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Wednesday 18th August
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Mother and Baby Fayre, Made in Devon
Date for your Diary! For those visitors in Devon, Cornwall and in fact anywhere in the South West , we are excited to be able to invite you to our first Mother and Baby Fayre 'Made In Devon' . Traders from within the Maternity, baby and related industries will be exhibiting their wares at Buckfast , Sunday August 22nd 2010 10am to 4pm
A selection of Devon based traders within the Mother and Bayby, materntiy clothes and toy industry will offer their wares on a fabulous day out beside the historic beauty of Buckfast Abey. also come along to chat with services aimed at families and children within the Devon area
Date for your Diary! For those visitors in Devon, Cornwall and in fact anywhere in the South West , we are excited to be able to invite you to our first Mother and Baby Fayre 'Made In Devon' . Traders from within the Maternity, baby and related industries will be exhibiting their wares at Buckfast , Sunday August 22nd 2010 10am to 4pm
A selection of Devon based traders within the Mother and Bayby, materntiy clothes and toy industry will offer their wares on a fabulous day out beside the historic beauty of Buckfast Abey. also come along to chat with services aimed at families and children within the Devon area
READ THE LATEST FABULOUS BLOG ARTICLE FROM FUNKY BUMP MATERNITY,TOPIC: MATERNITY REFLEXOLOGY
Sunday 28th February 2010
New Blog posts from
Saturday 27th February 2010
New at Lafeenoire Maternity for March
EVERY PURCHASE qualifies for a FREE Organic Baby Bathcare product from award winning Beaming Baby
SAMSONITE SPRING SPECIALBuy a fabulous Samsonite Rival Front Baby Carrier and Receive a FREE Snugcover worth £24.99.
Introducinga new range to the fold, maternity Sports wear from Celebrity Endorsed SPORTY BUMP and we are excited to add a Petite maternity treat! A Cup lingerie maternity bras and matching pants fromHOTmilk Maternity
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Wednesday 10th February 2010
See another superb Blog post from our good friend Sinead at Funkybump, boy can this girl write!!!lol
Wednesday 10th February 2010
We came across this little gem via a facebook contact and aparently the stars love it. I will if I get the results it promises! Said to shift inches in minutes...get rid of those love handles? Worth a try right?
Check out http://www.skinnyblackdress.com/
Wednesday 3rd February 2010
Read a brilliant write up about SPD, the debilitating pregnancy condition that effects up to one in three mums to be.
Funkybump is our favoured blog, really informative and well written, thanks Sinead!
We have been asked to pass on this information to all you newby breastfeeding mums out there...
VirtualBreastfeedinghelp.com is an excellant resource blog for all new mums who plan to breastfeed. If you or someone you know is experiencing any problems with breast feeding, this is the place to go online for help and advice!
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Read a fabulous review on our new Zipped Up Maternity clothes range
Tuesday 24th November 2009
Have to treated yourself to a piece from our exclusive Zipped Up Maternity Clothes range yet?..choose from 7 exclusive and funky maternity styles. Supersoft fabrics, sexy yet comfortable styling and excellent maternity comfort! Prices from just £35 and guaranteed you will wear these tops way beyond your pregnancy!
The mother of invention: The amazing array of health aids dreamt up by patients
By Carol Davis
Last updated at 11:22 AM on 15th April 2009
Rather than simply enduring the problems caused by their illness, enterprising patients find a better way of doing things.
When they became ill, or saw those around them suffer, each of the people below developed a product which could help thousands or millions more and is now being manufactured.
HUG-A-BUMP *NEW Maternity SPD Support Band
Holdall: Rachel Bloom and her support for pregnant women
Up to one in four pregnant women suffers lower back pain as ligaments loosen, so the pelvic bones can move apart for birth.
SOLUTION:
An all-in-one garment to support the back, hips and bump.
EUREKA MOMENT:
When former beauty therapist and headhunter Rachel Bloom was expecting her daughter Thea, now two, she suffered with the weight of her bump. The only relief she had was from holding it up using both hands.
While she bought a support band (a single strip of white stretchy elastic with Velcro fastenings - a recognised tool during pregnancy), it didn't get rid of the pain, which left her confined to bed for three days.
