I saw the most disgusting product at a baby shower

[somemama]

A large syringe, that you use to "shoot" rice cereal into a baby's mouth! (To overcome the tongue-thrust reflex). WTF! And the mom was excited about it. I was disgusted.

[Piglet68]

UGH. Did nobody point out that the tongue-thrust relfex is there for a reason?

Hey, maybe we could market some tube-feeders, even better!!

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[USAmma]

My two favorites are the bottle-propping pillow and the straw you can put into a bottle nipple so even a small baby can drink it without the parent bothering to hold the baby.

Darshani

[ChildoftheMoon]

[ChildoftheMoon]

T P.S. -USAmma, I love your sig line.

[oceanbaby]

My SIL told me that she wanted to start giving her 5 month old solids so she could "train her to get rid of her tongue reflex." Oh, and also because she was tired of messy bm poop, and wanted her stools to firm up. :

[Evergreen]

That is disgusting, mamajulie! Geez, some people...

[sunbaby]

sure, isnt it one of the greatest joys of parenting when we can outwit or suppress yet another of our offsprings deepest instincts? :

[mama2girls]

What about the swing that starts to play music and swing when your child (who is in it) cries? It's amazing to me that manufacturers must put "stay with your baby" warnings on products. Where is the parent when the kid is using them?

[mirlee]

Another fine product for the ignoramuses in our world. If people are going to go to all that trouble, why even have the child in the first place. :

[kater07]

I too am amazed that anyone would bottle prop, leave a baby alone to amuse him/herself even when crying

I am making slings for my 2 PG friends and will look at their registries, get them one thing off the registry and one good book or a couple back issues of Mothering.

The Smart Respone Swing...it SUCKS...yes, I have it, I got it for the print on the fabric...lol, NOT b/c I wanted to leave my baby alone. It doesn't swing well, the response mechanism doesn't work even if I yell into it, and it lays all the way back all the time; you can't sit it up at all.

I do have a friend whose baby loves his swing soooooo much that the SRS would have been a good idea b/c he'd get really mad when his stopped swinging and he learned how to get out of the straps so he could reach the buttons to turn it on again. NOT SAFE!

Anywho, I think I would have said something about that hideous contraption at the shower. What are ppl thinking?

[Mamatoto2]

FYI

The SRS does suck....it was recently recalled for many of the reasons you mentioned. Check out FP's website:

http://www.fisher-price.com/us/

and click on "recall information" for the details. Maybe you can get your $ back (you know, to buy the bottle propper, cereal shooters, etc. you've had your eye on inky )

[momatheart23]

Don't you know, the reason to have children is for parent's convenience, you know love them when they are cute and adorable, and then dull them out while they are moody. They are like little trophies you know. And then people actually act surprised when kids go on violent rampages, and everybody just looks dumbfounded and says" I don't know what went wrong." I just want to scream at the ignorance of some people sometimes

[Solange]

[whateverdidiwants]

Sounds like a shower I went to a few weeks ago, where people kept giving presents that I call baby-neglecters - you know, "Just pop this video in and you won't have to do anything for the baby for at LEAST half an hour!".

Momatheart - you are so right on! At this shower, I saw a mom stick her 7 mo dc in her stroller and park her in the corner so the mom could go eat lunch in peace and quiet. You could tell the kid was used to it because she just stared at the ceiling the whole time. Very sad.

[mama2girls]

Ooooo, my dds would never stand for the stroller in the corner trick! They would either have to be on my lap or sitting up to the table. In fact the baby had to sit up to the table at 2 mo old, just so she could see what we were doing at dinner time!! Before that she was ususally sleeping or nursing!!

On a side note, dd#1 was totally un-interested in TV until she was about 2. Now she will maybe watch 1/2 of sesame street, but only if I'm there to sing along with her! We make it a singing and dancing game--did i defeat the purpose of a video? Some days I'd like to "plug her in" for a few so I could have a shower *all by myself*!! But alas, it's usually two kids and two cats in the b-room with me!

[LunaMom]

I'm always horrified by these "baby neglectors" (thanks for the term, whateverdidiwants!) too...but I have never heard of this cereal shooter thing! OMG...do people really use that? They really try to "train" babies out of their tongue thrust reflex? Wonderful...so then the baby has no self-protection from choking...:

I think these "feeders" were realy invented to use for medication, though. I can't believe people would use them to force-feed their babies cereal.

[kerc]

why buy another gadget....my friend told me to cut the nipple tip off a bottle and baby could drink cereal.

uhhh...
dd only gets a bottle when mommy has to work.

not to mention no cereal yet.

[somemama]

At this same shower, I held my son (7 mo.) the whole time.
Another mother with an 8 mo. put that baby on the floor to feed himself his bottle of formula.

I know that the original purpose of the syringes was for medicine, but this was a LARGE version of a syringe, and it would be too big for medicine. And it was called the "baby feeder" or some absurd title like that. And all of these moms were like, "Oh, wonderful, now you can feed him mush and he'll sleep through the night," etc.

She also got a baby monitor that vibrates the crib when the baby cries (because "of course" the baby will be in another room), so you can hear the baby cry, but "hopefully" the vibrating motion will put the baby back to sleep and you won't even have to get up. :

I gave the new momma a sling, BTW! (It was her only "AP" gift.)

But I didn't know anyone there very well--including the new momma--she's just a distant friend--so I didn't speak up about the dumb gifts she got.

[gurumama]

Imagine an "AP" baby shower.

The mom would get a sling and a boatload of cute cloth diapers. Some Lanisoh and nursing bras. Mother's milk tea, oatmeal, and flax seed meal. A Boppy. A carseat. Some cotton clothes. Maybe a breast pump and some breast pads. Som Dr. Sears and other AP books. An organic baby food book.

That's it!

Sounds good to me!