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

Essential products:

• Nappies - any disposables
• Dummy - NO!
• Colic remedy - hopefully not needed
• Nappy cream - sudocrem
• Baby bath - no
• Baby shampoo - no
• Talcum powder - NO
• Cotton wool - lots of, any brand
• Baby wipes - no
• Nappy sacks - any own brand
• Breast pads - lilypadz everytime
• Cake - copious, and chocolate
• Biscuits - chocolate hobnobs

Luxury products:

• Magazine - ha ha ha
• Chocolate - green and blacks (and surely an 'essential' no?
• Sweets - haribo star mix
• Hot drink - yorkshire tea
• Cold drink - water
• Bubble bath - dove
• Hand cream - e45

And plenty of Lansinoh!

Essential products:

• pampers Nappies
• avent Dummy
• chamomile Colic remedy
• sudocream Nappy cream
• matey Baby bath
• no tears johnsons Baby shampoo
• johnsons Talcum powder
• natural collection Cotton wool
• pampers Baby wipes
• pampers Nappy sacks
• avent washable Breast pads
• mr kipling battenburg Cake
• cadbury finger Biscuits

Luxury products:

• ok! Magazine
• dairy milk Chocolate
• cadbury eclair Sweets
• green and black hot chocolate Hot drink
• minute maid orange and raspberry juice cold drink
• radox relaxing Bubble bath
• nivea intensive Hand cream

Essential products:

• Nappies: Boots newborn
• Dummy: no idea - didn't use one
• Colic remedy: Infacol
• Nappy cream: Bepanthen AND metanium & bottom butter!
• Baby bath: Aveeno
• Baby shampoo: none
• Talcum powder: I thought this was bad for babies and shouldn't be used
• Cotton wool: organic
• Baby wipes: reece organic
• Nappy sacks: biodegradable
• Breast pads: any
• Cake: lemon drizzle cake!
• Biscuits: sainsbury's butter raison cookies!

Luxury products:

• Magazine: mother & baby
• Chocolate: BIG bag of mini choc bars!
• Sweets: more chocolate!
• Hot drink: hot chocolate
• Cold drink: champagne
• Bubble bath: something very posh and expensive!
• Hand cream: aveeno

Also must have: Lansinoh for sore nips!

Essential products:

• Nappies reusables for daytime - tesco's own for night-time
• Dummy - no idea
• Colic remedy - infacol
• Nappy cream - sudacrem
• Baby bath - aqueuous cream
• Baby shampoo - no idea
• Talcum powder - no idea - shouldn't be using it!
• Cotton wool - tesco's own
• Baby wipes - don't use them
• Nappy sacks - tesco's value (don't smell so horrible)
• Breast pads - reusables
• Cake - anything chocolatey!
• Biscuits - pink wafer biscuits

Luxury products:

• Magazine - heat
• Chocolate - dairy milk / galaxy
• Sweets - no idea
• Hot drink - tesco decaf tea
• Cold drink - tesco white grape & gooseberry squash
• Bubble bath - n/a
• Hand cream - aqueous cream

I love the people who are distancing themselves from dummies and talcum powder. It's hilarious.

Why is it funny? I doubt they ever used them. Neither of my DC's have had dummies, and I still have 3 bottles of unopened talc that were given to me when DS1 was born 3 years ago!

Essential products:

• Nappies: Pampers
• Dummy: Mam
• Colic remedy: Infacol but tbh none were that good
• Nappy cream: Burts Bees (you get Sudocrem in Bounty stuff so any other make would be better)
• Baby bath: Nature Babycare
• Baby shampoo: Nature Babycare
• Talcum powder: Burts Bees or Nature Babycare (cornstarch not talc so better)
• Cotton wool: not fussed - organic if poss (didn't use much - used baby flannels for early days changes at home as was doing so much washing anyway)
• Baby wipes: Nature Baby or Pampers sensitive.
• Nappy sacks: Nature Baby
• Breast pads: washable eg Imse Vimse If disposable, Tommee Tippee.
• Cake: tricky - not chocolate in case it's summer. Biscuits better as can just open and scoff! Viennese whirls.
• Biscuits: Oops, should have read ahead. (BF whilst typing!( Shortbread fingers.

Luxury products:

• Magazine: Junior pregnancy and baby
• Chocolate: Green & Blacks (not dark choc though as everyone knows it's best but not everyone actually likes it!) Or Thortons
• Sweets: Jelly beans
• Hot drink: Instant hot choc or Ovaltine
• Cold drink: Peppermint cordial.
• Bubble bath: Something spa like - you want to feel "clean" and not too scented.
• Hand cream: Burts Bees

As you can see I'm a big Burt's Bees fan - first tried it with DD3, the nappy cream is great - smells gorgeous too. Expensive but have hardly used any - she hasn't had nappy rash yet (now 7 months) - so if they'd do small sizes for this they would get more converts I'm sure (only reason I bought the handcream was because I liked the baby stuff so much). The talc is great after a bath - it's cornstarch powder so not carcinogenic? (Unless that's an urban myth like the deodorant ones that go round?)

