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Plushie Octopus Baby Costume: Move Over, Baby Shark!

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Seen here looking about as happy as I’d expect a child wearing a giant octopus costume to be – a baby models the Stuffed Octopus Toy Costume made by Musuos and available at Walmart. It probably goes without saying, but I just had the best idea for this year’s family Christmas card!

The costume measures approximately 47″ from the tip of one tentacle to the end of the opposite one. It is sure to be quite the sight as your baby learns to crawl, and you see an octopus go scurrying across the floor while you’re watching television. Hopefully, it can’t only crawl backward and constantly get stuck under the sofa like I used to.

Get several other plushie sea creature costumes, and you can have your young children reenact The Little Mermaid! Granted, probably not very accurately, considering they’re babies and don’t take stage direction very well, but still, I’ve watched far worse trolling the depths of Netflix.

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Buff Baby Punching Bag and Dumbbell Rattle: For Tiny TKOs

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Designed and manufactured by Fred, the BUFF BABY line of products appear to be exercise equipment designed for newborns. Of course, they only look like that, with the Speed Punching Bag (affiliate link) actually being a crinkle-filled cradle toy, and the dumbbell a toy rattle. Great, I wish I’d read that before buying them, now how am I supposed to train my baby for the ultra-featherweight title?

The Speed Punching Bag clips to the handle of a baby carrier so your child can attempt to punch it, building their much-needed hand-eye coordination. Of course, the way the loop connects so loosely, it looks like it’s going to spend most of its time fallen to the side of the handle while your baby screams because their punching bag just disappeared.

Even if the BUFF BABY line isn’t actual exercise equipment, it doesn’t mean they won’t help your child pursue bodybuilding or boxing by planting the seed in their impressionable little minds. Take me for instance: my parents showered me with all sorts of outer space toys when I was a kid, and I grew up to be an astronaut. And by astronaut, I mean huge Star Trek fan. Close enough.

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A solar-powered weighing scale concept to help save the lives of babies in remote communities

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It’s easy to take for granted simple things like keeping track of our weight. For babies in hard-to-reach areas, however, that can be a matter of life or death, and this portable solar scale tries to help tip the scales in the baby’s favor.

The first few weeks of an infant’s life are critical not only to their growth but also to their survival. Many parents might take for granted the many tools and resources available to them in watching over babies during this crucial period, conveniences that are not even accessible to remote and socio-economically challenged communities. Even something as basic as a weighing scale for infants is rare and difficult to come by, something that this product concept is trying to solve in the most efficient way possible.

Designer: Craig McGarrell

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), about 2.4 million children around the world died within the first month of their lives. While there are many factors that contributed to this number, a very big factor in remote regions is the ability to monitor the baby’s weight during that month. Weighing scales used in these areas are often old-fashioned analog scales that can be inaccurate and too heavy to move from one community to another easily. This makes it difficult or nearly impossible for healthcare workers to keep a close watch on babies’ weights, leading to unfortunate neonatal deaths.

The ROOTS Solar Scale concept is an attempt to modernize this critical medical equipment without making them too complicated to use or too expensive to maintain. For one, it is completely digital, which removes the risk of getting inaccurate readings over time. It is also solar-powered so that electricity won’t be an issue.

The design is also meant to be lightweight and easy to carry around, even on foot, taking the form of a backpack when not in use. The weighing bowl inside creates a safe structure for the infant to lie in, while the stiff hinge prevents the lid from accidentally closing with the child still inside.

The Solar Scale is meant to be a cost-effective solution that is easy to make and repair, thanks to having very few parts. Despite relying mostly on solar power, the design isn’t completely sustainable, as it relies heavily on plastic, particularly to give the weighing bowl a smooth surface that will be gentle on the baby’s skin while also easy to clean.

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Taco Baby Booties: For Your Little Burrito

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Tacos: they’re tied with pizza for the food I’d pick if I could only choose only one kind to eat for the rest of my life on a deserted island. Let’s just hope it never comes to that though, because I love both dearly. Handmade by Gulnara Kydyrmyshova and other women in her Kyrgyzstan community, these Taco Booties available from Uncommon Goods make the perfect footwear for getting your young one started on Taco Tuesdays at an appropriately early age.

