Drawing from her own personal experience as a pumping mom, PumpEase™ and Snugabell creator/owner Wendy Bell has developed a product and company that offers quality support to pumping moms and now has a new line of maternity/nursing wear, the Toni Top line. She brings together quality products that combine ingenuity with quality and fashion. Along with a beautiful giveaway opportunity for Leakies, Wendy answers a few questions, sharing her passion, mothering wisdom, and her favorite pumping while traveling tip. I’m so grateful for the support of PumpEase™ for TLB and all Leakies and hope you enjoy the interview and giveaway.
TLB: What was the inspiration behind the name of your company and your products?
Wendy: The name Snugabell comes from our last name (Bell) and the fact that our girls – Antonia and Michaela – used to ask for “snugs” when they were little, rather than “hugs”. Actually, come to think of it, they still do! The Toni Top is named after our daughter Antonia (Toni for short) and PumpEase is a made-up name that we came up with via focus groups and surveys.
TLB: Where have you breastfed or pumped while traveling?
Wendy: I am very inspired by moms that take their pumps “on the road”. Although Snugabell didn’t officially start until my youngest was almost one, I’ve been a freelance patternmaker for over 13 years now so was always “working” even when my babies were tiny. As a result, we didn’t travel much in those early years and thus most, if not all of my pumping was done at home. As for breastfeeding – I did it everywhere: at family’s homes, the mall, friends’ houses, wherever I was when my baby was hungry.
TLB: What is your favorite travel/vacation tip for breastfeeding/pumping moms?
Wendy: Bring extra parts for your breastpump: membranes, flanges/tubes (in your carry-on in case your luggage is delayed or lost), extra batteries and a plug adapter if you are traveling overseas.
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Wendy is giving away 3 fabulous prize packs:
Pumping Pretty Prize pack: PumpEase in size and print of winner’s choice and Nursing Mother Goddess Necklace. $63.00 USD
Breastfeeding in Style Prize pack: Toni top 3/4-Sleeve Top in size and colour of winner’s choice and Breastfeeding With Comfort and Joy by Laura Keegan. $101.00 USD
Soothing Care Prize pack: Bamboobies Value Pack and Earth Mama Angel Baby Nipple Butter. $57.00 USD
Currently Leakies can find these and other great products on the Snugabell website.
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Good luck to everyone! Please use the widget below to be entered and have fun browsing snugabell.com. The giveaway is open from July 7, 2012 to July 15, 2012. A big thanks to Wendy for her ongoing support of TLB and all breastfeeding women, please be sure to visit their Facebook page or follow them on twitter (PumpEase on Twitter) and thank them for their support of TLB and this giveaway opportunity.
This giveaway is open to international entries.
i would bee interested in the bamboobies prize pack
I would love the BF in Style Pack! But they all sound great!!!
#4 is shockingly on the way. Pumpease will be a must!
i would be interested in the bamboobies prize pack
Breastfeeding in style
I so need a hands free pumping bra!
I’d love to win the pump-ease… I have been eyeballing this product for awhile!!
I would love the pumping pretty prize pack.
Pumping Pretty, please please please!
Excited about this product.
Those are the coolest! I could so use a hands free pumping bra. I just went back to work and it is so hard.
id love to win these!
the “pumping pretty”
The breastfeeding in style pack. I love the Toni top and would love to have one!
I’d love the pumping package or the breastfeeding in style package!
I’d love the Toni top or the bamboobies pack! 🙂 anything that can help me, I’ll take it! 🙂
I would like the pumping pretty package. These are all such great ideas!
Pumping Pretty please!
I would love the pumping pretty prize! 🙂
thanks for the opportunity!
soothing care. sorry, just saw the complete rules. just count this co-comment all as one, please.
Soothing Care!!
I’d love to win the Pumping Pretty pack!
Pumping pretty!
I love nursing more than pumping, so I would like the Toni top please.
Breastfeeding in Style!
The Pumping Pretty prize would be fantastic! I’m returning to work next week.
The pumping pretty prize pack looks awesome. Such cute fabric!
Pumping pretty prize pack
Thanks for the giveaway !! I would love to win the Pumping Pretty Prize !! Boy do I NEED one of those 🙂
I’m going back to work in a couple weeks and I’m DESPERATE for a great pumping bra to wear in my office. pLease please please please!
I want the soothing care pack!
I pump 3-4 times a day at work to keep my supply for my 2 month old! I would love a pump ease bra to free up my hands!!!!
I’d like the pumping pretty!
I would like the Pumping Pretty Prize Pack.
Pumping pretty!!
I love my pump ease! I could definitely use a spare. 🙂
I love these giveaways….
