Useful links

Companies we love

Bambino Goodies

Click here to view the Bambino Goodies web site
A great online shopping directory for everything you might need for mummies and babies. Refreshingly honest write ups about all the products listed - a lot of them made us smile.

The Green Familia

Click here to view The Green Familia web site
A super blog containing lots of information and recommendations on everything that's green and for the family.

Green Your Office

Click here to view the Green Your Office web site
Our lovely supplier of eco-friendly office stationary.

Piccalilly

Click here to view the Piccalilly web site
Our UK based supplier of ethic-cool and eco-fabulous fairly traded organic cotton clothes for babies and toddlers - clothing, gifts and other super stuff. One of the very few who have achieved Fairtrade certification. We stock lots of their lovely clothes.

Resources for pregnant ladies and new mummies

Pregnancy Planet

Signs of Ovulation
Pregnancy Planet is the only community on the web dedicated to pregnant and TTC parents. We provide week by week pregnancy information, symptoms & advice along with parenting tips & solutions, conception due date calculator, celebrity baby news, free TTC tickers & blinkies and much more.

Cyberstrawberry

Click here to view the Cyberstrawberry web site
Oodles of delicious natural and organic mother and baby care products. Everything from stretch mark lotions to green nappies.

Bras4Mums

Click here to view the Bras4Mums web site
A wonderful range of maternity and nursing bras.

La Leche League

Click here to view the La Leche League web site
The essential breastfeeding resource.

NCT

Click here to view the NCT web site
The leading charity for pregnancy, birth and parenting in the UK. Information, local mummies meetings, nearly new clothes and toy sales...

Real Baby Milk

Click here to view the Real Baby Milk web site
Real Baby Milk is an organisation dedicated to help support breastfeeding mums. Struggling to breastfeed? Want help to locate local breastfeeding support groups in your area? Or find the most recent breastfeeding advice and information? That’s precisely what they can help you to do.

The Pregnancy Photographer

Click here to view the Pregnancy Photographer web site
Because every bump is beautiful, every pregnancy unique. Graceful, sensual and flattering maternity portraits from Courtenay Hitchcock the UK’s leading pregnancy photographer.

Cotton nappies

Go Real - the real nappy information service

Click here to view the Go Real web site
These guys are GREAT! If you're even considering using real nappies, this is the place to find out everything you could possibly want to know about cloth nappies. Find out all about the different types of cloth nappy available and how to use them, where you can buy them near you and how much they cost. They even have videos on how to fold them. Cloth nappies have come a long way since the days of nappy boiling pots and big safety pins!

Lizzie's Real Nappies

Click here to view the Lizzie's Real Nappies web site
Independent help and advice to parents considering reusable nappies. Wide range of nappies and accessories. See site for monthly special offers.

Plush Pants Cloth Nappies

Click here to view the Plush Pants web site
Nappies and Natural Products that won't cost the Earth. Tel: 01865 408040
These guys do a great range of real nappy products (nappies, wraps, grippers, liners, you name it they've got it) and if you're new to real nappies, they'll get you started with friendly and helpful advice.

Parenting web sites - top tips and advice

Parents in Touch

Click here to view the Parents in Touch web site
Parents in Touch provides guidance through all stages of education and child development; advice by highly experienced professionals and answers to the questions that all parents ask; a forum for parents; resources for parents including worksheets, ‘SATS’ and other test and exam papers.

Mumszone

Click here to view the Mumszone web site
A site for all parents and those trying to conceive. Offers interesting articles, a friendly discussion forum, regular competitions and much more.

Ask Baby

Click here to view the AskBaby web site
All you need to know about having a baby from ovulation to conception and beyond.

Raising Kids

Click here to view the Raising Kids web site
If it's about raising kids, it's here... The link above takes you straight into their age 0-1 page, but they cover everything from pregnancy to teenagers (yes, one day they will be teenagers!).

Investment Parenting

Click here to view the Investment Parenting web site
This is an information site providing all sorts of thoughts, opinions and resources on attachment parenting, emotional intelligence and cognitive development.

The Naughty Seat

Click here to view The Naughty Seat web site
Positive parenting products and child behavioural aids. Sound a bit scarey? It's not - reward charts, stickers, money boxes, time out spots, everything you need to successfully negotiate the toddler years (well apart from the patience of a saint of course!).

Irresistable gifts and toys

Tots Tootsies. Beauful soft leather baby shoes and booties

Click here to view the Tots Tootsies web site
Tots Tootsies sell a fantastic range of beautiful soft leather baby shoes and booties in adorable designs and colours. Gift sets available with matching shoes and cotton babygros. Tots Tootsies also sell Hippychick Hipseats and multi-award winning wooden rideable Wheelybug toys.

Loving that gift

Click here to view the Loving That Gift web site
Hundreds of inspirational and unique gifts and cards. 85% of the gifts are made in the UK and 64% are handmade. Many can be personalised to mark a special occasion, such as the arrival of a new baby, or a christening.

Baby Gift UK

Click here to view Baby Gift UK web site
This site has a wealth of ideas if you're hunting for a new baby gift - a great collection of gorgeous gifts, that will help you find the perfect present and will make new mummies smile.

