Mama Feelsgood

We are SO sorry for the wait for our Black long sleeve nursing tops in our Island graphic print in the smaller sizes, they are being re-printed this week so the wait shouldn’t be too much longer.

There has been tons going on here in the past couple of months and we gotta admit getting the nursing shirts re printed just got pushed to the back of the que. But we are on the case, we’ve had quite a few emails now concerning these particular nursing tops and we can’t  put off you requests any longer!

Just so you know we also do our Island graphic print in long sleeve dark grey breastfeeding tops too and short sleeve dark grey, pink and black nursing tees

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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

Maybe you did or didn’t know but it;s breastfeeding awareness week next week and lots of local NCT groups and other breastfeeding orgaisations have things in store to celebrate this.

Since  1993,  the National Breastfeeding Awareness Week (NBAW) has been run annually by the Department of Health as a key event for  promoting  breastfeeding.  The  main  aim  of the campaign is to raise  awareness of the health benefits of breastfeeding, increase  social  acceptance  of  breastfeeding  and  promote  support  for  breastfeeding. 

Berkshire NCT class are running a pass the parcel game to celebrate and Mama Feelsgood is going to donate a top to this , also bosom buddies the mid essex breastfeeding support group are having a raffle and we have donated a nursing top to this , so if you are in either of  these areas go check the groups out and see what ‘s going on, would be cool to meet other mums and make friends. Making friends at such a special time in your and your babies life can often result in friends for life.

Let us know what is going on in your local are for breastfeeding awareness week and we will spread the word

OK so we have a fan page on Facebook, here is the link if you want to check us out  http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mama-Feelsgood/40840210123?ref=ts 

Would be totally cool for you guys to become fans, check out whats happening and maybe even post some pictures of you wearing a Mama FeelsGood nursing top , that would be totally FAB  

We are going to try and organise competitions to win one of our Nursing tops on a regular basis so if you are feeling lucky keep our eyes peeled on our facebook page for details. Would be great to have some interaction with all the new mums out there, it can kinda get lonely working on your own (although i do have my 9 week old daughter with me at the moment but the conversation is pretty one way at the moment!).

I’ll try and update our facebook page more with what is currently going on with the company too and where things stand in realation to new designs and stock etc.

Grab a bargain while you can our Funky Pink Music sounds better with you nursing top is on sale , perfect for this colder weather. Super soft lovely cotton double layer nursing top will keep you snug and warm.

The fun silk screen print will also brighten up your day and maybe even bring a smile too

Here’s a picture to show how our nursing tops work 

All our nursing tops are available in plain short sleeve , long sleeve  and graphic prints too, again both in short sleeve  and long sleeve

Yeah at last our new collection of graphic tee nursing tops are hitting the website tomorrow .

There are a sprinkle of both Short sleeve nursing tops   and long sleeve nursing tops . 

Just seeing them on Jess & Sheri when they modeled them was so cool, it’s not very often i get to see the breastfeeding shirts on people, as it’s an on-line store it can get a bit lonely …sob sob. Ha ha .

The photo shoot was really good to do, i thought we should change things up a bit from our previous photos of our nursing shirts so all the pictures were shot outside..hey on location!!! That sounds so posh but believe me it really wasn’t ha ha. 

Both Sheri and Jess our models were brilliant as always, able to strike a pose on the most awkward of places whilst still looking cool. Also Laura our resident photographer was brilliant (as she consistently is ) and not only took some amazing shots but her imagination and ideas were fantastic for angles and poses etc.

As we speak the final photographs are being choosen (there were 34 nursing tops in all photographed and over 1000 pictures taken!) and by late tomorrow night all the new breastfeeding shirts will be available for purchase on-line.

It’s going to be such a blast , it’s our photoshoot for our new nursing tops on monday. Please let it be dry as i really wanna get some shots outside, although the weather here in Bristol at the moment has been completely different everyday so far! Sheri and jess are our models again and it’s so much fun, i’ve learnt the art of chilling out a bit now, our first ever photoshoot we did i was so up tight and moody ha ha. You watch Americas next top model and think it looks easy but i can tell you it really isn’t!! To be a good model you’ve just got to enjoy what you do and have the patience of a saint!

Of course it totally helps that Laura our photographer is a total dream to work with, she has SUCH a good imagination , some of the poses she think up are wicked.

Because i myself an pregnant with my 2nd child hopefully next year when it’s born (i don’t know the sex yet so have to still call it an it!) there should be some better “action shots” of how our breastfeeding tops work. I know sometimes it kinda difficult to get your head around how our nursing tops actually work so this should help alot.

SO by next wednesday the new breastfeeding tops will be available to buy on our website.

Take care, liz

Hurrah had the big delivery i was waiting for yesterday of our nursing tops and even as we speak i am updating the stock levels of breastfeeding tops our site.

It’s been a crazy couple of days for us, we,ve brought in some new colour comblinations and tweeked a few of our graphic prints on the nursing tops so things are gradually changing. As with a lot of things everything takes so long!

We have some cracking new graphic prints ready to go but as yet no pictures! trying arrange a photo shoot when everyone can attend is truly an logistics nightmare, but as any women knows multi tasking is nothing new to us! 

So i am debating on whether to put some mock ups on the site until i have the shoot pictures, just so it gives you guys a chance to but and not have to wait?? What do you think?

Well this week has been an experience!

Met a super lovely lady who saw my little article in Bristol Evening post a few weeks back (i’ll will have to scan it in and show you guys) she literally lives up the road from me and was in need of some breastfeeding shirts so popped down, had a chat and was able to try some shirts on to see how the fit was. Also had some really fabulous emails from ladies who love our shirts, and just wanted to pass on their regards, those kinda emails are always really cool to get and really does bring the feel good factor:)

On the downside our shirts are taking forever to be delivered to us…… it’s the biggest order we have ever had and it includes our new graphic print nursing tops plus all the sizes in the shirts we already stock. If i said we are desperate for this order i would be under estimating it! I am so dissapointed it’s unreal, it has just been a combination of mistakes and problems along the way which has resulted in our shirts being 6 weeks late to get to us…. and hence to you guys. So to all the ladies who have enquired when we will have shirts in all the sizes they won’t be long now (fingers crossed) and we are really sorry for the delay.

Have a fab weekend, Liz

We are well excited here at Feelsgood towers, our new shirts should be with us within the next week (everything takes So long!), so we will have plenty of stock in all designs which is good news because we are so sorry about you having to wait for shirts.

We’ve been trying to make our stocks of nursing tops hang out for the last couple of weeks but they just haven’t made it, which is good for us because they are selling but it sucks for you guys who need them now!! Yeah we know what it’s like when you are pregnant or breastfeeding and sometimes there just is no time to wait for things!!

So here is a little sneeky peak of one of our new graphic print nursing tops. We haven’t had our photo shoot yet so this is just a mock picture but hey it totally rocks.

This is called Rock Mama and will be available on dark grey short sleeve and black long sleeve. It reminds me of a Guns n roses style shirt. Hey rock out trendy mama ha ha!!

As soon as they arrive and we have done the photoshoot they will be on the site. I wasn’t sure about taking pre orders for the shirt ( we have had a lot of enquiries) just because it can get quite confusing when there are a lot of different orders to remember. But if you are really keen drop us an email and we can see what we can do

Have a cool weekend whatever you are doing – Liz