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.

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.

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?

I always find the new year is a real kick up the butt and gets me motivated for all the things i really want to do both business wise and personal things. One thing that is always on my list is to loose the pounds ie not the £ kind ! Thing is i love to eat but i have to retrain myself that you can still eat and get in shape just not doughnuts! Way back before i had my kids i had always been chunky but not so chunky i couldn’t go to the Mall (i live in Bristol and we have a shopping complex called  The Mall) and go into any shop and find something that would fit, i had Amelia my first daughter and i put weight on and 5 years later when i had my second daughter Erin i got to moosive proportions which i am at now; i don’t like it at all and i’ve been like this for about 2 years now. I am an avid tweeter and someone posted a quote on there “if you don’t like something change it, if you can’t change it then learn to live with it” i think it was made by Maya Anjelou (spelling i am sorry my spelling is pretty pants). It is totally right and i CAN change my weight and i can’t learn to live with it so it’s got to go.

How about you, are you happy with your body?

The thing is if you look at things rationally weight loss isn’t going to be a fast thing, i didn’t wake up one day and find i’d put like 5 stone on! So i can’t expect to to loose it that fast. I have downloaded an App on my iphone which is called my net diary and you basically write  down in it what you have eaten and it gives you the calories for it and it you are reaching your daily limit (you have to put your height in etc) i found it was quite good but you’ve got to be honest with what you are putting into it. What do you guys use to help you loose weight?

Anyway stepping aside form the weight thing i also thought i’d try new things with my hair and make-up. I’ve always had really long hair but never really done much with it, i’ve had it cut into slightly different styles but always end up coming back to the same one so i thought i’d try You Tube out and see how i can change my current style with clips, and curling it etc. WOW You Tube is amazing for finding tips on make-up and hairstyles etc .

I really like the 1950′s vibe and found a really cool video on YOu tube by a lady called Cherry Doll FAce, :

I like this because you don’t need lots of expensive make up – lots of what Cherry uses is make up you can find in boots. I do wonder about the eyebrow thing though and if it looks too obvious your eyebrows are painted on – but maybe i worry too much about looking like i obviously am wearing make up and should just go with the flow a bit more. I think Cherry looks really fab with her make up on (she’s is very pretty without) and there is a big difference between her when she has make up on and off. What do you think?

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

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

The major thing for us is that these baby shows are a maaoooosive punch to the wallet, i’m talking if i chose to do just 1 of these shows  me & the family would be eating baked beans on toast for the rest of the year! I can’t really say how much they are but just the costs of the booth itself is big dudes; so as with of things in life you have to weigh up the pros and the cons and see if it a really possibility to have a stand at one of these baby shows; and the sad thing is i don’t think i could, not right now. I totally love what i do here, and i love bringing funky breastfeeding clothes to all you cool mama’s but the big shows right now are something we cannot do

With the recession i honestly don’t know how some companies can keep doing them – all power to them though for doing it but for us here are Mama’s FeelsGood it’s a no for 2012; that is unless we win the lottery! It would mean a big rise in the prices of our breastfeeding clothes which is something we don’t want to do, so for 2012 we will keep doing what we do and maybe 2013 will be the year of the big baby shows for us?

Or if we could get someone to share with them we could do a booth????

I’ll keep thinking up ideas!

Take care, Liz

I love twitter, it’s great for lots of reasons but with many things there is a ying and yang thing going on and i have seen some posts where ladies have been bullied for not choosing to breastfeed their babies; it was really vile abuse they were getting too ranging from “your feeding your baby poison,” to “you obviously don’t care about your child, social services should take then away from you” ! I’m sorry but that is just terrible talk; do people really think that talking to another person in such a way is going to make them suddenly breastfeed ????

Of course i am an advocate of breastfeeding, i breastfed both my children (for varying amounts of time, i didn’t have things easy at all) but i would never judge someone for how they chose to feed their baby….would you?

So going back to the celebrity breastfeeding thing why do so many people want to know if a celeb breastfeeds? After Holly Willoughby had her second baby i wrote a brief post on congrats she’s had her baby etc and since then i can see in my web statistics what people search for to reach the site and loads of people were typing into google Does Holly Willouhgby breastfeed? Why did people want to know? They didn’t know her (otherwise i presume they could of just asked her!) so what was the big deal? Would it seriously make them more likely to breastfeed their baby if a celebrity breastfeed theirs?

Same as Miranda Kerr (if you don’t know she is married to Orlando Bloom) when she had her baby she breastfed, excellent good on her, but the internet went crazy when she posted a picture of her breastfeeding back stage at a cat walk show( did i forget to say she is also a model for victoria secret) . Dudes it’s not a biggie she was feeding her baby; the thing i thought was more OMG was that she got her figure back so quickly after having a baby. Mine has never been the same (to be fair when i had my first daughter it wasn’t much to right home about) and defo after my 2nd daughter things have dipped…. and i mean all over the place! GOing off topic that is one of my new years resolutions to shirt some of the rolls!

Anyway seems the whole world is celebrity mad- in marketing it’s common place for companies to send their products to celebs on the vain hope they will wear them and be photographed or the celeb will make a comment that they can use to promote the brand. OK it would be cool to see someone who you respect wearing your brand but it would be great of they could contact you rather then you forcing it on them; i know this is a weird attitude to have, but i love my nursing shirts and sending them to people for free just because they are on TV is a bit blah; unless i like them and it’s completely different! ha ha. If Dave Grohls wife ever wanted a Mama FeelsGOod breastfeeding Top man it’s there !!

SO what do you think about celebrity and btreasfeeding? Do you want to know who does or doesn’t or is it ever persons right to remain private about it? I think i go with privacy?

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 ?

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 !