Children's character toys and other things such as bedroom furniture. Standard delivery from £3.95, depending on weight
Over 40 monitors: video, audio and dopplers to hear your baby's heart before birth. Free next day delivery on orders over £95 to UK mainland.
From pregnancy to childhood including special needs, twins and multiples. Free UK delivery if your order is over £95.
Maternity, baby and children's clothing, nursery furniture and equipment toys and gifts. Standard UK delivery £4.50.
Trampolines and other activity and outdoor toys and equipment. Free standard UK delivery over £200, otherwise £4.95 - £7.50
Bright Minds. Family learning for fun. Educational and other toys from infancy onwards. Free UK delivery over £75.
Practical everyday things. Pregnancy to pre-school. Grobags, toys, outdoors, safety. Free UK delivery over £75, otherwise from £3.95.
Character toys etc, most of which they make themselves, so it is a bit different. Delivery free over £50, otherwise £4.99 
Character products for bedroom and nursery: from clocks to bed tents. Maximum delivery charge £5.95
Stylish maternity wear - even swimwear. Also accessories for mother and baby. Free UK delivery over £100 otherwise £4.95.
Fun, educational and outdoor toys, games puzzles and craft for children up to about 6 years old. Standard UK delivery £4.95.
Maternity clothes for mums who are young at heart. Casual wear, work wear, party wear, underwear. Standard UK delivery £4.95.
Clothes and bedding for little ones, made from fair trade, organically grown chemical-free cotton. UK delivery free over £50, otherwise £2.95
Possibly the most famous toy shop in the world! Gifts, gadgets, toys and games. Free UK delivery on orders over £75, otherwise £4.99.
Gifts for baby and personalised keepsakes. including hand and foot castings. Standard UK delivery £4.95 per order.
A few toys, but mostly nursery furniture, safety equipment and travel aids, all for babies. UK delivery £5.95, free over £50.
Everything for baby and nursery including travel and toys. Free delivery to most of UK mainland for orders over £50, otherwise £5.99.
Dolls houses, games and other children's toys, gifts, nursery essentials and just about everything for children's parties. Standard UK delivery £4.95.
Clothing for newborn to 8 years and maternity. Toys, nursery, bathing and transport. Standard UK delivery free over £150, otherwise £4.95.
Natural organic skincare, beauty and wellness products, pre-conception on. Also mum & baby things. Delivery £2 under £15, £3.95 on £15+, free over £60.
Funky fashion for bumps, babies and infants and for their mums and dads: can be personalised. Free delivery over £40, otherwise £3.50.
Not only fashion for mother and baby but also nursery and bedroom furniture. Collect your order from a Next store or delivery from £3.75
This supplier of all sorts of luggage has a very wide range of the type of baby carriers that enable you to carry baby on your front or your back. Standard UK delivery £3.50
Everything for child safety. Fireguards, gates, windows and doors, stairs, travel, nursery etc. Free UK mainland delivery over £75, otherwise £5
Indoor and outdoor toys, games and puzzles. Standard UK delivery £3.95.
Indoor and outdoor toys and family leisure. Links to Babies 'R Us, selling baby and nursery essentials. Free delivery over £150 otherwise £4.95
Baby and children's clothing, furniture and accessories, things for the home and travel, toys and games. Standard UK mainland delivery £4.95.
Even if your local Woolworths has not got much for mother and baby, there is an online baby shop. UK delivery is normally £4.95 per order.Maternity wear
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Playhouses
There is a special page for maternity wear including maternity fashions.
Look on the Garden page for companies that sell children's garden playhouses
From pregnancy to infancy, from listening to your baby's heartbeat in the womb to toys for playschool, we will try to introduce you to suppliers of the things you need.
Mumstheword starts looking after you before you even conceive. They have vitamin and mineral supplements to get your body ready.
Bike trailer
for up to 2 children
reduced from £124.99 to
£99.99
From conception onwards they have wellness products, maternity clothing and the essentials a nursing mother needs. Baby is looked after, too, with babywear and safety products - and a good range of teddies.
The Keepsake Company (also known as Baby Gifts Online) have presents for someone else's baby and keepsakes for yours. The keepsakes include castings of feet and hands and personalised jewellery. The gifts include embroidered clothing and hand-finished canvases.
BabyMonitors do what they say. They sell over 40 different kinds of monitor. Some are traditional video and audio monitors. Some need no wires - they send a picture to a screen you carry in your hand. You also get £150 worth of baby product vouchers and free next day delivery to the UK mainland on any orders over £95 placed by 5pm.
50 (yes, fifty) Thomas books for £30, saving £95 off normal price of £125
Other specialists are Ready to Leave, who have a range of around 20 baby carriers including slings and more sturdy carriers for the front and the back. Standard delivery is £3.50, but next day delivery is available for an extra £2.45 if you order before 2.30pm.
Bump to 3 also has safety gadgets, such as gates and catches. The web site comes from the makers of grobag, so they have a good range, some exclusive to Bump to 3. They usually despatch same day if you order before noon and delivery is free if your order is over £75.
Lots of suppliers sell safety things for children, but Safe Tots is all about safety. Everything you could need for every room and for travel and very rapid delivery.
Next are best known for fashion, but they have a good range for mother and baby too, including maternity wear, baby wear, pushchairs and nursery furniture. Click on any of the darker grey words to go straight to that page on their web site. You can also order a copy of their catalogue, called the Next Directory, if you prefer to browse that way at home. Delivery is very quick and usually costs £3.75 for Next Directory customers £4.99 if you have not signed up to the Directory. Alternatively, you can arrange to collect your order from a Next shop. Another big name with an extensive range is Mothercare. Their shops are fine, but if you order online you don't have to carry anything, you normally get extra discounts with a discount code and delivery is free if you spend £150.
Babyworld provide for your needs from pregnancy onwards, with essentials rather than fashion items for nursing mums, furniture for the nursery and around the house and travel necessities. There is also a good section on special needs, with a selection of essentials for prem babies, twins and multiples. They invite you to become a member for 5% discount off everything and will give everyone, member or not, free delivery on orders over £95.
Kiddies Kingdom and Kiddicare also have plenty of nursery furniture, pushchairs and car seats, safety gates and other aids. Some of their stock is sold at normal retail prices, others at modest or better discounts. Their web sites make it clear whether you are buying a retail price or less. They offer fast delivery, which in both cases is free if your order is over £50, otherwise £5.95.
From birth to childhood, Hamleys, probably the most famous toy shop in the world, have toys, gadgets and games to suit everyone, including toys featuring the latest characters from favourite tv shows and BrightMinds have a huge range of educational toys to make learning fun, from cradle through to school. If you want toys or other things based on a favourite character, then your specialist is 1st for toys. You can search their web site by character, so it takes no time to see if they have the Angelina Ballerina bike you are looking for. Letterbox has lots of dolls houses as well as traditional and other toys, games and personalised gifts. You can also get a whole host of things for children's parties and essentials for the nursery and children's rooms.
There is plenty of character merchandise on children's rooms, too. This time there is less by way of toys, but enough to kit out an entire nursery or child's bedroom to make it look as if their favourite character lives there.