Friday, March 13, 2009

Get Rich Quick Scheme

What is it with those baby bibs that come with every single outfit... I'm sorry, every piece of the Layette?!?! They're generally less cute than the outfit they cover up and seem bulky on a little baby. If you get a cute bib, it probably matches the outfit, in which case, washing the bib when it's spit up on will require you to change the outfit anyway. I understand bibs for babies eating solid foods, but newborns... I can't understand.

The baby isn't the one whose clothes need protection from drool anyway... it's the parents. After a 30 minute jaunt in the baby bjorn, this is what my shirt looked like:




Timmy's outfit remained suspiciously dry and clean:



In a brilliant moment, I thought I could create, market and sell a mommy bib. Sure, it would be hideous and slightly embarrassing, but there are almost certainly people who would snatch them up. Then, horror of horrors, I realized there is already one on the market!

And poof! Just like that, my dream of getting rich and my respect for parents of America vanished into thin air.

2 comments:

CM said...

K used to spit up constantly, which meant he was nearly always wearing a bib. We changed them every couple of hours, at least, and usually saved the cute matching ones for when we went out or had guests.

newduck said...

I was a cloth diaperer and I used to tuck a cloth diaper into my shirt when I would carry the baby in her carrier. By the time I put her down, the diaper was soaked with drool but my shirt was clean!