Our list of distributors grows and changes, some permanent fixtures on our distribution list and others who give out a few thousand packs a year at various Parenting & Baby Exhibitions. Below we will be featuring any feedback we get from our distirbutors / stockists.

If you would like to become a distributor or perhaps give out Mama Packs at your next baby show instead of goody bags then please read THIS article.

“ I’m Nicky, mama to six, wife to one, a real nappy advisor with Bucks County Council and I run Clothie Bots.

I first heard of Mama Packs when I was pregnant with Fonzy, my youngest.  At the time they were mystical things that crunchy mamas had & not for everyday types like me.  Oh how wrong was that?!

I discovered real nappies when Fonzy was 7weeks old, I cant for the life of me now remember all my old prejudices against them as in reality they are just so simple to use and on top of that they look absolutely fab.

It was one late night of tinternet nappy research that I came across the Mama Pack site.  Yes the contents were eco, but they were for me – lentil eating wasn’t a prerequisite! (no offense to lentil eating mamas out there)  I applied to be a distributor not thinking for one moment that I would be accepted and was totally thrilled to find out that Bucks was still searching for someone.

After a couple of emails and a chat with Yzzy it was finalised that I would be the official distributor for Mama Packs in the Bucks area.

My first consignment of Mama Packs arrived and Yzzy had very kindly placed an extra one in there for Fonzy & I.

In all honesty I was quite blown away by the contents.  I had collected my first pack for the ‘other’ (think kitchen roll) pack that the midwives give you and didn’t bother to go back for the others.  Perhaps I had a dud batch but I found it so commercial, buy this to be a better mum, type of thing.  A small nappy cream sample, a ’sposie nappy and perhaps washing powder – non of it inspiring.

The Mama Pack in contrast had; cookies, muesli, soap nuts, sweeties, pregnacare, natracare feminine products and a wealth of information of some lovely & incredibly talented mamas who work from home.  I hadn’t realised there was a whole cottage industry out there!  We sat there going through the box, lots of oooing & aaahing.

So what has being a distributor meant to me? Well it wont make your fortune, there is no mark up on the packs.

What it will do however is bring traffic through your website & offer Mamas an alternative to the ‘hospital’ packs.

A fair few of the packs that I do distribute are bought by people for their friends who are near the end of the pregnancy and playing the waiting game… and they have been described as winning all the layers of the pass the parcel with so many goodies in there.

If I have a consultation with a local mama for nappies I take a pack with me as a gift and it makes a nice ice breaker.

Anyone spending £35 or more in store will receive a pack if they want one too.

Other times through a number of forums I’m on the topic of Mama Packs arises and I tend to point the mamas to both the Mama Pack site and also let them know that I stock them.

I see them as a valuable promotional tool, marketing.  I regularly offer one as a prize for the monthly newsletter draw that I hold.

So far I’ve not had one negative comment on them, they have changed from what I understand when they were first about, but they have evolved for the best!

I promote the Mama Packs through a page on Clothie Bots, in the advertising I have in a couple of places, on the cards I send out with orders, on parenting forums that I’m on, when chatting with other mamas at toddler groups whenever I possibly can!  I worry that maybe Ive become a nappy bore and Mama Pack evangelist ”

Thank you Nicky! Why not visit Nicky’s website at www.clothiebots.co.uk