PRODUCTS YOU WISH YOU HAD NEVER BOUGHT

[Willow2]

Does anyone else out there have a baby product they hate with a vengeance? I made the mistake of buying the Chicco Mamma high chair because it looked the business and I'd inherited a load of other Chicco bits and bobs that were great. Being a first time mum I didn't think about how easy it would be to clean. If I tell you that the tray alone has over 30 nooks and crannies for food to get into it will give you an idea of just how badly designed this item is. It is an absolute nightmare to keep clean - yesterday, after a lunch of tuna/rice salad, I ended up sticking it in the garden and turning the high pressure hose on it. Aside from the cleaning aspect it is also far too big for anyone under the age of 21. My son is fifteen months and above average height yet still has to have a booster seat in it. Plus the tray doesn't come in far enough so half his lunch ends up down his bib or on the floor. I hate it with every inch of my body and can only presume that it was designed by a mysognistic sadist for a laugh. I don't know if I can face another year of dealing with it and am seriously thinking of taking an axe to it, whacking it on the bonfire and buying a £10 one from Ikea instead. Any other suggestions for my pire of useless products?

Chandra, totally agree about the Renaissance car seat. It's a nightmare with 20 month old. Much too high.

Beetlejuice73, and to think I recommended it broadly during the first year . I think the think that makes going out most difficult is the damn seat. It is so fiddly that it takes me ages to strap my griggly 3 yr old, the straps are so short that DS has to be sitted in a perfect angle for them to fall over his shoulders, and a nightmare to strap over a coat! ARGHHHHHH! problem is it was so expensive that I feel bad about getting another one to use it just for an extra year!

A tamsit. Used to "tie" DD1 to chair when going out to restos. What a lovely, useful idea, we thought. Doesn't fit over many chairs (not high backed ones at all) and on one occasion, DD1 slowly lurched sideways and ende dup hanging off the chair. And the sodding Tamsit had ripped. Convenient in that it slipped in your bag. But F*cking useless.

A £100 moses basket - must have been the pregnancy hormones.

Sangenic Nappy Wrapper - I can still taste the foul odour that emanated from it when the lid was opened. It's now an expensive garage ornament.

Wendy house. £250. Had it two days, dds discovered an ant in there, haven't been back in since. That was three years ago.

babybsth
luckily it only cost me £5 but what a pita - I have two cluttering the place up now (someone gave us one)
all the filling and emptying and it kills your back and dd1 hated it
I bath them in the bath or the big sink

Is there a home somehwere that you can send all those white cardy's that the grannies knitted for your babies in scratchy wool that you wouldn't put your babies in in a million years (not that any of them fitted anyway)? Every time I go to the nursery cupboard to throw them out I feel too guilty to follow through and they sit there silently accusing me of cruelty to grandmothers...any suggestions of what to do with these welcomed (I have more than 15 of the buggers).

Whoever invented moses baskets and baby baths were truly taking the proverbial, but I am on the pro side of the sangenic debate.

Top and tail bowl - has anyone here actually used one? What a waste of plastic and money that is!

I use a top and tail bowl all the time.

The thing I hate which I didn't buy someone gave to me was a baby bjorn diaper bag. the one with the hard sides.
IT was awkward, didn't hold much and was frickin' heavy! I finally just bought a new one (£15 from mothercare) and my should doesn't hurt anymore!

yes I use my top and tail bowl too
also very useful for using as a till at nearly new sales

I put DD in the knitted cardigans all the time that first summer - she was born in May and didn't really need a coat just a cardigan.

Another vote for wooly cardigans.My babies lived in these and babygros for the first year.
Easy and cosy!

Those clothing lists for babies are mad though aren't they?
It's just bored journalists picking numbers out of thin air

3 pairs scratchmits
1 swaddling blanket
36 vests
12 matinee jackets
38 lacquered fans

All bollocks..

36 vests LOL

Sticking up for GALT playnests, although 4 years too late by the date of earlier posts.

Ours was loved by ds and turned into a very mini ball pool when he was about 10/11 months which he played in loads.

It was subsequantly loved by an elderly cat who got fed up being turfed off armchairs/sofa and liked the 360 degree protection from draughts.

Chicco mamma highchairs - lets not go there just think again if you haven't yet bought it. There are better highchairs for half the price

I will be washing the cover in readiness for the new baby.

ROFL @ 38 lacquered fans

Hey,I'll tell you what is absolutely shite.
Those silly little blinds you put up on car windows. The sun is always shining from the only direction that they can't block out.

Also an absolutely unforgivable style crime if they are

from the 'John Lennon collection' (oh that it came to this!)
featured Pooh and partners in crime
are shaped like a cat's face

Ditto buggy umbrellas.

For me it would be "Boots" small bottles, the print rubbed off the side within 2 weeks, I wrote and complained and got a refund.
Baby bath - gave that away after 2 goes as ds much prefers the big bath
Loved - Fisher Price bouncer (vibrating) ds lived in that until he was 5months and too big.
Loved - Mamas & Papas pramette, ds is only 6months and have just changed it from pram to buggy (only downside is the hood, falls off quite easily)

LOL - can you still get paper knickers? Just makes me think of Marie Osmond's 'Paper Roses!'

Baby baths are good for dog baths, if you don't fancy forking out £25.

baby bouncer, sling (he didn't want to be cacooned but loved the baby bjorn), millions of cars, oh yes, and a cot...he hated it and never slept in it really - every time he turned over he bashed some part of his little body against the bars and then the screaming started again. My biggest recommendation would be to go for a nice padded soft-sided travel cot instead and do everyone a favour or what we did and just have one big happy (most of the time) family bed.

Wow..this is an old thread!

Anyway, I can agree with the Sangenic thingy.

Also snowsuits. What are they all about? It's like wrapping your baby in a king size duvet then stufing the whole lot into a car seat. Ok if you're wandering the frozen wasteland of Siberia I suppose.

so glad this thread is going again! Am pg with first baby and apart from making me laugh my socks off, this is so helpful!

Will try not to fall into the traps

Oh god, I'd fogotton snowsuits - I think I must have about half a dozen hidden away somwhere. Like a fool I took DS out in one once. Never again.

Tinygang, my DD spent most of December and January in a snowsuit ( even indoors) on our visit back to the UK for Xmas ( mostly cos my mum was terrified that my little Aussie DD would freeze her proverbials off in spite of 30 degree central heating and beads of sweat as a constant fixture on her baby brow).
I thought it was a great ebay bargain.
And whenever she was cocooned in the said item, along with not beng able to movean inch, she became completely devoid of all emotion and facial expresion.
Made for a few peaceful moments I can tell you

I love snowsuits. DDs use them all the time b/c we like to walk outside EVERY day and they're dead useful in Scotland.