joke ! Here is a great blog which shows pictures of how to do this braid .

Braided head band

OK so this maybe the girl off of The Hills (i can’t remember her name, and i don’t mean this is in a horrible way) but it’s not a high maintenance style plus it keeps your hair off your face. You can do this with shorter hair styles too, there is a fabulous site called Hair Romance that shows how to do braided head bands with shorter hair. There are also tons of funky hairstyle on their site which they show you you can do.

This You Tube video is cool for shorter hair although looks like you will need a friend to help – i’ve never done this one my ability to do a french plait is pants!

The top 2 styles were my favourites- also just chucking it up in a bun was cool , what was yours?

I am So excited it’s ridonculousour nursing tops are now available in Australia, how cool isthis? They were launched today by our Australian stockist Queen Bee who are a very cool and funky on-line retailer based in Sydney.

I love Queen Bee so much, they are so fashion forward with regard to the maternity and nursing clothing trends, they have a great selection so you can pick up one of our fab nursing tops and match it with loads of funky bottoms available on their site (i love these cool skinny maternity jeans from Maternal America  ; i wore my maternity jeans until Erin was 18 months old – not the big belly warmer type but the ones with little panels. They are way too cool not to wear just because your bump isn’t there and i did pay a lot for them so want to get my wear outta them, you can wear you top over the panel so no-one knows).

Queen Bee stock our Blossom nursing shirt our

Our Discothon nursing top

Funky Owl Breastfeeding Top

One Love nursing shirt.

We are so pleased to get our nursing tops into Australia, we’ve had SO many requests as we know paying postage can be such a pain in the butt, so finally you gorgeous Australian ladies you can now shop at home

If you live outside the UK and think your country would benefit from a little injection of Mama FeelsGood breastfeeding fashion just let us know and we will get on the case. We currently are available in Holland, Poland, Czech Republic, Ireland, and Spain .

Paul & Ben who do our screen printing (all our prints are hand printed) made the design look a little washed out but not too washed; it’s quite a skill to get the affect just right and these guys have been printing for years and years and really know their stuff, so our nursing tops always come out amazing. Lots of work goes into creating our breastfeeding tops so when you see them come out like this it’s HIGH 5 time!

Laura our photographer was amazing & so was our model Nat, this was shot last weekend when the weather here in Bristol was totally gross; we are talking rain that would just not stop and the fact that any shots were taken just goes to show how fab they are. It;s so cool to work with people who really get what you want. I am in love with these pictures.

We are so proud to have this nursing shirt in our collection , we have  another 2 new prints coming up over the next week too which are just as lush. Thought we would pace out the awesomness of our new breastfeeding top collection!

Ferm Living Owl Wallpaper £59.99 per roll 

When i was younger i can’t remember my wallpaper being funky, i think i plastered pictures of shoestring (yes i am that old, google it if you’re too young ha ha) or Paul weller. Now we have under loads of funky wallpaper for kids and great wall stencils. Here are a pick of my favourite ones available, although be warned some of them are quite pricy :

Ferm Livings Mushroom soup wallpaper £69.99 per roll – ouch

The great thing about Ferm living is they do lots of accessories to go with their wallpaper, so duvet covers, cushions, play mobiles etc, down side is they are pricey . Not sure how difficult it would be to hang this paper either? Although i often say i personally don;t do DIY because my motto is “that will do” and that drives Matt insane.

This gorgeous wallpaper is by a brand call ISAK it’s made in the UK and it’s made from sustainable forrest so you don;t have to loose sleep over all the trees that have been chopped to make you little ones room look gorg. It’s £38.50 per roll 

If wall papering isn’t your thing you could always paint the wall a colour you love and then adorn the walls with wall stickers. I have been looking at the Ferm Living Owl wall stickers for Erins room since she was born (she’s 2 now) and i still haven’t bought them. I think it’s the price which outs me off but i keep coming back to look at them , they are lush.

If sticker don’t rock your world there are always letters which you can paint and stick or nail to the wall. There are quite a lot of sellers on Ebay which sell by the letter so it’s cool for spelling your childs name out .

Just imagine this being your childs room …you get what i meant hough right?

OR if you are a little more out there you could commission a piece of art to be drawn directly onto your loved ones walls?

Bamboobies 

Apparently they are the softest, they’re leak proof and they don’t show. I have no idea if they actually are (if anyone has used these please let me know and i can add to site  ) but from a totally superficial basis they look cute (they are shaped like hearts).

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SO if i was heading off to sunny california i think i would go for our OWL blacknursing tees for the night time / evenings and for the day i’d probably rock with our laid back High 5 nursing shirt . I’m not into dresses at festivals, i went to the reading festival here in the UK way back in the 90’s and a total of 5 days camping can get you in quite a state, i can’t imagine whats it’s like with a baby but i guess this is where breastfeeding would come into it’s own because there are no bottles to keep clean etc. Food on the go !

