To find the lack of decent nursing clothes annoying

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I'm breastfeeding and I can't find anything to wear!!
Everything is either expensive, black, dark blue, brown or ugly! I'll happily feed in public but not so much when I have to get my whole boob out or lift my top so my belly is hanging out.
What do you wear?

Ahh I was just coming to suggest can I breastfeed in it!
They have a selling page too don't they?

I've bought the Bshirt which is a nursing vest you can wear on its own or under clothes. I wear it under a light shirt if I want to keep my arms covered. I have a 10% discount code - if anyone's interested please PM me.

You can wear almost any top with a vest underneath, pull vest down and top up and you don't flash much. Under dresses you can do the reverse with a cropped vest (dress down, vest up). Definitely come and join us at can I breastfeed in it on Facebook!

Hear hear!

I remember thinking that I can't wait to get back into my clothes after 9 months of wearing stretchy jersey over my bump and then I remembered the small matter of nursing and the access to boobs. To be fair I don't really fit into my clothes at the moment anyway. Even that aside, the sheer size of my boobs and the fact you want to to get to them easily just made my current sizeable wardrobe mostly redundant.

My go to places now are Asos and Gap.

I bought a couple of specific nursing tops but I just find them a bit off in fit. Finally I bought some shirts, shirt dresses and buttoned play suits which do the trick for accessibility while looking like normal clothing rather than matronly garments.

HTH.

She's great for suggestions for BFing mothers.
amothersedit.com/shop/

Oh and I treated myself to a summery nursing dress from JoJo Maman Bébé, they have a decent selection (they are maternity and nursing though, so big in the tummy).

River island also do some great popper shirts and tops with very accessible areas.

My postnatal/ feeding wardrobe was mainly from Jo Jo Maman Bebe. The plain wrap dresses were ok.

I didn't fit in my regular clothes, and having gone up 5 cup sizes, but retaining a small back meant that just upsizing to 12s or 14s in regular styles sagged horribly on my back as that still remained size 8.

Having had a CS first time, I also found myself buying a new stock of over the bump trousers not to dig into the wound and to fit the mum tum in. My existing under the bumps were too painful and my bump outgrew most maternity clothing in the second trimester anyway.

Having carried large, the prevalence of horizontal strips always bemuses me. Why would you want to look even more weeble like than necessary???

@SomewhatIdiosyncratic oh my goodness yes! Loads of horizontal stripes!
I'm only 5ft anyways so the last thing I need is to look shorter and wider!

I know some people prefer it but I hate the fact that maternity and nursing are often lumped into the same item of clothing. I don't want a load of excess material round my middle drawing attention to my newly acquired mum tum thanks!

Someone could make a fortune out of pretty and affordable nursing wear that looks like ordinary clothes, just with boob access rather than lots of cheap flowery material and badly hanging nursing panels.

@Scrowy that's exactly what I was thinking. Christ if boohoo did a nursing range I'd have spent a fortune by now but had an entire years wardrobe. The problem with places like next etc is it can look a bit older (as can a lot of places) and it's quite expensive for something you may only wear for a few months

Low cut or wrap dresses with a crop top work amazingly well, also better at hiding mum tum than shirts!

And yes, what is it with all the Breton stripes???

Yanbu. I also hate the way they combine clothes for nursing and maternity-this is two separate things! I don't want to wear tent like clothes when I've had the baby that I've already had to wear for months on end.

@DesignedForLife that's what I've been looking at. I have a white crop top hidden in my wardrobe somewhere and really need to dig it out. I'm determined to get to 12 months feeding and I'm 5 months in so have a bit left to go

A crop top under a dress is an excellent idea, hadn't thought of that. Obviously don't own any crop tops but I might get one.

I've been given a couple of jojomamanbebe wrap around tops and I have no clue how to do this without looking like a mummy in bandages!

JoJo Maman Bebe have loads of nice tops and dresses and are reasonable.

If you prefer dresses then get some skirts. No need to wear jeans or leggings if you don't want to.

There are LOADS of button up / zip down tops and dresses in Primark at the moment. But I also recommend the fb group, people will recommend items for you if you've got an event or just give a heads up on which shops have got normal but bf friendly items in

I never really understood the point of nursing clothes. Expensive and you're not going to need them very long. I just wore clothes, and never had a problem with doing so.
What are they for?

Wrap dresses; layering tips with a vest top underneath; and just getting a boob out sometimes as I have gone beyond caring.

Heidi Klum also does some pretty nursing bras.

To be honest, I barely changed my wardrobe (thankfully as I'm still bf my almost-17-month-old). I just carry a light cotton nursing apron around with me & feed wherever & whenever. No one has ever batted an eyelid.

So this is what 90% of my wardrobe is like. Relatively highnecked dresses and jumpsuits. Not particularly stretchy material. Just for all this saying 'just wear your normal stuff', how can I make these 'boob accessible'?

I don't really have a primark near here without doing some major travels so it's mainly shopping online for me :(