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
• Dummy
• Colic remedy

Essential Products
Nappies: Huggies

• Dummy: Avent
• Colic remedy: Infacol
• Nappy cream: Johnson & Johnson Baby Nappy Cream
• Baby bath: only used water, all thats needed but I guess for the pack something natural - Neals Yard?
• Baby shampoo - only used water, but later moved onto Johnson and Johnson
• Talcum powder - Not advised to use, don't know anyone that did
• Cotton wool - I buy organic unbleached
• Baby wipes - Nature babycare
• Nappy sacks - Nature babycare
• Breast pads - Avent
• Cake - GU brownies (small enough to eat with one hand when BF!)
• Biscuits - Duchy Cornwall shortbread

Luxury products:

• Magazine - Marie Claire
• Chocolate - Green and Blacks
• Sweets - Fox's fruit glacier thingies
• Hot drink - Coffee
• Cold drink - Duchy Lemon Refresher
• Bubble bath - Simple moisturising
• Hand cream - nuetrogena

Essential products:

• Nappies -nature babies
• Dummy - don't include
• Colic remedy - don't include
• Nappy cream - sudocrem
• Baby bath - johnsons
• Baby shampoo - johnsons
• Talcum powder - johnsons
• Cotton wool - any old balls
• Baby wipes - unperfumed whatever
• Nappy sacks - nature babies
• Breast pads - johnsons
• Cake - ?
• Biscuits - the shortbread biscuits with chocolate chunks in

Luxury products:

• Magazine - junior I suppose,
• Chocolate - green and blacks
• Sweets - none
• Hot drink - coffee (cafe direct best instant imo)
• Cold drink - champagne
• Bubble bath - none (not meant to use if have stitches I think)
• Hand cream - none

I personally don't use shampoo/bath products etc on my baby, but if it were included, the earthkind babies stuff looks ok.

I would also add:

Nipple cream (lansinoh)
breast milk storage bags
muslins
the bottom butter cream (not that I've managed to get hold of any)

Nappies- reusables/pampers newborn
Dummy- no
Colic remedy- no
nappy cream- sudocream/bottom butter
baby bath- no
baby shampoo- no
talc- no
cottonwool- own brand (I prefer pleat)
wipes- washable/something fragrance free
nappy sacs- no
breast pads- avent
cake- carrot
biscuits- choc chip shortbread

magazine- junior
chocolate- green and blacks
sweets-?
hot drink- tea
cold- smoothies/champagne (not mixed!)
bubblebath- own favourite
handcream- clarins/neutrogena

would add muslins

Essential products:

• Nappies - Moltex mini nappies
• Dummy - Mini MAM Soothers
• Colic remedy - Infacol
• Nappy cream - Weleda Calendula Nappy Change Cream
• Baby bath - Organic Babies Baby Wash
• Baby shampoo - Burt's Bees Baby Bee No Tears Shampoo
• Talcum powder - None
• Cotton wool - whatever brand but make it a really big bag
• Baby wipes - Natracare Organic Cotton Baby Wipes
• Nappy sacks - Eco Nappy Sacks by Earth Friendly Baby
• Breast pads - Natracare biodegradable breast pads
• Cake - something chocolatey
• Biscuits - something chocolatey

Luxury products:

• Magazine - Prima Mother & Baby
• Chocolate - Green and Black
• Sweets - Haribo
• Hot drink - Olvatine
• Cold drink - Champagne
• Bubble bath - Neals Yard
• Hand cream - Clarins

Essential products:

• Nappies - I wd expect an Ocado package to contain Natural Nappies, personally for newborns any own brand is fine
• Dummy - no
• Colic remedy - no
• Nappy cream - either Sudocrem or Neal's Yard one
• Baby bath - not for newborns
• Baby shampoo - not for newborns
• Talcum powder - not for newborns
• Cotton wool - any brand
• Baby wipes - probably not for newborns
• Nappy sacks - any
• Breast pads - any
• Cake - chocolate, I suppose
• Biscuits - prob a variety pack as more for guests than for the new mum

I would also suggest:

