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Summary: There are a variety of nursing shirts available for public breastfeeding. Learn more about nursing tops for breastfeeding in public with tips from a lactation educator in this free parenting video.
Laine Podell–Camino MA, CLE, CIIM, is the owner of A Mother’s Haven. She has Masters Degrees in Parent-Infant Education, and Deaf Education. She has studied and taught Early Childhood...read more
"Hi, in this clip I am going to show you different types of nursing tops, so that you can see all the different varieties that are available to you. So when you?re out nursing in public you have the privacy of a nursing top. I'm wearing a nursing top right now. The thing that makes something a nursing top is that it has access to the breast and provides privacy above and below the breast. This one is a pull aside and has a cut out right here so you can access the breast while breast feeding. Some of them even have a little space that you can you your breast pad in. This is not officially a nursing top, but any low cut top like this can become a nursing top. For moms who aren't particularly modest they can always just pull aside and nurse. And just a little bit of their skin up here will be showing. For a mom who's more modest, she can put a tank top under a top like this, pull it up from underneath and then access the cover while her tank top is covering her here and this is covering her belly. This is a nursing tank that has the pull side access and a whole cut here for access to the breast. It also has a little hole on the inside where you can put your nursing pad, if you?re still leaking. So this is a nice option too. This is a different kind of nursing top, and this one has access by pulling aside and coming up from underneath. So again, still covered here, and still covered on the belly. And this one's nice too, because it gives you extra room down here for those post-partum bellies. And this is yet a different style, where you pull aside and you access from this side. So instead of pulling up or going under, you're pulling aside and coming in this way. And all of these are so great because your belly is covered, your chest is covered. So once the baby is on, no one even knows you're breast feeding. Yet, another one, this one comes up. This one comes up and over to access, and again you're fully covered. And there's even nursing dresses on the market, because moms love to wear dresses. Especially in the summer time, and it's really hard to breast feed in a dress. But this dress has all of the coverage that you need. You pull it aside here, pull it aside there, put the baby on the breast and your covered. I wanted to demonstrate with my baby doll what like looks like to nurse with a nursing top. So, you have the baby you're holding your baby, of course you're not going to be standing, you pull your top aside, you latch the baby on, and this is what it looks like. So, you're fully covered down here, your covered up here, and yet your baby is nursing and no one can tell. A great way for private, public nursing."
eHow Article: Public Breastfeeding Nursing Tops
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shirit said
on 8/12/2009 Where can I buy tops like these?