People have more money than sense!

[Angelicinnocent]

A friend is having her first baby and was happily showing a few of us her latest purchases. As well as some very sensible and necessary items, she has bought some very sweet vests and clothes. So far so good.

However, the rest of us were a little bemused by the baby wipes warmer. It warms the wipes up so that baby doesn't get a cold bum when they get a nappy change.

My DC are older teens now so maybe things have changed but really?

The nappy genie/bin often comes up on 'stupid things to buy for your baby' but I had one for DC1 and it was brilliant.
To get to an outside bin I had to go though three doors and three flights of stairs (two external).
Having a nappy bin meant I didn't have to take them out until I was leaving the house or OH got home from work.
Totally pointless when I moved to a flat with its own front door leading to the outdoors though

Wipes warmer sounds like a total waste of money. Wipes aren't even that cold are they?

I would have sold my granny for a prep machine/bottle maker though.
I hated making up bottles for DC3. I couldn't bf him and he only took 1 0z bottles.

*precious little bottom

Just amazed at all the different things they come up with to part is from our money.

I quite like the idea of a wipe warmer, i sometimes take my make up off with wipes and it's minging in the winter to put a cold wipe on your face. I get over it pretty quick and I'm too tight not to just put up with it but still, I'm adding one to my lottery jackpot list, or maybe employ someone to gently warm them in the sauna I'll be getting

You can warm the wipes in your hand first misses point totally or use cotton wool and warm water not being a dick just had a dc with eczema
My drunken (I know not child related but still a mad purchase!) was an instant pot pressure cooker I got quite a surprise when it was delivered as I didn't recall ordering it easily the best purchase I've ever made

Ok so admitting that I'm ahem... older. When mine were little we didn't have such a thing as baby wipes. We used a small bowl (mine was a small tupperware one, so easy to sterilise) with warm water and cotton wool balls. Tops first then bottoms. Worked for me and probably cheaper?

....puts wipes near heater...
....walks away....

I remember thinking that a wipe warmer would be good with DS3. He's now 18yo. He was an OK sleeper until the chill of the wipes touched his bum, after doing a dirty, sleepy nappy.

I used to tuck the nappy wipes under my rather large breastfeeding boobs to warm them to body temp while doing changes. They warmed up well enough that DS1 & 2 (9 and 7 yo older) asked if they could take the wipes to school as handwarmers.

I still use my bra as a storage area for keys, change, anything that needs to be easily found at short notice.

What's wrong with some warm water and a flannel which can then be washed! Frankly it is no worse than washing kids or DHs pants with skid marks! My ex DP mother had a whole variety of kitchen stuff that was a bit pointless. When we would go and stay ex DP and me would rifle through her kitchen drawers when she was out and play 'guess what this is? My favourite was a plastic tool for ice cream. It was a rectangle box the size of an old fashioned ice cream wafer with a moveable bottom with a handle. The idea was that you put one wafer in the bottom. The filled the box with ice cream and squished it in to mould it into a rectangle. Then you put another wafer on top and then pushed the handle up so the ice cream wafer sandwich popped up and was ready to eat. Could never work out why she did not just buy cornets!

I'm actually now disappointed I didn't have a wet wipe warmer for my children or at least my first and she's only 6 so I bet it was about then as well!

How did i survive without this?
Need a shhh machine for dh.

Can't you just put wipes in the microwave for half a minute?

www.amazon.co.uk/Pneo-ILBSHU-pNeo-Baby-Shusher/dp/B00D2JN87I?tag=mumsnetforum-21

I imagine this could be quite soothing

Yeah, the shusher idea's going down a storm. I want one for idiots, Brexiters, Trump, anyone who annoys me, people's leaky music on public transport, various relatives, a very sweet elderly neighbour when she begins her 'immigrants' rant...
There's probably people out there right now seeing if they can get hold of one that works on me!

@Willow2017

For teens, steal their smartphone and use the voice recorder to record yourself saying loudly and very very urgently "get up, its gone 10am, you're late for school/ work/ exam!" And set it as the alarm tone for whatever time you want to wake them up for.

We have one.

SIL gave it to us. Total luxury but nice on yer bum

I used to tuck the nappy wipes under my rather large breastfeeding boobs to warm them to body temp while doing changes. They warmed up well enough that DS1 & 2 (9 and 7 yo older) asked if they could take the wipes to school as handwarmers. grin

Brilliant

There's so much unneccessary stuff on sale. Mostly designed to part anxious new parents from their money.

I saw one thing shared on FB today - a gadget you stick on your baby's throat when they're breastfeeding. Idea is that it measures the baby's swallows to estimate volume of milk drunk, and feeds it all into a handy app. Because that's going to make everyone feel more relaxed about breastfeeding

Mine are all grown up.

I've seen a Babocush , I'd have had one of those if I'd had a high maintenance baby, bloody brilliant!

I found the free Baby Shusher app to be really useful. Doing the Shushing yourself is actually quite tiring if you have to do it at any volume. Might have bought the gizmo if I had wanted my smartphone back.

Can you get one that yells "get the hell out of bed NOW" on repeat one for teens?

Yes there is. It's called a vuvuzela and it gets them out on the double

Ooh will look that up thanks.

Ha ha actually that just might work 😀

I want an automatic nagger, for older kids. T'would save me hours...

A shusher machine hilarious.

Although I did see a thread on here the other day about a YouTuber who whispered you to sleep talking about sleepy things. Pillows and whatnot.

It was freaky AF