What is the most absurd/useless baby gadget, toy or piece of equipment that some one gave you or convinced you to buy when you were pregnant?
My father-in-law thought I should get a baby-cam. It was a video version of a baby monitor.
Some one else bought me a basinet that we used for 3 weeks tops.
Everyime I turned around someone was trying to sell me something that I could not live without. It started to make me wonder how babies ever survived when there were not baby wipe warmers:)
2007-02-20 07:17:56 · 10 answers · asked by Kewl 3 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Other - Pregnancy & Parenting
hahaha some of my favorites were: The baby "leash" yeah that got thrown away immediately. 2 ounce bottles (good for a week I guess) The wipe warmer as you mentioned was never used because I change my kids all over the house, the wipes travel. Thus the changing table is pretty useless other than it's nice to stack things on such as spare diapers, wipes, burp rags and bibs.
Of all of the "useless" things I recieved here's the topper: The dr. spock book. I haven't looked twice at it.
2007-02-20 09:43:12 · answer #1 · answered by momofthreemiracles 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is so much useless baby gear out there. The worst are all the toys and gizmos. You need blocks, stuffed animals, books, barking dogs, singing bears, musical cats, a telephone that rings, and real looking and feeling keys. Half these things always remain in the toy box. Others are kept in a seperate box downstairs so we can switch when he becomes bored...but we've only bought him two or three toys and somehow we have boxes full!!
Funniest thing is he doesn't even use them. He has three toys he plays with the most. Baby Elmo, Fisher Price bear that sings, and a Baby Einstein farm book. The others sit in the toy box for most of the day. Except the books....he loves those board books.
2007-02-20 07:24:44 · answer #2 · answered by Baby #3 due 10/13/09 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The wipey warmer. I never even took it out of the box. Waste. Also a bottle warmer...microwave works just as well and faster.
I used a bassinet for at least 5 months. I thought it was the greatest. I moved it around the house and outside too. Funny how some people find things useful and others not.
I couldnt have survived without the vibrating bouncy seat.
2007-02-20 07:23:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
WOW where to start. The most useless thing for me was the changing table. I always ended up doing it on the floor. Thank goodness I didn't buy it, I was given one. With both, it was just nicer to do it on the floor, especially when they started moving around.
I actually did use our bassinet (again, a gift) for 3 months. I didn't want to co-sleep w/ my second, so I put her in the bassinet by our bed.
I guess it just depends on who you are and what works best for you.
2007-02-20 07:28:49 · answer #4 · answered by chelebeee 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are so many items out there now for babies it is hard to know what will be most useful.
I always bought strollers carseats and cribs when i bought something.
A bassinet is ok for when they come home from hospital but they outgrow them too fast.
My grandmother didnt have diaper rah cream we have to day like Destin so she had to use the lard.
Be glad you not in her days.
2007-02-20 07:25:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For me it would have to be the bottle sterilization thingy. I figured, "The five of us didn't grow up with any weird diseases because they didn't have those things around when we were babies," and just did what my mom did, boiled them in a big pot for 5 minutes when you first buy them. Totally useless!
2007-02-20 07:52:34 · answer #6 · answered by McNulty25 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Someone swore I needed a diaper Genie. That thing sucked! If I was out of cartridges, then what? Lug my newborn out in the cold for special bags?
I still get angry at myself for that purchase!
2007-02-20 07:26:24 · answer #7 · answered by Crazymom 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
truthfully a vibrating bouncy chair. They paintings like a attraction. just to assist you to recognize, diaper genies are particularly convienent, exceedingly if youchange the child in an identical spot each and all of the time. you quite can not scent something once you utilize them and it saves you having to alter your rubbish bag each and all of the time, because of the fact diapers scent no count the place you shop them.
2016-11-24 20:33:37 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I didnt fall for any of that stuff, mostly because I don't have money to burn.
The baby product i find most pointless are those nappy wrapper bins.
2007-02-20 07:22:55 · answer #9 · answered by cigaro19 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a baby penis enlarger... it works for me but not for them...
2007-02-20 07:25:17 · answer #10 · answered by sexay 1 · 0⤊ 5⤋