Clementine Toys

Click here for Alphabet Letters and Wooden Toys
Clementine Toys - buy children's toys online, including a huge selection of traditional wooden toys such as puzzles, mobiles, bookends and wooden alphabet letters. Traditional natural and organic toys and gifts for all ages, from new babies to toddlers and young children.

Little Bundles Traditional Toys

Click here to view Little Bundles Traditional Toys web site
A range of quality traditional wooden toys, soft toys and educational toys, games and puzzles that have been carefully sourced for children from newborn upwards.

Information on water birth

Born in Water

Click here to view Born in Water web site
A wonderful UK based company, hiring out birthing pools and useful birthing equipment for people giving birth at home.

Water Birth

Click here to view Water Birth web site
Informative US based site providing a wide variety of information about water birth.

Water Birth Info

Click here to view Water Birth Info web site
A US based web site promoting water birth.

Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services

Click here to view AIMS web site
An interesting excerpt from the AIMS booklet, "Choosing a Water Birth".

Information on home birth and birth choices

Homebirth UK

Click here to view Homebirth UK web site
A lovely UK homebirth reference site, providing lots of practical information for those of you thinking of labouring at home.

Birth Choice UK

Click here to view Birth Choice UK web site
Informative UK based site providing information to help you make the right birth choice for you

Sheila Kitzinger

Click here to view Sheila Kitzinger web site
Information about homebirth from the author of "Birth Your Way".

Sensitive Skin

The British Skin Foundation

Click here to view The British Skin Foundation web site
Charitable foundation carrying out research and providing information about skin conditions.

The Eczema Society

Click here to view the Eczema Society web site
An ugly but useful site, providing information and support for sufferers of eczema and sensitive skin.

Organic Information

The Soil Association

Click here to view the Soil Association web site
The UK's leading environmental charity promoting sustainable organic farming and championing human health.

PAN UK

Click here to view the PAN UK web site
The pesticide action network, promoting healthy food and agriculture and working to reduce the use of pesticides. In addition to all the stats and facts, they now also have an extensive organic shopping directory, listing organic products sold within the UK and online.

Steenbergs Organic

Click here to view the Steenbergs Organic web site
Steenbergs Organic - organic and Fairtrade spice specialists. Source direct, pack and blend over 400 herbs, spices, seasonings, curry mixes and bakery ingredients from their factory in North Yorkshire. Online shop also stocks a range of organic chutneys, jams, flours, coffee and tea amongst other bakery ingredients.

Organic Living UK

Click here to view the Organic Living UK web site
The UK Organic Directory - food, wine and lifestyle resources.

Organic Holidays

Click here to view the Organic Places To Stay web site
Organic holidays and eco-friendly accommodation - wherever you want to go in the world, whether you're planning a weekend break in the UK, or a huge trip abroad, you can find all sorts of green accomodation listed on this site.

A Lot of Coffee

Click here to view the A Lot Of Coffee web site
Mail order coffee that's both certified organic and registered fair trade. If you get through as much coffee as we do, you'll love this site.

Farmaround

Click here to view the Farmaround web site
Farmaround is an organic food box scheme that delivers in and around London. Seasonal organic food with low food miles, delivered direct to your door.

Organic Portal

Click here to view the Organic Portal web site
Organic Portal is the UK directory for Organic Food, Produce and Services - 'Probably the best Organic Directory in the UK'.

Ethical Shopping Initiatives

All Things Eco

Click here to view the All Things Eco web site
An online eco directory, listing only those businesses with products, services and information that support and follow environmentally friendly, sustainable, fair-trade, organic, natural, ethically and socially responsible principles!

Ethical Consumer

Click here to view the Ethical Consumer web site
A UK-based, not-for-profit organisation dedicated to providing ethical shopping information.

Green Union

Click here to view the Green Union web site
We knew someone would do it sooner or later and now they have. Thankfully, they've done it really well. Green Union has everything you need to plan an eco friendly and sustainable wedding or celebration, without compromising at all on quality or style!

Tree 2 My Door

Click here to view the Tree 2 My Door web site
As you might expect with a name like this, Tree2MyDoor specialise in trees, wildflowers and real flower confetti. We did a tree planting for our children's naming ceremonies and it felt very right - both in terms of the symbolism for the children and being in line with our own values.

Eco Flowers

Click here to view the Eco Flowers web site
This seems to be pretty unique - an ethical online eco florist, delivering environmentally sustainable flowers throughout the UK. What a lovely surprise.

IFAT

Click here to view the IFAT web site
A global network of fair trade organisations.

EcoStreet

Click here to view the EcoStreet web site
A great eco directory for all your green needs - everything from re-usable nappies to ice cream (no, not re-usable ice cream, organic ice cream; you know what we meant!).

Labour Behind The Label

Click here to view the Labour Behind The Label web site
A worldwide campaign supporting and promoting the rights of garment workers

Business links directories

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Click here to view the Reduce, Reuse, Recycle web site
Recycling information, printables and local UK recycling directory.