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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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showmethetoys · 23/11/2012 19:22

I am definitely not an 'attachment' type of parent (DS bottle fed from quite early on, buggy not sling, went to his own room as soon as he had outgrown the moses basket etc).

However, there is something about that 'invention' that I just find really upsetting Sad

Looks like she is about to get crucified on Facebook though Smile ! Cue lots of comments from her and her friends about what a nest of vipers Mumsnet is!

QuietNinjaTardis · 23/11/2012 19:26

I can't access the form, it's been disabled. They obviously have all the info they need Grin

quoteunquote · 23/11/2012 21:19

I wonder which dragon will invest in it.

CuriosityKilledTheCrap · 23/11/2012 21:31

The dragon who hates children?

Lastofthepodpeople · 24/11/2012 09:19

Only read the first bit of the thread but that thing is a tragedy waiting to happen. It should be withdrawn.

cory · 24/11/2012 09:27

I thought of the rhesus monkey too. Sad

3littlefrogs · 24/11/2012 09:31

What a horrible, dangerous device.

The questionnaire form is disabled ATM. Wonder why.

insancerre · 24/11/2012 10:23

Glad to see the facebook page has been closed down and also noticed the twitter account where she asks for advice on how to close her account
Sarah Jane, if you are reading this, please don't take the critisicm personally.
Your inventions are dangerous and if used on babies have the potential to do lasting damage to a baby's emotional development.
I recommend you read Why Love Matters by Sue Gerhardt to help you realise why physical contact between babies and caregivers is so important. I know it's extreme but consider the damage doen to the Romanian orphans who were denied any physical contact as babies, left alone in cots. I expect the people who were in charge of the orphanages would have welcomed your products.

IneedAsockamnesty · 24/11/2012 10:27

The fb page is still there

GetorfsaMotherfuckingMorrisMan · 24/11/2012 10:33

I thought of the monkey experiment as well.

I am far from being an attachment parent but like others I think the thought of propping a baby up like that whilst you put bloody make up on is really sad. As rooney says feeding your baby is about far more than giving it milk.

insancerre · 24/11/2012 10:33

is it?
When I clicked on the link it just took me to my fb so i assumed it had gone
can you link to it?

Blu · 24/11/2012 10:42

MummaBubba people, MN is your potential market. No-one has a vested interest in being horrible for the sake of it, plenty of recommendations get made too. Don't take this personally, take it as a genuine response which will save you thousands in focus group research and even more in prototype product development or a duff product launch.

IneedAsockamnesty · 24/11/2012 11:00

I've just used the link on page 1 and it worked

FirmlyInTheClosetAsImAMonster · 24/11/2012 11:04

The questionaire has been temporarily shut down. I think mumsnetters are the cause Grin

Proudnscary · 24/11/2012 11:12

Well obviously it's a hideous product (and probably a spoofy load of balls) but at all the 'it is so sad when mothers text or put make up rather than lavishing their babies with constant attention and cuddles'.

I often watched telly, put on make up, gossiped with friends on the phone while bottle feeding my two. Because sometimes it was bloody boring.

CookingFunt · 24/11/2012 11:35

That bottle yoke has lawsuit written all overit.
Those blankets are hideous. Who would want boxing gloves on their babies blanket? And the frilly pink ones are vommy. They look tacky.

ConfusedPixie · 24/11/2012 11:38

She's closed one of her fb accounts and is closing one of her twitter accounts. It seems that there were two of each though. I didn't realise until I came back on this thread a moment ago though!

MrsMushroom · 24/11/2012 11:49

Twats. Imagine! The baby would be missing out on the contact which it needs to develop properly!

MrsMushroom · 24/11/2012 11:50

She must have invested MONEY in that atrocity! Her questionairre is closed, Ha!

VisualiseAHorse · 24/11/2012 12:07

Woman is a nutter - says on her blog "babies like to soil their nappies", WHAT??

Fourandstillcounting · 24/11/2012 12:16

This has to be a piss-take. Like that site the other week selling the sperm of celebrities to women who want a baby. Turned out to have been churned up by some C4 researcher. This has to be the same, it's so ludicrous.

VivaLeBeaver · 24/11/2012 12:18

Maybe people should prioritise feeding a baby over doing their makeup. Feed time is a really good bonding time. Really sad that someone would think this was a good product.

Glittertwins · 24/11/2012 12:44

I would not have used it however I do know of several fraught parents of multiples who would not have screamed in horror about this idea. Granted its not the best looking thing but don't condemn parents of multiples who have no other children to "train" to feed a hungry baby. Maybe a better design is in order?

3littlefrogs · 24/11/2012 12:51

The choking risk alone is serious.

Aspiemum2 · 24/11/2012 13:00

It wouldn't work. Babies are pretty easily distracted, a noise over the other side of the room makes their little heads shoot round and they just trust mummy or daddy to move the bottle round with them!

It's a ridiculous contraption anyway but I just can't imagine it working

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