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£2500 for a Baby planner - your help needed please!

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JustineMumsnet · 22/01/2007 13:31

We've been asked to write a very short comment for the Guardian on a new service available to pregnant mums outlined here . Am guessing that not too many Mumsnetters would part with the dosh which would buy an awful lot of Fruit Shoots in later years , but I may be wrong?
Do let us know your thoughts.
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JustineMumsnet · 22/01/2007 15:10

Thanks very much indeed for your brilliant input everyone - I've cribbed you mercilessly. Should be in tomorrow's g2 - short cuts.

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JustineMumsnet · 25/01/2007 09:09

Hello everyone,
The founder of Babyplanners dropped me a line saying that she didn't think the recent press about her business had been entirely fair. So we suggested she posted a response on Mumsnet... which is as follows:

Hi, Keely here, founder of Babyplanners.
Just felt the need to defend myself and appeal for a sense of sisterhood.
First of all, the £2,500 price tag is a bit of a media invention. The initial session is actually £100 and I come to your home or office for an informal chat about everything.
I set up the company because it's a service I would have appreciated when I was first pregnant. I started off informally advising friends and friends-of-friends and then it developed. There's nothing cynical or sinister about it.
It's about cutting to the chase in finding the best products - not necessarily the most expensive ones. It's about stopping people wasting money on £500 pushchair they'll trade in for a Maclaren five months in. Or expensive change bags when a toiletry bag inside your normal bags does the trick.
And we recommend different ergonomic baby carriers, for example, that people shopping on the high street would never come across. These ones don't kill your back! And it's about saving time.
When I was pregnant with my first baby I was really busy, the first of my friends to have a baby and I didn?t have an older sister or sister-in-law to advise me. (Mums are great but things had changed a bit in the 29 years since she had me.)
Yes, there were online forums then but I wanted to keep up with my usual group of friends - plus I didn't feel a lifechange until after I had my baby.
Sure, some people enjoy shopping and buying everything available and that?s great; that?s their take. But for a lot of women, being faced by a bewildering array of unfamiliar products isn?t something they relish the thought of - especially when they?re heavily pregnant. Similarly, wading through reams of internet research in the wee hours when all you want to do is sleep isn?t everyone's idea of fun.
I think women are all too quick to attack the way that other women handle pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood. Instead maybe we should realise that there is no right or wrong way to approach it. For every woman who wants to dedicate herself solely to her unborn child, there?s a City high-flyer who wants children, not pregnancy. And they?re both right.

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