I wish they would make....

[EricaMG]

I thought it would be fun to come up with child-related inventions you wish were on the market. Off the top of my head I can think of two. One would be dilluted apple juice in a convenient juice box. The other would be for Graco (or another reputable car seat maker) to partner with car companies to make child seats that would pop out and fold back into the seat when you wanted an adult to sit in the seat, keeping you from having to re-install a car seat every time you needed space for an adult (kind of like a sofa bed type thing).

Can you think of any other kid-related "inventions" that you think would help to make your life easier?

[Karri]

Erica - some cars do have a built in child seat! But not for infants...only once they are fwd. facing.

Anyway....
time to go use my brain to think up some ideas...

[Isaiah's Momma]

A carrier, like a bjorn made for use in the pool or shower. I serched and found a sling like that, but not a carrier.

[Marcella]

Some kind of cute hair accessory for little girls who don't have hair! :lol: No offense to anyone who uses them, but I think those "garter" thingies just look ridiculous (not to mention uncomfortable), so I refuse to have Amelia wear them. So, aside from hats, there's nothing for her "hair". I don't know what this invention would be, but I wish there was something, aside from velcroing a bow on her head! :lol:

[~Andrea~]

A carrier, like a bjorn made for use in the pool or shower. I serched and found a sling like that, but not a carrier.
OMG I have been thinking the same thing for over a year now!! Not that *I* am creative enough to design it though :lol:

[Karly]

ITA!!! :lol:Some kind of cute hair accessory for little girls who don't have hair! :lol: No offense to anyone who uses them, but I think those "garter" thingies just look ridiculous (not to mention uncomfortable), so I refuse to have Amelia wear them. So, aside from hats, there's nothing for her "hair". I don't know what this invention would be, but I wish there was something, aside from velcroing a bow on her head! :lol:

[Karri]

Some kind of cute hair accessory for little girls who don't have hair! :lol: No offense to anyone who uses them, but I think those "garter" thingies just look ridiculous (not to mention uncomfortable), so I refuse to have Amelia wear them. So, aside from hats, there's nothing for her "hair". I don't know what this invention would be, but I wish there was something, aside from velcroing a bow on her head! :lol:
AMEN!!!!

I have one...
something that would allow me to lay on my back in bed and BF both babies at once :lol:

[SarahK]

A strap on binky (maybe it could hook over her ears??) so that it stays in her mouth!!

[harmonielyn]

A strap on binky (maybe it could hook over her ears??) so that it stays in her mouth!!

:lol: When my brother was little he couldnt hold a pacifier in his mouth because he was born with a cleft lip/palate. Well my mom had someone make this hat thing with velcro on each side (by the ears) with a strap to pass through the holes of the pacifier. It worked.

[sheila]

A strap on binky (maybe it could hook over her ears??) so that it stays in her mouth!!
I saw something like this somewhere... it was a block type thing that you rested against the binky to keep it in the baby's mouth. I can't seem to find it again, though. (for some reason, I want to say it was on the website where Karri found her pacifiers, though :dunno: )

[Nichole]

Um, diapers that change themselves? :lol:

OK, I'll have to go think of a real one now...

[~Jenn]

Sheila, I saw the same thing you're talking about (or something that was very similar!)!

And I'm another one that would LOVE something for little girls with not much hair! :lol:

[Karri]

A strap on binky (maybe it could hook over her ears??) so that it stays in her mouth!!OMG! I forgot about that! I told Chris I was going to invent one that hooked around the ears when Aidan was an infant and couldnt keep it in :lol:

I saw something like this somewhere... it was a block type thing that you rested against the binky to keep it in the baby's mouth. I can't seem to find it again, though. (for some reason, I want to say it was on the website where Karri found her pacifiers, though :dunno: )http://www.childmed.com/images/products/thumbs/wub.jpg (javascript:viewImage('/images/products/wub_2.jpg');)
This is what was on the site & we got them and they worked worth shit :lol: Oh well... N&E are bink free now

[LeslieC]

You guys have some great ideas!!

I have one. I am sick and tired of my baby's wet shirts!!! He drools SO MUCH!! Even through the bibs. So he wears bibs constantly so I never see the cute clothes underneath!! How about some sort of water proof (droolproof!) cute clothes! Maybe with some sort of plastic lining covered with fabric so it doesn't irritate his skin???

[JillMelissa]

Baby clothes made of that Dockers stain/water resistant fabric?

[Brandi]

This is an awesome thread! You guys make me laugh!

When I was nursing Carter and he was getting up ALL THE TIME, I wished that I could get a watch that you could press a button and it would record the time. That way, I could just push the button and then not have to write it down or something. I never wrote anything down anyway, and all the nights were such a blur - I couldn't remember which night was which.