I really want to try the bamboobies in the soothing care pack.
I would love to win the pumpease
i’d love the toni top package!
I’ve often wished I could pump hands free. This product looks awesome!
Would love the pumping pretty prize pack. 🙂
I would love to get the pumping prize pack- I will be pumping at work for the first time when my 2nd baby arrives in the fall!
I really want all these packs! If I have to choose though, I have to go with the Pumping Pretty pack. I need a hands free bra!
The pumping pretty pack would be my first choice. Thank you for this giveaway
So glad its International and that we can finally participate. I would like the PumpEase! Its awesome!
Pumping Pretty pack, oh to be handsfree! Going back to work and will have to multitask during small break. I would be ever so grateful!
I would love to win the Toni top!
All of these prize packs look awesome. I think I’d have to go with the soothing care prize pack, though.
I already have one of your hands free pumping bras but I would LOVE to win the Toni Top prize! I tried to buy one when they were on sale a few months ago but I couldn’t get my size. 🙁
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Toni top or pump ease…I can’t decide!
I would like to win either the pretty prize pack or the soothing care pack.
I would love any of the three prize packs. They could all help me tremendously!
Soothing Care is my favorite, but they would all be great!
the bamboobies pack would be amazing!!!
I would love to win the Pumping pretty prize pack
I want the pumping pretty pack
I’d like to win the Pumping Pretty Prize pack: PumpEase in size and print of winner’s choice and Nursing Mother Goddess Necklace
Any of them would be a blessing!! I have 3 day time n 1 night time bamboobies and Love them!!! The pump ease would be amazing to have for my lo. I go back to work in 6 days! (yikes) and am busy w/ dd, ds, d-sd, n lo <3
Breastfeeding in Style!
I would love to win the pumping pretty prize pack!
I would love the Breastfeeding in Style prize pack. I have one Toni Top that I love! Such great quality items from Snugabell. I would love a Toni Top in another color.
Breastfeeding in Style prize pack …
They all look great!!!
Breastfeeding in Style!
I would love the Bamboobies!
The PumpEase and necklace for sure!! 🙂
I have a little one cutting some teeth so the soothing care pack would be something I’d love.
Ohhh! The Pumping Pretty Pack sounds amazing!
Thanks for doing this!!
I would love to win ANY of these prize packs!
I would love to win the Soothing Care prize pack!
I’d like the first two packs!
I would love to win the breastfeeding in style prize!! 🙂
Love all three!
I would love to win the PumpEase for pumping at work!
I’d love to win any of them! But the Breastfeeding in Style one is the most appealing. 🙂
The breastfeeding in style!
I’d love the “Breastfeeding in Style” pack!
I would LOVE the Breastfeeding in Style or the Pumping Pretty Pack! These are all amazing.
i would love the “Pumping Pretty” prize pack, though I would love to win any one of these prizes the pumping one would be particularly helpful as I am currently preparing to return to work 🙂
I would like the pumping package.
I would love to win the Breastfeeding is Style pack! 🙂
I’d love the Pumping Pretty pack! I’ve wanted to get a pumpease but just don’t have the funds right now 🙁
Pumping Pretty Prize pack, for sure!!!!
I have been eyeing the pump ease for a while!
I would love the Pumping Pretty or Soothing Care pack.
I would love to win any of the prize packages but the Pumping Pretty Prize pack would be awesome!
Pumping pretty please 🙂
I could use any of them, but would love to win the 2nd one the most. Thanks so much for the chance to enter 🙂
Any please 🙂
What an awesome give-away!
I would love to win the in style prize pack. The Toni Top looks amazing
I would love to win any of them. If I win the PumpEase one, I plan on giving it to my,neighbor since I think it is fantastic and I Already have one. It helped me pump at work for 2 years.
I would love to win the Bamboobies prize pack!
I’d love to have these. I’ve been looking at these since I found out I was pregnant.
I would LOVE the pumping ease package. I’m so tired of losing suction when I turn a page in my book. The Toni Top would be pretty cool as well. I remember how GORGEOUS Jessica looked in it.
The pump ease or the bamboobies but all 3 are great prizes
I would love the bamboobies prize pack, or the nursing shirt prize pack!!!
How could you go wrong?! I’d love any one of them…
I would live to win the Pumping Pretty package!
I would either want the toni top and book (but really the book, because I’m a nerd) or the Bamboobies package.
Can’t go wrong with any of these prize packs!! I’d really like to try the Bamboobies or Toni top! 🙂
The pumping pretty would be totally helpful for me or the one with the nursing shirt, it’s time to ditch the pregnancy t-shirts!
