Gear

Besides the fact that Hubby and I continually find faults with just about every piece of baby/toddler equipment out there (great stroller, just want it to be able to handle having a toddler as well as a baby; great bottle idea, but the nib leaks like Niagara Falls; what a beautiful snack ball, if only the lid would work the way it's supposed to and not break 2 weeks after we start using it), as I am trekking again through the swamps of navigating care for a newborn, I am going through all our old gear again. Same complaints with some of our basic gear:

1. Bibs. Whose brilliant idea was it to have the rough side of the velcro backs face up, where it can scratch baby's neck? Of course, in the ideal world, the velcro would be facing out at the back of the neck, thus negating the scratchy velcro problem. But what baby actually keeps a bib in place enough to keep that scratchy face facing outward?

2. Pacifiers. The pacifiers should have been made with the cover plate (the hard piece at the end of the chewy nib) curved away from the face. All you need after baby sucks on that thing is to have the footprint of this place engraved on its face.

3. Footed onesies. Keeps those feet warm. Also generates planned obsolescence, as babies grow like weeds and what fit last week won't fit this week.

4. Single-side-access onesies. Parents, you know what I'm talking about. There's nothing quite like folding up your baby in half in order to get their foot into the unaccessible leg of these long-zip onesies.

5. Onesies without lap shoulders or shoulder snaps. OK, so maybe my baby has an extraordinarily large head, but why make tops without adjustable openings for the head? Poor thing looks like he's going through the birthing process each time I try to pull one of these stupid shirts over his head - and he cries like he's going through the process again each time.

These are just the start... as I go through more gear, I'm sure I'll find more material for whining.