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Making breast pads.
Posted: 24 June 2010 07:32 PM   [ Ignore ]  
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Can anyone share how they’ve done these with me?

I’m no expert at sowing ( by ANY stretch of the imagination!) but thought maybe this could be a nice simple and useful project to keep me busy for a few days in these last weeks leading up to B day.

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Posted: 18 July 2010 07:51 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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Did you find an easy way to make some breast pads, if no this is how I made mine smile
I made breast pads out of old terries nappies some cotton (or other soft material, like a nightie or t-shirt) material and fleece.

Cut a 6 inch (large breast pads go round the side of the breast and don’t show as much as smaller ones which glares under even baggy clothes on me) circle out of each of the materials and cut one line to the centre, layer up with cotton, terry towelling (I used two layers on most of them) and fleece for the outside layer. The fleece means it won’t leak through on to your clothes, I also have some with waterproof PUL material and the milk leaks straight through!

Overlap the circle where you have cut it to the centre to create a slight coned or breast shape, try it over the breast if you are unsure how far to overlap. I overlapped about 1/2 inch and then sewed it up, didn’t bother to hem/edge round the outside and I handwash them when I have a bath or brush my teeth at night and they dry by morning. Don’t know how they would cope in the machine.

Hope that helps,
Happy baby preparing smile
sarie

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