• Nappies - Bambo Nature
• Dummy - MAM
• Colic remedy - ColicCalm
• Nappy cream - Neals Yard Baby Barrier
• Baby bath - Plain Water!
• Baby shampoo - Plain water, or a little olive oil for bad cradle cap.
• Talcum powder - Never
• Cotton wool - I have a phobia of, but surely it's all the same?
• Baby wipes - Huggies Pure
• Nappy sacks - none, a small airtight paper bin will do.
• Breast pads - Mothercare washable
• Cake - Carrot cake, or anything the DH/P doesn't like so it can all be devoured by the mum.
• Biscuits - Walkers Shortbread

Luxury products:

• Magazine - Junior, Guardian Weekly, OK, Take a Break
• Chocolate - A multipack of mini 'Timeouts'
• Sweets - Jelly babies, Wine Gums
• Hot drink - Good strong ground coffee, probably columbian.
• Cold drink - Elderflower and Raspberry Cordial (sainsburys) over lots of ice
• Bubble bath - Lush 'comforter'
• Hand cream - Lush 'Dream Cream'

I've never used colic relief or talc or dummies or baby shampoo but I have friends who have needed/used these things. I don't feel the need to personally distance myself from them.

It's Mumsnet at its judgy judgy best isn't it?

Washersaurus I had loads of talc given too, which I passed on on freecycle. It's utterly pointless.

Dummies have their use though, both mine had them for the first couple of months.

Come off it Swedes, NO ONE really uses talc do they?

My mum uses it on the DC when they are there, because she likes the smell.

I hate the stuff.

I don't think people are distancing themselves from the other items, but having not used them probably don't feel they are able to recommend any particular brand

I had loads of Johnsons talc with my other 2 and never used it (gave to my mum as she uses talc - must be a generation thing as I don't) but this cornstarch talc was lovely after a bath, tiny bit on your hands rubbed onto DD3, particularly round leg creases.

If you say "Breast Pads - Not necessary" you are immediately invited to leave Mumsnet. If you name a favourite brand of dummy you are put on a "watch list" for further signs of subversive behaviour.

pmsl Swedes

The first rule of 'Dummy Club'

• You must not talk about dummy use

The second rule of 'Dummy Club'

• You must not talk about dummy use

Essential products:

• Nappies - Pampers new baby
• Dummy - didn't bother so can't comment
• Colic remedy - infacol
• Nappy cream - Metanium (cos they will have sudocreme in Bounty pack anyway)
• Baby bath - Infacare or Avent...not Johnsons
• Baby shampoo - johnsons
• Talcum powder - Do they not know this is not recommended for babies?
• Cotton wool - any brand; biggest bag
• Baby wipes - Pampers
• Nappy sacks - any brand but not economy
• Breast pads - The ultra thin ones; can't remember brand. Johnsons, Lansinoh?
• Cake -
• Biscuits

Can't comment on luxuaries; I don't have a luxuary life

Essential products:

• Nappies - NatureBaby
• Dummy - ? Not needed surely?
• Colic remedy ? Colief if necessary
• Nappy cream - Sudocrem
• Baby bath - Water
• Baby shampoo - Neal's Yard if really needed
• Talcum powder - NO!
• Cotton wool - own brand
• Baby wipes - Nature for out and about
• Nappy sacks - Nature
• Breast pads - Nature
• Cake - Konditor & Cook
• Biscuits - Duchy

Luxury products:

• Magazine - Holiday porn, NOT baby stuff!
• Chocolate - Rococo
• Sweets - Prestat Truffles
• Hot drink - Redbush tea
• Cold drink - Bundaberg diet ginger beer
• Bubble bath - has to be Jo Malone
• Hand cream - Clarins

Essential products:

• Nappies - own brand biodegradable disposables
• Dummy - something without anything written on it, (e.g. mummy's little princess)
• Colic remedy - infacol
• Nappy cream - sudocrem
• Baby bath - can't comment, don't think newborns need soap
• Baby shampoo - ditto
• Talcum powder - ditto
• Cotton wool - own brand fine
• Baby wipes - soemthing for sensitive skin
• Nappy sacks - as basic as they come
• Breast pads - always used boots own
• Cake - organic chocolate brownies
• Biscuits - giant choc chip. fun size mars bars/mix pack also good.

Luxury products:

• Magazine - she magazine
• Chocolate - green and blacks
• Sweets - just choc for me
• Hot drink - peppermint tea/decaf tea
• Cold drink - tropicana orange
• Bubble bath - radox
• Hand cream - neutrogena

So they just want top know what brands of their list we'd want? Here goes...

Nappies Nature

• Dummy Wouldn't want included
• Colic remedy Wouldn't want included
• Nappy cream Earth friendly baby
• Baby bath Earth friendly baby
• Baby shampoo Earth friendly baby
• Talcum powder Wouldn't want included
• Cotton wool Any flat square pads
• Baby wipes Simple
• Nappy sacks Nature
• Breast pads Tommee tippee
• Cake Waitrose own
• Biscuits Green & Blacks, Waitrose own choc covered cookies

Luxury products:

• Magazine Living, Elle Deco
• Chocolate Roccoco (dark choc)
• Sweets Pear Drops
• Hot drink Cafe Direct filter (red packet)
• Cold drink Bottle Green cordials
• Bubble bath Wouldn't want included
• Hand cream Wouldn't want included

I'm assuming this is a bundle I cold opt to buy (for me or as a gift) - if so, inclusion of those items I've said I wouldn't want included would stop me from buying, unless the discount overall was so substantial as to make it a bargain even if I threw these things away.

Why is there so much anger against dummies?