Podee Hands-Free Bottle
The Podee Hands-Free bottle feeder is basically a small tube that attaches to a regular bottle to make feeding a lot easier. It is a dream because the baby doesn't have to hold the heavy bottle and you don't have to lay them down and prop the bottle up. You can set the bottle next to the baby and put the nipple in their mouth like you would a pacifier and they do what comes naturally. Viola! Granted there is no substitute for holding a baby during a feeding, but that is not practical when driving down the road. This bottle saved me from having to go down the road in the passenger seat with my butt in the front window while I turned around to feed the baby in the backseat. I purchased mine at Toys 'R Us in Madison, WI in 1993, and it is still my favorite all-time gadget. Why didn't we think of this decades ago?
-- Becky Thompson
Podee Hands-Free Bottle
$10
(includes bottle)
Available from Babies"R"Us
Manufactured by Podee International
Favorite (15)
Trish
this may seem to be a good idea but how on earth are the children going to learn to hold a cup.
Kathleen
U.S. Patent 949414 was granted in 1910 for a nursing attachment "designed to avoid unpleasant and embarrassing situations in which mothers are sometimes placed" by providing a tube that went between the source of food (in this case, the mother's breast) and the child. Some speculate that the Victorian/Edwardian sensibilities rejected the sensuality of the mother-child nursing relationship.
It went out of vogue, it is said, because of high infant mortality due to contamination of the feeding tube.