It's an uncertain time for many parents-to-be at the moment for many reasons.
One of the rights of passage many parents-to-be enjoy is joining a baby show, to try out all the best baby monitors, best prams and best baby everything there is out there.
This year, after 18 years, The Baby Show will be virtual for the first time. Taking place from October 30 for three days to parents all across the UK.
Being the largest and leading baby show for almost two decades, they know their stuff. So, expert Zoë Bonser - Show Director at The Baby Show Live @ Home - picked out her top best pieces of new baby equipment for tech-living parents.
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The Babycook® Neo is the new generation food maker from Beaba, perfect for making fresh food for your little one. Made with respect for the environment and the nutritional quality of food. It is an eco-designed product using 48% less carbon dioxide and 50% less water and energy consumption than the Babycook® Solo model. Using quality materials to ensure healthy food thanks to its steam cooking and its innovating materials – glass bowl and stainless-steel basket. Babycook® Neo – Steam cooks, blends, defrosts and reheats.
Finding your feet as a new parent isn't easy, especially cracking that all-important routine. The Bluebell Smart Baby monitor takes away the guesswork by tracking you and your baby 24 hours a day. Designed by doctors (who are dads too!), it's the only wearable monitor made for both baby and you. A personalised planner and real-time alerts will help you get more sleep, lock down routine, parent with confidence and improve your own well-being.
The Emmaljunga NXT90e, celebrates a new era of child mobility. With its intuitive technology and app, this state-of-the-art stroller is a must for tech loving parents as well as those who need a little bit of extra help, such as after a c-section. The eStroller is equipped with two electric motors developed by Bosch, which facilitate pushing on slopes and with heavy loads. The silent intelligent engines are equipped with sensors and algorithms that detect the type of surface on which the stroller is traveling on. Even loaded after shopping there is hardly any additional effort when pushing.
The world's first silent wearable breast pump, that fits in your bra, and your life with no tubes, wires and no noise. The Elvie Pump makes it possible to pump on your own terms – ditch the hours spent tethered to a wall or cleaning tubes. With the Elvie Pump you can lead the conference call, play with your kids, cook a delicious meal or simply enjoy some peace and quiet…all while you pump. This truly revolutionary breast pump is not only wearable, silent and hassle free it is also smart and connects to the free Elvie Pump app to monitor milk volume in real time, track pumping history for each breast and control the pump remotely. The Elvie Pump has transformed the way women can feed their babies, giving them the freedom to pump whenever and however they choose, breaking down many of the taboos around breast pumping.
The world's first handheld and rechargeable baby food blender. The Itsy Blitz creates a fresh nutritious meal for baby right there and then. No slaving away batch cooking all weekend to find out that little one doesn't like what you have cooked! Simply pop some healthy ingredients into the Itsy Blitz's handy blending bowl and make a portion in an instant, then feed with the detachable spoon. This perfect portable machine is just as easy to use at home as it is down the road at your local café, or even on holiday with a handy travel adapter, carry case and charging dock included as standard.
Freya is the world's first hypnobirthing-friendly surge (contraction) timer and virtual birth partner, super useful, especially at the moment when birth partners may not be allowed in the delivery room, Freya will be with you every step – or surge – of the way! Freya will coach you through each surge with a simple breathing technique and help you to relax in between with positive affirmations, calming visualisations and guided relaxation. The more relaxed you are, the more efficient and comfortable your labour will be. Freya will even let you know when it might be a good idea to contact your midwife! Also now Apple Watch compatible!