Help needed to create a Mumsnet Ocado 'bundle' offer (and a chance to win £75)

[GeraldineMumsnet]

Hi all

You may recall the recent Ocado survey where we asked folks to tell us about their lives in the first few weeks post birth. Using your responses, Ocado is designing a Mumsnet-inspired (and discounted) bundle of products that are perfect to have at home before delivery day comes.

The people at Ocado don't want to assume what your fave brands are, so we need you to nominate them. The brands with the most votes will get included in the final bundle to be sold on www.ocado.com.

We would like to reflect the products you chose in two bundles, one for essentials and the other for luxuries.

Everyone who takes part in this thread will be entered into a prize draw to win £75 to spend at www.ocado.com

Thanks and good luck.

Essential products:

• Nappies
• Dummy
• Colic remedy
• Nappy cream
• Baby bath
• Baby shampoo
• Talcum powder
• Cotton wool
• Baby wipes
• Nappy sacks
• Breast pads
• Cake
• Biscuits

Luxury products:

• Magazine
• Chocolate
• Sweets
• Hot drink
• Cold drink
• Bubble bath
• Hand cream

Tell Ocado to deliver in Bath and then I might consider helping them with their bundle

Essential products:

• Nappies huggies or own brand
• Dummy not essential at all but if you must, bf friendly
• Colic remedy infacol
• Nappy cream sudocrem
• Baby bath own brand
• Baby shampoo johnsons
• Talcum powder dont use it, wouldn't want it
• Cotton wool as above
• Baby wipes own brand
• Nappy sacks own brand
• Breast pads mothercare
• Cake LOTS OF lol carrot cake
• Biscuits foxs cream

Luxury products:

• Magazine SHE
• Chocolate Lindt
• Sweets trebor softmints
• Hot drink galaxy hot chocolate
• Cold drink summer fruit squash
• Bubble bath radox
• Hand cream

I hereby register my contribution

Nappies - nature baby
Nappy sacks - nature baby
Wipes - nature baby
Dummy - Avent
Baby bath & shampoo - any brand that does both jobs preferably organic and poncey.
Cake - carrot cake
Biscuits - Chocolate hob nobs

magazine ; marie claire
chocolate - cadbury's
sweets - foxed glacier mints
hot drink - tea
cold drink - elderflower
hand cream - that norwegian stuff

Essential products:

• Nappies: possibly starter pack reuseables, else not - you have enough samples already by that stage, and if you were planning to use disposables, you'll have stocked up already (and babies' sizes differ)
• Dummy: Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature
• Colic remedy: Infacol
• Nappy cream: Sudacrem
• Baby bath: No, too strong for some skins
• Baby shampoo: Ditto
• Talcum powder: Def not
• Cotton wool: Cotton pads preferred
• Baby wipes: Anything but Johnsons
• Nappy sacks: Cheapest
• Breast pads: Tommee Tippee
• Cake: No, taste differs, might put people off
• Biscuits: Ditto

Luxury products:

• Magazine: Wanderlust (you can only but dream)
• Chocolate: Green & Blacks dark
• Sweets: Boiled
• Hot drink: Milo
• Cold drink: Elderflower Juice
• Bubble bath: Neals Yard mother's bath oil
• Hand cream: no point, there's no time

Essential products:

• Nappies - huggies
• Dummy
• Colic remedy - infacol
• Nappy cream - sudocreme
• Baby bath - Infaderm
• Baby shampoo - Infaderm
• Talcum powder- Johnsons
• Cotton wool - own brand
• Baby wipes - own brand
• Nappy sacks - own brand
• Breast pads -
• Cake - carrot cake
• Biscuits - anzac biscuits

Luxury products:

• Magazine - Woman and Home
• Chocolate - Lindt
• Sweets - chocolate eclairs
• Hot drink - tetley tea bags
• Cold drink - Robinson High Juice Orange
• Bubble bath - Lavender or something natural
• Hand cream - neutrogena

Essential products:

• Nappies - huggies
• Dummy - orthadontic
• Colic remedy - infacol
• Nappy cream -sudocrem
• Baby bath - johnsons
• Baby shampoo - johnsons
• Talcum powder - johnsons
• Cotton wool - own brand
• Baby wipes - johnsons
• Nappy sacks - biogradable
• Breast pads - mothercare
• Cake - double chocolate cake
• Biscuits - Chocolate caramel digestives

