To be fair sometimes you get what you pay for with products and other times its over hyped.I use Mumsnet for product recommendations. The Instamums all have the Tripp Trapp highchair for example - so much money for a chair! Mumsnet users consistently recommend the IKEA antipope, which was the best £16 I have ever spent.
I agree with them being good quality (picked one up from a selling site for £10) but at a time when I was quite low and vulnerable these things were being rammed in my face, without any clue they were gifted. Here was this NHS midwife recommending Stokke cots and Sleepyheads, deliveroo was a newborn necessity. The obligatory me time getting £200 Rigby and Pellar bras fitted (To be fair sometimes you get what you pay for with products and other times its over hyped.
I have two tripp trapp high chairs that we still use now ! My boys are 13 and 16 so well before the insta influence crept into our lives! My lads now use them at their desks !
Yep. I delivered on the floor of the bathroom in my hospital room with no midwife present and it was terrifying. But I don't blame the midwives as they were so busy and understaffed.....many women labour without the constant support of their midwife, midwifery services have been seriously cut and underfunded and staffe morale at rock bottom
I’m sorry to hear this. I had exactly the same thing happen to me and it was so terrifying. I didn’t even have a birth partner.Yep. I delivered on the floor of the bathroom in my hospital room with no midwife present and it was terrifying. But I don't blame the midwives as they were so busy and understaffed.
My husband was there and useless bless him!Me too! Except I told the midwife ten minutes before that I felt like I wanted to push. She dismissed it, left the bathroom and hey ho out came the head. Luckily my husband was there but that was a real shock!!
Yes, ultimately this will come full circle and it will be interesting to see. She persists in calling any dissenter a hateful, jealous troll when all I am asking for is transparency and honesty. We all have enough screenshots now to establish the influencer cycle in full swing and this latest murky business venture with her bathroom "reno" is a case in point.Wish Vanity Fair would do an article that references her like the one that came out yesterday where Courtney Adams and her group of Murfer Mummas were interviewed. It was not complimentary. The link is in the Courtney Adamo thread.
Yep I've defininitley been sucker down the rabbit hole beforeI agree with them being good quality (picked one up from a selling site for £10) but at a time when I was quite low and vulnerable these things were being rammed in my face, without any clue they were gifted. Here was this NHS midwife recommending Stokke cots and Sleepyheads, deliveroo was a newborn necessity. The obligatory me time getting £200 Rigby and Pellar bras fitted () Clothes which weren’t too twee for the twins, Zara came up trumps. It just went on and on. And there was me with my one takeaway a year and a rolled towel trying to impersonate a sleepyhead, and a £13 Ikea high chair. Feeling utterly shit about myself. But replying to stories and commenting as it all seemed real.
Lol I was definitely old enough and ugly enough to have supposedly been immune to it, which is why I feel like such a twat!Yes, ultimately this will come full circle and it will be interesting to see. She persists in calling any dissenter a hateful, jealous troll when all I am asking for is transparency and honesty. We all have enough screenshots now to establish the influencer cycle in full swing and this latest murky business venture with her bathroom "reno" is a case in point.
To all of you made to feel bad by her new mum sales pitch, I am sorry and relieved that I am old enough, ugly enough and weary enough to be immune to it. It is incredible that King's allow her to use her role to line her nest so shamelessly.
"People follow for the self-harm, to pick at the longing and thwarted desires until they bleed shame. "Wish Vanity Fair would do an article that references her like the one that came out yesterday where Courtney Adams and her group of Murfer Mummas were interviewed. It was not complimentary. The link is in the Courtney Adamo thread.
It obviously works as a business model though, hence why they do so many ADs. People are influenced, because they make it seem like their lifestyle is attainable to you too, normal person - except its bloody not!You’d wonder are the Hoopers actually happy, they always seem to want more and more. That tile brand is ‘working with them’ in the hope it will help boost sales, MOD has to show off the products in return, ignores relevant guidelines and no doubt will get on her high horse when questioned about the lack of transparency. She hardly thinks this brand is ‘working with her’ without expecting something in return. If she resents having tonbe transparent about ‘working with brands’, then don’t work with them.
(Though I cant see many rushing out to buy those tiles now after seeing them in her bathroom or even buying other anything from the company, when you know they ‘work’ with people such as the Hoopers. And the wording feature on the tiled floor is just naff, she probably thinks it’s quirky but far from it).
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