in thinking this is an AWFUL baby invention?

[Disenchanted3]

what if baby starts to choke and is too small to push it away?

Could it push it away?

How sad is it that people don't want to take the time to sit and cuddle and feed their babies, insttead they stick ithe bottle on a metal stick and force it into babies mouth?!

That is terrible. I think in this case, if you can't even be arsed to hold the bottle to the baby's mouth then you shouldn't have had one. and I NEVER say that...

Yuk.

What a waste of money.

I find a crushed up red bull can balanced on a packet of B&H works just as well.

Flabbyribs - all the young lazy mothers hey? Wow, you're almost as delightful as the product itself.

I admit to using one of these with DD1

www.twinsthings.co.uk/podee_bottle.htm

how can they sell thi sort of thing. it's terrible

BBT I LOVE your Nickname

lolol

Flabbyribs! I was young when I had my two, how insulting is your implication I had savage PND too but people just thought I was lazy.

thanks Boys

hideous apparatus.flabbyrib ease up on the young mum jibes.

Things like that just make me feel

And even worse is that I bet they do have a market for the awful contraption.

I found it because a mumsnetter is selling one on the F/S boards

I also agree on the 'young mum' thing,

I was 23 when I had my 3rd, but I'm a better mum than many 35 year olds I know!

Well I am the mumsnetter 'who found it really good apparently' who has brought this to everyone's attention.

I don't need it so I advertised it for sale on the Pushchair board where Disenchanted3 saw it and commented on it.

I feel like I should be defending my use of the offending item now!

When I returned to work my DD wouldn't take a bottle at the childminders. I had to do refresher training for the first month so she was doing full days at the CM and not taking ANY MILK AT ALL. Therefore she was desperate for the bottle when I arrived to collect her.

Then we have a 20 minute walk to collect DS from nursery (i can't drive).

I was so so stressed. DD would scream, I would sweat, try and give her the bottle, rush to nursery and end up late. I was horribly worried about her not taking the bottle at the CMs anyway, feeling terribly guilty about returning to work. It was a logistical nightmare as no space for DD at the nursery and no space for DS at the childminder.

So my good friend saw this at the Baby Show and bought it for me, and it worked for me fine for those few weeks. DD was not a tiny baby, it was not forced into her mouth in any way, she could lean back when she had finished, or push it away. I would not have used it if I felt it was unsafe.

It helped me for the 4 weeks where she had to be at the CMs fulltime. I never used it at any other time. Now I'm doing my usual shifts, she still doesn't have milk at the CMs but she has plenty in the mornings while home with me, where I cuddle her and am in contact with her all the time.

So I didn't need it anymore and offered it for a fiver posted on the pushchair board in case it was of any use to anybody. (Friend paid £15 for it !!!)

I'll go and chuck it in the bin now I think!

Something tells me I won't get any responses

That is disgustingly lazy!!

Ah X-posts with you Dis.

I'll get my ad deleted from Pushchairs.

you dont have to justify yourself to anyone on mn.admittedly it is vile lookin product but so are child carriers.which make baby look like luggage

I don't personally think it is. I didn't have a car when ds was young hence the balancing on a mussy when desperate. I had to walk along a very long dusty road abroad with no pavement. It was easier to give ds a drink via balancing act than risking both our lives on the side of a road. Not ideal but we do what we can.

citybranch it saved your sanity and there must be plenty of other mums who are in that desperate situation who may just want it.

Its not illegal to buy it or sell it City

To me its like something from the betterware catalouge

I just don't understand why someone would want it, but if you found a need for it thats fair enough, but I couldn't use it or walk down the road with it attatched to my pram.

I know I don't have to justify myself.

It isn't something I'd usually pick up either, but it was the solution to a problem I had at the time.

That's it really.......

Bit baffled that you are pointing everone in the direction of the ad Dis, I thought we were on fairly good terms? I bought a pushchair from you, various girls clothes/grobags etc. And we were emailing last weekend re: Mountain Buggy?

I know that your dislike of this product has nothing to do with me or anything else, but directing everyone over to look at my advert just makes me feel a bit sad for some reason.

dont beat self up about it citybranch.plenty of us buy daft baby products. baby wipe warmer anyone

Oh and I only ever used the Podee bottle in the car as my mum died when DD1 was 2 weeks old and for the first 6mnths of her life we were travelling 200 miles each way to visit my dad most weekends. Not so easy to stop on the M25 in nose-to-tail traffic to feed a baby!

I just thoought it was a really odd product and wanted to see if people agreed after that dummy in a hanky thing, it reminded me of that.

And people were saying they didn't think anyone would actually buy it, so I pointed out people had bought it and there was one on the forsale boards,

would be interesting to know if anyone buys it from you.

How does that podee thing work jarm?

you just sit bottle down and teat is in babies mouth?

I think a baby could spit that out in a carseat though?

I was just concerned with the ridgid arm of the one I linked to that the baby couldn't move its head back or use its arms to push it away so easily,

The one you used just looks like a dummy.

oh and scottishmummy I WANT a baby wipe warmer for me I love baby wipes from the fridge in the summer so a warm one for winter

I apologise if I upset you City, didn't mean it personally.