Mama Feelsgood Breastfeeding Tops in Green PArent Magazine

It was a really nice article we were featured in basically showing that there are quite a few options open if you want to breastfeed in public without flashing your wongers or baby belly at everyone!

Everyone is different and some women are more comfortable at feeding in public, and it is something that take s a bit of getting use to. But hey you shouldn;t ever feel that you can’t go out when you are breastfeeding , Ok i know in the beginning if you are anything like me it took me ages just to get myself and my girls up and dressed to go out and when i did they would fill their nappy and i would have to start all over again! But it’s really cool to get your butt out of the house and enjoy some outdoors time with your baby. With Amelia i think Starbucks was my first destination, so nice just to try and chill out (OK maybe chilling out is an over estimation because i was a little highly strung at first about her screaming the place down, which she didn’t!) . So where was the first place you went out solo with your new little baby?

So what methods do you use to make breastfeeding in public that bit easier for you? I’ll be honest and say the whole idea of using a cover wasn’t for me, Erin i know would just pull at it like and probably pull it up but i haven’t ever used one so i might have gotten it totally wrong. How have you guys gotten on with them?

I also heard that baby slings are good at covering your bits when breastfeeding plus it takes some of the strain off of your back and arms because you can let the sling do some of the supporting. ?

Anyways take a good read of our article and let me know what you think; Green PArent magazine is SO cool for ideas and tips for parents so it;s SO luch to be featured in it. I have bought the magazine and am going to laminate the page this afternoon!! I know i am a sad case!!

Happy weekend guys, Liz

2010 rocked for us, Mama Feelsgood did it’s second complete year of trading (we went live with our website October 2008) and it’s been really good, in fact a lot better than i could have thought. Fun times, sad times , we’ve moved location to a bigger office met lots of lovely people along the way  had a baby (my lovely daughter Erin) and made big plans for 2011.

I started mama Feelsgood back in 2005 really, it was in my head for abour 3 years and finally got things moving back in 2008; MFG is my baby , maybe i am too attached to it but i have put SO much effort into it. I just wanted to provide nursing mothers with some other options for clothing, something thats gonna make you feel good, and something for you. So much attention is put on your babies ( and totally so they are very precious things we would do anything for) but along the way it’s really easy to forget yourself; especially second/ third etc time around. I noticed with having Erin this year who is my second baby that you just get on with it, the pregnancy and birth etc i’m not saying it’s not special because course it is but you have so much going on with the first baby that right there with you that days go by and before you know it your baby is out and you are full throttle again.

Now our nursing shirts are not going to get up in the night and feed your baby, neither are they going to restore your pre pregnancy body and wash your hair for you on THOSE days when all you wanna have is some time to yourself and sleep, but what i hope they will do is give you a choice of something you would want and enjoy wearing which fits in with your life right now and provides a bit of coverage for yourself of things you would rather kept you you & your loved ones!

I’ve been working super hard this year (believe me i was packing orders 3 days after having my c-section when Erin was alseep) and our breastfeeding dresses will be with us mid January and also some breastfeeding tops/ blouses will be here. We will be doing our photo shoot for these late January so they will be in store soon. Also to join these we are bringing our some new graphic nursing T-shirts too. So lots going on. To make room for these lots of our old style graphic prints are on sale so check them out because when they are gone they won’t be re-printed.

Anyways i scaddaddle now as i’m rambling on but thanks for checking us out in 2010 and we promise 2011 there will be more Mama Feelsgood goodies

Take care, Liz

Some of the breastfeeding tops have holes or tares in them from being faulty in manufacture and they are in the underlayers so not always visable and might be good for just wearing around the house, so they still keep you warm . Of course some of the tops with marks on them can just be washed and they might be OK, it;s that i cannot sell tops that have been laundered so they are no good to me.

So to catch these little gems you have to check out and be a fan of our facebook page. There is no regularity to when we post them, just random when we find them really, so you have to keep you eyes peeled!

Here is Mama Feelsgood facebook Page

Congratulations Elizabeth if you could email or ring us to tell us your address and which size Lips nursing shirt you would like that would be great. Contact details are on our website ( we get mega spammed if we put them here).

So if you missed out on winning one of our nursing tops this time then don’t worry there will be loads of other chances to win one and lots of other fab goodies as we have lots of competitions in store.

It is our 2nd birthday next monday so will be running another facebook competition starting this Friday and finishing next monday, so keep your eyes peeled. Don;t worry if you don;t have a facebook account as we do accept entries via our blog here and promise to enter all the names into the hat just as we did for the last competition so no one gets missed out.

We’re going to have a little party here at Mama Feelsgood to celebrate out 2nd birthday, well myself, Matt and our 2 girls are going to party as much as you can ha ha i’ll buy baby Erin a extra juicy carrot and mash it up for here ( she’s just cutting her first tooth and it;s driving her insane) . I would go for a krispy kreme doughnut but i’m trying to be good, too many clothes i can’t fit into anymore post Erin , too many Mama Feelsgood nursing tees i can’t squeeze my rolls into so times are gonna change!

