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Your Mama Loves Hooter Hiders

By idoia on June 25th, 2009

Bebe Au Lait / Hooter Hider nursing cover

Although I’m not opposed to or offended by nursing in public, it’s really not my “thing.” I always wonder if my nipples look weird or how much of my scary twin-skin stomach people can see and how horrified are they by it and why is that other bitch so much skinnier than I am and goddammit the baby’s distracted again and for cryin’ out loud I’m freaking spraying EVERYWHERE and I have nothing to mop it up with.

It’s for people like me that the Hooter Hider was invented. The Hooter Hider is a cute smock that hides your boobies so you can nurse anywhere you like. It’s a must not only if you’re a little on the modest side, but also if you have an easily distracted baby and/or your baby likes to play with fabric while breastfeeding (one of my twins has a crazy comfort-obsession thing with rubbing fabric into her nose and face while nursing).

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Hooter Hiders and Bebe Au Lait (same company, same covers) nursing covers have a flexible metal wire around the front of the smock that holds the material open for you to make eye contact with baby and ensure you get a good latch. The neck part has a long tie that easily threads through a D-ring. A nice little touch is a piece of terry cloth on the inside bottom corner, which I’ve found super handy for drying off the nipple or dabbing up milk from the baby’s chin.

There are imitators out there, but Hooter Hiders and Bebe Au Lait are the real deal. I actually have an Udder Cover, but there’s really no comparison between it and my Bebe Au Lait. First, the cloth of the Udder Cover is of much lesser quality. It’s like the difference between burlap and silk. The tie that threads through the D-ring around the neck doesn’t have the thoughtful tapering that the Bebe Au Lait version does. Udder Covers don’t have that handy terry cloth corner. And what really, really pissed me off is that I washed my Udder Cover and the darned thing shrunk, rending it, ahem, utterly useless as a nursing cover.

Aside from the fine quality and thoughtful design of the Hooter Hider/Bebe Au Lait nursing covers is the fact that they come in seriously lust-worthy patterns. I selected the Soft Spot pattern

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Taken In Broad Daylight aka Snatched , but I had a tough time narrowing it down between the Chocolat, the Hooter Hider Vila, and the solid-colored organic nursing covers. Decisions, decisions!

If you order one as a gift, the packaging alone is really cute enough to not even need to wrap it.

Seriously, I love this product. If the rest of their baby products are as great as their nursing covers, they’re worth every penny.

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(By the way, check out their sale items and gift sets, especially if you’re shopping for a unique baby shower gift. I wish I had known about these when I was registering. These are perfect for a trendy, hip breastfeeding mama.) (Sadly, only one of those adjectives describes me, and you can bet it’s not the first two.)

FREE STUFF ALERT CONTEST CLOSED – CONGRATS, AMY!

Hooter Hiders/Bebe Au Lait is giving away one of their beautiful nursing covers to one of our lucky readers! Gals (and maybe a gift-giving guy), these covers are so cute and such great quality, you’ll want to wear one just for fun. Like a super-hero cape!

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To enter, you MUST:

  • Visit the Hooter Hider/Bebe Au Lait website, browse their collection of wonderful mom and baby products, and tell us about one other product they make or something new that you learned on the website. Leave a comment about it. OR
  • Pick out your favorite nursing cover and pattern and leave a comment.

For up to three additional entries, you can:

  • Tweet about the giveaway. Leave a separate comment with your Twitter username/Tweet link.
  • Blog about the giveaway. Leave a separate comment with a permalink to the blog post.
  • Follow Your Mama Reviews on Twitter. Leave a separate comment letting us know you’re a new follower, or if you already follow us.

Contest is open to U.S. and Canadian residents only. A total of four entries per person are possible. Entries that do not follow the rules will be deleted! Be sure to leave a valid email address so we can contact you if you win. Contest ends July 2, 2009 at 12 noon Eastern.

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About the author:  Idoia never intended to get married or have kids. So she got hitched and had twins. Wait….what? Read more from this author.

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