Luxury products:

• Magazine - vouge
• Chocolate - any
• Sweets - soor plooms
• Hot drink - bovril
• Cold drink - Fanta
• Bubble bath - radox (lavender one)
• Hand cream - Neutrogena

Essential products:

• Nappies - pampers newborn
• Dummy - NUK orthodontic
• Colic remedy - never used
• Nappy cream - metanium (for nappy rash), vaseline for every day
• Baby bath - Johnsons all in one or Method baby products
• Baby shampoo - can use the Johnsons all in one or the Method one - just realised you have no baby lotion down - the Method one is really nice
• Talcum powder - no no no
• Cotton wool - large packet of reasonable sized cotton wool wipes (like ones you would use for removing eye make up) - and a little plastic dish that fitted them to hold the water
• Baby wipes - johnsons sensitive (big pack and a travel pack)
• Nappy sacks - own brand ok, scented! also include a small travel pack size
• Breast pads - johnsons or lanisoh are both good
• Cake - not essential
• Biscuits - plain chocolate McVities Digestives and something plain like ginger nuts or hobnobs

Luxury products:

• Magazine - parenting magazine that has a nice freebie on
• Chocolate - large bar(s) of good quality dark chocolate (purely for its health benefits of course!)
• Sweets - not that bothered, would prefer something savoury like twiglets
• Hot drink - don't drink personally but maybe some caffeine-free coffee or tea for those breastfeeding that don't want to give a caffeine kick to their baby?
• Cold drink - Bottlegreen elderflower cordial & a bottle of champagne
• Bubble bath - Korres shower gel (citrus scent) - not enough time for a bath!
• Hand cream - Korres sweet almond hand cream - but not really necessary - a good pump liquid hand wash much more useful

Other stuff:
Hand wash - something mild that you can use lots of times a day without your hands getting excema - carex soothing for an everyday option, Korres sweet almond liquid hand soap for the luxury option

getting out - small A5-ish size waterproof 'bag' big enough to hold a couple of nappies, a travel size packet of wipes, travel size of nappy sacks, a pampers or huggies disposable changing mat, small pack of tissues, small tube or tub of cream. I have a couple, one from Eagle Creek, the other from outdoor designs (neither are baby products, just from their ordinary 'organised packing' ranges) that have a zip close and a clip for securing them onto something if necessary. Small enough to put into an ordinary bag rather than have to lug a large changing bag around with you.

for baby - small toy, espcially if it has a loop on so it can be secured to cot/car seat/bouncer etc. Woozits and some of the little einstein and tiny love range are all nice. Also an all-plastic wipeable toy that can be used on the changing mat as a distraction (could also be a teether)

other - packet of calpol sachets - I know you don't need them in the first couple of months but invariably the first time you do need them you don't have them (eg for after first jabs) so would be useful to have just a couple of doses in. And a syringe to give the medicine - the one in the infant neurofen bottle is best as it doesn't have any sharp bits on like the ones you get from the chemist.

• • Kushies make a brushed cotton blanket that is really useful for all sorts of things - a light blanket, a soft towel, a mat to put on the floor, a pram liner, a shade to put over the front of the pram or side of car seat if sunny etc
• • a laminated single page document listing as many different helplines and useful web sites (plus space to add your emergency /useful numbers) - such as breast feeding help lines, NHS direct, mumsnet, etc. Something that will point a sleep deprived new mum in the right direction for advice for all the main issues that might be encountered in the first few weeks - breast feeding (and bottle feeding), sleeping problems, health problems, depression, meeting other new mums, teething, crying, child benefit, tax credits, name registration etc. And of course the ocado details (along with a special new mum's discount or free delivery code ).

