Handy to have or completely insane?

[toddlerbob]

emergency birth kit

Whoa! God that's scary!!

Oh my god. Don't even think about it .

the antiseptic towelettes reminded me of those little wipes you get on a plane for sticky fingers- wouldn't be much use!! I'm surprised the whole lot isn't packed into a handy backpack, which could be used as a changing bag after the birth.

this is rather sad, and trades on peoples' insecurities

eugh, why ?

Agree with Tissy about exploiting people's sense of vulnerability - very distasteful.

must agree wit Tissya nd Lizs,

besides most of te items, you would ahve at home anywya (maternity pads? baby blanket?) and no one who's sane whould think of clamoing the umbilical cord without waiting for an ambulance to arrive.....

Seems a good way for someone to make money out of women who may already be feeling nervous, vunerable and a bit scared.

What a shame that there is yet another "useful" product to take advantage of women's anxieties.If the baby was coming that quickly surely you/support person would be far too panicky to be faffing around with the emergency birth kit anyway... and trying to cut the cord yourself goes against all the advice the books give on emergency birth. The girl in the bed next to me at the maternity hospital had an unplanned home birth (her fifth baby) and there wasn't time to find clean towels never mind anything else.

Thank goodness you all agree with me that's it's just plain weird.

I've got a latex allergy so that little item in the kit would have killed me off sharpish!

[shocked] This is just preying on women's fears. The cord clamp is downright irresponsible. What if someone who didn't know any better assumed that because the clamp was in the box they were supposed to use it??

That of course should have been a !