One reason why I love Born

Today a lady came in the shop to buy washable nappies for her twin girls that are currently in special care in our local hospital. As well as expressing milk for them she has already donated a huge volume of milk to Southampton hospital for their milk bank. Until the Precious Drops Campaign raises enough money to build one we won’t have a milk bank in Bristol. We were all in awe at her committment to breastfeeding and also supplying the Southampton milk bank. Fast forward a couple of hours and my friend who is a pregnancy yoga teacher rings me to ask if I know of anyone who a client of hers would be able to obtain surplus breast milk from for her baby as he needs more than she is able to produce. Yes I do! So I introduce these two ladies to one another and realise how valuable it is to connect people up and how you never know the impact one conversation will have if shared. And of course I realise how much I love Born for who we are in the world.

What's next for BORN

When we opened our first Born store 8 years ago it was always the intention that we would have more than just one shop. After 4 years we opened our second store in Bath then a year later our 3rd shop in Stoke Newington. It was clear after 1 year that the Bath store just wasn't going to work out financially so we closed it after 2 years. It took a year to close it and in the process we lost a considerable amount of money. That setback has taken us another 2 years to get over, but we are now on track with our plans to have more Born shops in the UK and look forward to finding a wonderful investor and business partner to accompany us on the next leg of our journey. It's been a slightly frustrating time as we know the benefit that having Born stores brings to so many people going through a major life transistion and we hope to support many more families with more stores. Hopefully we will soon those investors and will be reporting back with our news!

Born in New Zealand

Here is the Born New Zealand shop. Baksho the founder has done an amazing shop at setting it up - it looks gorgeous