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Cecily Plum:

Cecily Plum is to be featured in Baby Surrey and Baby Hampshire Winter editions - which is very exciting! We are also running a small ad in both, which has been designed by the nice people at Little Media.



On the Home Front:

Oli went through the night last night- woo hoo! I'm still tired because I stayed up until after midnight working on website stuff though.

Ante-natal and Post-natal care

Netmums have been running a survey recently about the amount of ante-natal and post-natal care received by Mums; I’ve also been contacted about a news article being written on the topic: it seems that people are thinking about this whole issue again.
I believe that quality ante-natal and post-natal care are vital. The chance to meet others in the same boat, an informal situation where you can ask questions and discuss issues, a forum for learning from a range of professionals; this is what ante-natal classes should be about. And once baby’s born, we need these things even more.
I was lucky when my first was born, I had weekly ante-natal classes for about 8 weeks where I met a bunch of other Mums I’m still close friends with. We had excellent classes on everything from Baths to Bottle Feeding. Once baby was born we had access to weekly ante-natal classes, presided over by a health visitor, and basically a chance to have a good natter, talk to a professional and get baby weighed.
By the time number two was on his way the ante-natal classes had changed to about 4 sessions in an evening - completely useless for those of us who already have children (perhaps that was the idea) - and no ante-natal classes at all.
Personally I think this is a terrible thing, but I’ve brought it up with midwives, health visitors and doctors and they don’t seem that bothered. Only the pregnant and new Mums I’ve talked to realise how significant the loss of these services is to us New Mums who so often feel isolated and even miserable during and after pregnancy.

Photo-shoot!

Well, we have been open nearly two weeks now, and it's very exciting! Thank you to all our customers so far, it's been a great two weeks and I'm full of plans for the future.

The first thing I'm planning is a photo-shoot for some of our existing stock, as well as for some new things which are a secret at the moment :-) . It's very exciting organising a photo-shoot, but also a bit bewildering for the novice. Luckily I have a professional friend to guide me. We're currently looking for a pregnant model, the studio is all set and I have a list of shots I need.

I plan to take photos of the photo-shoot (if you see what I mean), and perhaps a video too, and I'll post them here and on the official Cecily Plum Blog too.

Special Things at Cecily Plum

I was going to call this post "Special Offers" but then I realised I want to mention two things - one is a special offer and the other a special e-zine.

1. Cecily Plum Style Notes - our online magazine

I am really proud of the first edition of our Cecily Plum magazine, Style Notes.



Style Notes has articles on maternity fashion, stories from Mums and interviews with designers. We'll have a new one every other month, so keep an eye out at the beginning of December for our Christmas and New Year edition.

If you have anything you'd like us to cover in Style Notes, we'd love to hear about it, from the issues around breast-feeding in public to Christmas party fashion dilemmas.



2. Cecily Plum Showcase - our special offers




The Cecily Plum Showcase is an ongoing promotion of some of the favourite pieces in our collection. Every three days we choose a small selection for a 10% discount, so if you like something that's being showcased, get it quickly as it won't be on offer for long!

On the front page of Cecily Plum you can see a preview of the items we're showcasing at the moment; the current showcase runs until the evening of Weds 8th.

I joined technorati, because it's supposed to help my blog traffic, which probably helps my company! Hooray!

Here's a button to click:



you can add me to your favourite blogs now. Yay!

Open!

Cecily Plum is now open! Last night we put the site live, and sent out emails to all the people who had signed up.

We immediately had a query about the Lin and Leo bags - they'll be in stock really soon! And today we've made sales!

I am very excited, and looking forward to the future of Cecily Plum.

xx

Opening Soon

Things are all coming together now, the website is almost finished and stock is arriving daily. It's all very exciting, and it's great to see all the beautiful things I've ordered.

I've taken a few snaps of the unpacking (you can see I'm no photographer), and once we're open will post some images of our collection.





The lovely BabyMel changing bags arrived last week.


I love the Bump Boxes, and wish I'd known about them during my pregnancy! They look so good in their pink and black boxes.


The Zita West skincare comes in such beautiful bottles and boxes, I think these are going to make great gifts.


The all important packaging materials - sturdy white boxes, crisp cream tissue paper, rich wine and cream ribbon and mini lavender and camomile bags (it's the little touches that make a difference). I'm also so proud of my lovely stationary and business cards designed for me by TRG designs in Exeter.


All ready for packing and sending! Two breast feeding tops, one from Carriwell the other Bara Glad.

Wish me all the best for the launch on Wednesday 1st October!