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

• Nappies pampers new baby
• Dummy avent
• Colic remedy infacol but probably none
• Nappy cream prescription only
• Baby bath boots sensitive
• Baby shampoo boots sensitive
• Talcum powder none used
• Cotton wool cheapo
• Baby wipes nature boy for new baby age
• Nappy sacks nature again
• Breast pads johnsons and only johnsons
• Cake waitrose
• Biscuits waitrose

Luxury products:

• Magazine living etc
• Chocolate flake
• Sweets none
• Hot drink earl grey twinings
• Cold drink san pelegrino
• Bubble bath pears shower gel
• Hand cream no 7

I actually use Ocado every week as they deliver to me at 11pm (11:30 now as of this week) which is the only time I'm not actually busy. But I wish they'd do bundles like 'mother in law unexpected pops in for dinner' containing roast beef, yorkshire pud, chocolate cake, strychnine but okay here goes.

Essential products:

• Nappies - Pampers - yeah sorry I'll be eco later I'm too sodding busy with a newborn.

• Dummy - Avent

• Colic remedy - None but nice wine for mummy and daddy to numb the headache from all that screaming

• Nappy cream - Sudocrem

• Baby bath - Johnsons

• Baby shampoo - Johnsons

• Talcum powder - Waitrose

• Cotton wool - Waitrose

• Baby wipes - Johnson and Johnsons Aloe

• Nappy sacks - ???

• Breast pads - Avent

• Cake - Waitrose

• Biscuits - Waitrose

Luxury products:

• Magazine - Red

• Chocolate - Crunchie

• Sweets - Fruit pastilles

• Hot drink - Waitrose Gold label tea bags

• Cold drink - Waitrose Summer Fruits high juice squash

• Bubble bath - Radox bath salts - excellent for that one hour a year you get when they all sleep!

• Hand cream - Vaseline intensive care

Essential products:

• Nappies - Nature Baby
• Dummy - Nuk orthodontic
• Colic remedy - n/a
• Nappy cream - Waitrose bottom butter
• Baby bath - not advisable, latest MW guidelines say no products for 6 wks. Halos & Horns or an organicy one if you must.
• Baby shampoo - ditto
• Talcum powder - ditto
• Cotton wool - the big oval/square pads, own brand
• Baby wipes - don't need if you have cotton wool, but Nature Baby
• Nappy sacks - Nature Baby (not scented)
• Breast pads - Tommy Tippee
• Cake - fruit loaf
• Biscuits - chocolate digestives or rich teas

Luxury products:

• Magazine - Easy Living
• Chocolate - Roses / Heroes / Quality St undemanding pap sort
• Sweets - the Burnt Sugar fudge etc
• Hot drink - Charbonnel & Walker choc
• Cold drink - Bottlegreen elderflower cordial
• Bubble bath - Neals' Yard
• Hand cream - ditto

Essential products:

• Nappies - Pampers
• Dummy - mam/avent
• Colic remedy - infacol
• Nappy cream - metanium
• Baby bath - infaderm
• Baby shampoo
• Talcum powder
• Cotton wool - I like the big cotton pads for cleaning newborn babies bottoms
• Baby wipes - natures own
• Nappy sacks - natures own
• Breast pads - lansinoh
• Cake - farmhouse cake
• Biscuits - rich tea and chocolate digestives

Luxury products:

• Magazine - Junior
• Chocolate - cadburys caramel
• Sweets -
• Hot drink - pg tips
• Cold drink - tropicana juice
• Bubble bath - radox
• Hand cream - moulton brown neroli

Essential products:

• Nappies pampers (sorry!)
• Dummy nuk?
• Colic remedy colief
• Nappy cream weleda calendular ointment
• Baby bath organic babies
• Baby shampoo organic babies
• Talcum powder none
• Cotton wool waitrose
• Baby wipes waitrose fragrance free
• Nappy sacks biodegradable nature baby ones
• Breast pads TOMY TIPEE...THEY ARE THE ONLY ONES THAT WORK! AND YOU CAN'T GET THEM ANYWHERE!
• Cake OOOOOh. a gooey chocolate waitrose one.
• Biscuits organic stem ginger.

