Why would you buy a Jojomanambebe magic mitten???????

[ToddleWaddle]

I know they sell lots of useless products but really???
And so expensive!!

Goofy

Babies are big business and you can spend a ton on crap. The antilop highchair is the perfect example - well known, costs less than £20 and will do your child from weaning (with cushion) through to 5-6 (dd3 was still sitting in hers at the table a few months ago till my older dc pointed out maybe enough was enough). Why isn't there one in every home in the land? Why is mamas and papas and mother care filled with food trapping crap - because people like spending more money.

The magic mitten I can understand people buying in desperation with an unsettled baby, like the seats that vibrate or the swings, but the steamer is absurd.

I know goofy . I am boggling. Jeez.

Words fail me.

I accept DD1 settled fairly easily and DD2 just BF to sleep for years. That seemed so natural I just don't under stand why so many people here get in a tiz. TV with subtitles, baby/child on lap, no hassle at all and free.

The very good any relaxing sound you can think of ap on my kindle fire was also Free. £40 indeed!

I agree northern, but I love my £35 chicco reclining highchair, ds is still using it and he is nearly 2. The Antelope does not do it for me. My highchair is very wipable too

"inner gadget gollum"

TBH we found it hard to guess what was useless to buy with a new baby. Regret not getting a bouncer but at the time it looked like just another excuse for parting sleep deprived new parents from their money.

"....that only your baby can hear"

How can you be sure it plays anything?

'....that only your baby can hear'

How can they guarantee that it is safe?

Same as mrs devere, bought very little for dc4.

i like jojo.. my dad brought my youngest a 2 part snow suit when he was 2, multicoloured stripes.. i loved it and almost cried when he out grew it.

it is expensive, but if it works for some babies whats the harm? im lucky to have two that couldnt sleep if it was quite. im sure, liek most things you could pick some thing liek that up cheaper else where though

we found it hard to guess what was useless to buy with a new baby

I started with the assumption that pretty much everything apart from a cot, nappies, some clothes and muslins was useless and worked from there, buying as need arose. I will concede that a 'from birth' sling or pram might've been sensible to have in the first week, but you live and learn

When DD was a newborn my flaky, bad mannered but that's another story ex-colleague visited and raised an eyebrow about the dearth of baby stuff in our home. It has worked out fine though - I'm sure a lot of money has been saved and I've not got a house full of clutter.

Something We didn't get around to getting a cot till DS was, erm - 6 months? TBH he's probably slept in it less than a dozen times. Still hoping we'll persuade him though

One of those 'we saw you coming' products.

Oops. No, and I wouldn't buy.

You win the frugal prize, soup

(It's a conceptual prize - marketing makes you believe you need an actual trophy.)

I might actually have found it useful with DD2 who has a hearing impairment -- being able to deliver white noise/heartbeat sound directly into her better ear may have been helpful. But I wouldn't have paid £40.

Soup, same here both ds3 and 4 were 6 months. Although i did have a moses basket.
ds3 is 2.7 and i only got round to buying him a bed yesterday

What a load of old shite. She'd be much better taking that bloody jaggy necklace off then she wouldn't be poking that poor baby in the face. No need for soothie mitteny thing then.

Sounds that only baby can hear??-is it a con then?

Switches off after 10mins-how can you tell if you can't hear it??

It would of been something I would of bought with DS, being sleep deprive and searching for an fix would have lead me to buying it.

Nappy wrapper was the biggest waste of money.

I probably would have considered it for ds. I was desperate for anything to stop the screaming. I even considered one of those pram rocker things til I remembered he hated the pram most of all. Doubt I would have actually bought it though.