Today I'm going to share with you my top five tips on how to cover up when
breastfeeding in public.
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and ring that Bell right beside it. So just to quickly mention I've both my
girls here while I'm recording this video so it is going to be quite noisy in the
background, as you can see. So let's get straight into the video.
Now before we
get started I just want to say it's very important for you to know your rights
when you know your rights you can be more confident while feeding in public
so it is you and your baby's legal right to feed and be fed in public. So
if anyone approaches you to tell you that your feeding your baby is making
them uncomfortable, you just need to tell them that is your legal right and they
can go away and just not look. So I'm going to order these tips from number
five where you will be the most covered up, all the way to number one with the
least coverage, where you will be probably a bit more confident of feeding
in public.
So tip number five is to use a good nursing cover.
So I highly recommend
the Petunia Pickle Bottom nursing cover. This can actually fold up into itself
into little pouch, but I never use that feature. What's great about this is that
there is a wire on the opening here. So once you throw it over your head, you can
still look down and peek at your baby and you can feed your baby without
having to worry about the cover coming off. And this is great for new moms that are
getting used to feeding in public. It just offers the most coverage.
So tip
number four is to use a scarf. I'm going to show you how to use a scarf to cover
up when feeding your baby. So first of all if you're gonna feed your baby on
your right side you pull the scarf over to your left and then you just open it
out as much as you can, throw it over your baby and then you can just
pull down your bra and your top as you need to and if it's warm for your baby
then you can start pulling the material up to uncover your baby and just leave
it gathering around the mouth. So that you're still covered up and your baby has
a lot of air around them to breathe.
Tip number three is to use a muslin or a
burp cloth. So you just need to tuck this under your bra strap. Depending on how
old your baby is, if they're prone to pulling the cloth off you, you may want
to wrap this around your strap two or three times. If your baby does tend to pull
the cloth off you, you can also wrap it around the other side of
the bra as well, so your that bit more covered up. And then you just pull the cloth over to
the other side, you grab your baby, tuck them underneath. Put the cloth over. Pull what you
need to pull down so that you can feed your baby and then again if it's warm
you just lift the cloth over your baby's head so that there's more air
circulation. Tip number two - is to use the clothing that you're wearing to cover up. So you
can use the pull up pull down method or wear a B shirt, I'll go through that
in more detail now. So for the pull up pull down method you just wear a regular
top and then underneath you will wear a strappy vest that you can then lift up
the regular top and then you pull the vest down so that you can expose the
boob to feed your baby or you can buy a vest top like the B shirt that I have
here. I will link in the description box below.
But this shirt is made for breastfeeding moms so you can actually feed your
baby discreetly. So it is just a normal vest top and under the bust there is
a piece of fabric that you can lift up up and then it exposes and your bra and then you
can just unclip your bra and feed your baby. So like this.
And if you need to you can just put your hand down over your baby's face and it's all very
discrete. I actually do have the nipple out here for the baby you can't
see anything. The baby's head does cover up everything so you don't need to
be worried about that. Okay and then when you finish, just put everything back while still
holding your baby, using their head to cover yourself up
and pulling the top back down. And the number one tip is to use any resource
you have. I always put a bib on my baby, bibs are great you can use it to clean up
for spit ups and you can actually use it has a small little nursing cover. So
what I like to do is, I take the bib off the baby and then I just tuck it under
my bra strap here and then I pop my baby on. And then I throw the bib just
over her face just for a bit of modesty and that keeps me covered up. And
even though she's pulled away you still can't see everything because her head
covers everything and lastly if you don't have a bib or a nursing cover or
anything while you're out and you need to feed your baby just use your hand.
That covers up everything and once your baby starts pulling away and you're
getting uncovered you just need to lift them up and around and you're still
covered and then when you think they're going to latch back on then you can kind
of pop them over and continue to use your hand cover until they're latched.
So I
hope these tips will help you to breastfeed more confidently in public if
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