5 Products You’ll Have Never Heard of Until You Have Kids

When it comes to babies and children many of us look at the accessories and contraptions they require and recoil in horror. How can such a small creature need so much attention and ‘things’? Why are they so squidgy? How long do you have to support their heads for? Can they smell fear?

Here are just a few products you probably haven’t heard of but will have forced down your throat once you decide to procreate:

A nursing reminder tag

Apparently when you breast feed you can forget which breast you most recently used and no one wants lopsided boobs at the end of it all. That’s why you can pick up a nursing reminder tag, which is essentially a clip you pop onto the bra cup you most recently fed your baby from to remind you next time. Honestly, it’s a thing.

You could just wear a coloured wristband on the corresponding arm or swap a piece of jewellery but it is designed to help those Mums who are adjusting to long nights and are half asleep for the first few months.

A nose syringe

Sounds like some sort of torture device right? Well, it’s apparently used to suck snot out of your baby’s nose because they can’t blow into a tissue. Shuddering at the thought? We thought so.

A cup leash

Apparently children enjoy nothing more than taking their sippy cups and hurling them across the room. Why? Because they can, that’s why.

However, someone came up with the ingenious idea of attaching their kid’s sippy flask to a lead, with a suction cup on the end. This suction cup is slapped onto the high chair and when the child decides to play a game of fetch with you the flask won’t go flying across the room.

Any sort of Disney doll or toy

Disney churn out so many films per year sometimes it’s hard to keep track, so be prepared to not have a clue what your children are talking about when you ask them what they want for Christmas. Those television ads are sneaky. For now click here and educate yourself on the type of things you’ll be putting your hand in your pocket for, once you have kids.

Baby bathtub

Apparently, some genius decided that babies need their own bathtubs (probably shaped like a whale or a frog or something like that) and started marketing them as essential. You might have enjoyed this luxury as a child or you were probably just washed in the sink until you were too old to go in the actual bathtub.

We think you need to talk to your parents about this mistreatment; you would have obviously turned out better if you’d been bathed in a tub shaped like a fish.

When it comes to kids if you haven’t heard of a product you probably don’t need it, marketing companies love to tell you what you must buy to give your kid the best start in life and what could potentially ruin it for them (or spontaneously kill them) but if you’ve got a safe way of completing a task that doesn’t require spending hundreds of pounds on a gimmicky product then go for it.