Mamas and Papas

This is a great place to get everything you need for imminent children. It is a Santa’s grotto of wonders. Toys and clothes that make you long for your own childhood and look to the future at the same time.
They have an excellent range of prams and pushers here. Someone I know recently got a magical folding down especially built to fit into the boots of small cars. It’s amazing, really. The clothes, as might be expected, are cute and adorable and everything else in that category. The little shoes make you dream of little toes.
In terms of expense, I can’t really comment, as I have little experience in this area. But the price for each item seems reasonable enough to me. It’s only when it’s totally up that the numbers get scarily huge. But then, you are equipping the world for a new person to come into it…
The only problem I have with this place is when things you need become things you’re told you should have to be a better parent. The staff here seem to be quite sales driven, kind of like those annoying people in Curry’s or PC World. They don’t leave you alone, even when I tell them I’m not a parent they start talking about all the people know who are (approximately zero recently). Pressure selling in a high street store really gets my goat.

As a non parent I don’t have much experience of this kind of shop, but my good friend has just got herself pregnant so i’m starting to find myself in them more often. I never knew how much preparation and expense goes into pregnancy!
Anyway as a first time mother, we went to see one of their Nursery Advisors (specialists to guide you through everything you might need to buy). The session was really good and very helpful. They do of course encourage you to buy from them but they aren’t too pushy. Session over there was time to grab some new maternity wear.
Seems a lot of thought has gone into planning the store so there is plenty of room to navigate pushchairs and they have changing facilities too.