Products I Couldn't Live Without - and the ones you wish you hadn't bought!!

[Leoness]

I read a similar thread in the archives and it was really interesting I thought I'd try starting a thread.

I'm a novice mother and mumsnetter. It would be great to have recommendations of brilliant buys as well as a finding out which purchases to avoid.

So far, considering DS is only coming up for 5mo ...

the best gifts/purchases are his tiny love gymini, his chicco bouncy chair and his bath rest I really can't imagine life with out them, the're used everyday.

worst.... cot sheets and blooming or jo jo swaddling blanket

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Sanigenic nappy wrappers are either hated with a vengeance on loved.

'or' loved I mean!

love- baby gym, mama and papas pram

hate-babystyle pram that had so many faults...got my money back.

argos mamas papas high chair it was £70 from 3mths it lies back it was brill as my dc are so alert i pulled it up to highest and they would watch me wash up etc superb

Loved baby inflatable ring - so handy when they are learning to sit up and my Avent Steam sterilizer!

Hated Bumbo seat - totally pointless!

Love my Bumbo but wouldn't have bought bath seat for DD2 , i just dunk her in the bath between DS and DD1. But don't believe this when you see it advertised on ebay - I'm sure it really is essential!!!!

Worst: Swaddling blanket too. DD just hated it. I've tried giving it away and nobody wants it.

Best: Chicco Mama Lullaby music box for cot. Got it as a present and was a bit sceptical but it's now an essential part of the bedtime routine - if the rainforest noises aren't on, she's not going to sleep!

I loved my V-shaped pillow. Used it to support my bumps when pregnant each time, then used it to breastfeed DDs and now I use it on the sunlounger in the garden

I think Grobags are great. In the same vein, I bought far too much 'conventional' bed linen.

How can cot sheets be worst? What would your baby sleep on if you didn't have sheets?

One of my best was a changing mat with a harness for when ds was going through an escaping phase, it stopped us ending up with poo smeared everywhere. I bought muslins but never used them, now I've cut them into quarters so that I can use them with my Liz Earle Hot Cloth Wash.

Hated my V-shape pillow but thats probably because I bought a v-shaped pillow (John Lewis) rather tahn a squishy 'up the duff' one

Love my Wilkinet and infacol which got me through a few awful weeks of colic.

Love 'Winkel' toy which is just an amazing toy from the moment they can grip (and somehow appropriate for a little boy)

bran - I mean a flat sheet....of course I do have a fitted sheet on mattress, sorry i wasn't clear.

Oh, yes, sorry. Now that I think about it I have two hardly used flat sheets because ds used a sleeping bag. They did come in handy in times of crisis though when we ran out of fitted sheets, when ds was throwing up and needing multiple changes and the time the washing machine broke down, so I wouldn't say they were my worst buy.

loving the winkel....... ordered it perfect timing for drooling DS.thx chilled mama

best - patterned muslins, which have been used for so many different things and were pretty enough to 'wear' as scarf when public bf. Grobags.
worst - ££ monsoon baby 'shoes' that were cute but utterly pointless and were grown out of in a nanosecond

• patterned muslins are also easier to find in bed with white sheets in the dark (on the night feed)!!

yes they are brill!

All baby clothes that do up at the back!!

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best... my baby hoodie (esp for thhose very cold winter school runs!)... handysitt, ikea antilop chair... although absolutely horrendous when we first saw it... it has become indispensible... the Davros (we named it this before the recent dr who craze!!!) i.e. the motehrcare activty chair thingy all babies have been in it!... and a few naughty toddlers!