Any how don’t forget new competition for a different breastfeeding tops this Friday

Good luck guys.

Lips long sleeve breastfeeding top

Day 5 of our week long nursing top sale.

1 day, 1 new nursing shirt put on sale.

APologies for the delay in todays breastfeeding top going on sale i’ve been moving our shirts into our new office and it was bl***y hard!! My back jsut insn’t strong enough for all this hard lifting so i’ve left Matt hard at it! Although we won’t be fully moved in for a few weeks yet, but it’s coming along lovely ( will post some pictures soon).

So yes today sunday 19th September our Lips long sleeve nursing top is on super special offer , more than 50% off at a jaw dropping cheap price of £9.99.

So like all this week this breastfeeding top is only on sale until tomorrow morning, so better get going!

Here’s a description of the shirt:

Mama Surf Nursing Top

REMEMBER  THIS BREASTFEEDING SHIRT IS ON SALE FOR 1 DAY ONLY

OK day 2 of our super special breastfeeding top sale and today it;s our Mama Surf nursing top in pink thats on sale for tres low price of £9.99 .

This is one laid back nursing tee! Bringing memories of the summer flooding right back at cha. Who says we can’t dream a little ha ha!

For how the breastfeeding part of the shirt works look at the picture below

The same applies to all our breastfeeding tees.

• 100% quality jersey cotton top shirt
• 95% cotton 5% spandex undershirt
• Designed to fit AFTER pregnancy
• machine washable
• size’s 8 – 18 available
• All our breastfeeding tees work on the same nursing design:

It is 2 shirts in 1. The top t-shirt is just like a regular tee, and below is a hidden under vest with nursing openings on both sides. When you want to feed your baby you simply lift the top tee and move the undervest slightly to use the nursing openings. Keeps your tummy covered and helps hide you chest!

Just a heads up on our Ray gun nursing top in pink ( long sleeve nursing top) it is now sold out in all sizes except xs (we have 2 left, and xl arge we have about 5 left), they are such a cool design, very 1950′s A movie feel about them, or kinda comic strip.

Ray gun nursing top

For £12.99 these nursing tops are an absolute steal, very good quality cotton shirts that are super funky and also provide something interesting for your children to look as whilst they breast feed.

Our ray gun graphic prints will not be re-printed so once gone that’s it;s .

I just don’t get why they would be such a big issue about them? OK so if i am being honest they are not my cup of tea, and i know i am one of the most forgetful people never so i would go out and forget them but hey if ladies want to wear them then just wear them, anything which makes your breastfeeding experience better can only be a good thing? There is SO much pressure on ladies on how they should be feeding their babies ie breast Vs bottle i don’t think we need extra stress about what we wear whilst we do it.

Ok i sell nursing tops so you could say i am biased but i created Mama Feelsgood to provide an option for women who want a choice of maternity wear / nursing wear i’m not saying you Got to wear them, breastfeeding tops are like chocolate, you can live without it but it makes your life that little bit better ( ha ha well i suppose that depends upon if you like chocolate or not!).

i don’t know if it is the culture we live in here in the UK but people love to judge others and give their options, maybe it’s because shows such as the X Factor are popular where basically they have celebrities passing judgement on others we think it;s acceptable to do this in everyday life. If a lady likes to / feels more comfortable wearing a Hooter Hider or breastfeeding top then whats the problem?

What do you think?

At the moment i am really into watching the programme Dexter, just finished watching Season 1 ( yeah i am late to catch onto this programme , but trying to make up for it) for those who haven’t seen it, it’s based in Miami and it always looks hot there. Got me thinking of wow what would it be like to live somewhere where the climate was pretty constant all year round . Here it’s just so up and down all the time but somewhere like Miami you could just have 1 wardrobe for the whole year. Please correct me if i am being dense as maybe Miami isn’t so hot all the time . But that would make my life SO much easier. Our nursing tops could be all shorter sleeved, breast feeding vests could be made etc.

What’s your opinions, do you think many people would wear nursing vests to breast feed in, i personally only wouldwear a breastfeeding vest to bed and not everyday but i know a lot of people are very different from me. Also breastfeeding pyjamas and bedwear whould you wear a pair of nursing pyjama’s? I’ve got a small baby and i honestly just wear a T-shirt to bed, i’m not too fussed about what i look like breastfeeding late at night but what about you?

We are trying to build up a nice collection of breast feeding clothing that suits our customers needs, what is it you are looking for? What would make your life as a breast feeding mum easier from an apparel point of view?

Our breast feeding T-shirts are really funky and we think lush but we want to expand our range and need feedback to provide the best we can, you along with the need for a variation of different style of nursing clothes ie because of our changing season here in the UK what else should we be doing?