• "normal" fruit selection e.g. bananas, apples
• healthy ready meal selection
• baby massage oil e.g. Neal's Yard
• laundry liquid / powder - Ecover

Luxury products:

• Magazine - Private Eye but wd expect Ocado package to include a parenting one though
• Chocolate - Green & Black's
• Sweets - can't think of any
• Hot drink - the fennel tea suggestion is a good idea
• Cold drink - any
• Bubble bath - none for v new mum when establishing breastfeeding due to smell, then Neal's Yard lavender & arnica one
• Hand cream - any

Essential products:

• Nappies - Bambino Mio washable or Moltex disposable
• Dummy - Aveda
• Colic remedy -
• Nappy cream - Green People baby balm and Sudocrem
• Baby bath - Green people lavender soothing baby bath
• Baby shampoo - Green people lavender shampoo
• Talcum powder - no
• Cotton wool - organic cotton wool balls
• Baby wipes - Natracare baby wipes (smell gorgeous)
• Nappy sacks - Degradable ones
• Breast pads - Tommee Tippee (no leaks!)
• Cake - Plain sponge with jam and butter icing
• Biscuits - Dutchy Originals Ginger and Chocolate. Dark Choc digestives and Garibaldis

(Breastfeeding mums drink a lot of tea and eat a lot of biscuits)

Luxury products:

• Magazine - Grazia
• Chocolate - Green and Blacks Dark Choc and Cherry plus Cadbury Dairy Milk
• Sweets - Minstrels aka Menstruels (cos you will be back on Menstrual cycle soon)
• Hot drink - Green and Blacks Hot Choc or Ceylon tea
• Cold drink - Fresh squeezed OJ and Champagne
• Bubble bath - Dr Haushka Spruce Bath - relaxes and revives aching muscles (after all you've been through)
• Hand cream - Waitrose Organic Lavender handcream (essential as you have to wash hands non stop and have dry skin after giving birth)

Body Oil to minimise stretch marks Dr Hauskha Blackthorn Body Oil

Also agree that night time sanitary pads would be a good thing to add.

Essential products:

• Nappies - Huggies Newborn
• Dummy - Nuby ones which flex when baby sucks (made by Tommy Tippee I think)
• Colic remedy - Infacol
• Nappy cream - Baby Bottom Butter
• Baby bath - something organic
• Baby shampoo - something organic
• Talcum powder - didn't use
• Cotton wool - balls
• Baby wipes - Johnsons sensitive ones
• Nappy sacks - something biodegradeable
• Breast pads - Johnsons are nice
• Cake - something chocolatey
• Biscuits - something oatey and flapjacky

Luxury products:

• Magazine - parenting one
• Chocolate - Green and Blacks Butterscotch (yum)
• Sweets - toffees (no jellies as not suitable for vegetarians)
• Hot drink - Green and Blacks Cocoa
• Cold drink - Nice fruit juice or smoothie, Innocent pineapple, banana and coconut (I think) is yummy
• Bubble bath - none
• Hand cream - Neutrogena unscented hand cream

Essential products:

• Nappies - Nature/Pampers Newborn
• Dummy - Nuk/Tommee Tippee natural ones
• Colic remedy - Infacol
• Nappy cream - Sudocrem
• Baby bath - Green baby
• Baby shampoo - Green baby
• Talcum powder - none
• Cotton wool - balls
• Baby wipes - Simple sensitive ones
• Nappy sacks - something biodegradeable
• Breast pads - Chicco or Avent
• Cake - Carrot
• Biscuits - Hob Nobs

Luxury products:

• Magazine - Junior and something trashy
• Chocolate - Dairy Milk
• Sweets - Veggie Haribo
• Hot drink - Green and Blacks Cocoa
• Cold drink - Innocent Smoothie
• Bubble bath - None
• Hand cream - Neutrogena

Here are my favourites:

Essential products:

