Mothercare

I’m thrilled to launch a competition in collaboration with Mothercare to offer one lucky mama-to-be a maternity photoshoot experience with a professional hair stylist and make-up artist, plus a capsule maternity collection from Mothercare, collated and styled for you, by me, Helen. With so much change to your body and lifestyle during pregnancy, …

There are challenges every season during pregnancy but summer, with temperatures rising and holidays on the horizon, is the hardest time of year to manage – sartorially speaking – when you’re growing a baby. It’s a few years since I was pregnant and seeing through the warmer months with a bump but …

Shoe shopping is great fun, that is, until you have to find shoes for a little person whose feet are too small for almost everything but pram shoes.  Which is fine if your baby is in a pram, but not so good if your tot just happens to be a …

It probably won’t surprise you that I’ve been wondering what the Duchess of Cambridge will be dressing Princess Charlotte in over the months and years to come and I was even asked for my thoughts on this very topic for Look magazine a few weeks ago. VIA INSTAGRAM: @cocomamastyle 2 …

Tights for boys? Oh yes. Friends with baby sons have often told me of their frustration at trying to find non-girly tights for their little men.  It’s not just girls whose socks get pulled off or fall down and trousers that ride up exposing little legs and toes to the cold, boys suffer too! …

Staying smart for the office with the addition of a baby bump needn’t be a challenge.  Here are three easy ways to approach your new working wardrobe to get the most from your new purchases and flatter your growing figure. Wear now, wear later Anything that has a button front now …

Celebrity design collaborations no longer seem to be the novelty they once were and we’ve come to expect them as the norm on the high street, but as collections (and celebrities!) come and go, there is occasionally a brand which gets it spot on. Today sees the launch of Jools Oliver’s Little Bird nursery …

A couple of weeks ago I met Tamzin Outhwaite at the launch of Sorelle, a new non-alcoholic wine that’s perfect for mums-to-be. Then, Tamzin was very pregnant but still looked totally glam in a maternity LBD. Now of course, she has a new little lady to look after as she recently …