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Grobag Egg
by InchyInchy
Grobag egg temperature night light
When I was pregnant and we first started to buy little bits and pieces for the baby I was really keen to get a room thermometer. Now as a parent I understand that a room thermometer is not really required but it is nice, especially at the beginning to make sure that everything is as ... perfect as you can possibly make it for your little baby. Ideally you want to keep the house and more importantly the room where the baby will be sleeping somewhere between 16 and 20 degrees Celsius.
The Grobag egg room thermometer allows you at a quick glance to see what temperature range the room is in. For example;
Blue - for under 16 degree Celsius
Yellow - for between 16 and 20 degrees Celsius
Orange - for 20 - 22 degrees Celsius
Red - for over 22 degrees Celsius
There is also a small screen on the front of the Grobag egg that you can read the exact room temperature.
Knowing the temperature of the baby's bedroom will allow you to make sure that the little one is either wrapped up warm enough or only needs some lighter blankets if it's a warmer night. It is something that I find doing intuitively now and I rarely look at the room thermometer to determine what I should put my baby in or if I should put the heating on or off for a bit. But for the first time parent it can and did just give me a little extra peace of mind right at the very beginning when everything seems so overwhelming.
In my opinion, by far the best feature of the Grobag egg is that it makes for a lovely night light. However, I would love to be able to select what colour to put it on, I understand that the room temperature determines the night light colour, but it would be nice to put off that option and either have the Grobag egg cycle through the colours or choose which colour you would like as a night light. Personally, I think the blue colour makes a lovely choice for a night light and I would pick that over the yellow any day but I don't want to have to make my room too cold for my baby in order to get it.
In my experience so far with the Grobag egg it seems to be quite accurate in its temperature readings. We also have in our room a baby monitor that among other things also records the temperature and both it and the Grobag egg usually agree.
I believe that you can find the Grobag egg room temperature night light in most baby stores and from online stores such as Amazon, where it retails from anywhere between £15 - £25. I paid £15 for mine and for the price I feel like I got a lovely night light with the added benefit of a room thermometer that I will continue to use on a nightly basis for a long time to come.
I am not sure that I would recommend the Grobag egg. Personally, I think knowing the temperature is nice but it is not really essential and after the first few nights at home it was second nature to adjust the baby's blankets according to the room temperature. However, it does make for a nice night light.
Three out of five stars.
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Mothercare Corner Cushions
by scooch12
I feel I should review these to let others know our experience before deciding to spend money on them. I purchased the Mothercare corner cushions as our daughter recently got a baby walker and at some stage in the (now very near) future will be up and about all over the place. I wanted to make sure that the house was fully baby proof for ... when the time came so I tried to be fully prepared and bought a kit from Mothercare that had all sorts of home proof items included, one part of the kit being 4 of their corner cushions. The whole kit we purchased cost £8.99 in the sale, but on the Mothercare website today, the corner cushions can be purchased separately and cost £5.99 for a pack of 8.
Use
The corner cushions are designed to slot neatly over the corner of cabinets, units, tables, anything basically with a corner that it can stick to. They provide a protective cover for sharp edges so that if small children catch it as they are darting around the house they will provide a safe shield and stop them from hurting themselves. This is what they're supposed to do anyway.
The corner cushions come looking slightly different to the picture - there are grooves in them around the edges and on part of the top and they are made of plastic that is not as clear as in the picture, it's more of a grainy clear plastic and not completely see through. They come with a double sided sheet of sticky backing that have to be cut down to size by the user and stuck underneath. The backing is peeled away and the corner is stuck down firmly onto the chosen piece of furniture and after holding it for a few seconds, it should be ready for use. This process turned out to be quite fiddly to do.
My Opinion
These are definitely the worst baby purchase I've made so far - and that is a bold statement to make considering of how many things that we've bought for use with my daughter! I can't actually find enough words to explain how terrible they are - we might as well have left the furniture the way it was with how little use they've been to us. The sticky backing firstly is horrendous, it's not at all sticky enough to hold the corner in place properly. We had the four from the kit dotted around the living room and one of them was supposed to be fixed onto a unit that is quite close to a door. My husband brushed past it one evening while going through the door and I have to say didn't touch it very much at all, only very lightly with his jacket, and the whole thing just flew off the unit and onto the floor! After it flew off on that occasion, it then kept falling off on a regular basis until we reached a point where we had no option but to remove them as there was little point of it being there and was causing more issues than solutions. It had been applied as per their instructions (which I might add are also as useful as a chocolate fireguard as they are written in tiny obscure writing that can hardly be seen!) so it wasn't a case of user error when applying them originally. Considering they are supposed to withstand the bumps and scrapes from a child, walkers and toys this is such a poor design. There is no way that these corners would stay on in place if my daughter's walker had trundled past it as this would have had much more contact. Children are not usually light in their movements - they are heavy handed most of the time and they should be designed to withstand bumps, however hard those bumps may be.
Even if the sticky backing was re-designed to hold it in place properly, I am also not convinced that the edging is suitable for a child to bump into. The edges have ridges around and these seem very rough in my view, they don't exactly feel much softer than the corners that they are there to protect if I'm honest which obviously defeats their purpose. I think if my daughter had bumped into one of these corner cushions it wouldn't exactly acted as a cushion and instead would have hurt her.
Conclusion
I cannot recommend these to anyone, I am yet to buy new ones but these are certainly going to be replaced by another brand as soon as possible. These are just not fit for purpose - I'd have been very disappointed if I'd have paid £5.99 for 8 of the things. At least I have the consolation that I've got other house proof items for my £8.99 that I hope we will get more use from. It's a shame as it's the first thing from Mothercare that I've felt very let down by. I would like to rate no stars at all, but I'll have to choose one just to be able to share this review with everyone!
Thanks for reading :o)
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