What do you think are the most iconic parenting products of the last 10 years?

[JustineMumsnet]

Hi all,
We've been asked by Angels and Urchins magazine to suggest the most iconic parenting items - things that have arrived on the scene during the last ten years that are truly fabulous or you can't now imagine parenting without. So, great design, practicality, beauty.

Your thoughts would be most helpful.

Avent breast pumps - how long have they been around?

Lansinoh nipple cream.

Slings (attachment parenting and all that...)

Pull ups.

I don't think websites/characters count as products, do they?

Muslins - for using as comforters/cuddlies

Strollers as a style statement! i.e bugaboo and all that.

Gap baby socks.

How did bugaboo pull everyone socks up

What's so good about a Phil and Teds?

Obv. I am a pushchair dunce

phil and teds... in line double buggy, no more squeezing through shop doors etc

I would also add Ellas kitchen pouches. Everyone does pouches now from Heinz to Fortnum and Mason (ok I'm joking about Fortnum :o)

Grobags definitely
Antilop high chair

I am obviously going wrong as I have nothing from ikea and have never heard ceebeebies goodnight song!
I have to say bumbos, baby sleeping bags and buggy boards. I can't believe no-one else has mentioned buggy boards. With 2 children 20 months apart and the eldest refusing to go in a buggy, my buggy board meant I could go places more than 10 metres from a car park.
Soft play centres are also a fairly new idea and are amazing but probably more than 10 years old.

phil and teds definatly, when mine were younger and we walked for miles.

Bugaboo buggies
Phil and Teds double buggies
Baby sleeping bags
Cuddledry towel aprons
Medella swing breast pump - everyone I know seems to have one
Mini rice cakes by organics!

Grobags

Tripp Trapp chairs

Another vote for growbags

Those seats for the bath to stop baby slipping

Hooded towels

Little trampolines

Oh and maxi cosi car seat that fixes onto buggies.

Cloth nappies. They have changed so much since the muslin square and safety pins to hold them in place that my mother remembers.
In particular; pocket nappies and All in Ones.

funny thing is, i had a grobag back when i was a baby in nineteencanteen. and a highchair that went under the table, just like a tripp-trapp. and a bouncy chair, hooded towels and a sling... [nothing new under the sun emoticon]

i just meant, re bugaboo, that they made manufacturers look at design again and remove a lot of extraneous puffery (while adding hugely to the price), but i think it's fair to say P&T did this too.

Can I add Trunki's to the list - brilliant idea which makes travelling a little easier.

hmmm
Trying to think. Have had 5 DCs over nearly 20 years so things have changed a lot.
Nappies are ten million times better than they used to be. I can buy supermarket own brand with confidence, couldnt do that 20 years ago.
Organix snacky things for babies. I LOVE being able to give the kids healthy finger foods that are easy to carry about AND look like stuff they want to eat.
Bumbos - hmm tried one, great idea but my babies are too fat and get wedged so not for me.
I LOVE my reausable wipes. Cheeky Wipes are bloody brilliant. I used cotton wool and water with DC 1 because wipes were new and very expensive so I suppose I have come full circle.
I know, I know!!!!! Microwave sterilisers! Oh the bliss of not having to faff around with sterilising soloution that spills on your clothes and stinks.

Grobag baby sleeping bags

A good sling

Puree Pouches
Grobags
DVD players in car headrests
Buggy snuggles
Blackout blinds
Crocs

Stokke Tripp Trapps were invented in the 1960s I think.

Sleeping bags
Monitors with movement sensor pad (a generation of panicky parents as well)

I think Aitch is right. Have never had, nor would have, a Bugaboo, but it is completely iconic in a way that no other pushchair is. Really changed things for pushchair design.

I would say that baby sleeping bags are incredibly useful, but not iconic. The thread title asks for iconic items, but you ask for useful things in the OP - which is it?

grobags.
skwish rattle.
baby bjorn plate and spoon set
tripp trapp

I love the doidy cups - great design, and got DS drinking from a cup properly (when he feels like it!) from when he was very tiny.

Also the GroEgg room thermometer - it may not be new to have a room thermometer, but they are very attractive shapes, and nice colours.

IKEA antilop too, attractive and practical, and most of all cheap. Wish I'd been able to talk DH into making the trek to IKEA to get one rather than the chicco crap we ended up with.

and definitely the fruit pouches - Ellas kitchen, Plum, and others. They are the best snack food products for children we've come across! so so useful, and DS sooks them dry without spilling a drop! great for car journeys too!

Nintendo ds, xbox, mobile phones, computers like netbooks/ipads have transformed the way older kids are parented, I reckon. I'd definitely vote for a ds as iconic.

Mini micro scooter is the only thing mentioned here so far for little kids that is truly iconic (great design, beautiful, practical- tick tick tick) and only around in past 10 years, I'd say.

I have a 1.5 year old and 12 year olds and it's amazing how little has changed in the baby toddler world in that time really. Antilops, tripptraps, bouncychairs and skwishes have been around for yonks and Bugaboo and phil and teds are both just different takes on updating a silver cross wayfarer!

doidy cup definitely over 10 years old too!

Baby sleeping bags

Ikea high chairs