• Nappies: Disposable Nature Babycare Nappies
• Nappies: Washable - One Life Nappies
• Dummy - don't know, never used
• Colic remedy - infacol
• Nappy cream - Weleda or Neal's Yard Baby Barrier
• Baby bath - Earth Friendly Baby
• Baby shampoo - Earth Friendly Baby
• Talcum powder - don't use
• Cotton wool - anything organic
• Baby wipes - Jackson Reece or Clearly Herbal
• Nappy sacks - Nature Babycare
• Breast pads - Lansinoh Washable and Lansinoh disposable
• Cake - Anything sticky and chocolatey
• Biscuits - Duchy Originals

Luxury products:

• Magazine - Junior / Junior Pregnancy and Birth
• Chocolate - Divine or Green and Blacks
• Sweets - Wine Gums
• Hot drink - Green and Blacks Hot Chocolate
• Cold drink - Pomegreat
• Bubble bath - Lavender Essential Oil
• Hand cream - Barefoot Botanicals

Ok so here's my tuppence worth!

Essential products:

• Nappies - One life Cotton, and for days out Pampers Newborn
• Dummy - Avent
• Colic remedy - n/a
• Nappy cream - For early days I used nothing, later on I used Bepanthen
• Baby bath - Again nothing for early days, but now use Johnson baby bath
• Baby shampoo - Nothing early days, now use Avon
• Talcum powder N/a
• Cotton wool- Tesco own brand
• Baby wipes - Pampers Sensitive
• Nappy sacks - Boots
• Breast pads - Tesco own brand
• Cake - Anything Gooey
• Biscuits - Digestives

Luxury products:

• Magazine - Cosmo
• Chocolate - Twix
• Sweets - Strawberry laces
• Hot drink - Tea
• Cold drink - Diet Coke
• Bubble bath - Body Shop Tangerine
• Hand cream - Clarins

Hope this helps

Essential products:

• Nappies - huggies newborn
• Dummy - didn't use - not an essential - a choice
• Colic remedy - aren't they a con?? never worked for DD1
• Nappy cream - propolis bee cream - fab -local childrens hospital uses it but didn't need until i had to take antibiotics which made dd's poo a weird green
• Baby bath - not for a newborn
• Baby shampoo - ditto
• Talcum powder -too messy - johnsons does smell nice
• Cotton wool - johnsons
• Baby wipes - pampers unfragranced
• Nappy sacks - err, sainsburys basics
• Breast pads - washables
• Cake - roses jam and cream doughnuts - principle reason for breastfeeding
• Biscuits - m&s chocolate chip

Luxury products:

• Magazine - not a big fan of mags
• Chocolate - green and blacks milk choc
• Sweets - nope
• Hot drink - teadirect tea
• Cold drink - robinsons blackcurrant squash
• Bubble bath - molton brown ginger lily
• Hand cream - body shop hemp

Essentials:-

Pampers Newborn
Pampers sensitive wipes
Organic or natural cotton wool
Luxury tissues
Halos N Horns baby bath
Nappy Sacks
Johnson and Johnson Breast Pads
Nutrogena Norwegian Formula Hand Cream
Nappy sacks

Luxury:-

Mother and Baby Magazine
Luxury dried fruit and nuts
Small box of chocolates
Half a bottle of champagne
Variety box of herbal teas
Cordial
Twinings breakfast tea
Coffee (with the filters that go over the cups so you don't have to think or faf)

Hi

Essential products:

• Nappies - Pampers Newborn
• Dummy - Not an essential - a choice
• Colic remedy - infacol
• Nappy cream - sudocrem and vaseline
• Baby bath - none or burts bees/earth friendly baby/Kiehls
• Baby shampoo - none or burts bees/earth friendly baby/Kiehls
• Talcum powder - none - can be dangerous if inhaled
• Cotton wool - big cottonwool squares
• Baby wipes - clearly herbal
• Nappy sacks - nature babies
• Breast pads - Lanisoh
• Cake - none
• Biscuits - green and blacks biscuits

Luxury products:

• Magazine - some trashy magazines
• Chocolate - green and blacks
• Sweets - none
• Hot drink - decaffeinated coffee
• Cold drink - Aqua Libra
• Bubble bath - Clarins/Molton Brown
• Hand cream - Clarins/Molton Brown/Kiehls

