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Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

to think this 'concept' is bloody ridiculous not to mention dangerous and to ask if anyone else would like to give some feedback?!

327 replies

QueenOfFarkingEverything · 23/11/2012 17:40

The Bottle Bib - for those who don't have time to sit and feed their baby Hmm

They have a questionnaire inviting feedback. Please do join me in giving some Smile

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TuftyFinch · 23/11/2012 18:07

That is the worst case of over thinking I have ever seen.
It also makes me quite sad that anyone would think there was even a market for this.
Their marketing should read 'be the most selfish parent in the world. Carry on doing what the fuck you like, your baby can now feed themselves' .
Awful on every level.

TuftyFinch · 23/11/2012 18:10

A dressing gown!! Bloody hell! Do people really do that? Really? Get up earlier if doing your hair and make up is so important!

Blu · 23/11/2012 18:10

I occasionally propped a bottle on a pillow and even I think this is horrendous. It won't get a licence, surely? With the pillow arrangement, any coughing or spluttering and the bottle would be knocked from it's precarious position and roll out of danger's way. With this, as far as I could see, the baby will be clamped to it!

The whole thing is giving me a good fri afternoon laugh.

RooneyMara · 23/11/2012 18:12

How do you even get it over the baby's head?

That's what's puzzling me now.

DameFanny · 23/11/2012 18:12

Done. Fucking idiots.

Blu · 23/11/2012 18:13

Believe me if i was trying to make myself beautiful in the morning I wouldn't have time to be fitting that contraption over my baby's head, doing up 2 straps, fixing in the bottle, adjusting the forward-back position of the bottle, adjusting the angle of the bottle, and all while the poor screaming, wriggling HUNGRY baby is resisting....

NoraGainesborough · 23/11/2012 18:14

A lot of MNs refer to bubs or bubba (which incidentally I hate).

I think you have answered you own point. Loads of people hate the 'bubs' 'bubba'.

Makes my teeth itch.

RooneyMara · 23/11/2012 18:15

Feeding a baby CAN be boring but that's not the point. Feeding a baby is a TWO WAY THING.

It's totally stupid to suggest it's only about getting milk down its throat.

You're meant to be there FFS, you have to watch the baby, check its reactions, feel its cues, when it wants to get up and be winded, when it's had enough.

This just negates the whole bloody process into a factory system.

AllOutOfIdeas · 23/11/2012 18:15

WTF?

Surely playmats and baby bouncers are for those times when you need to do something, not feeding time?

I know its difficult with multiples as I had 3 under 18 months at one point but even in the most stressful times would I have given one of these a go, let alone so I could do my hair!

Pooka · 23/11/2012 18:15

Seems really cold and clinical to me. Is it really that much bother to cradle your 3 month old and cuddle while you feed?

RooneyMara · 23/11/2012 18:16

Also the number of times I've seen anyone on here refer to a baby as 'bubba' can be counted on one hand, and that's over about 6 years.

bubbles1231 · 23/11/2012 18:17

you can fill out the form without leaving details.

Pooka · 23/11/2012 18:18

Maybe you just plan your time better so that you perhaps put feeding the baby in a nurturing way before, I dunno, doing your makeup.

Glitterknickaz · 23/11/2012 18:20

Right well I filled the form with entirely ficticious and puerile name and email details.

Great fun Grin

Blu · 23/11/2012 18:21

Who is that cleb who tipped her baby out of it's push chair and didn't even interrupt her phone call? This sort of device would be mogelled by dimwits like that, wouldn't it?

Pooka · 23/11/2012 18:23

Geldof.

DumSpiroSpero · 23/11/2012 18:25

My 8yo DD has just heard me muttering about this and come to have a look. Her first comment was how much of a pain it would be to strap a wriggling, hungry, stroppy baby into it.

Then she saw the name of the website and snorted loudly - a new generation of Mumsnetter in the making! Grin

TuftyFinch · 23/11/2012 18:25

All of the comments on their Facebook page are damning. It seems they've deleted some too.

Melty · 23/11/2012 18:25

Well if you dont like mumma and bubba, how about
dadda bubba

It makes my ears hurt. The website is not that bad but there is some nonsense spouted on her blog. See how I manages to get baby sleeping through the night

DumSpiroSpero · 23/11/2012 18:27

I can't believe that comment about getting ready in the morning is real - you would have to be a special kind of numpty not to manage it.

I am the most disorganised, morning hating person on the planet, but I went back to work when DD was 18 weeks and I managed to get us both washed, dressed (and made up in my case), fed and out of the house in the morning.

If I could manage it anyone can frankly.

Glitterknickaz · 23/11/2012 18:29

Can't be doing with reading that drivel.
Did she do the usual pureeing a happy meal?

quoteunquote · 23/11/2012 18:30

It's entirely possible that it's not a wind up, I kept having to tug my judgy pants down at a children sports training last week, where a woman had used a blanket to hold a bottle in a baby's mouth, she tipped the car seat backwards, she had already told us it was six weeks old, she spent the time texting and when the bottle tipped, re propping it with a sigh. she would like this product, so even if it is a joke, I bet there is a market for it.

Sokmonsta · 23/11/2012 18:31

www.bottlegenieinc.com/
www.bebebottlesling.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=1
www.bababibs.com/

Meh. Been done before. Although rather less torturous looking than a scolds bridle.

Sokmonsta · 23/11/2012 18:33

Oh, and I have twins and still refuse to prop a bottle. I enjoy the cuddles at bottle time. The people who use these may as well hire a nanny and be done with it.

Glitterknickaz · 23/11/2012 18:34

Sok you can get 'em to hold each others when they're bigger can't you? One in each arm like Grin