I’m not too sure how family friendly music festivals are these days? I have gone to a few music festivals pre having children and they were cool but it was all about having a drink and dancing all night, something that i wouldn’t be doing with kids. At the Reading festival and i saw the Red Hot Chilli Peppers who were amazing but they weren’t on stage till way past 10pm and it didn’t stop till gone 1am – so you wouldn’t be taking your young kids to this (well i speak for myself here) . I guess it would have to all about the day time and the experience? I hear Camp besitval is cool and family orientated, the 2012 line up includes The Happy Mondays which i think would always be entertaining ! There are LOADS of kids friendly acts too. Although just looking at their website the tickets are £185 each per adult – ouch. Anyone ever been and know if it’s worth going? Defo looks like a different vibe from Coachella !!! No Dr Dre for a start- now i’ll leave that up to you if thats good or bad!

So we thought it would be cool to do a competition so one of you could win a Money Penny nursing dress . They are great nursing dresses can be dressed up for special occasions ie weddings or make great everyday wear.

Mama FeelsGood nursing dress

SO in order to win this nursing dress (you can pick from Purple or Black nursing dress   ) just tell us which was your favourite childrens TV programme and why ! ie when you were little which tv programme did you love? All entries are on this blog only, just add a comment below with your answer and your name and we will put all the names in a hat and pick the winner on Friday 30th march ( entries close at 8pm) . Don’t put your email address in your comment – just to avoid unwelcome spam .

I’m totally showing my age here but i loved He man – thought he was pretty buff ! Yeah i am that old!!

Good luck and 1 entry per person only – don’t be greedy now ha ha !

I gotta admit the owl nursing shirt is really cool, lots of our customers say they get loads of really nice comments when they wear them and nobody knows it’s a nursing top they think it’s just a really nice top . You see our nursing tops are not obvious and they are great to wear when you stop bereastfeeding too.

Here is our Feature in The Prima Pregnancy & Birth :

The pregnancy spanx featured in this page look kinda weird yet interesting. I think these would be great to help give your bump some support, i know when i had my 2 girls when it got to the end i felt my bump was moosive (it was although i think it was more of a food baby then my daughter, i did love the doughnuts!) and i bought a belt thing which was supposed to go under the bump to help support and take some strain off your back; i was ok for a bit nut i think it cut the blood supply off to my legs if i sat down! So these pregnancy spanx look like a good alternative.

So which is your favourite out of our nursing tops? We are just beginning with our wholesale programme and our nursing clothes will be available to by from Australia, Southern Ireland and a great store up in Scotland; so we are spreading the FeelsGood feeling around the world – slow but sure my friends. So if there is a store in your city you’d like to see our breastfeeding clothes then let them know about us and we can get the party started!

All our nursing Tee’s are super soft both for you and for your baby to snuggle, they was well and aren’t just limited to using whilst you are breastfeeding, lots of our custoemrs wear their shirts long after breastfeeding has stopped so don’t think of them as part of your maternity wardrobe think of them as yours for as long as you want them to be.

Our nursing shirts are fun & funky too so if you feel you’d like to try one check out our website www.mamafeelsgood.com

It’s kinda weird because we really love retro (I’m watching The Fresh Prince as I write this, I love fresh prince really cracks me up and Carltons dance is a classic) and 1950′s style so to be called a trend setter is preeeeettyy cool.

Sometimes I think if you really want to make a change you have to stick your neck out, take a chance and hope people see things the same way you do. Personally ( and this is just me) hated the mumsy maternity & nursing clothes available when I had my girls, and wanted to feel like me again and get up an put something I actually wanted to wear on and know for a fact I could breast feed in it, and also breast feed in it without showing everyone what I got!

my youngest daughter had colic when she was about 5 weeks old and she hasn’t for around 5 weeks and it knocked me for 6. My eldest daughter never had it so it took a while to guess what it was and I can remember no matter how much I rocked her she would be up crying all night and I mean all night. Even my singing if shiny happy people didn’t make an inpact (just for the record I cannot sing and Matt says the cats flock to our house when I do try !) . So for 5 weeks I just wanted something I knew I could throw on , look good, look like myself and feed her easily that and not need to remember to take anything out with me when I did Russle up enough energy to go out.

So it was pretty cool I owned a nursing clothes company! Now I know not everyone is gonna rock our style, I guess that’s why there are so many clothing brands in the world but I am honestly so chuffed at the support we have had so far , and we are making plans for the future that will see new n
Breast feeding clothes designs, and new products to help mums in their breast feeding journey.

We are spreading our wings and Mama FeelsGood nursing clothes wil be available in many places around the world, which is totally exciting and something I am super proud of.