Is this what you're looking for (Bebe au Lait)? It's not a pattern, but if you click the Product Features link, it shows details of how this is made.

The design is patent pending, so it will probably be difficult to find a pattern. (See the Taggies Battle thread on this group for a discussion about patented designs.)

Here are some additional ready-to-wear products that might inspire you:

http://www.babyage.com/products/rnc01l_nuangel_nuangel_nursing_cover.htm

http://www.nuangel.com/nursing_covers.html

http://www.barebabies.com/4in1nushfrl.html

http://www.busybabywraps.com/

(Some of these just look like a simple poncho.)

The Bebe au Lait design might not be too difficult to duplicate. The only tricky part is deciding what to use for the rigid neckline.

To me, it looks like you might be able to use this plastic boning:

http://www.hancockfabrics.com/product/26586.html

Just in case a baby sling might be more appopropriate, here's a pattern for a sling from Elizabeth Lee designs (sewing patterns for nursing clothes for Mom):

http://www.elizabethlee.com/patterns/nc202.htm

For clothes patterns for Mom, see also:

http://www.elizabethlee.com/patterns/mompats.htm

HTH a little bit,
CMC

Here is a link that might be useful: Nursing Cover for Sale, Bebe au Lait

Thank you very much. I did visit that site and you are right after the Taggie war I'm not sure I want to make anything anymore.
The funny part is in Oct. my girlfriend from Calif. came to visit and we made a senory blanket (teething). They are very popular out there. So when I saw this I had to e-mail it to her. The quilting shop out there sells them and makes them and even gives classes I think. They do call them Taggie blankets.
I visite the Taggie web site and the lady even ask for people to report to her of anyone makeing these.
Boy does she have some kind of nerve.
I guess we want be able to make any thing any more. What will they say is patent next time.
I agree if you take the time to design something and do get it patent then you have the right to protest but from the post it had been made in the 70's by Fisher Price. So my question is Who owns the patent.
Well I hope the lady here wins. The Taggie lady needs to take a break.
Craftinggrannie

Thank you for the information. I was asked last week by a friend to make her a cover up and have been looking at different options that are out there for an enormous price. She wanted something with the boning type "stuff" in it and I had no idea that it was available. I will check it out this weekend. I wonder if boning could be added to a pancho type pattern? And do you have a good pancho pattern location. Thanks a million!! ;>) MS

If you make a copy of one of these designs and give it to a friend, I'm pretty sure there aren't any legal problems to worry about.

If you are making money using someone else's patented design or copyrighted images or copyrighted names, that's where the legal problems begin. What the law pays attention to is whether the copyright holder or patent holder is harmed by your actions. If you are making money, then there's a case to be made that the "owner" is being harmed. The details of these laws are more complex, but that's the core issue the law takes into account: is the owner harmed?

And that's why you probably won't be able to find a commercial pattern for the patent pending design, because someone selling a pattern for a copy of one of these designs would be making money.

Looking at those ponchos, there are some slight differences in designs.

The busy baby wrap looks a lot like Butterick 4356, View D, but with the last bit of the sleeve opening left unstitched. This is just a long rectangle folded in half with a seam along just part of one edge, where the two edges meet. There's no *cut* neck opening:

http://store.sewingtoday.com/cgi-bin/butterick/shop.cgi?s.item.B4356=x&TI='4356'&page=1

See also McCall's 4840, View C.

http://www.mccallpattern.com/item/M4840.htm

Or Vogue 8122, View D:

http://store.sewingtoday.com/cgi-bin/voguepatterns/shop.cgi?s.item.V8122=x&TI='poncho'&page=1

The "love the baby" design looks like an almost "fat" rectangle with a sort-of-round hole in the middle. Here's one to consider, with some modification, McCall's 4228, View A. Instead of making the longest edge of the poncho run along the shoulder lines, turn the fabric 90 degrees so that the longest edges are on the front and back of the wearer, and then cut the side-to-side neck opening. The "sleeves" will be shorter. Pick a different fabric - fleece is probably too hot! But a nice cotton knit might work just fine:

http://www.mccallpattern.com/item/M4228.htm

The difference for the nursing poncho compared to regular poncho patterns is that the poncho is longest on the front, rather than the sides where the arms go. It may be a bit longer on the front than that back, too.

I think part of the "trick" to these is making the neck opening large enough to Mom can look in on the baby, and the baby can get some air, but the neck opening is still just small enough that the poncho doesn't slip off Mom's shoulders. In that respect, the neck openings on the nursing ponchos are probably a bit larger than a poncho you would make as a keep-warm garment. That, and a nursing poncho needs to be made out of a relatively light fabric so the baby doesn't overheat.

Good luck!

CMC
PS: Go to the Butterick, McCalls, and Simplicty websites and try searching for the word poncho. There are quite a few patterns for inspiration.

Thank you for all the infor. I will check these patterns out and I'm sure I'll be able to come up with something. My girlfriend and I have a few ideas we are trying. Thanks again.
Craftinggrannie

my friend makes a baby carrier similar to what you are talking about and it can also be used as a carrier for a child up to about 1 or 2 years old. she makes them for new mothers and they are very very simple and easy to use it takes about two and a half yards of 45 inch fabric and two metal rings