• arnica cream to soothe post-delivery sore bits

• a couple of years ago a baby mag (sorry, not sure which one) did a fab freebie - a date-free year long calendar with 13 blank month pages on, so you could start with the month your dc was born and get to their first birthday. came with a load of stickers to chart milestones (first smile, first tooth, height, first word etc) as well as some of the more boring things (jab appointments, child benefit reminders) and spaces for your own notes and photos - very easy to fill in as a record of the first year, I'm sure most people mean to but never have time. The stickers helped and would have made it a good thing to do with an older sibling too. Makes a nice keepsake and has good branding opportunties if it is in regular use!

Oops. sorry, got a bit carried away there

and have just discovered that you need to put * around each word rather than a phrase if you want it all in bold - was supposed to be Cotton* Wool rather than Cotton Wool... hey ho!

Essential products:

• Nappies - Nature Babies or preferably motherease reuseables
• Dummy - ?
• Colic remedy - can't remember what I used
• Nappy cream - waleda calendula cream (or waitrose)
• Baby bath - Waitrose
• Baby shampoo - waitrose
• Talcum powder - shouldn't use for babies
• Cotton wool - waitrose
• Baby wipes - nature babies
• Nappy sacks - nature babies
• Breast pads - waitrose
• Cake - something v chocolatey
• Biscuits - luxury choc selection box

Luxury products:

• Magazine - private eye
• Chocolate - green and blacks
• Sweets - sherbet fruits
• Hot drink - green & blacks cocoa
• Cold drink - ginger beer
• Bubble bath - lavender
• Hand cream - coconut

Essential products:

• Nappies - Nature baby
• Dummy - no no no
• Colic remedy - None
• Nappy cream - Sudocrem
• Baby bath - none for 1st few months, although if you have nasty hard water like us then earth friendly baby after about 6 weeks
• Baby shampoo - none
• Talcum powder - None
• Cotton wool - organic pleats - go further than balls and are cheaper / easier to use (ie big wodges for the milky poo)
• Baby wipes - none to start with , then earth friendly baby or Johnson's unscented
• Nappy sacks - anything degradable
• Breast pads - Johnson's
• Cake - carrot cake
• Biscuits - dark chocolate digestives, of course

Luxury products:

• Magazine - junior - nice and posh and baby focused
• Chocolate - Green & Blacks ginger or cherry
• Sweets - Nah
• Hot drink - tea direct decaff (for breastfeeding)
• Cold drink - water (see above)
• Bubble bath - natalia new mother bath soak (really stops tear / section infection in new mums and not toxic for BF)
• Hand cream - earth mama angel baby nipple butter also makes fab hand cream / lip cream and you know it's safe to handle your newborn with as it's safe for them to eat!

I think like others that lansinoh needs to go on here, also always (or whatever) pads (as that seems to drag on longer than you'd planned) and some lavender oil to get you sleeping when they are rather than hovering over the moses basket in case they stop breathing

Essential products:

• Nappies huggies newborn then motherease washables
• Dummy avent
• Colic remedy wouldn't bother
• Nappy cream zinc & castor oil
• Baby bath not necessary
• Baby shampoo not necessary
• Talcum powder none
• Cotton wool organic
• Baby wipes biodegradable
• Nappy sacks none
• Breast pads avent washable
• Cake no
• Biscuits no

Luxury products:

• Magazine any
• Chocolate green & black
• Sweets none
• Hot drink hot chocolate
• Cold drink mineral water
• Bubble bath any
• Hand cream any

Essential products:

• Nappies - Pampers new born
• Dummy - Not sure - didnt use.
• Colic remedy - Infacol
• Nappy cream - Metanium
• Baby bath - just water but add Johnsons as it is the brand everyone recognises.
• Baby shampoo - just water but add Johnsons as it is the brand everyone recognises.
• Talcum powder - Not essential IMO
• Cotton wool - Roll of it rather than balls then you can tear off what you need
• Baby wipes - Pampers sensitive
• Nappy sacks - Own brand, Degradable if possible.
• Breast pads - Washable ones or Tommee Tippee disposable
• Cake - Chocolate
• Biscuits - Fox's crunch classic

Luxury products:

• Magazine - Mother & Baby, and OK
• Chocolate - Green and Blacks
• Sweets - Jelly Babies
• Hot drink - Hot Chocolate or any Posh tea bags
• Cold drink - Organic lemonade or champagne
• Bubble bath - Simple or something unscented.
• Hand cream - Neutrogena unscented hand cream

