How to Make Breast Pads

Breastfeeding mothers often tuck breast pads inside the cups of a nursing bra to absorb milk that sometimes leaks between feedings. Some mothers prefer disposable breast pads and others prefer cloth breast pads. Although you can purchase cloth breast pads readymade, making your own is a simple little project that you can start and finish in very little time. When you finish, you will have a collection of breast pads ready to use.

Instructions

1

Place the fabric pen into the geometry compass and set the compass to make a 3.5-inch or 4-inch circle.

2

Make circles for the breast pads along the thick center area of the cloth diapers, making as many circles as will fit inside the thick center of the diaper.

3

Cut out the circles you drew with the scissors. As you cut out the thick fabric in the center of the diapers, you will be cutting through several layers of fabric.

4

Thread the serger with white thread or contrasting thread and serge around the outer perimeter of each circle to finish each breast pad. Cut off the threads with the scissors to finish each breast pad.