Comments on: Unnecessary Baby Products

By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 02:48:15 +0000

Di: Keep in mind that unnecessary does not always mean useless. We have a problem in our society of being deceived by marketing and peer pressure into confusing necessary with perhaps handy in some situations. Just because your husband, for instance, uses the changing table does not make it necessary.

By: Di

Di — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 02:35:02 +0000

And I forgot you mentioned changing table!!!! Which most sites I find deam unnecessary…but every diaper I have changed in my home has been on that changing table!!! Even my husband, who told me I would never use it, uses it for EVERY SINGLE DIAPER!!!

By: Di

Di — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 02:32:54 +0000

Wow…way off…Most of the items on your list are on my “must have” list. In love with my diaper genie, monitor is on at all times, and the crib? Really!?!? My son has slept every night of his life in his crib…unless he’s sick…sleeping in bed with us only means sleepless nights and a cranky baby the next day. I’d be lost without my diaper bag.

By: infant massage

infant massage — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:33:34 +0000

For my nephews birthday last summer we walked the kids over to the local park to play soccer. We took a cooler with jugs of water and juice and orange slices. After they played soccer for a while we came back to the house for mini pizzas (pitas with toppings) and cupcakes to decorate and eat. The whole family is dedicated to doing their part for the environment, so his brothers and sisters made a birthday sign on their oversized white board.

By: AD

AD — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 20:11:08 +0000

Totally agree with the changing table, but I LOVED my Diaper Genie 2!

By: Toni

Toni — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:45:28 +0000

At the risk of being booed, I wanna throw another one in here: DIAPERS past the first birthday!!! Holy cow, I can’t imagine why anyone anyone would purposely wait ’til a kid is 2 (or older!!!) to start toilet training! And yet, more and more, I’ve been finding out that parents my age (late 20′s, early 30′s) are not only waiting ’til closer to the 2nd birthday, but some are also waiting ’til the kids are 3, 4, and occasionally even closer to 5!!! I have a 5 year old who was fully day AND night trained by the time she was 17 months, and I can’t imagine any kid older than that still being in diapers.

By: Baby Cot Bed

Baby Cot Bed — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 22:33:35 +0000

Wow.. didn’t actually have any of those you use listed apart from a stroller..but it wasn’t a fancy one like you talk about just something I got for five quid from a jumble sale. I used my sling more though anyway but it was useful as a shopping cart

I am very glad I didn’t get suckered into buying stuff. I did have a changing mat but rarely even used that and my son sleeps with us (he is 3 now) and when he was first born he was always on someone until we went to bed or put nearby and never in another room which is why I never had a baby monitor. I preferred him being in the same room or close enough that I could dart and get him as soon as he stirred instead of encouraging him to go into a big out cry for help.

By: Lilian!

Lilian! — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 07:29:54 +0000

I think overdoing the baby proof stuff is really irritating. I saw an episode of “Neat” on FitTV, where the MOTHER’S room had to sacrifice a beautiful ottoman chest because the host claimed that her son would jam his fingers into it by attempting to open it. I am not saying that the ottoman chest is more important than the child, but the fact that the child can walk and probably 3-4 years old, he should already know what can be touched and what can’t. It should also be the parent’s job.

I do not know about the table corner bumpers, but they do seem useful for some people, but my family grew up with rounded edges, so no one really got hurt. I (I was told by my mother), my sister, and my cousins NEVER went to reach for jars, vases, bottles, stove tops, cabinets, or outlets as babies.

Plus I laughed in Baby Mama where she got these toilet locks installed.. and I would be annoyed to go into a house that looks like a daycare rather than a HOUSE.

By: Reborn Babies

Reborn Babies — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 05:06:51 +0000

before buying things for our babies we should think if the item we want to buy is necessary for them.

By: David at Front Porch Babies

David at Front Porch Babies — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 04:34:03 +0000

think before choosing the best items for your babies. choose only the thing that is useful.

By: Not Completely Unnecessary Baby Products

Not Completely Unnecessary Baby Products — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 23:00:24 +0000

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