Essential products:

• Nappies - pampers newborn
• Dummy - N/a
• Colic remedy - N/a
• Nappy cream - Sudocrem
• Baby bath - johnsons bedtime bath
• Baby shampoo - johnsons
• Talcum powder - johnsons bedtime
• Cotton wool - shops own brand
• Baby wipes - pampers
• Nappy sacks - shops own brand
• Breast pads - johnsons
• Cake - M&S
• Biscuits - m&s

Luxury products:

• Magazine - any old trashy weeklie
• Chocolate - glaxy
• Sweets - haribo
• Hot drink - hot chocolate with whipped cream
• Cold drink - Ribena
• Bubble bath - molton brown
• Hand cream - Clarins hand cream

Essential products:

• Nappies - pampers newborn
• Dummy - nuby
• Colic remedy - woodwards colic drops
• Nappy cream - sudocreme
• Baby bath - johnsons
• Baby shampoo - johnsons
• Talcum powder - don't use it
• Cotton wool - shops own brand
• Baby wipes - pampers
• Nappy sacks - shops own brand
• Breast pads - can't remember (!)
• Cake - any "nice" cake (nto the cheapy types)
• Biscuits - as cake

Luxury products:

• Magazine - OK / Heat / trashy weekly you can dip into
• Chocolate - Green & Blacks or Dairy Milk
• Sweets - personally, I like a nice mint!
• Hot drink - kenco
• Cold drink - fresh orange/apple juice
• Bubble bath - don't use it.
• Hand cream - clarins

Essentials should also include ... very gooey ripe UNpasturised cheese to go with the port

• Nappies - Pampers
• Dummy - N/A
• Colic remedy - Infacol
• Nappy cream - Metanium or Sudocrem
• Baby bath - Johnson & Johnson
• Baby shampoo - Johnson & Johnson
• Talcum powder - N/A
• Cotton wool - Own brand
• Baby wipes - Johnson & Johnson
• Nappy sacks - Nature babycare
• Breast pads - Avent
• Cake - Big and chocolatey
• Biscuits - Jumbo pack of Fig Rolls and/or Jammie Dodgers

Luxury products:

• Magazine - Marie Claire
• Chocolate - Green and Blacks
• Sweets - Fruit Pastille/Wine gums
• Hot drink - Coffee (Nescafe Gold Blend)/Fennel and Nettle tea
• Cold drink - Champagne/Orange juice
• Bubble bath - N/A
• Hand cream - Neutrogena

Also:
Nipple cream - Kamillosan
Non-Bio washing powder

• Nappies: Nature Babycare
• Dummy: n/a
• Colic remedy: Infacol
• Nappy cream: metanium
• Baby bath: Johnsons
• Baby shampoo: Johnsons
• Talcum powder:n/a
• Cotton wool: own brand organic
• Baby wipes: Huggies pure
• Nappy sacks: Own brand
• Breast pads@ Lanisoh or if not available, own brand
• Cake : Fruit cake
• Biscuits: Chocolate chip cookies (boasters or similar)

Luxury products:

• Magazine: Eve
• Chocolate: Green and Black's Butterscotch
• Sweets : Lemon Bon Bons
• Hot drink : Tea (preferably Twinings)
• Cold drink: Evian water
• Bubble bath: Radox
• Hand cream : Clarins Jeunesse De mains

Essential products:

• Nappies - no opinion
• Dummy - n/a
• Colic remedy -n/a
• Nappy cream - sudocrem
• Baby bath - none
• Baby shampoo - none
• Talcum powder - none
• Cotton wool - flannel
• Baby wipes - any unfragranced
• Nappy sacks - any
• Breast pads - lansinoh
• Cake - any chocolate
• Biscuits - any chocolate

Luxury products:

• Magazine - Red or Eve
• Chocolate - Green and Blacks
• Sweets - don't really like 'em
• Hot drink - nice tea
• Cold drink - fruit juice
• Bubble bath - neals yard - they do a tub of salt with lavender in - its lovely
• Hand cream - Clarins

Essential products:

