Comments on: Three Unusual Baby and Toddler Products, Volume 2

By: Denae

Denae — Fri, 23 May 2008 05:00:01 +0000

That sucker thing is all the rage in Sweden. It has a filter on it so you don’t such the boogers down your throat. They say it’s better than the bulb booger getter.

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:19:00 +0000

I do have the Japanese aspirator and I brought it in Canada. But that store is closed and can’t buy it anymore. It’s the 2nd best things that the Japanese made (other than Wasabi) to clear baby nose. Cheers.

By: Candy

Candy — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:16:18 +0000

We love our Tubsider. We have the old version, before the inventor was bought out by Infantino. With the literally hundreds of baths we give our children, the importance of their safety and need to stay close, this thing consistently saves our backs and knees. It is ergonomically sound and very sturdy. I won’t give baths without it and even my husband is a convert. Particularly great with I had to get down to bath my 3-year-old while pregnant with my next child. I hunted one down on eBay (between the buy out when they were very hard to find) for my best friend, a pediatrician. She and her pediatrician husband love it too!

By: Will

Will — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:07:54 +0000

Hi everyone, I got the Japanese snot sucker and it’s the best little sucker in the world. The tubing is silicon and feels very soft. I use it for the dry mucous that forms every otherday. It’s really safe to use and the one end that goes to the childs nose is shaped like a onion, it makes a good seal around the nose. You can’t tell from the picture but it’s really chld friendly to use. You don’t really need a filter for this unless you can suck really hard, the little container can hold alot. The only problem is finding a place that sell it in the U.S. To me this little sucker is worth more than gold.

By: Sandra

Sandra — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:35:24 +0000

I actually got that snot thingie from a coworker who got it from Japan, and used it a couple of times with my son - it actually works pretty well, esp. when he had a cold, and seemed like he had a running nose forever.

It was easy to clean, and much better than the bulb. Kinda weird, but it works!

By: Ruth

Ruth — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 13:56:41 +0000

Hi
I can read Japanese.
What would you like to know about the snot sucker?
Ruth

By: Kathy

Kathy — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 07:42:06 +0000

It’s no snot-sucker, but … a friend of mine brought our baby a foam “hat” with the middle cut out from China. The idea is that you can wash your baby’s hair in the bath, but the brim of the “hat” will protect her from getting water on her face. This would be ideal if a) you didn’t want to wash your baby’s face and b) your baby didn’t insist on putting her face in the water and trying to drink her bath each night.

We ditched the funny little hat at bath time. Sometimes our baby, now a toddler, puts it on her head to be funny, but only for a few seconds because hats really suck (she has indicated this to us clearly).

By: dee

dee — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 03:12:32 +0000

Hmm, that snotsucker looks strange…. I have a better aspirator, it’s called Nosefrida, it’s from Sweden and you can actually buy it here in the States, online. It really works, I wasn’t sure at first but our pediatrician recommended it and it works great, far better than that bulb thing.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 05:17:51 +0000

My son laughs at your feeble attempts to make him keep his food on his tray or even eat at all. He heaves the suction cup plates until they come apart, and then stands up in his high chair Incredible Hulk style (yes, that includes ripping up the straps) and then demands removal from his wooden prison. From our previous correspondence, do you get the idea I’m going to have an interesting life of parenthood? ;) (At least I hope you’re not just getting the idea that we’re horrible parents!)