A Towel With A Hood? Who Needs It? (Baby Towels in General)

Member Name: arleek

Product:	Baby Towels in General
Date:	24/06/09 (102 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Cute

Disadvantages: Too expensive and pointless

Right, thought I would write a quick review on these because I do believe I have wasted my money buying these types of towels for my kids.

A baby towel is a small square towel (about twice the size of a hand towel) with a hood in one corner. Now depending on where you buy these from and how much you pay, they can be plain or patterned or with some sort of logo on, and they can be extremely thin, and end up like sand paper after a couple of washes, or they can be nice and fluffy and even stay that way after numerous washes.

Before our first daughter was born my husband and I went about buying everything we could think of that we needed to have for a baby, and cuddle robes were on that list. We ended up picking up a 3 pack from Babies R Us which I think cost us about a tenner. Now I wouldn't recommend anyone buy cheap towels like this because these were really thin and quite harsh on our daughter's skin, I hated to dry her with them.

Luckily someone bought us a pink one as a new baby gift, and this was from John Lewis and I imagine they paid at least £10 just for the one towel and it was worth it. It was lovely and soft and retained it's fluffiness after several washes. This was the favourite towel to use on my daughter, but when it was in the wash we realised we didn't have anything else (didn't even think to look in the fresh adult towel cupboard!), so off to Mothercare we went (the Babies R Us ones were relegated to mopping up sick, wee and poo) and bought two more towels for about £10 each.

One was blue with a Turtle on the hood, and the other was yellow with a Giraffe on the hood. They were both really good quality, lovely and thick and kept her nice and warm after her bath, they also dried her really well. I was really pleased with my purchases.

So then we had another baby, another girl....and for some reason I never even thought about using these towels on her and after her first bath I used one of our medium sized white towels to dry her off and wrap her up. No hood needed and definately no cute logos. And I have used these for her ever since, I really don't know why I thought with our first daughter that she had to have a towel with a hood on?! We still use these on her now and she's 2 and a half, but baby just gets a plain white towel. It's weird how your thoughts change.

It's another one of those baby myths that most new parents get sucked into.

If you are buying for a baby, don't waste your money on hooded towels, you really really don't need them!

Summary: Just use one of your own towels