Mothercare

Overall mothercare is a useful shop, stocking most of the bits and bobs you might need for your baby/​young child. Most of the staff are quite young and probably don’t have kids of their own, but there obviously is some training as they know about the stock and are helpful and friendly. They don’t offer particularly great value, although I have found some good bargains in the sales. My main gripe is the tendancy for the girls stuff to be that revolting shade of pink girls stuff so often is. I went in there the other day to get my daughter a pair of wellie

It’s not my normal territory, you know, Mothercare. Because I’m not a mother, and I don’t really care, which generally absolves me from ever needing or feeling the urge to go into this shop.
This all changed the other day, when my brother and his wife had their first child, a beautiful little girl called Peggy. I started to care. I understood what this care thing is about, and I became a mother. As I said it all changed.
No wait… I just cared, I didn’t become a mother. So anyway, now ticking one of the boxes, I entered Mothercare alongside my brother, to buy a Moses basket and some other baby related items?
I always assumed (not that admittedly I thought about it much) that Mothercare was just a big impersonal superstore, much like a massive Sports shop, where essentially you would be left to your own devices, and things would be scattered around everywhere just waiting for the recession to seal the last nail in it’s coffin. But actually it was not.
Inside, it was surprisingly tidy and well kept, and the store assistants were empathetic and friendly to new, anxious mothers and fathers, as well as enthusiastic and helpful.
As well as baby clothes, Mothercare is a prime place to get all your practical motherly/​fatherly hardware, such as prams (which are on display like cars in a showroom), mobiles, cots, and nursing bras. I wouldnt recommend this shop as a cool place to hang out (obviously), but I would to mothers and fathers who want a serious shop for their little ones, and a friendly face to help them do it.