The latest Andy Warhol collection for Bugaboo

As part of a multi year collaboration with the Andy Warhol Foundation, this month you can pre-order the autumn 'Happy Bugs' collection at Born.

The prints are based on his hand drawn illustration from the 1950's. Happy Bug Day is one of Warhol’s earlier art pieces and relates to both children and parents. This lively colourful print is available as a tailored fabric set for the Bugaboo Cameleon3  and as a sun canopy for the Bugaboo Bee. Featuring a dark grey background colour, the sun canopies are double printed giving the inside a happy bug print as well. The collection includes a unique Bugaboo Baby Cocoon and Footmuff highlighting a few fun and happy Warhol bugs on a white background.

'Happy Bugs' Andy Warhol Baby Cocoon for Bugaboo pushchairs

'Happy Bugs' Tailored Fabric Canopy for the Bugaboo Bee Stroller

'Happy Bug's Bugaboo Footmuff by Andy Warhol

'Happy Bugs' by Andy Warhol tailored fabric set for the Bugaboo Cameleon3 pushchair

Out with the old and in with the new

Last weekend we had our mid year stock take. It's always interesting, if a little frustrating to find boxes of things that just haven't sold as well as we would have liked. It gave us the opportunity to evaluate what is working and what we need to do more of. It coincided with the results of our Customer Survey, which many of you were kind enough to fill in for us.  Subsequently I went off to a nursery trade show mindfull of what you, our customers like and what you obviously aren't so keen on.

Based on the survey results and what we had too much of in the stock take, it made looking for new products really fun and interesting.  It was really exciting to see some gorgeous new products that we really want to get in as soon as possible, and after wading though countless stands of plastic tat we think we fund some real gems!  But before we can get them in we need to make more space in the shops (and in the stock rooms!) so in the next few days we will be posting on Facebook our stock clearance items.  We have LOTS to share and it includes products from all our categories including Slings, pushchairs, toys, nursing bras, clothing, books and gear.

So if you don't already like us on Facebook, click here or follow the link below to make sure you see the bargains as we anounce them, and if you have any friends with babies or expecting soon you may want to let them know too.

Love

Eva

 

 

Finding the right Brothers Grimm fairy tale

You may have recently read or heard that the wonderful author Phillip Pullman has adapted many of the 'lost' fairy tales written by the Brothers Grimm. 

His new book and audio book 'Grimm Tales: For young and old' retells 53 of the Grimm stories.  All the old favourites are there – "Little Red-Riding Hood", "Hansel and Gretel", "Cinderella", "Snow White", "Rapunzel", etc – plus less well-known stories such as "The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers", "The Singing Bone" and "The Donkey Cabbage".

How to choose?

So if you're a fan and want to pass on these stores to your children (please remember some stories are better suited for slightly older children) how do you choose which is best for you?

Option one is to read them all, alternatively the 'Big Bang Theory' approach is to create a interactive app that enables you to choose based on one of the many variables.  And luckily that's exactly what someone's done!  So if you wish to find which stories are about Royalty then simply click on royalty to see the stories reorder themselves. Or what to find the most positive story then simply reorder by clicking the positivity button (It's  'Clever Hans' by the way!).

It's a fantastic piece of fun that you can find here, courtesy of Jeff Clark.  (It's best viewed on Safari)

And remember we'd love to know what you're favourite Brothers Grimm story is.

How do Antenatal Classes help prepare women for birth? By Dominique Sakoilsky

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Good back health for parents and babies by Clare Chapman

Clare Chapman is a Yoga teacher here in Bristol. In the past 3 years she has done some workwith natural posture guru, Esther Gokhale. Esther’s inspirational book ‘8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back’ recently reached No.3 on Amazon.com, and has just been published in the UK. I think you will be as fascinated, as I was, to read what Clare has to say about child development and posture, which is very much in tune with our approach here at Born and the reason we are so fussy about the Baby Carriers, Pushchairs and Footwear we stock.

Eva

Every parent asks, “How can I best hold, carry and transport my baby and toddler?” After all, children just don’t come with a care manual! Yet, for thousands of years it was simple… everyone, including older siblings, adopted the traditions of the role models around them.

Today, of course, we raise our children in a very different context. We live in an industrialized, high-tech, consumer society. We have an unprecedented array of products such as slings, car seats and pushchairs to choose from, and can consider how each brand shapes up against various criteria – safety, budget, ease of use, style, multi-functionality, etc. But there is another, hugely significant yet little-known factor to guide our decision making, and its effect on our children will literally last a lifetime…

Since the industrial revolution families have become more geographically dispersed, with parents often raising smaller families many miles away from grandparents and other extended family. This has led to a break in all sorts of cultural transmission, including the handing down of tried and tested (body movement) traditions. Probably the most significant postural shift occurred in the 1920s as the new generation abandoned what came to be seen as the rather formal uprightness of the pre World War I era in favour of a more casual, slouched body language. For the first time it became widely fashionable to tuck the pelvis and tail under and droop the shoulders forward, a position reflected in furniture such as the Mies van der Rohe chair and the ‘flapper-girl’ fashions.



1920s ‘Flapper’ fashion encouraged tucking the pelvis.