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 Green Baby
• Dummy - didn't use
• Colic remedy - Infacol (not sure if it was any use tho but it felt good to be doing soemthing!)
• Nappy cream Waitrose bottom butter, didn't use it on baby but use it on my face!
• Baby bath Water should be used from birth - anything else is superfluous and possibly has negtive effects
• Baby shampoo Green Baby range good
• Talcum powder No one really uses any more
• Cotton wool big bag of large balls!
• Baby wipes The green wiatrose brand are lovely as are Nature Baby
• Nappy sacks Nature Baby
• Breast pads Avent
• Cake Anything large and chocolatey
• Biscuits Lyons Belgium dipped flapjacks are lovely and my health vistor said they were helpful to promote breast milk (was all the excuse I needed)

Luxury products:

• Magazine Nothing baby-ish, how about Marie Claire
• Chocolate Green and Black's selection pack
• Sweets Haribo
• Hot drink G&B Hot choc
• Cold drink Champagne of course!
• Bubble bath Anything with lavender or rose
• Hand cream Cocoa Butter

Really? What a bloody marvellous idea. I wish they'd done this when I had my DC. A one-hour nominated delivery slot, on your prefered day and no delivery on Sunday. My bundles were delivered somewhat begrudgingly by the NHS. The best they could offer was 'probably' somewhere between 37 and 40 weeks. Even then I got a bank holiday nightime delivery, and it took ages.

Are there any Christmas delivery slots left?

Essential products:

• Nappies - Nature nappies
• Dummy - Nooo!
• Colic remedy - no - surely it is not good to use these unless recommended by Doc/HV
• Nappy cream - used sudocream but organic option wd be better
• Baby bath - Waitrose
• Baby shampoo - Waitrose
• Talcum powder - do not need
• Cotton wool - Waitrose
• Baby wipes - Waitrose
• Nappy sacks - Nature Baby
• Breast pads - Avent
• Cake - Waitrose Pear & belgian chocolate
• Biscuits - Duchy Originals

Luxury products:

• Magazine - Green parent (think thats what its called - normally sold in Waitrose)
• Chocolate - Waitrose Belgian chocolates
• Sweets - no thank you.
• Hot drink - Organic mint tea
• Cold drink - Evian water
• Bubble bath - relaxing one without lots of chemicals
• Hand cream - Forever Living aloe vera type of moisturiser for hands and face

Essential products:

• Nappies
• Dummy - didn't use
• Colic remedy - didn't use
• Nappy cream - Sudocrem
• Baby bath - not with newborn
• Baby shampoo - not with newborn
• Talcum powder - didn't use
• Cotton wool - own brand pleat
• Baby wipes - Huggies unperfumed
• Nappy sacks
• Breast pads - Lanisoh disposable
• Cake
• Biscuits - Tunnocks caramel wafers

Luxury products:

• Magazine - sleb twaddle or similarly undemanding reading eg Heat etc
• Chocolate - Green & Blacks
• Sweets
• Hot drink
• Cold drink - Champagne/Cava
• Bubble bath - Lavender essential oil one
• Hand cream - Body Shop hemp

I've put more thought into this than I put into my own shopping

Essential products:

• Nappies - Pampers newborn
• Dummy - !!if must be included NUK
• Colic remedy - Infacol (can use from birth)
• Nappy cream - Sudacrem
• Baby bath - don't put in
• Baby shampoo - Johnsons Baby shampoo
• Talcum powder - thought didn't recommend this anymore for newborns ?
• Cotton wool - any
• Baby wipes - Huggies unfragranced
• Nappy sacks - any
• Breast pads - tommy tippee
• Cake - Lemon drizzle
• Biscuits - chocolate digestives

Luxury products:

• Magazine - heat/anything you don't need a brain cell to read.
• Chocolate - dairy milk
• Sweets - lemon sherbets
• Hot drink - waitrose drinking chocolate
• Cold drink - champagne
• Bubble bath - any
• Hand cream - clarins

Plus maternity pads & frozen chips & pizza!!! Not to eaten together

please could you suggest that they add a bag of dolmio ready cooked pasta and pasta sauce - microwave ready for the moment in the evening when you and your DP get 5 minutes to have some dinner during the witching hour!

I would leave out almost all the baby toiletries. they will have had a bounty bag with lots of stuff like that that they don't need already!

Essential products:

• Nappies - Nature Baby care
• Dummy - Tommee Tippee
• Colic remedy - Infacol
• Nappy cream - Metanium
• Baby bath None
• Baby shampoo Halos n horns
• Talcum powder not necessary
• Cotton wool Pleats
• Baby wipes Nature baby care
• Nappy sacks own brand
• Breast pads tomme tippee
• Cake Yes - lots
• Biscuits Posh ones, chocolate of course

Luxury products:

• Magazine Trashy ones with short articles, weekly digest news mags, e.g. the week
• Chocolate Lavender chocolate or green and blacks
• Sweets
• Hot drink tea, decaf or fruit tea
• Cold drink Champagne
• Bubble bath something natural
• Hand cream Crabtree and evelyn la source

Essential products:

• Nappies - Nature boy & girl
• Dummy - would not include
• Colic remedy - wouldn't include, many babies dont need it
• Nappy cream - waitorse bottom butter
• Baby bath - would not include
• Baby shampoo - waitrose
• Talcum powder - would not include
• Cotton wool - organic
• Baby wipes - waitose fragrance free or nature
• Nappy sacks
• Breast pads - avent
• Cake - waitrose carrot
• Biscuits

Luxury products:

• Magazine - Grazia
• Chocolate - posh dark, eg roccoco
• Sweets - Burnt Sugar fudge
• Hot drink - green & black hot chocolate
• Cold drink - champagne
• Bubble bath - neal's yard
• Hand cream - clarins

Essential products:

• Nappies - Nature or Real
• Dummy - No
• Colic remedy - No, not a new born essential
• Nappy cream - Sudocreme
• Baby bath - No
• Baby shampoo - No
• Talcum powder - NO
• Cotton wool - Large balls of.
• Baby wipes - No (but any unscented if neccessary)
• Nappy sacks - Nature.
• Breast pads - Nature.
• Cake - Chocolate Muffins.
• Biscuits - Choc Hob Nobs

Luxury products:

• Magazine - Trashy, not parenting as they make you feel inferior!
• Chocolate - Green and Blacks Dark with Mint
• Sweets - Haribos
• Hot drink - PG Tips
• Cold drink - Water
• Bubble bath - No
• Hand cream - Nutrogena