Our story
A nursing bra that absorbs the leak. Built because no one else did.
No marketing prose. Just how this got made, and who it got made for.
You've stopped checking the clock at night and started checking your shirt. The pad shifts, the bra handles the feeding, and the leak just carries on, so you plan the day around it.
You're not difficult to please. No one built the thing you actually needed.
Chapter 01: A conversation
A friend told us about something no one talks about.
Four of us, one evening. A friend had just had a baby, and she said the quiet part out loud: she was leaking breast milk, more than she'd expected, and it made her deeply uncomfortable. She'd started turning down plans, staying in rather than risk leaking through her shirt in front of people. Alejandra and I had no idea this was even something new mothers go through. We just listened.
She'd worked the rest out on her own. A nursing bra that did its job for feeding, she'd even found a good one at a fair price. Pads for the leak, except they never stayed put: they shifted all day, slid out of place every time she fed, worked their way loose while she slept. A bra for one problem, a pad for the other, and the two never quite worked together. The leak was the part nothing was built for.
Chapter 02: We listened
It turned out almost every mother knows this, and almost no one says it.
That same evening, I mentioned it to my mother. She'd had exactly the same problem, decades earlier, and had never spoken of it to anyone. Two women, two generations, the same quiet frustration, and one obvious question neither of us could answer: why does no one make a bra that works for feeding and absorbs the leak?
So Alejandra and I went looking. Reddit threads, postpartum forums, every nursing-bra review we could find. The same thing came back, page after page: leaking at night, soaked sheets, a pad that slides, a plan cancelled. Almost every mother deals with some version of it. Almost none of them say it out loud, which, once you read enough of it, makes complete sense. It isn't the kind of thing you bring up. So nobody had built for it.
Chapter 03: We built it
So the leak stops running your day.
We decided to build it ourselves. Dozens of samples. Three versions of the cut before one felt right. Testing it ourselves, for how much it absorbs, how it holds up to washing, and how it sits against the skin.
The answer was in the cup: four layers, each with one job. A layer that draws moisture off the skin, an absorbent core that holds it, a barrier that stops it reaching your clothes, and a soft outer shell. No wires. A one-hand clip for feeding. A band that gives as you change.
Designed in Belgium. Knitted in Türkiye by an OEKO-TEX-certified textile partner.
Vemorina is the bra we wish had existed: for my mother when she was young, and for our friend.
Jurgen and Alejandra, founders
What we can stand behind
absorbed per cup, from our own internal testing. About two soaked nursing pads' worth.
OEKO-TEX® STANDARD 100, certificate 11-36224. The strictest tier, for fabric worn against a newborn's skin. Verify it yourself on oeko-tex.com.
Soft band, one-hand clip, four-layer cup. Made to sleep in.
For every mother who's slept on a towel, planned her day around a leak, or stayed in because of one. This is the bra we built for you.