The First Years is a household name when it comes to products for your children. They have a complete line of feeding, care, travel, nursery, and play products… everything to help you reach each milestone and get ready for those “first years!”
I was excited to be sent the Sure Comfort Deluxe Newborn-to-Toddler Tub with Sling to review. We never had a bath tub like this for Ryan. I’m not really sure why… I had one of those bucket-like tubs, which I found really hard to use in the early days. With Rebecca, we had no tub when she was born–I’ve just been getting in our bath tub with her. That hasn’t been the most convenient.
This bath tub was voted best infant bath tub by babble.com! It fits safely in single and double sinks–we have a double. From left to right in the photos above, you can see that it has a removable sling for newborns, a slanted and padded backrest for infants, and a seat on the other side for toddlers to sit up.
The pads are mildew resistant, which is great because they stay a little damp, of course, after a bath. The mesh sling for newborns has a nice padded headrest, it’s form-fitting to hold your baby safely, and has adjustable straps depending on your baby’s size and how low (or high) you want them resting. It’s also machine washable and dryable! The tub has a handy compartment on one side to hold your baby shampoo and washcloths, too.
You can see in the picture above how easily it rests in our double sink. The only thing that’s tough about our particular sink is that you can’t move the faucet once the bath tub is there, so that took some getting used to.
Rebecca is just chillin’ in her sling, relaxing in the warm water–she LOVES bath time! She cries when I take her out of the tub, lol. And of course big brother likes to help!
The tub has a super handy plug in the bottom to drain the water when you’re done. I like to drain the soapy water while she’s still in there while kind of refilling the tub or spraying her. (Spraying her? Sounds like I’m washing a dog. Haha, you know what I mean!)
You can find this tub at Walmart, BabiesRUs.com, and select Target stores for $19.99.
GIVEAWAY: one lucky reader will win their own The First Years Sure Comfort Deluxe Tub! Winner can choose pink or blue. Please use the form below to enter–none of the entry options are mandatory so you can do as many or as few as you’d like! Good luck!
Evenflo has been making baby and child products for over 85 years! They have everything from birth to the pre-school years, including car seats, high chairs, strollers, gates, carriers, bottles, and more.
For our review we were sent a sample of the new Bebek bottles. I’m a breastfeeding mama, but do pump so that Rebecca can have a bottle on occasion–especially when I go back to work part-time in the fall.
Features of the Bebek bottles:
~wider nipple base for easier latch & transition from breast to bottle
~rapid venting to release air bubbles into bottle instead of baby’s tummy
~leak-free and easy assembly
~BPA-free
For my review, I was sent the Bebek Feeding Multi-Pack. It comes with two 5-oz bottles, one 8-oz bottle, a bottle cleaning brush, and a formula/snack container.
I don’t need a formula container as a nursing mom, but I like that the container is easy to use for snacks, too. I use it for my 2 year old.
The bottle brush is really nice because it’s curved to get the to edges of the bottles and it has a smaller brush at the other end to clean the nipples.
My favorite features of the Bebek line are the bottle shapes that make them easy to hold and the wider nipple base that makes latching easier for my baby girl. So far, we’ve only used the 5-oz sized bottles because she doesn’t eat more than that–and breastfed babies usually don’t. The 8-oz bottle is nice for storing lots of milk though.
You can find Bebek bottles online at Bed Bath & Beyond and Buy Buy Baby (as well as in Buy Buy Baby stores). The multi-pack I received is $22.99. You can find Evenflo on facebook and twitter!
Wonderworld has been creating eco-friendly toys for over 25 years and are best known for their selection of wooden toys. Another reason to love them? For every tree that is cut down for the production of their toys, Wonderworld plants TWO new ones as part of their “Tree Plus” program.
I love the huge selection of fun, educational, and environmentally friendly toys. You can find things for ages birth and up, from balance bikes and furniture to puzzles and pretend play.
The rounded base allows this toy to sway back and forth.
Stacking rings are just one of those must-have baby toys! It allows your child to learn about shapes, sizes, and colors. The six rings can go on the base in any order and helps your child practice hand-eye coordination, creativity, and counting.
It’s listed in the 12-24 month category. I picked it out with Rebecca in mind–once she’s old enough to play with it–but wouldn’t ya know my 2 year old (he’s 28 months) loves it! He names the colors as he picks them up and he puts them in order or backwards order or random order haha.
“Eco-Friendly: Made in Thailand from environmentally friendly rubberwood and strictly using Non-Toxic Paints, Dyes and Lacquers and Formaldehyde Free Glue. Packaging is made from at least 70% recycled paper.”