Essential products:

• Nappies - Pampers or cloth (I used Cotton Bottoms who don't exist anymore)
• Dummy - didn't use
• Colic remedy - didn't use
• Nappy cream - Sudocreme
• Baby bath - Johnsons
• Baby shampoo - Johnsons
• Talcum powder - Johnsons
• Cotton wool - own brands
• Baby wipes - Johnsons or Huggies or own Tesco/Boots own
• Nappy sacks - didn't use
• Breast pads - Johnsons and own brands
• Cake -
• Biscuits - shortbread

Luxury products:

• Magazine - Take A Break/ Junior
• Chocolate - Galaxy or Hotel Chocolat (they have a new baby set)
• Sweets -
• Hot drink - Chocolate
• Cold drink - OJ
• Bubble bath - Radox
• Hand cream - Something gentle for washing hands several times a day.

Agree with ZipZaps post too.

Add to essential list - vodka.

Essential products:

• Nappies-pampers newborn
• Dummy- avent
• Colic remedy-infacol
• Nappy cream-Sudocrem
• Baby bath- johnsons top to toe
• Baby shampoo-johnsons top to toe wash
• Talcum powder-johnsons
• Cotton wool-small pads
• Baby wipes-Pampers fragrance free
• Nappy sacks-Waitrose organics
• Breast pads-any
• Cake - Waitrose Belgian Chocolate
• Biscuits-Waitrose Shortbread Fingers

Luxury products:

• Magazine-Interiors
• Chocolate-Green & Blacks white
• Sweets-chocoate eclairs
• Hot drink-Earl Grey tea
• Cold drink-freshly squeezed orange
• Bubble bath-badedas
• Hand cream -norwegian formula

• Nappies- Nappies should definitely be Naturecare. You get given the pampers ones through so many other routes, it would be as well to show that the green ones work just as well.
• Dummy- wouldn't put on, tbh. I'd replace with Lanisoh!
• Colic remedy- we never used it
• Nappy cream- sudocreme
• Baby bath-no
• Baby shampoo- no
• Talcum powder- noooo. I thought we were all told by our HVs not to use talcum powder, otherwise our LOs inhale it?
• Cotton wool-any on a pleat
• Baby wipes- nature
• Nappy sacks- nature
• Breast pads- nature
• Cake - chocolate muffins
• Biscuits- dark choc digestives

Luxury products:

• Magazine- Red
• Chocolate- Green and Blacks
• Sweets- erm....
• Hot drink- Green and Blacks hot choc
• Cold drink- Bottlgreen elderflower cordial
• Bubble bath- Neals Yard, but something not too highly scented
• Hand cream -Neals Yard

You can get liquid talc, that would be good. I didn't use talc till fairly recently and only really at my parents house.

Like the idea of putting green nappies in and about not including dummies. Not everyone uses them and they can undermine breastfeeding.

Essential products:

• Nappies - small ones
• Dummy - no
• Colic remedy - doesn't work
• Nappy cream - sudocreme
• Baby bath - infacare
• Baby shampoo - no
• Talcum powder - NO NO NO
• Cotton wool - round pads
• Baby wipes -no
• Nappy sacks - no
• Breast pads - washable ones
• Cake - chocolate, plain, lemon, fruit
• Biscuits - yes please

Luxury products:

• Magazine - not a baby one
• Chocolate - every sort
• Sweets - ditto
• Hot drink - coffee
• Cold drink - champagne
• Bubble bath - use the infacare
• Hand cream - norweigan

Thanks for all these, keep 'um coming!
The other Ocado thread is here - post on both of them to be in with a chance to win the £75 Ocado voucher

Here are mine:

Essential products:

• Nappies.....Huggies Newborn
• Dummy.......tommy tippee
• Colic remedy..infacol
• Nappy cream...sudocream
• Baby bath....Johnsons lavender
• Baby shampoo....johnsons lavender
• Talcum powder....johnsons lavender
• Cotton wool....any soft balls
• Baby wipes.....huggies sensitive
• Nappy sacks...any
• Breast pads....any disposable
• Cake....large that can be cut up and shared with visitors
• Biscuits...very chocolaty mixed pack

