Mum2b_Claire
Mummy to Ruby & Scarlett!
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Pointless things:
Bottle warmer. What is the point? Really slow compared with boiling the kettle then putting bottle into a jug. Although, shock horror, after a few months we just used the microwave and gave it a good shake after.
Socks other than ones from Gap - all other ones just fell straight off.
Blankets - we bought loads for some reason, didn't need that many at all and anyway, we used sleeping bags from about 4 months.
Door bouncer - fiddly to put her in it and she started crying within 5 mins every time.
....and here is a 'toddler bad buy' for all of you to avoid: Potty training pants!! Stupidly expensive (We got ours from mothercare, £12 for 2 pairs), made a scrunching sound when she walked and totally pointless. Ruby only wet herself once in them and it still went through to her trousers.
Also toilet trainer seats that fit under the normal loo seat. How are you supposed to wipe LO afterwards? There isn't any room. Silly.
Good things:
Bumbo. Ruby is probably in the minority here but she sat happily in it several times a day from 4 months to 11 months. Enabled me to get cooking and cleaning done.
Tripp Trapp high chair - so much less bulky than your average huge plastic type chair
Cotbed (as opposed to a cot) - Ruby would not fit into a normal cot now but still has loads of room in the cotbed. If we'd just gone for a normal cot we would have had to move her to a bed with no sides by now and we don't want to do this yet.
Bottle warmer. What is the point? Really slow compared with boiling the kettle then putting bottle into a jug. Although, shock horror, after a few months we just used the microwave and gave it a good shake after.
Socks other than ones from Gap - all other ones just fell straight off.
Blankets - we bought loads for some reason, didn't need that many at all and anyway, we used sleeping bags from about 4 months.
Door bouncer - fiddly to put her in it and she started crying within 5 mins every time.
....and here is a 'toddler bad buy' for all of you to avoid: Potty training pants!! Stupidly expensive (We got ours from mothercare, £12 for 2 pairs), made a scrunching sound when she walked and totally pointless. Ruby only wet herself once in them and it still went through to her trousers.
Also toilet trainer seats that fit under the normal loo seat. How are you supposed to wipe LO afterwards? There isn't any room. Silly.
Good things:
Bumbo. Ruby is probably in the minority here but she sat happily in it several times a day from 4 months to 11 months. Enabled me to get cooking and cleaning done.
Tripp Trapp high chair - so much less bulky than your average huge plastic type chair
Cotbed (as opposed to a cot) - Ruby would not fit into a normal cot now but still has loads of room in the cotbed. If we'd just gone for a normal cot we would have had to move her to a bed with no sides by now and we don't want to do this yet.