I’m torn- while I’d love to win the Pump-ease package, I looooove the Toni-top. I guess I’d rather with the Breastfeed in style package- I’d love that top, but probably would never spend that much on a shirt for me! 🙂
What a great giveaway!
The Breastfeeding in Style package!
I would like the Bamboobies or the Toni top 3/4-Sleeve Top package both look great and would make this mother of 4 boys life with a breayfeeding newborn so much easier! 🙂
would be great to win the Pumping Pretty Prize pack!! 🙂
Breastfeeding in style prize pack! The top is just too awesome to pass up!
I only have 4 weeks left of my pregnancy and I still have not gotten a breast pump. This would be great! My husband and I could go our for dinner on occasion and I would not feel so guilty or rushed to get back to feed her. Hoping I win this!
That Toni top looks amazing, I would love to win that package!
They are all great prizes… if I have to choose then Breastfeeding in Style Prize pack:
pumping in style preety please!!
Great giveaways! I am very interested in the Toni Top!
SO excited for Bamboobies and EMAB!
I would love the pumping pretty pack!
I would like to be entered for the Draw for the Nursing shirt, please!
I would love to win the Pumping Pretty Prize pack!!
The breastfeeding top pack! It is so hard to find a good breastfeeding top.
Love that top!!
All of the prize packs sound amazing, I like pumping pretty and breastfeeding in style best!
Breastfeeding In Style pack! I desperately need nursing-friendly clothes!
I would LOVE the Pumping Pretty prize pack!! With two children already, this would come is SO SO SO handy. Love the idea of hands-free pumping!!
I would love the pumping pretty prize pack!
The hands-free pumping bra would be a life saver!
Pumping pretty please!
Pumping Pretty please!
Breastfeeding in style
Must have the breastfeeding in style pack!!
Hi!! Thanks for the opportunity- I would LOVE the Breastfeeding in Style prize pack!! By the way, I have the Bamboobies and absolutely love them!
Toni top would be awesome!
Pumping pretty prize pack, please!! Say that 5 times fast…whoa! Thanks for the chance to win such great prizes!
I would absolutely love to win the Breastfeeding in Style prize pack!!! What an awesome giveaway!
I would love the bamboobies package! Thanks for the opportunity!
How would I pick?!?! The top sounds fabulous. I’m all about multi-functional clothing, especially while breastfeeding.
Tough choice! Any of the 3 would be helpful with baby #2 on it’s way! Since I have to pick one, I am going to have to say the Breastfeeding in Style pack would be good to have.
I want some new bamboobies!
I’d love to win either the Breastfeed in Style pack or the Bamboobies pack!
Its a tie between the nursing pads and nursing top as I am in great need of both.
I would like the Breastfeed in Style pack!
Would love the breastfeeding in style prize pack
I think the BF in Style pack would be my pick, but they’re all great. Thanks!
I would LOVE the Pumping Pretty Prize Pack!
The pumping pack looks great
Pumping pretty prize would be awesome
I’d LOVE to win the Soothing Care Prize pack! Thanks. 😀
Would love to split this prize package up between me and some of my friends who are about to have babies (the necklace would be for me and my baby though!)
The PumpEase, mine was a hand-me-down so has now been thru pumping for 4 kids. Needs replacing to say the least!
I would love to win the Pumping Pretty Prize pack. Definitely would come in handy. But so would the other two prize packs.
I would love the Breastfeeding in Style!
I’m working on my courage to NIP uncovered,
I think it’d be a lot easier and more mobile for me. 🙂
I’d love the Breastfeeding in Style package… I’ve been wanting a Toni Top for over a year now and it just hasn’t been in my budget!!
I would love the breastfeeding in style prize! I want to try the Toni top!
I would love the soothing care pack!
I would live the breastfeeding in style pack!
What fantastic products-we don’t have anything like this in the UK. Love that top! 🙂
What great products! Would love the breastfeeding in style prize! 🙂
I would love the top!
I’ve been dreaming of a pumpease bra for months!
I’d love to win the Breastfeeding in Style pack!
I’d love the Soothing Care Prize pack!
Hard to choose but I’d love the Soothing Care Prize pack!
I’d love the Breastfeeding in Style pack, though any of them would be awesome!
Oh I could really use the pumpin pretty pack! The hands free bra I have does not work well at all! This one looks awesome!!
Pumping Pretty
I would love the Soothing Care Prize pack!
I would love to win the breastfeeding in style package. I had no idea that top was so gorgeous!!
I would love to win the breastfeeding in style package.
I would LOVE the Pumping Pretty prize pack!!!
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I would love to win the breastfeeding in style package!
I would love the pumping bra!
The pumpease pack:)