SPOTLIGHT ON: Antonia and Jonny Philip – Founders of Nursem

Antonia and Jonny Philip are the founders of Nursem where they source the most incredible [...]

SPOTLIGHT ON: Elaine Maher – Global Brand Director for Quintessential Brands

Elaine Maher is the Global Brand Director of Quintessential Brands, where we source the amazing [...]

SPOTLIGHT ON: Richard Sager – General Manager of Nio Cocktails

Richard Sager is the General Manager of Nio Cocktails which feature as an option in [...]

SPOTLIGHT ON: Harriet – Founder of the ‘miracle’ self heating eye masks Spacemask

Photo by Emma Rego  Harriet is the founder of Spacemasks, which feature as an option [...]

SPOTLIGHT ON: Julia Smith – Founder of London Cashmere Co.

Julia and Dan Smith – Founders of London Cashmere Company  This month we are putting [...]

Steph Douglas – #whatmakesadad

Steph is the founder here at Don’t Buy Her Flowers, and gives an honest account [...]

James Hunt – #whatmakesadad

James @storiesaboutautism is a father of two boys, Jude and Tommy. Both boys are autistic [...]

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Robert Douglas – #whatmakesadad

We reached out a few weeks ago to ask Robert @this_father_life if he would like [...]

Lorna Harris – #whatmakesadad

Father’s Day can be a challenging time for lots of people. For Lorna Harris @lornamedia [...]

Katy Huyerman – A Certified Baby and Child Sleep Consultant for children gives us some sleep tips

We don’t want to be the bearer of bad news but this weekend the clocks [...]

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Jen Reid – Co Founder of charity Teddy’s Wish talks to DBHF

Jen Reid, founder of charity Teddy’s Wish along with husband Chris, contacted us about creating [...]

Tamu Thomas – #onemumswish

Tamu is the founder of Three Sixty and her #onemumswish is thoughtful and a different [...]

Emma Conway AKA ‘Brummy Mummy’ – #onemumswish

Emma Conway @brummymummyof2 is one of the first people that Steph met when she started blogging [...]

Isma Almas – #OneMumsWish

Isma describes herself as a cake eater, biscuit baker, kebab lover and comedy maker. We [...]

Steph Douglas – #onemumswish

Steph is the founder here at Don’t Buy Her Flowers, mum of three, wife to [...]

Nina Tame – #OneMumsWish

Nina describes herself as ‘The Disabled Step-Mum you never knew you needed’ and is a [...]

Emma Cantrell, Founder of First Days Tells Us More About The Charity

Don’t Buy Her Flowers has recently partnered up with the charity First Days, who work to reduce [...]

Steph reflects on DBHF Mother’s Days Gone By

Starting with our first Mother’s Day in 2015, this has become the busiest time of [...]

To celebrate the launch of The Sleep Package, Steph has written some thoughts on sleep (or lack of!)

Having children made me obsessed with sleep. As the saying goes, you don’t know what [...]

“We all do whatever we can for the people we love”: Carers share their stories with Don’t Buy Her Flowers

The work that carers do is often hidden away and poorly understood by many of [...]

When It’s Not all Hand Holding and Love Eyes

I was recently in Homebase on a Sunday morning with my two year old. It’s [...]

Where’s My Happy Ending? We speak to Anna and Matt about their new book

Valentine’s Day is just round the corner and it’s likely for some of us (most [...]

What to say (and not to say) when she’s expecting.

I’d forgotten how utterly stupid people could be when you’re pregnant, until I was expecting [...]

Defiance and Reality with Stand Up To Cancer

Stories of cancer are often a tale of two sides – Triumph or Tragedy. Life [...]

Talking Overwhelm and Rage #onthecouch

Last week, Clinical Psychologist Dr Emma Svanberg and I had a chat on Instagram LIVE, [...]

Ben Anderson ‘When I became a father…’

When I became a father for the first time in July 2014, I didn’t have [...]

Matt Farquharson ‘When I became a father…’

When I became a dad, they made me pretend to be a surgeon. Despite my [...]

Matt Coyne ‘When I became a father…’

For a very long time I wasn’t really interested in becoming a dad, I didn’t [...]

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Tom Cox ‘When I became a father…’

…I had it easy. I’m not even going to lie and say it was hard [...]

Remi Sadé ‘When I became a mother…’

…my world was a different place. “Cliché”, I know. Yet true all the same. I wasn’t [...]

Ali ‘When I became a mother…’

When you’re pregnant when do you become a Mother? I can only imagine it is [...]

Rosie Ramsey ‘When I became a mother…’

During my three years as a mother I have never used google so much in [...]

Kaytee Jones ‘When I became a mother…’

…I became a mother to a child with a life-threatening heart condition, multiple co-morbidities and [...]

Georgina Hayden ‘When I became a mother…’

*Trigger warning: this post contains references to infant and pregnancy loss* …is a sentence that [...]

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Liv Thorne ‘When I became a mother…’

‘…that very first moment, I didn’t feel the tidal wave of warmth, love and protection [...]

Jess Jones ‘When I became a mother…’

…I realised that my body was bloody incredible. The same body that I had spent [...]

The Overwhelm

It all got a bit much this week. Balls were dropping, plates were smashing. My [...]

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Relationships are hard

I was giddy with excitement when I met Doug. This glorious man made me laugh, [...]

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The First Year of Motherhood

On all the kids’ birthdays I find myself full of reflection, my mind playing a [...]

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From New Mums to Thoughtful Gifts: Four Years in Business

The idea for Don’t Buy Her Flowers came after I had Buster, my first baby, [...]

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When I became a mother…lost and found

The day I tried to kill myself and ran away, I wrote a list on [...]

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Nicola Washington ‘When I became a mother…’

When I became a mother for the first time, I learned that I didn’t know [...]

Mia Vaughan ‘When I became a mother…’

When I became a mother my life simultaneously came crashing down and became more complete [...]

Candice Brathwaite ‘When I became a mother…’

I’ll be frank, motherhood wasn’t in my plans. As the eldest to two younger siblings [...]

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Poppy Dinsey ‘When I became a mother…’

I was never scared about being a mother, only that I wouldn’t be. There’s a [...]

Elle Wright ‘When I became a mother…’

When we were expecting our baby, I remember feeling so full of nerves and anticipation [...]

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Susie Verrill ‘When I became a mother…’

When I was growing up, I wasn’t really set on many things. I never had [...]

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Helen Earley ‘When I became a mother…’

I don’t remember being given my baby to hold immediately after he was born – I was knocked out [...]

Steph Douglas ‘When I became a mother…’

I didn’t think much about my own mum’s role as a mother when I had [...]

Just the two of us

It’s fair to say that Doug wasn’t 100% keen on the idea of having a [...]

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