I like the diapers that change themselves - I would love some of those.

Here's another unrealistic one - a machine that could interpret what your child was thinking. So "whaaaaa" would come out "I want a diaper change" or "feed me".

Um......I"ll have to think on this for awhile.

[EricaMG]

Erica - some cars do have a built in child seat! But not for infants...only once they are fwd. facing
Really? Someone else took credit for my wonderful invention???:lol2:

[Dennis]

Here's another unrealistic one - a machine that could interpret what your child was thinking. So "whaaaaa" would come out "I want a diaper change" or "feed me".

Danny DeVito invented that on "The Simpsons" a few years back :)

[Theresa]

I would love disposable bottles. Not like the Playtex ones with the disposable liners, but some cheap plastic ones that you can just throw out when you're done. I hate carrying home bottles that are dirty. By the time you get home, they just stink! And somehow one got forgotten one time and the formula left inside was chunky! :dead: I would have loved to just toss it. I'm thinking the same kind of stuff Glad Ware is made out of.

[Karri]

Theresa- I think Avent makes them now! You can toss them or you can reuse them!

[Theresa]

Theresa- I think Avent makes them now! You can toss them or you can reuse them!

Avent makes little cups that you can store BM in that you can toss or re-use. I'm talking about actual bottles.

This isn't really a "baby" thing, I also thought that I would be really cool to have a dryer that drys clothes as fast as the washer washes them. That would be neat!

[~Andrea~]

This isn't really a "baby" thing, I also thought that I would be really cool to have a dryer that drys clothes as fast as the washer washes them. That would be neat!
They do. I remember seeing a commercial. I forget who though.

[sheila]

Forumal/BM flavored infant medicines. Frankly, the grape, berry & bubble gum are wasted on infants younger than a certain age.

Some sort of chip/subscription that would let you change out the "music" on many children's toys. Imagine how much saner we'd all be with a little bit of a change every once in a while! :lol:

[Theresa]

Great ideas, Sheila! :aok:

[bunybomb]

The shower carrier was a dream of mine too!

How about a robotic arm you could strap on and have three hands? I could have used that to make dinner while holding my colicky baby! :lol:

[magoo]

There have been many times in the past 16 months that I've been up for hours in the middle of the night with Anna, and it can be pretty discouraging and lonely. I would often think that chances were pretty good that my sister was up with her little guy too, but I knew that if I called, it would me Murphy's Law that she would have just gotten him back to sleep and I would have woken them all back up. Sooo...

... my idea is a parent sypathy system. It would be a unit that you can attatch to your phone. Each owner programs in the names and phone numbers of their friends and family with young children. When you're up in the middle of the night with your baby who is refusing to go back to sleep, you can flip a switch, and a light will go on beside your name on your friends' boxes. You can also check you box to see who's light is on ~ that way, you know that it's safe to call and get a little sympathy from someone who is going through the same thing without worrying that you're waking them.

Hope I explained that so that it made sense. :)

[SarahK]

oooh, Sarah, I like your idea!!

[olcott]

thats a great idea Sarah! now to put it to action :lol:

you know they have those little things you can put on your key ring, so if you lose them you can clap or whistle or whatever, and it beeps so you can find them..they need those for bottles, sippy cups and binkys :lol:

[Sandy]

We are getting ready to fly w/ Rayna and I would love it if there were some seats on a plane that had a car seat thingy on them so you don't have to lug around car seats through the airports.

Sandy

[~Andrea~]

great ideas!

[sheila]

speaking of sippy cups.... there needs to be some alarm that goes off when a sippy cup has stayed in one place too long (full). We just set a record last night, finding a sippy cup of milk that was several weeks old :dead:

[~Andrea~]

:puke: YUCK!!

[sheila]

And I love the parent sympathy system!

[Brandi]

OOOH - Sarah - I love your idea!

[magoo]

I just found this thread again, and I've had another (not so) brilliant idea for an invention.

How about a soother/toothbrush. Some kind of soother that kids could suck on, but it would brush their teeth at the same time? :lol:

[Michele]

I think they should make pre-Desitined (or whatever) diapers. Jackson thrashes around on the changing table so much, that whenever I try to cream his butt he gets it everywhere, or he won't sit still long enough to do it. If it was already on the diaper, things wouldn't get so messy! (Plus I hate having that stuff on my hands)

[Karri]

Michele --i think there are diapers similar to that. or were. I thought that Pampers made rash guard diapers with some anti-rash stuff on them. but i could be wrong.

[Michele]

Michele --i think there are diapers similar to that. or were. I thought that Pampers made rash guard diapers with some anti-rash stuff on them. but i could be wrong.
Well...damnit! That was going to be my million dollar idea! I'll have to look for these, as Jackson currently has a red bum, but won't sit still long enough for me to cream it!