Kiddicare is a large independent retailer of baby and nursery equipment and nursery furniture and claim to keep everything in stock ready to send out to you. You can buy Avent sterilisers and feeding bottles, Grobags, buggies and travel cots, high chairs, rockers and baby swings plus lots for the home including playpens, stair gates, cots, changing units and nursery furniture. Delivery is free to most of the UK and takes about four working days.

The Kids Window is a real children's department store, offering children's clothing brands from designers such as Catfish, Inside Out, Marie Chantal and Budishh, a full range of baby equipment, activity toys such as trampolines, swings and slides and lots of toys and games.

You can search on this website by age, gender, season and brand. or click through to each section of the range.

ActiveBambino specialises in the high quality LittleLife baby carrier, travel bed and travel cot product range. So you’ll find perfect products for the walking, hiking and general active life enthusiast in the LittleLife Ultralight, Voyager and Cross Country structured carriers; excellent child and parent backpacks, compact travel cots and all the relevant accessories. This is a small but excellent range to have a look round.

For the Hip-O-Boat, Super Sub Sophie, Bubbles for the Tub or Splashy the Penguin this is definitely the place as there are lots of fun bath time toys to choose from. Going back to basics you can buy a pack of Pooh Bear Bath Splats (did I say basics?) to make sure your baby doesn’t slip in the bath, wash mits, bath slings and the Bumbo Baby Sitter. So everything for bathtime as you can see.

Although there’s a very good range of buggies and travel systems here (plus cots, bath time essentials, car seats, bouncers and bedding for singles) there’s also an excellent choice of tandem and side by side buggies for twins including those by MacLaren, Chicco, Cosatto, Jane and Outnabout and a wide range of prices from just over £100 to around £300. The information is not over detailed but clear and simple and they have some very good sale discounts.

Yes you can buy baby security items from most of the large online equipment retailers, but if you want to visit a specialist in this area then take a look at this website, where you can buy baby monitors, stair gates, safety glass film, cupboard locks, edge guards, outlet plugs and much more. There’s also an excellent ‘What’s New’ section where you can view all the latest products.

If you've just had a baby or you know someone who has it would be well worth your while taking a look at this website from a retailer specialising in baby bags. The kind of bag that holds all the paraphernalia you need if you go out, with multiple compartments to keep everything separate, that you can use as a shoulder bag if you want or attach to your high tech buggy. There are lots to choose from the Million Dollar Baby Bag (extremely expensive) to the excellent Skip Hop bag which comes in lots of colours.

Lula Sapphire offers a wide range of products and appears again below in the Organic baby products section, as most of its range is environmentally friendly. It’s here as well for its excellent collection of changing bags (many of which don’t look like changing bags at all) so if you want something really chic invest in the wonderful, modern StorkSak Gigi, which’ll hold everything for the baby plus your laptop too.

It’s really hard to know where to put Mothercare, as if offers such a wide range of everything for mothers, babies and young children, including some incredibly well priced maternity wear, pushchairs, buggies and all sorts of travel systems, everything (and I mean everything) you could need for the nursery plus feeding and safety equipment, toys and gifts. The emphasis here is on simplicity and good pricing, there are excellent check lists for hospital bags, babies first wardrobe and travel solutions and lots more information as well.

Here's an excellent baby equipment website offering, amongst other things, footmuffs, pushchairs and accessories with lots of details to help you choose. There are also car seats and a very good range for the nursery including the high quality Saplings range of furniture, most of which will take your child from baby to older years. You can also buy giant themed sticker sets for room decorating.

I have to confess that if I was going the baby route again (which I most certainly am not), this would probably be my first port of call as StorkSak create wonderful ‘baby’ bags which look like nothing of the sort – in black quality nylon with leather straps and excellent fittings, although if you’re not like me an addicted to black you can have your bag in rose, sky or modern print as well. Shapes are tote, classic shoulder shaped, smart weekend or modern slouch and they offer all the accessories you need too.

Obviously you don’t have to buy two of everything here but the emphasis on this website is definitely on double changing bags (designed for double buggies), twin cots, twin and triplet reins, twin slogan t-shirts and other gifts. Having said that, it’s extremely well stocked with loads of other baby essentials you don’t easily find elsewhere, such as bottle warmers, cup holders, ID wristbands and toy ties, so whether you’re producing one of more you’ll probably find ideas here.