Someone asked me the other day if I felt bitter towards the virus and what it meant for my pregnancy. What did covid mean to me whilst being pregnant for the first time? And I’ve never really thought about it until now... so here goes... Pearly-May, my first born, will be known as a “lock-down” baby, and I don’t know how I feel about that. In some ways, it makes me smile, to think we (Pearly and I) got through a global pandemic together and can both grow together now as a new mumma and baby working out what this...

Hey, I’m the 50% American side of Oh Mumma!  I grew up all over the place in the US but San Francisco was where I lived the longest and a piece of my heart will always remain there. My mum had me super young and it was just me and her from the beginning. She worked a lot and I spent lots of time being carted around to babysitters, friends, and neighbours. I can’t even begin to imagine how difficult raising a child on your own would be but somehow she managed and I turned out ok! My childhood was...

I live with my family in a picture-postcard village in the Yorkshire Dales and feel so lucky to live somewhere that other people come on holiday. Along with the holidaymakers we love to spend sunny days down by the river with our children – picnicking, paddling and BBQing on long lazy days. It’s beautiful, but sometimes the aftermath isn’t. Plastic bottles, coffee cups, sandwich wrappers and plastic straws wash downstream, a reminder of the everyday single-use plastics that we use and discard on a daily basis. Seeing the impact these have on our beautiful area got me thinking – how...

It's time we said a proper hello and told you a bit more about us, Kyra and Shannon, the founders of Oh Mumma.  I'm up first, so here goes, from early life to where we are now.  Enjoy...

Give us the beach powder birth story!I I only launched the products in April 2019 but I’ve been thinking about the idea of them for years! I live by the beach - spending time there is my favourite thing to do - but I hate the feeling of sand on the skin! And having to get all the sand off my daughters after a day at the beach was always a nightmare too! Either I’d be rubbing their feet with a towel that was usually sandy itself, or getting them to stand on one foot while I poured cold water...

We caught up with Nancy Powell, creator of Herd Bags to hear her story and what an inspiring one it is...   The idea of working for myself and setting up my own business was something that had simmered for years, decades even, but if I was being honest with myself it was far more likely that I would stay solidly within the PAYE world of assured salary and performance reviews.  For me being a business owner and building a brand was something that really did epitomise ‘success’. My impression of people who did this was of people with strongly generalist skills, great vision and...