// About

So who and what is The Bump Wear Project?

We hope this page will shed some light, to enable you to understand who we are and what we do. Let’s start at the beginning…

The Bump Wear Project was launched in 2009 by it’s founder, who was 31 weeks pregnant at the time. Maternity clothes shopping had been an horrific experience for her. The first attempt led to tears … the second attempt was online in the privacy of her own home and although slightly more successful but not a wonderful experience. When shopping isn’t a wonderful experience, you know something is wrong! Many pregnant women aren’t comfortable with their changing bodies especially in the early days, and we’d suggest even more so if being pregnant was a surprise. So shopping for clothes when your not feeling your best, dealing with your changing body and all the other emotions that come with pregnancies isn’t great – and that’s where The Bump Wear Project comes in.

The site aims to make it a little bit easier for you, by pointing you in the right direction regardless of your age, shape, style and budget. There are some Golden Rules which we believe if followed can help you look and feel great.

We are not…

  • a retailer.
  • a manufacturer.
  • a PR agency.

We don’t…

  • work in the sector, or have any shares or other linkage with those which do.
  • accept payment to write about a product.
  • write about products we don’t like. We just wont bother.

We do…

  • undertake reviews. This means we have physically tested the product. All tested items are rated out of 5. All reviews are clearly labeled as such, and we will state our relationship with the product i.e. how we came to review the item. This may be because we own them, or have used the service or we have been sent an item to trial.
  • accept paid advertising on the site, however, this does not mean the items advertised will be featured in an editorial. The two are not linked in anyway whatsoever. Advertising on this site is not a form of endorsement. You can advertise your product and/or service on this site by contacting us. We charge based on tenancy. Tenancy means we charge a rate for each ad to sit in the spot per month.
  • have a number of people who contribute to the site, their relationship with any product and/or service will be explicitly stated.
  • have a bank of pregnant volunteers who let us know about any products and or services they like. They all review products on behalf of The Bump Wear Project. Their relationship with any product and/or service will be explicitly stated.
  • link with affiliate programmes such as Amazon, this means if you follow a link we have provided to a product and then go on to purchase that product we receive a very small % of the cost. It’s very, very small, and we hope some day it will at least pay for the hosting of this site. We do not however link to products because they are part of an affiliate programme.