Blossom caters for the fashion conscious expectant mum, by combining high-end fashion, comfort and functionality without sacrificing quality or style. You'll also find designer jeans such as James, Rock & Republic and 7 For All Mankind customised with their exclusive Blossom Band. Their luxurious collections include ready to wear, lingerie, denim, swimwear, and organic baby. There's a small exclusive collection of baby-wear as well.

Mama-la-mode.com is an exclusive on-line boutique for style-conscious mothers-to-be, whose philosophy is to help you confidently dress in style and take the stress our ot dressing whilst pregnant. With 60 designers to encompass every aspect of being stylishly pregnant, mama-la-mode.com allows you to choose looks that suit your lifestyle that will take you from casual to evening and from red carpet glamour to working

This is a really attractive and well designed maternitywear website, offering everything from pretty dresses for all seasons to occasionwear, designer jeans, knitwear, lingerie, shapewear and swimwear. Denim brands include Citizens of Humanity and 7 for all Mankind.

Expect to find flattering dresses, excellent separates and lovely sleepwear plus all the basics you could need to see you through the last few months and onwards, including baby bags, waist belts and Spanx Power Mama.

If you're expecting, or you know someone who is, bookmark this site.

Calling themselves ‘High Street Fashion with a Bump’, will give you a good idea of what you’ll find here. This is really well priced, modern maternity shopping where you’re bound to find some great essential pieces; funky tops and cargo trousers, jeans and fun eveningwear. There’s also a small selection of nightwear.

Marks and Spencer have a small but very good range of maternity clothes from which you can choose some great essentials. Best here are the modern tops, from double layered tops and t-shirts, casual trousers and jeans, basic bras and excellent hosiery. You’re bound to find some of your favourite pieces at M & S and keep coming back to check the range as it’s updated all the time.

This is definitely a lovely place to buy a gift for a new mum or baby. They offer pretty polka dot mama and baby pyjamas, chic nursing tops, Superfluffie alpaca slippers, pampering gift sets and incredibly elegant baby bags as just some of their ideas. You can book baby portrait sessions and buy Gift Vouchers here as well.

For choice and value you’d find it hard to beat this website, where the clothes are divided up into sections such as Outdoor and Exercise wear/Formalwear/ /Petite/Tall and Plus Size. There’s also swimwear and lingerie, so whether you're looking for a pair of soft white linen trousers or something for the Oscars, you'll almost certainly find it here - the evening and occasionwear is particularly good. This is international designer styled maternity wear and a very good collection.

Melba offer a great place to buy high quality basics for reasonable prices, so take a look round at their great t-shirts and tops which come in lots of colourways, stretch jeans and trousers and easy dresses and skirts (plus lingerie and swimwear). There are lots of views of each item so you can see exactly what you’re buying, they’ll deliver worldwide and offer express delivery within the UK.

Find excellent maternitywear here on this really prettily photographed website where the collection is stylish and different and the prices reasonable. You can choose from the latest looks, maternity essentials and glamorous partywear and as well as all of this there's lingerie by Elle Mcpherson, Nougatine and Canelle, gorgeous layettes for newborn babies and Tommy's Ts. Delivery takes up to five working days; you'll find postage costs for the UK and EU on the website and email them for elsewhere.