Joined: 17 June 2005 United Kingdom Posts: 3687 Gender: Female
Posted: 06 April 2007 at 10:02pm | IP Logged
Did you ever find a good top for wearing out and about when you were breastfeeding?
When I fed my babies I couldn't find a decent breastfeeding top, and found the best solution was to wear a wee cheap vest top under any other top I was wearing, and pull it down under my breast as I was feeding, with my other top on top! This hid my jelly belly and concealed my feeding a treat!
Does anyone else have any good "breastfeeding top" tips for our breastfeeding mums on the site?
Joined: 04 October 2006 United Kingdom Posts: 881 Gender: Female
Posted: 06 April 2007 at 10:16pm | IP Logged
I also found breastfeeding tops a pain. They gape obviously in all the wrong places. I always used to take a baby blanket with me and kind of drape it around my shoulders and then around the baby. Unless you were really looking, it just looked like I was holding a wrapped up baby, you would never have been able to see what was going on under there.
Joined: 19 December 2006 United States Posts: 594 Gender: Female
Posted: 07 April 2007 at 1:24am | IP Logged
i found it a bit hard to pull my flap from a bf top down while its underneath a jumper...so i found it best for me to get a tight tank or singlet to go under which i lifted both up all the way w/ blankie thrown on top. whew it wa hard to do
Joined: 04 July 2005 United Kingdom Posts: 295 Gender: Female
Posted: 07 April 2007 at 11:59am | IP Logged
I'm breastfeeding at the moment and I do the vest thing. The vest under my normal top - top goes up, vest goes down. Breastfeeding tops are too expensive and are never the right shape anyway. I also found that the v-neck ones that wrap around had too much chest showing. I thought they could have been a little more discreet.
Joined: 22 November 2006 United Kingdom Posts: 1547 Gender: Female
Posted: 09 April 2007 at 9:58pm | IP Logged
I found buttoned shirt type tops easier for me for bf. Also used a shawl. Never tried bf tops as always looked awful! Didn't try vest top underneath, maybe try that next time!
Joined: 17 June 2005 United Kingdom Posts: 1419 Gender: Female
Posted: 09 April 2007 at 10:34pm | IP Logged
i never went out of the house when baby was due a feed, and indians dont usually take their babys out of the house until they are 5 weeks old so dh made me keep them in until then and i stopped breastfeeding by then
Joined: 11 June 2005 United Kingdom Posts: 8479 Gender: Female
Posted: 09 April 2007 at 10:58pm | IP Logged
I never found any decent tops, but I wore crop tops, which were easy to manouver with dh's shirt over the top, but as I had a section last time I had to stay home anyway, but by the time I was going out Winston was then on bottles! I feel I definitely was lucky living in the middle of nowhere, with absolutely no social life as I find not many places are open to breast feeding mothers anyway, no matter how hard mw's push for you to do so.
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