Luxury products:

• Magazine instyle. no baby ones.
• Chocolate green and black
• Sweets flying saucers
• Hot drink fennel tea (great for bfeeding)
• Cold drink derrr..champagne of course!
• Bubble bath none.
• Hand cream neutrogena

yo soph! how are you? (NG)

Essential products:

• Nappies Naturebaby or Moloko
• Dummy No
• Colic remedy No
• Nappy cream Weleda
• Baby bath Weleda or Green Baby
• Baby shampoo ditto
• Talcum powder No
• Cotton wool any organic
• Baby wipes Nature baby
• Nappy sacks Nature baby
• Breast pads washable
• Cake No
• Biscuits No would rather have had fruit in the early days, maybe that's just me!

Luxury products:

• Magazine Junior
• Chocolate Green & Blacks
• Sweets No
• Hot drink Fairtrade Organic Arabica (of course)
• Cold drink champagne
• Bubble bath Sanctuary
• Hand cream ditto

Essential products:

• Nappies - Moltex, the newborn size, only available in Germany -- c'mon Ocado!
• Dummy - No
• Colic remedy - Infacol
• Nappy cream - Earth Friendly Baby Camomile Cream
• Baby bath - Water for a newborn
• Baby shampoo - Olive oil or Dentinox for cradle cap
• Talcum powder - (baffled)
• Cotton wool - The big Waitrose embossed cotton pads
• Baby wipes - Moltex
• Nappy sacks - Biodegradable
• Breast pads - Lansinoh/washables
• Cake - No
• Biscuits - Chocolatey

Luxury products:

• Magazine - Instyle/The Economist/Time Out
• Chocolate - Green & Blacks
• Sweets -
• Hot drink - Fennel tea or English Breakfast
• Cold drink - Badoit
• Bubble bath - Ren Seaweed & Sage shower gel
• Hand cream - Earth Friendly Baby Camomile Cream

They have missed out one real essential - a tube of arnica for the sore bits. I'd also like to see a probiotic in their pack to reduce the risk of allergies in the baby.

My luxury items would not have been magazines and sweets but a ready meal, preferably duck. Wouldn't include cakes and biscuits as essentials either - biscuits maybe but not cake. Mine got colic if I ate anything sweet. Didn't have time for baths or hand cream just a quick shower.

Essential products:

• Nappies depends on size of baby but probably huggies, pampers better for big babies
• Dummy not first weeks
• Colic remedy didn't use but would have infacol around
• Nappy cream sudocrem
• Baby bath Johnsons
• Baby shampoo Johnsons
• Talcum powder didn't use
• Cotton wool - boots own brand
• Baby wipes - didn't use but Boots brand if you must
• Nappy sacks - don't remember
• Breast pads - don't remember, they were terrible anyway
• Cake Mrs Crimbles double choc brownies
• Biscuits jaffa cakes

Luxury products:

• Magazine who has time?
• Chocolate gave baby colic
• Sweets gave baby colic
• Hot drink drinking chocolate
• Cold drink Sainsburys elderflower fizzy water
• Bubble bath E45 bath
• Hand cream E45

The other Ocado thread is here - we need your best post baby food - post on both of them to be in with a chance to win the £75 Ocado voucher

Thanks

Essential products:

• Nappies: Motherease Sandys (Small) plus Airflow wrap
• Dummy: no idea
• Colic remedy: no idea
• Nappy cream: Waitrose bottom butter
• Baby bath: Waitrose baby bubbles
• Baby shampoo: Halos n Horns
• Talcum powder: Neals Yard
• Cotton wool: Own brand
• Baby wipes: Nature baby
• Nappy sacks: No idea, horrid things
• Breast pads: Lanisoh
• Cake: Mr Kipling French Fancies
• Biscuits: Jaffa cakes

