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Breastfeeding clothes - suggestions needed

31 replies

FrancesJ · 17/09/2002 22:14

I've just remembered one of my biggest bugbears about breastfeeding last time (apart from the cracked nipples, etc, etc). Clothes! I think all I wore were my husbands shirts for six months, and I'm sure I'd have breastfed for longer if I'd had any sort of clue about what to wear with handy openings.

So...I wondered if anyone had any recomendations/great ideas about ideal breastfeeding garments. I'm not too shy, but found it quite hard to bf in public if I wasn't well and truly swathed, thus semi-suffocating baby. How do you discreetly breastfeed without pulling up your jumper? Do I have to wear cardies all winter? I've seen specific bf garments with little flappy access holes but never tried any on - and I'm on a very, very limited budget, so can probably only afford to buy one thing like that, and it would have to work. So I wondered what everyone here found 'worked' for them as a useful garment to bf in?

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marmoset · 21/04/2009 16:14

ps i mention technique as this has taken me a couple of kids to perfect!

KingRolo · 21/04/2009 16:18

Don't buy Mothercare breastfeeding tops - totally useless, mine only got worn once. Best bet imo is buy loads of cheap vests in different colours to wear under under cardigans, hoodies and jumpers.

elkiedee · 21/04/2009 17:48

What's the oldest conversation that's been revived on here?

Gmakes3 · 21/04/2009 18:38

Agree with buying cheap vest tops for underneath normal clothes, I did this last time. This time I have also bought a belly hugger, which is longer than a maternity bump band so I can wear it underneath normal tops and i won't show my post preggers belly but should be easier than pulling at a vest top. Only drawback is it was £15 but I bf dd for 2 years so hopefully I'll get my monies worth out of it this time.

ameliaandme · 24/07/2009 14:25

Mama Feelsgood breastfeeding tops i can highly recommend. Funky and something you would wear normally

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