The Taco Booties are constructed of sheep’s wool that’s dyed, spun, and felted in small batches so no two booties are exactly alike. They cost $25 per pair (the only way to order tacos) and are designed to fit 6 to 12-month-old baby feet. But is that going to stop me from trying to wear a pair? Yes. I’m hungry, not crazy.

Now I just need a pair of pizza booties so I can mix and match my baby’s footwear. Not unlike how I’m wearing two different colored socks today. That’s the great thing about working from home though – there’s nobody here to make fun of me except my wife. Who, incidentally, makes fun of me harder than my whole office used to. I miss going to work sometimes.

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This Award-Winning Furniture’s transforming design stays with your child from birth to teenage!

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Tutti Bambini, a UK-based brand devoted to manufacturing products for children and babies of expectant parents, has officially outdone their 2017 CoZee Bedside Crib with the latest award-winning crib that lasts long after your toddler outgrows it. European Product Design Award recognized CoZee XL, designed by Michael Samuel, as 2020’s Top Design Winner for Children and Baby Products. CoZee XL is four pieces of furniture in one, growing alongside your toddler and providing everlasting comfort and familiarity for years to come.

CoZee XL initially functions as the beloved Bedside Crib, which allows your baby to sleep in their own separate bed right at your side so you can develop that special, physical bond early on in childhood. The Bedside Crib can be used for co-sleeping or as a stand-alone crib, thanks to a hinge mechanism that unlocks one side of your baby’s bed to position it next to yours for sound sleeping and ’round-the-clock monitoring. Once your baby outgrows the size of their crib, CoZee expands into a Cot. The Cot is specifically designed for babies and toddlers from 6 months to two years of age. Thanks to the Bedside Crib’s frame’s hinge features, the Cot also allows for easy access and reasonable supervision throughout the night.

Then, two years will go by before you know it and your youngster will feel ready for their first “big bed,” so CoZee XL’s Cot transforms into their Junior Bed. The Junior Bed is a simple bed frame with a cushioned headboard and base, perfect for a toddler between the ages of two and four. Finally, this toddler-style transformer assumes its final shape as a sofa, which makes for an exciting, first interior addition to your child’s bedroom and social space for friends during playdates. In addition to the multi-faceted, impressive changeability of CoZee XL, it is completely foldable and portable, coming with a traveling case, so you’ll never have to worry about sleeping arrangements for your baby, no matter the age or space available.

Purchasing reliable furniture for your children is preferable over cheaper options, but it can get expensive quickly. That’s what’s so exciting about CoZee XL – this single piece of furniture is long-lasting and provides a sense of familiarity for youngsters so that the growing pains that typically accompany adjustment periods regarding discomfort over new furniture can be diminished, but you and your child’s comfort will never be compromised.

Designer: Michael Samuel

These child-friendly products are designed to solve your parenting troubles!

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They say the moment you become a parent, your life changes irrevocably. Every parent wants what is the best for their children, however old they are (my mom still tries to make me do things using the same excuse) and add to it a designer parent, and you know the child will use products that have that delicate balance of fun, innovation to eco-friendly and safe designs that will make them the envy of every other parent on the block. Here’s presenting a collection of designs, from copper embedded cribs, lego-friendly furniture to clothes that grow with your child and more, that uniquely balance your needs while maintaining an aesthetic appeal that works for the adults as well!

The Argo Crib uses copper weaving to protect young children from electromagnetic radiation by Ludwig & Dominique with the Paris-based Studio Noir Vif 

Petit Pli uses a set of permanent folds that let clothes “unpack” when pulled, so they stretch over children as they get bigger by Ryan Mario Yasin

The crib, from the Swing collection, transforms into a bed by removing the rails making a perfect transition for kids and extends the lifespan of the entire collection well into childhood as designed by Micuna 

Studa furniture that lets you stick your Lego Bricks when not being used in construction otherwise by Studio Nine 

A perfect bunk bed for kids all age by Aenny Chung 

Moto Rocker brings a twist on the “rocking horse” this design is modeled after cafe racers of yesteryear and feature old-school headlights, taillights and “125CC engines” to get little ones excited by Felix Monza 

The Rockwell Bassinet that rocks and soothes while the baby is sleeping by Monte Design 

Boida Table is a coffee table that holds your books or your baby by Kunsik Choi 

The Rock & Roller by Luma Goods Co. is a fun, innovative toy that transforms from a rocker to a walker and then to a roller

The SWOODZ collection helps kids build their own vehicles or vehicular hybrids by VITO Design