Luxury products:

• Magazine: OK or other trash
• Chocolate: Green and Blacks
• Sweets: Haribo mix
• Hot drink: Tea bags
• Cold drink: Waitrose white peach squash
• Bubble bath: Organic with lavender and tea tree
• Hand cream: Neutrogena Norwegian

I would dispute that any of these are essential - I thought you wew supposed to use just water on your baby's skin in the early weeks. I got given a whole load of products (organic) that are still in a cupboard 2 years later. Colic remedy in an essential pack seems ott & dummies interfere with establishin Breast feeding

• Dummy
• Colic remedy
• Baby bath
• Baby shampoo
• Talcum powder
• Baby wipes

Sorry meant to say I would not include any of the things I listed

Agree about arnica. That should be in there.

Essential

Nature baby nappies, wipes and bags
Othopaedic dummy - tommy tippee?
Infacol
metanium nappy rash cream, plus sudacrem
no shampoo or talcum
cotton wool, any
Washable breast pads (not avent)
lemon drizzle
ginger nuts - duchy original

Also
Calpol (to have in the cupboard ready for the first jabs)
Paracetamol

Luxury
Magazine - something trashy
Chcolate - green and blacks
sweets - would prefer fruit
hot drink - duchy originals fennel tea
bubble bath ?
Vaseline intensive care dermacare hand cream

I'd add:
box of really nice handkerchiefs
Condoms
Ear plugs

I think hand cream is really important by the way - esp for PFB when I washed my hands obssessively and they got really dry. Cakes and biscuits not essential, whereas a nice bottle of wine would be.
And, yes, arnica.

condoms? After just having a baby? Power to you saggita!

Well, the one thing I've learnt is that I DEFINITELY don't want any more - but you never know when the urge might come upon you to have sex again

Essentials:
Nappies - Pampers newborn
Dummy - NO
Colic remedy - NO
Nappy cream - Waitrose Bottom Butter
(Nappy rash cream - Metanium)
Baby bath/shampoo - Avent all in one
Talcum powder - NO
Cotton wool - own brand, white cotton wool tube of discs. Or white balls
Baby wipes - fragrance free
Nappy sacks - own brand
Breast pads - Johnson
Cake - something moist and chocolatey
Biscuits - Duchy Originals, especially ginger

Luxury products:
Magazine - Red, Junior
Chocolate - Bar of Green and Blacks or Lindt Lindor truffles
Sweets - Fruit pastilles or fizzy fish
Hot Drink - Twinings Earl Grey tea
Cold drink - Champagne
Bubble bath - something organic with lavender,(or tea tree and arnica bath oil if such a thing exists!)
Hand cream - L'Occitane or Clarins, or Neutrogena

I would say leave out dummies, colic remedy and talc altogether. There needs to be some chocolate in the essentials list!

oh good point cmotdibbler, waitrose already have a deal with motherease. so i say a motherease sandys bamboo, littlest size and an airflow wrap. (v good nappy and wrap imo.)

And I forgot to say that my essential products would be Lanisoh and the giant bumper pack of Always nighttime sanitary pads...

yeah and some of those bedmats you get for soaking up major leakages at night. nice!

Nappy cream : metanium

Also agree with twoGs about bedmats. I slept much better for not worrying about leakages. ewww.

are you reading this ocado? PAMPERS BED MATs, we say!

Out of the whole "essential" items I used only nappies, cotton wool/wipes and nappy sacks.

Cake and biscuits should be removed from essential and the "chocolate" from luxury should replace it, or at least be there as well as them.

My essential list is:

nappies, wipes, bags, industrial strength sanitary towels, bed mats, chocolate. Oh yes and breast pads, if required.

Regarding brand the chocolate can be cadbury, bourneville, divine, lindt, green and blacks. Any will do. Just "chocolate".