• Nappies - Motherease reusables
• Dummy - avent
• Colic remedy - infacol
• Nappy cream - sudocrem
• Baby bath - none used
• Baby shampoo - dentriox (for cradle cap)
• Talcum powder - NEVER
• Cotton wool - Boots own balls
• Baby wipes - Johnson and Johnsons
• Nappy sacks - Boots own
• Breast pads - Lanisoh
• Cake - Battenburg (Unless you use mums own chocolate cake.. but that is for family only!!)
• Biscuits - Moores originals

Luxury products:

• Magazine - Delicious
• Chocolate - Dark Fairtrade
• Sweets
• Hot drink
• Cold drink
• Bubble bath - Radox
• Hand cream - Neutrgena

I have a book coming out in two weeks' time which is a guide to baby products and includes lists of essentials for new parents.

I can fairly safely say that many of these essentials, as others have suggested, are just not essential. Toiletries are simply not needed for newborns, talc is not recommended and there is a fair amount of stuff on here which is quite subject to personal choice (e.g. nappies eco vs. standard vs re-usables).

Would it be better to have a tick-list rather than a bundle, so for example you can opt out of nappies if you are using re-usables?

Or maybe they'd be better rethinking this and just sticking with the luxury stuff?

Essential products:

• Nappies - Pampers or Bambos if they want an eco-option.
• Dummy - x
• Colic remedy - not a great idea.
• Nappy cream - Earth Friendly Baby + Waitrose Bottom Butter (which doubles as wonderful hand cream when your hands get sore after all that post-nappy change hand washing)
• Baby bath x
• Baby shampoo x
• Talcum powder x
• Cotton wool - Waitrose would be fine.
• Baby wipes - Nature.
• Nappy sacks - Nature.
• Breast pads - Johnson's.

• Cake - one of those big choc chip cakes they do in Waitrose (real cake co or something similar - they are about £5 and look like home-baked ones and are just delicious!)
• Biscuits - a big tin of shortbreads to dish out with tea to visitors (indeed perhaps add some extra posh tea bags and decent coffee for visitors?)

Luxury products:

• Magazine - Junior Pregnancy and Baby plus a choice of popular mags like Red, EasyLiving.
• Chocolate - Green & Blacks
• Sweets - none for me, just double the amount of chocolate!
• Hot drink - Charbonnel hot choc.
• Cold drink - Evian.
• Bubble bath - maybe something like Neal's Yard?
• Hand cream - Bottom Butter see above.

What about adding a common-sense parenting book like What to Expect the first year - or the Best Friends' Guide to the first year or whatever it's called?

Would love to recommend my book for the list but by the time the birth comes it would be too late and not needed!

Essential products:

• Nappies - Tesco own brand
• Dummy - Avent othodontic clear ones
• Colic remedy - Infacol
• Nappy cream - Sudocreme
• Baby bath - Boots Baby Expoert
• Baby shampoo - Burts baby bees
• Talcum powder - Burts Baby Bees
• Cotton wool - Tesco
• Baby wipes - Boots fragrance free
• Nappy sacks - Eco sacks
• Breast pads
• Cake
• Biscuits

Luxury products:

• Magazine - Mother & Baby
• Chocolate - Green & Blacks
• Sweets - Fruit pastelles
• Hot drink - Hot Choc
• Cold drink - Ribena
• Bubble bath - Imperial Leather
• Hand cream - Vaseline

• Nappies Nature Babycare or washable starter pack
• Dummy Not needed
• Colic remedy Not needed
• Nappy cream Vaseline
• Baby bath Not needed
• Baby shampoo Not needed
• Talcum powder Not needed
• Cotton wool Any eco brand
• Baby wipes Not needed
• Nappy sacks Not needed
• Breast pads Any brand
• Cake Anything tasty and organic
• Biscuits As above and chocolate!

Luxury products:

• Magazine A 6 month subsription to a fav?
• Chocolate Green and Blacks
• Sweets A nice selection
• Hot drink Green and Blacks cocoa
• Cold drink Waitrose elderflower cordial
• Bubble bath Anything with essential oils to help with stretch marks!
• Hand cream E45