2nd Place in
Pregnancy & Newborn's
Annual Reader's Choice Awards
"Online
Maternity Shop"
Hi,
and thanks for visiting One Hot Mama. What the heck are we? you ask. Why should
I listen to you? Why should I buy stuff off your site and give you my
credit card number? What do you stand for?
Jeez, you got a lot of questions.
All right then! Here's some answers.
We are Roxanne Beckford and Bob Hoge,
married folks with four children. We've found parenting to be challenging,
annoying, life-changing, exasperating, and wonderful, and probably a whole lot
of other adjectives too. To see us in action, check out this episode of
Bringing Home Baby. Yep, Roxanne thought it was a great idea to let a camera
crew follow us home from the hospital after the birth of our twins. Can you say,
"hormonal delusions?"
We believe in Attachment
Parenting. There's a lot of books out there defining Attachment Parenting, and
even a little controversy over what is and isn't "AP." In our view,
attachment parenting means you really want to know your kids, you don't hit 'em,
and you try to do what's best for them. That's about it.
We don't maintain
that you have to fulfill X requirement or Y requirement, or subscribe to this
theory or that theory, to be a good parent. We believe
you're the best parent for
your child. We do believe
strongly in
breastfeeding, and in fact started
our company in hopes of offering stylish nursing clothes (a rarity).
Do we think you're a bad parent if you don't breastfeed? No. But
unless there's a medical reason that you can't nurse for the first few months,
we do ask that you give it a try. All medical research in the past several
years points to the fact that it's significantly better for your child than
formula or anything else.
One Hot Mama is a site for parents
and parents-to-be. We try to offer
fun and support and clothes and
anything else our little minds can think of between diaper changes. We are
irreverent, opinionated, and you may not like everything we have to say.
Too bad! It's our site! No, seriously, we're here to have fun,
and try to bring a little humor to what is all-too-often is treated a a dry,
serious subject. Just because we're parents doesn't mean
we're dead!
When we started our online maternity and nursingwear store in 1998, fashionable
options were few and far between. Now, happily, all that has changed, but a
quick look at the many competitors that have sprung up will reveal lots of the
same clothes. We search far and wide for hot maternity and nursing clothes that
will fit you, a mother or mother-to-be who's different from everyone else.
Besides our great selection, three other things we're proud of are our quality
(we don't want to take advantage of you since you can't feel the fabrics before
you buy), our great customer service and our honesty.
You have a baby (or one on the way). Who you love
and are committed to mothering the best you can. To you, that means attachment
parenting, as defined for *your* family and *your* life. It doesn't mean that
you don't want to look good. After all, you're smart, fun, pretty. You like to
dress up, go out occasionally. Your husband's basically a good guy, and,
pre-baby, he was known to refer to you as "hot." You like In Style magazine
almost as much as Mothering magazine. La
Leche League as much as Lucky. And you will never, ever, show up in a pair of
mom jeans.
You are One Hot Mama.
Why Should You Trust Us?
We have teamed with Amazon to make ordering SAFE and SECURE on our site.
By using Amazon technology at Checkout, your order is secure and backed by
Amazon's A-to-z Guarantee which guarantees your purchase, the
condition of the item you buy and its timely delivery.
How does it work? Simply, use your existing Amazon account during checkout
to order products from our site. If you don't have an Amazon account, it's
easy to set up. Add the products you want to purchase to your cart and
create your account during the checkout process.
Meanwhile, our Privacy Statement is pretty
simple: we don't give, rent, sell, or even talk about your personal information
to anyone, ever. There that's pretty easy, isn't it? If you want to
look at our Privacy Statement and Disclaimer in full,
click here.
Letter From Roxanne
Hey there.My name is Roxanne Beckford, and
I'm a mommy. I'm also an actress, a clothing designer, a wife, and one hot mama. Lest you think I walk around brimming over with
intolerable self-confidence, let me correct you. Well, I do, but sometimes
I pretend. A little background music, please.
My husband,
Bob Hoge, and I started One Hot Mama after we realized the
birth of our darling son Cameron (in July 1997) and the attendant decision
to parent him in a very connected and respectful way (ie, different from
anything we'd seen in the mall) caused, shall we say, some upheaval in our
home and individual psyches. Mostly mine. Mostly because I would
occasionally either beat myself up about my mothering style or some total
stranger (even better, a relative or close friend) would do it for me.
We love our kids. We believe no-one knows them better than we do. And
that the hard work of parenting deserves support. So here we
are. Join us and our friends as we bitch, moan, rejoice and help each other
through the hardest job you'll ever love (sorry
flyboys, or marines, or whoever's slogan that is -- being a mom puts slogging
through obstacle courses to shame).
Cameron shows us his tummy
Our whole philosophy of parenting can
be summed up thusly: nothing you do out of love is wrong. Okay, okay.
Beating your child is wrong, no matter how much you intone, "this is gonna
hurt me more, etc. etc.," and neglecting your child is wrong. But
thinking about hitting them or wishing they would disappear don't
mean you're a bad mom, just that you need a break (and
maybe a good shrink or friend). Look, you know your baby or child better
than anybody else, and it's your job to gather information, sort through the
mountains of pages of conflicting advice and decide based on what's best for
you and your family.
For example: breast is best.
Unequivocally. Even the formula companies say so in their ads, albeit in
white letters on a beige background, the scoundrels. My kids all nursed well
past their second birthdays, so you can guess
where I'm coming from, but do I think it's wrong to supplement with formula
after 8 weeks or wean at 6 months or 1 year or any other age, as long as
you've made an informed decision and then fed that child with love, while
held in your arms and looking away from American Idol and into their big old
eyes occasionally? No.
Motherhood isn't a race. If it is,
count me out, because I'm too tired and busy to even think about getting
sweaty on purpose after I've finally had a shower. So check us out. Print
out the stuff that's too long to read now, especially since Junior is
letting you know that private time (snort, what a distant memory that is) is
over.
Oh, and be sure to shop, too. Yeah,
we love the world, yadda, yadda, yadda, but someone's
gotta pay to send all those kids to college.
Here's the gang at
Christmas. From left: Georgia, Bob, Cameron, Lila, Roxanne, April
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