breastfeeding dresses

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Can anyone help me? I have four weddings to go to this year and none of my dresses fit me anymore. DD is 11 weeks old and my ribs/bust are wider than they used to be.

Has anyone got any recommendations for dresses that I can wear to a wedding and breastfeed in? I have looked at monsson, coast, oasis etc but can't see anything suitable.

It's impossible isn't it...will watch thread with interest. I need a dress as well, with, erm, access.

Not bought one myself but the site mummylooksfab.co.uk has an evening BF dress and some nice day dresses

either buy a specially-made dress (boob, mamaway etc, google 'nursing dress')

or wear an easier outfit - skirt, camisole and cardi much better idea

I bought a couple of lovely tops from Babes with Babies- they also have some gorgeous dresses. They are not cheap, but if you are going to four weddings, perhaps you could splurdge?!

www.babeswithbabies.com/section_details.asp?section=Breastfeeding+Dresses&section_id=1886

Dont bother with bf dresses - you have to take the top down pretty much so useless to bf in public...

I'd suggest separates - a skirt and trouser and top combo so you can lift the top to discretely bf. Maybe combine with a wrap for privacy purposes. Is what I did at the 3 weddings I had to go to when DS1 was little and worked fine. The one time I wore a bf dress (to an all day party thing) was a disaster for the above reason... had to go to the loos to feed.. shudder...

Thanks all, may have to go down the skirt, camisole route rather than a dress. Knowing my luck i'd dribble milk on the dress. Will keep looking and report back.

I've been looking for something too. Coast have a tunic dress that buttons down the front, but the buttons look fiddly and it's dry clean only.

I ended up buying a 70s style maxi dress in a nice jersey from a local boutique - it's by Baby Phat but I can't see it online anywhere unfortunately. I can just pull the sides away as and when needed and it's drapey enough to hide the post baby bulges.

I bought a dress from this ebay seller (dark purple one) which is lovely and has done me several weddings, Christmases and various other occasions. It is quite wintry though - for summer weddings I have gone the skirt + top route.

It was fab for discreet feeding though - I quite often had people coming up and stroking DD's head without realising she was latched on! I'll upload a pic to my profile. Never dribbled on it either, despite being very leaky. Only thing I would add is that the sizes come up quite large - think I got an L and was worried it wouldn't fit my 36E boobs based on the measurements the seller gives, but actually it was fine, even a little baggy.

I found a lovely breastfeeding dress in jojomamanbebe recently which I'm wearing for a wedding anniversary do in April - not sure if it would be smart enough for a wedding though, I guess it depends what kind of wedding it is! But I love this, it looks as if it came from somewhere like Monsoon or White Stuff but is gorgeously easy to feed in because it's designed for it! I bought several jojo feeding tops when DS2 was born and the tie-front style is just so comfy and discreet too.

They also do the same fabric in just a feeding top so you could team with smart trousers if you preferred to.

The other thing I loved was, because it's a maternity/feeding dress, the size 10/12 fitted beautifully, whereas sadly in real life my original size 10/12 clothes are coming nowhere NEAR me at the moment . I felt so much happier buying a size 10 dress, although I know that sounds ridiculous!

Here's the link to the dress:

www.jojomamanbebe.co.uk/detailfash.php?type=FASH&code=B4065&proddesc=Blue+Print+Twist+Wrap+Feeding+D ress&supercategory=BRN00038&branch=&wcategory=CAT00217&catdesc=&super=0010BRN00038~0010BRN00039~0130 CAT00217&treecode=TRE00009

btw if you click on the 'enlarge' button under the photo it gives you a much clearer picture of the pattern!

Just realised they actually do a plain dress as well if you prefer something without a pattern, either the patterned or plain could be dressed up with pretty accessories etc.

plain dress

I've got a wrap dress that I wear with a vest underneath for those kind of occasions. It's stretchy enough to be able to feed without taking it off but it's not a special BF dress. It was from H&M originally, can't find any pics of it online though.

thanks for the links, there are some summer dresses on that ebay link that look like they could be dressed up with accessories.

excuse typing, it's lefthanded as dd is asleep on my right hand.

Maybe try a personal shopper? I went to the Debenhams one last year for a dress that was suitable for BF (although it was also for summer festival-going, wearing with jeans etc and not nearly dressy enough for a wedding!). They know the collections really well so should be able to pick out a few things that might be suitable. Think I will probably be doing this in a few months as I have a wedding to go to this summer and will have DC2 by then.