You can buy these stacking rings for $18.
GIVEAWAY: one lucky reader will win a set of their own Stacking Rings from Wonderworld! Please use the form below to enter–none of the entry options are mandatory so you can do as many or as few as you’d like! Good luck!
ThinkFun is “the world’s leader in addictively fun games that build reasoning and creative thinking skills through play.” Started in 1985 (the year I was born!) by a husband and wife team, ThinkFun has grown as a global company in over 60 countries and in over 20 languages!
For our review, we were sent Roll & Play–your child’s first game!
It’s meant for ages 18 months and up. I was excited to have a game to play Ryan (our 2-year-old), but I highly doubted he’d sit still long enough to play the whole game and I wondered how well it would work.
Ummm… best.game.ever. Ryan LOVES it. Since getting it, we have played it at least once a day. He plays with mommy during the day. He plays with daddy when he gets home from work. He plays with both of us on weekends. He plays in the morning. At noon. At night. We have the game memorized, haha.
It’s simple: you have 6 different colors of cards and you have a cube with matching colors. Roll the plush cube and match the color on top to the correct card. Each card has an activity for you to do!
There are 48 cards (8 in each color category) and Ryan not only sits there long enough to get through all of them, he insists we do all of them and often asks to play again as soon as we’re done, haha.
Yellow cards: emotions (“Make a surprised face” or “Giggle and laugh”)
Blue cards: colors (find something in the room that’s “red”)
Green cards: animals (“Quack like a duck” or “Squeak like a mouse”)
Purple cards: actions (“Tickle your knees” or “Wave your arms”)
Orange cards: numbers (“Pat your head 7 times” or “Stomp your foot 6 times”)
Red cards: vocals (“Sing a song” or “Say your name”)
This is Ryan showing his HAPPY face, as one of the yellow cards told him to do! I was surprised at how well he knew his emotions (sad faces, sleepy faces, surprised faces…). I think those cards are my favorites. Ryan also loves the purple action cards and orange counting cards.
I wanted to take a video to show how cute this game is and how much Ryan loves it… I got a little bit before my camera died but you can get the idea!
You can watch a much better video, haha, from ThinkFun here: “how to play.” The plush cube also has a built in pocket to store the cards in when you aren’t playing! Part of Ryan’s fun comes from sorting the cards into the 6 different colors, then stacking them up, and putting them away lol.
You can buy Roll & Play for $19.99.
GIVEAWAY: one lucky reader will win their own Roll & Play game! Please use the form below to enter–none of the entry options are mandatory so you can do as many or as few as you’d like! Good luck!
Love love love everything about aden + anais. We use their swaddling blankets all day, every day. They’re sooo much more than just swaddling blankets…. they’re my nursing covers and burp cloths. They’re my stroller blankets and tummy time mats. They’re soft, breathable and light, and adorable. I tell all my pregnant friends that they’re MUST haves and even just bought a pack for a new mom who was having trouble swaddling–because she didn’t have THESE!
aden + anais has many more wonderful products, too, and I can’t wait to try them all–because I really want to! They have sleeping bags, towels, washcloths, security blankets, bibs, and–what I want to try out the most–crib sheets!
They were recently awarded a 2012 Cribsie Award for having the most absorbant infant bibs! It’s that muslin material… it’s so awesome for cleaning up messes.
For my review, I was sent a pack of the burpy bibs in the “princess poise” print:
They’re the same muslin material that I love in the swaddling blankets, but they’re thicker for holding messes better–4 layers of 100% cotton muslin. They are PERFECT. Why? Because they double as bibs and burp cloths. The curved shape of them makes them lie perfectly over your shoulder for spit-ups and makes them wrap nicely around your baby’s neck as a bib (with a snap in the back to secure it in place).
And they’re big. Those little rectangular shaped burp cloths drive me nuts–I bet 9 times out of 10 your baby’s spit up misses the rag completely with those things.
Rebecca is showing you how pretty one of the bibs is! She’s holding just one half of it so you can really see how big it is! I had it on her post-nursing to catch any spit up and she decided to play with it, haha.
aden + anais has the same “princess poise” print in matching blankets and sleeping bag so you could have a whole set–so cute! A set of two burpy bibs is $22 and totally worth it–these will be the only type of bibs and burp clothes you’ll ever need.
The First Years is a household name when it comes to products for your children. They have a complete line of feeding, care, travel, nursery, and play products… everything to help you reach each milestone and get ready for those “first years!”
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