Summer breastfeeding clothes?

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Could anyone recommend somewhere to get some nice summery breastfeeding friendly clothes? I breastfed throughout the winter last time so it was easy to shove on a jumper over the top of a nursing cami without too much thought. Summer is a different matter though - I would usually wear midi dresses but none of the ones I have are suitable. Baby is due in May so I've got a whole Summer wardrobe to buy I think!

Amazon has some great value dresses, loads of different colour options. Seraphine and Juno Jacks both have lovely stuff, but more expensive. There's a great Facebook group called Can I Breastfeed in It? Loads of ideas in there!

I had baby last May, so exactly the same.

I found a few nice dresses with buttons and treated myself to a few silk shirts from Boden. Worked well last summer, and the shirts I have continued to wear this winter with breastfeeding vest underneath and cardigan when cold.

Have a look at b shirts. I layered them with a cardi or shirt which worked well.

I’m in the same position, November baby last time but this one will be late May/early June. I’ve found some nice dresses in H&M and another from New Look. Advice is to look out for the fabric as you don’t want to be in that horrible viscose/polyester pattern that makes you sweat buckets.

H&M vests with the nursing bra built in are brilliant and I wore them just as tops. Then they can also be sleep tops or underwear for winter.

High waisted skirt/shorts/trousers with a loose top works quite well. You lift up the top and baby covers the gap well. Or a cami top you can pull down and carry round a loose shirt (cropped styles are fantastic for this) that you can shove on over the top - I found a tshirt much easier to use than a muslin or scarf. Due to size/shape I never felt comfortable feeding baby in public with just an open button up shirt because on me quite a lot of upper boob would be visible but many people button up shirts are great.

Sainsbury Tu have a webpage with are their clothes which are suitable for breast feeding in.

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High waisted skirt/shorts/trousers with a loose top works quite well. You lift up the top and baby covers the gap well. Or a cami top you can pull down and carry round a loose shirt (cropped styles are fantastic for this) that you can shove on over the top - I found a tshirt much easier to use than a muslin or scarf. Due to size/shape I never felt comfortable feeding baby in public with just an open button up shirt because on me quite a lot of upper boob would be visible but many people button up shirts are great.

Ditto, having breastfed 3 babies I've never bought nursing wear, usually kept outings to straight after feed as that was what fitted our routine anyway, so knew I didn't need to feed again for about 4 hours.

@De88 Oh, I fed my baby in public all the time. He would never have gone 4 hours without a feed before about 10 months so trying to fit outings in around feeds would not have worked for us. I’m glad it worked well for you though. I meant that I couldn’t just wear a button up shirt and open that to feed without showing more boob that I was comfortable with. I did wear a lot of button up shirts in winter with a light loose tshirt underneath - so T shirt comes up and button up shirt gets opened. But in summer that combo was too hot and I found other combinations worked better.

Thanks everyone - will have a look at some of these ideas. The idea of carrying a t shirt round to help cover up sounds good - I have a particularly prudish set of in laws who used to turn away awkwardly when I was fully covered in a woolly jumper last time! Doesn't do wonders for the confidence department surprisingly!

I've got this same issue and just got a load of tops from new look that have button or tie fronts. I've also bought some boxy t shirts and then some strap tops for underneath so I can lift the t shirt up and pull the strap down and still be covered. They had a fair few button and tie front dresses in the sale too.
After breastfeeding in public for the first time the other day I can say a lightweight spring scarf came in handy to drape over baby without faffing around with muzzys etc.

www.boohoo.com/BZZ46213-105-35.html

Could you pop one of these in your changing bag? Then you can wear wrap dresses, camis etc and be covered too without being too hot in summer x

ASOS is fab and often has a sale on...lovely nursing dresses on there.

I’ve bought stuff from PatPat- I know it’s a cheapo site but there is actually some quite nice stuff and the quality is fine- probably won’t last forever but it doesn’t need to for breastfeeding, just one or two summers, and the prices are less than a fiver. I’ve got T-shirts, vest tops, dresses. They all have handy holes and flaps for feeding so feels more discreet than pulling down a non-nursing vest top or pulling up a non-nursing T-shirt (which I also do sometimes but it reveals more!)

For example see attached