Luxury products:

• Magazine...M&B
• Chocolate....anything
• Sweets......anything
• Hot drink.......some decent real coffee
• Cold drink.....smoothies
• Bubble bath....herbal relaxation one
• Hand cream.....vaseline intensive care

Essential products:

• Nappies - nature baby or reusables
• Dummy - don't use one, so don't know
• Colic remedy - ditto
• Nappy cream - bepanthen or waitrose bottom butter!
• Baby bath - don't use one.
• Baby shampoo - nature baby or Little Me Baby organics. Not really necessary for newborn.
• Talcum powder - don't use. Didn't realise anyone still did!
• Cotton wool - pleat or roll - better value for money.
• Baby wipes - nature baby, or washable cloths
• Nappy sacks - nature baby or any small bag that aren't 3x the cost of the equivalent sandwich bags!
• Breast pads - reusables or nature baby
• Cake - um. Big. Prob chocolate...
• Biscuits - big box of M&S standard mixed with lots of chocolate

Luxury products:

• Magazine - New Scientist (don't laugh. I Like it!)
• Chocolate - Green and Blacks chocolate & cherry, or fair trade milk with fairly high cocoa solids.
• Sweets
• Hot drink - charbonnel et walker hot chocolate
• Cold drink - fresh orange juice and lemonade
• Bubble bath - none immediately post baby! Bottle of tea tree oil...
• Hand cream - ??

Extra - DVDs of good TV comedy for long breastfeeds! Cup with lid for drinking while feeding.

Essential products:

• Nappies No idea I use cloth! Waitrose do ME though do Ocado? Good when you find out you could do with an extra wrap or 2.
• Dummy erm.....I have a thumb sucker.
• Colic remedy errrr never used it. Not much use am I!
• Nappy cream Waitrose bottom butter, the best, most wonderful no nasties reasonably (very reasonably) priced thing in the world. Stop using it on your faces you horrible lot so I can actually get my hands on it for ds!
• Baby bath Waitrose own, no nasties and cheap. Love it.
• Baby shampoo As above
• Talcum powder What is that for then?
• Cotton wool
• Baby wipes Waitrose own unfragrenced, biodegradable, minimun crap in them and good packet that doesn't leak all over your nappy bag like nature babies does
• Nappy sacks Nature babies if I ever use them
• Breast pads No idea, tried lots of brands and can't for the life of me remember which were best. Probably to have at home though the lanisah (sp?) washables that way you never run out.
• Cake Something chocolate and moist and scrummy with free range eggs in it.
• Biscuits Dark chocolate hobnobs. McVities are doing them again you know, why is the Sommerfield near my parents the only supermarket to have noticed! I need hobnobs! Or yummy ginger biscuits with bits of crystalised ginger in. Yum.

Luxury products:

• Magazine Didn't read any
• Chocolate Anything dark, bitter and fair trade.
• Sweets Meh, too erm...sweet.
• Hot drink Hot chocolate, G&B cocoa is good.
• Cold drink Water, but I don't buy that it comes out of a tap. A nice elderflower or fentiman's ginger beer.
• Bubble bath Neals Yard
• Hand cream they do special cream? Am I ignorant in just assuming they get moisturised when I do the rest of me (with cream that comes from Lush, sorry!)

Essential products:

• Nappies: Pampers Newborn
• Dummy: NO, do not put in, can damage breastfeeding
• Colic remedy: Infacol
• Nappy cream: Vaseline
• Baby bath: not needed. J&J very drying on baby's skin
• Baby shampoo: not needed
• Talcum powder: NO, thought you weren't supposed to use this?
• Cotton wool: any pads that don't fall apart
• Baby wipes: any unfragranced. NOT Johnson & Johnson, they're very harsh
• Nappy sacks: any own brand
• Breast pads: any
• Cake: Mini Battenburgs
• Biscuits: Chocolate digestives

Luxury products:

• Magazine: Grazia
• Chocolate: Green & Black's
• Sweets: Haribo
• Hot drink: Fruit tea
• Cold drink: champagne
• Bubble bath: any
• Hand cream: Vaseline Aloe Vera

Where's the nipple cream?