Bounty Packs: Are You Joking Me (as my two year old puts it)

[Brunhilde]

So in some bleary haze come home from hosp at the w/e with three new things: DD2 and two Bounty packs. The packs are labelled very clearly as one for baby and one for mum. I unpack them and review the combined contents: nappies, wipes, washing powder, nappy cream, baby wash, very small hooded towel, more wipes, fabric softener. You get the idea.

So, tell me Bounty, what in this is 'for mum'?? Not so much as a fecking lipbalm or KitKat.

Who are these Bounty people and what do they want (aside, apparently, to reduce to my contribution to the world to bottom washing)? Why do brands so want to insult mothers.... Other examples?

You should be grateful there's not one for Dads too.

It would probably contain a cigar, and a World's Best Dad mug, a full-size bottle of some kind of spirit along with a discount voucher for a subscription to Nuts magazine or something.

And a medal.

They are rubbish aren't they? If I was assembling a Bounty Pack for new mothers I'd put Lansinoh cream (not just for nipples, brilliant on chapped lips!) hand cream, bath soak/bubbles, cd of chill out music, voucher for a mini break at a spa.

Ok I'm joking about the last one... but definitely things for the actual mother

Congrats on dd2 by the way :o

snigger @ flisspapps.

They should chuck in some alcohol miniatures or a half bottle of wine to the mothers pack!

Don't forget the MN login details

Totally agreed to all of those plus:

Some stonking painkillers
Loads of calories - not fussy about format, sugar and fat should cover it (to stimulate the milk you understand)
Beautiful yet comfy pants
Thank you cards so I can stop feeling guilty about watching shit on telly instead of going to shops and start feeling guilty about not writing them
And a circus mirror to make my belly look less 'belly's gonna get you'

oh yes brunhilde Thank you cards are a great idea.

My fantasy Bounty pack would contain the contents of the Isabella Oliver catalogue. I had visions of myself wafting around in lots of cashmere "4th trimester" wear... the reality was a rather depressing pair of tracksuit bottoms and ageing teeshirt.

The Bounty packs are shyte. They are just an excuse for marketing by big companies and only seem to include a load of adverts with a tiny amount of free samples, mostly of things I have never bought or used. Basically completely irrelevant to the majority of recipients. However this is just the same as the "free" (they're not free, you pay for them in the entry cost) goody bags you get at the end of sporting events - they are rarely filled with useful things for the sport you've just participated in, and most likely full of averts for and samples of crappy sugar and salf laden "foods" from food industry giants, and never anything I'd actually want to eat. plus some random magazines that don't interest me.

I actually hate the way the packs market horrible chemical baby toiletries for newborns. Our Midwife told us not to wash baby or clean baby's bottom with anything other than water for the first six weeks as the skin is so sensitive and newborn babies don't get dirty or greasy anyway. Now some cotton wool and maybe some muslin or flannel squares, they would have been useful....

Yes, Bounty could be a bit more pro-active in approaching manufacturers of the sort of goodies mentioned upthread (Cadbury's and Diageo - what a dream team!), rather than remaining lazily in the same sales circle which always provides its contents! Shame on them for their lazy marketing (among other things)

I thought the 'mum' pack had a tiny can of diet coke in it.

gourd newborn babies with older brothers and sisters who insist on stroking the baby's head a billion times a day get incredibly greasy hair

I think mumsnet should buy out bounty and create a MN approved packs, for a start an actual bloody bounty would be nice.

Love the 'fourth trimester'!

All I got in mine was a load of leaflets and not much else.

I was looking forward to my mini tub of marmite. They used to give you marmite in the early 90s.

with DCs 4 & 5 all I got was junk mail.

I wouldn't bother with bounty in any future pregnancies - load of shite.