A pregnant friend, who had such horrendous pain she could not rise from a chair, was given an ugly three-part truss by her doctor. Determined to do better, Rachel, 39, who lives near Exeter, designed her own one-piece Hug-a-Bump support, which cradles the back, hips and tummy.
The rear of the Hug-a-Bump contains bone-style corseting to partly immobilise the area and help the mum-to-be to maintain correct posture. The rest is flexible to allow for normal movement without rubbing. It is also washable.
'There are around 225,000 pregnant women each year in Britain who have some pain, so this could help many of them,' says Rachel.
Sold only in La Fee Noire exclusive packaging. Bands sold without this gift packaging may be counterfeit and not offer the intended support and symptom relief. This product unless specified is despatched ONLY from La Fee Noire Maternity
• Hug-a-Bump, from £40, www.lafeenoire.com, 0845 644 3894.
Lots of women muddle through pregnancy with mismatched hand-me-downs or something from a predictable babywear catalogue. That wasn’t a solution that 39-year-old Rachel Bloom from Exeter was willing to accept.
“I found I couldn’t continue my own style when I was pregnant, which really bothered me,” said Rachel, a gal who likes to dress up. (“I don’t go overboard, but I like to feel like I’ve made an effort.”)
None of the standard babywear catalogues such as Blooming Marvellous had anything she liked: Rachel wanted something dressier, or “bold and sexy”; for casual days she wanted to feel a little rock ’n’ roll.
So, she researched it, and the more clothes she found, the more she realised that there was a community of pregnant stylistas in her situation. Clearly there was a gap in the market, and this ex-headhunter and retailer knew what to do. She started a website called La Fee Noire.
“My clothes are well priced and a bit different,” she said.
“I have swimwear in animal print. I have lingerie for pregnant brides. I carry jeans, but some of them I customise” (a patch on the leg bears the company’s trademark fuscia and black colours) “and also with black sequins, or beads, or braid.
“I don’t accept that you can’t continue your style when you’re pregnant. I also think, why can’t I wear this after I’ve had the baby? There’s no reason to stop shopping for clothes you like.”
Broadening her search wider than just maternity wear, Rachel selected clothes with mojo. She carries a range of chiffon style dresses, tops and bottoms, swimwear, lingerie, and funky rock-style clothes for both mum and baby from a company called Mummadiva (the baby range is Babydiva).
As the clothes weren’t necessarily maternity wear, Rachel found she had an unexpected consumer group who were feeling her groove.
“I have a lot of plus-size women who like my site, which is great,” she said.
“In a way the fact that they’re not necessarily pregnant proves my point about style.”
Rachel is also passionate about buying local: she stocks Westcountry lines such as Beaming Baby from Totnes and Ashburton-based Gro Bag and Belly Belt.
As if all this entrepreneurship were not enough, Rachel has another string to her bow: she designed a special device which she calls the Hug-a-Bump.
“I was in terrible discomfort when I was pregnant with Thea,” said Rachel.
Like many women, Rachel had fibroids, which are typically benign growths in the uterus. In Rachel’s case, one fibroid grew to a large size and was inoperable.
“I literally had to carry my bump around,” said Rachel. “People would ask me: why are you holding it? It was just excruciating.”
Rachel looked long and hard for a comfortable, adjustable device that offered her body some support, but couldn’t find one. So, she designed one, which met with a physiotherapist’s approval.
“I wanted it to support both the bump, but also the pelvis and lower back,” she said.
Now through her first pregnancy and safely out the other side, Rachel runs her business from home with daughter Thea toddling at her feet. Like many, she juggles work and family, but she likes keeping busy.
It probably won’t surprise you to know that Rachel, who taught herself HTML, is also an artist. She designed her own logo: La Fee Noire, the black fairy.
“It’s something a little different,” said Rachel. It’s fun and funky, like her clothes.
Date for your Diary! For those visitors in Devon, Cornwall and in fact anywhere in the South West , we are excited to be able to invite you to our first Mother and Baby Fayre 'Made In Devon' . Traders from within the Maternity, baby and related industries will be exhibiting their wares at Buckfast , Sunday August 22nd 2010 10am to 4pm
A selection of Devon based traders within the Mother and Bayby, materntiy clothes and toy industry will offer their wares on a fabulous day out beside the historic beauty of Buckfast Abey. also come along to chat with services aimed at families and children within the Devon area
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