Milkbug

Museums are great places to go – not only are they free, but they are open free spaces where you can take the little one whilst you take in the history/arts/crafts whatever you prefer. As the little grows its a great way to get them accustomed to the culture.

Being at home with a baby or even more than one can be hard and the days can drag – getting out to a museum is always a great day out. Museums are a stimulating, sensory and social place for children so its great to start early.

Whats mos daunting though is how to breastfeed in such a public yet confined space – In the first Kids in Museums Manifesto six years ago, visitors demanded breast feeding facilities in museums – this has now been dealt with and you should find a lot of museums baby friendly with breastfeeding being easy to do in a discreet way.

So take out your nursing top and take the baba out to experience a great day out

I think most of us have been there when we take some time from our baby, miss a feed or keep up with a growth spurt – we think we are doing good and next thing you know you look down and there are two circular wet patches on your nursing top from leaking milk!

It happened a few times to be when I didnt think to put in breast pads and realised I had that awful feeling of being wet at the front! The first thought it was a waste of breast milk – I could have used that to breastfeed my baby – instead its in front of my breast feeding top! Nursing your baby is hard enough as it, what with the burps, followed by a little milk bought back up by baba i found I was changing my clothes so many times – good thing I had bought quite a few pieces of breastfeeding clothing.

What made me find comfort was that Claire Danes felt the same during her first time away from her baby who she is breastfeeding – she was on the red carpet for the golden globes and The actress, who is breast-feeding, candidly added: ‘I’m hoping I don’t leak!’ Her baby son was being looked after by her parents in a nearby hotel!

Of course I didnt look as good her – but still we are all human

It took us a while but we finally updated our blog so that it looks a lot better and also is easier for us to edit.

We are going to take this opportunity to change slightly what we cover in our blog so it is more relevant and exciting to read. So we will have four catergories:

• Breastfeeding Fashion – We will on a weekly basis be adding latest in nursing fashion and other styling tips if you are a nursing mother. We welcome your thoughts ad views and please use this blog as a way to share with each other tips. There are so many designers and clothes and other ways to help you breastfeed in public that we will be brining them to you.

• Breastfeeding News – There is a world of information out there – and we know that its hard to make head or tails of this all. So we will aim to give a view on news and topics on breastfeeding that will help you.

• Personal Stories – There is a whole team behind Milkbug and we all have stories that we can share with you – so there will be stories on a weekly basis – which arent business focused but personal to the founders.

• Women ruling the world – We know that when you are at home looking after baby that you lose some of your identity – women are powerful in so many ways and we will be looking for empowering news and women that we can bring to you – and if you are looking to go back to work or just wanting to stay on top of whats going on in the world we can do this

Let us know what else you would like the blog to include and we will consider all views.

Thanks