BIODEGRADABLE BABY WIPES

 

I’m really conscious that the products I use on Ripley have as little impact as possible on the planet. So I just wanted to do a quick shout out to Aqua Wipes which are 100% biodegradable, natural and plastic free.  I’ve used these since Rips was born and can’t recommend them enough. I totally appreciate that taking the eco route is sometimes more expensive but Ocado and Amazon regularly run promotions which means they work out cheaper than ocean polluting Water Wipes.

I Spin You Round Round Baby

Don’t you hate it when you’re heading out to run a simple errand and get all flustered and frizzy haired trying to fit an irritable toddler in the car, straining across to secure them in the seat whilst they fiddle with the twisted straps? 

Luckily, this is not something I’ve personally experienced because Joie have literally put the joy into their Spin 360 Signature car seat.

The Pact-Lite Travel Friendly Buggy

We recently got back from our first holiday as a family, visiting good friends in Chicago, and out of everything we took with us

(basically, EVERYTHING but the cat) there’s one particular item that made traveling with a baby an absolute breeze.

The Joie Pact Lite is a stroller that folds up so compact that you can take it directly onto the plane and store it in the overhead locker.  

For us, this was a vast selling point since it meant we avoided the risk of waiting to get it back once we got through customs at the airport – a process that can apparently take up to 2 hours (and not something we fancied doing after an 8-hour flight).

Now, you might read this and think “yeah but wasn’t the Babyzen YoYo the first to offer that exact feature” and well yes, they were…but Joie’s is more than half the price and actually LIGHTER than the YoYo! So for me, it’s a no brainer.

My Hummy - Portable White Noise Wonder

I’d previously written a post about Whisbear and the benefits of white noise but wanted to get a more portable device that would keep Ripley settled during car and train outings.

Car journeys usually send babies to sleep (great) but Ripley would usually wake the second we turned the ignition off (not so great).  Since we’ve been using MyHummy, he tends to snooze for ages and I can actually get sh*t done!

Sleepyhead zzzzzz

So, let me get straight to the point.  If I didn't own a Sleepyhead, I would not have the ability to write a sentence.

This blog post (and probably all future posts) are only possible because Sleepyhead actually gets baby to sleep. Which I guess is the purpose of the product.

As soon as I announced my pregnancy to friends, the "congratulations" were swiftly (and quite seriously) followed by "and definitely get a Sleepyhead".