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in thinking this is an AWFUL baby invention?

124 replies

Disenchanted3 · 30/05/2010 12:44

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?!

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citybranch · 30/05/2010 18:25

Out of interest, what would everyone here have done in my situation?

a)Would you let your baby cry for 20+ mins knowing she had had no milk all day, to get to nursery on time to collect toddler?

b)Would you Stop, feed baby, get to nursery late, pay late fees. Prob get kicked out of nursery if it happened on a daily basis.

c)Accept ugly contraption with stupid name from well-meaning friend which solves your problem, but the payoff is that all onlookers think you are disgustingly lazy, a typical young mum (do i count at 27?)

It's a rock and 2 hard places isn't it?

No ideal solution, but we all just try our best don't we?

HecateQueenOfWitches · 30/05/2010 18:33

d) Strap the baby into a sling and walk along to nursery while feeding it.

Or at least I would now. Now I know about slings. 10 years too late mind, but what the hell

Like you say, you do what you've got to do. And make your choice out of the options that occur to you.

poppy34 · 30/05/2010 18:35

I would have loved one of these for same sort of situations you mentioned city- dd not a baby but not yet at hold her own milk stage.

So not sure what sniggering is for

citybranch · 30/05/2010 18:39

It's ok, Dis. I'm not upset, thanks for the apology though. That is really nice of you.

It has just got me remembering what a nightmarish time it all was though.

I'm definitely not lazy, but I'm very very busy.

citybranch · 30/05/2010 18:47

Couldn't use a sling, I carry a huge and very heavy bag for work which is so heavy it has to go on my back or I can't carry it. I would never be able to strap a baby to me as well.

Good thinking though.

RubyBuckleberry · 30/05/2010 18:52

i don't like it but everyone has a story and we all have reasons for doing things

mumbar · 30/05/2010 18:52

I would've done the same had I known about it - instead I balanced bottle on a muslin cloth!! A LOT less classy

and I was 24 so would've been a young mum probably lol!!

DanJARMouse · 30/05/2010 18:56

the podee is a bottle that i used to wedge between DD1 and the edge of the car seat, there is a tube that goes from the bottle up to the teat end, teat goes in like a dummy and baby sucks the milk up.

DD1 had a dummy from day 1 though so maybe thats why she got on so well with it?

We only used it for the car trips though, as I used to take comfort at the most awful time of my life in cuddling my new (and up until about 13mnths old!) baby..... its one of the reasons I believe DD1 to be so high maintenance now LOL

MisSalLaneous · 30/05/2010 19:01

City, as I said before, I think it's a horrid product, but, in your situation, I'd have done exactly the same as you. I'd only use it in a buggy facing me though, so it would be obvious in baby has had enough milk.

So yes, a potentially dangerous product in the wrong hands (imo only, of course), it's hideous looking etc etc. Yet, in your situation, I'd have used it for the nursery collection if I was given it.

catinthehat2 · 30/05/2010 19:04

Citybranch - DON'T feel sad. Words on a screen and all that. Your child your call.

MmeLindt · 30/05/2010 19:32

City
I agree with the others in that I understand you using it in the situation that you were in, and it would be pretty much the only way I could imagine using it. Being able to see the baby the whole time and notice if she was in distress.

I would imagine however that there would be some parents who would abuse the idea of a "helping pair of hands" for the times when it was absolutely necessary and use it more often.

Fibilou · 30/05/2010 19:33

How lazy do you have to be not to want to hold your baby's bottle while it feeds ?

A revolting concept if you ask me

Egg · 30/05/2010 19:38

I used to tandem bottle feed my twins (see pic on profile) and whilst it was perfectly doable to feed them at same time, the minute one of them needed winding or started crying and needed to be picked up it meant having to take the bottle out of other twin's mouth so I could pick up first twin, meaning they often wouldn't then take it again and had a small feed. Esp a nightmare for DD who was small anyway and didn't ever take enough milk.

I did finally manage to work out a way to pick them up with one hand and get them onto my shoulder whilst still holding bottle in other twin's mouth but it took a few weeks.

I had DS1 who wasn't even two when twins were born, and I remember saying over and over that i wished I could manage to balance the bottles even just for a minute if I needed to go off and do something for him (turn on cbeebies to stop him jumping on twins while I was feeding etc...). This hideous invention would have been really handy during these times.

My twins never blooming learnt to hold their own bottles and feed themselves until they were nearly a year old and my god I hated feeding times. Feeding them separately took even longer and was often just not an option.

Can only imagine that with triplets this invention could be a lifesaver!

Fibilou · 30/05/2010 19:39

Actually now I'm wondering if they might market a device to hold up my sagging boobs as I feed.........

scottishmummy · 30/05/2010 19:41

its not a bong or a crackpipe.the righteous indignation is bitty ott

TheFoosa · 30/05/2010 19:43

agree with scottishmummy

it's not that bad

PixieOnaLeaf · 30/05/2010 19:54

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SirBoobAlot · 30/05/2010 19:55

As much as the examples given have shown circumstances where such a device could, perhaps, be helpful, I am still very uncomfortable with it. Far too many "What Ifs?" for me.

Egg · 30/05/2010 19:56

But pixie I am meaning while I am sitting there right with them... Although to be honest I would prefer something that looks less "industrial looking". I wouldn't leave the room and just let them feed and then come back half an hour later. If I did they would have both thrown up from not being winded.

Scottishmummy , how the hell are you?

PixieOnaLeaf · 30/05/2010 19:58

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SirBoobAlot · 30/05/2010 19:58

Egg - meant to say, your children are stunning! And at how good you looked pregnant (and non-pregnant, for that matter...)

Egg · 30/05/2010 19:59

Pixie I want to see yours! Mine are all a bit old now not added new ones for ages.

Egg · 30/05/2010 20:01

Ah thanks Boob! Lovely for you to say it but I would have to disagree (looked good pregnant maybe, but sadly not any more!).

scottishmummy · 30/05/2010 20:03

hello egg,how are ye hen?hows the weans

starkadder · 30/05/2010 20:08

Looks like what you put in a rabbit hutch.