If you and your partner are anything like me and my husband, once you became parents you suddenly thought of tons of kid-related innovations that just needed to be invented. How many times one of us has started a sentence with, “You know someone should come up with…” and the other has responded, “Oh good idea, we should do that – we’d be billionaires!” It usually only takes about 5 seconds of a Google search to identify our exact “brilliant” invention and for us to learn that not only does the “invention” already exist, but it comes in 5 different colors, too.
The newest “idea” came to my husband last week. We’ve been trying to ease our fifteen-month old daughter from a bottle to a cup, however, she is showing no interest (i.e. throwing said cup and screaming at the top of her lungs until one of us caves in and goes running for the bottle wrack). As we looked at each other in silence, a light bulb went off on top of his head: “Someone should invent a cup with a nipple top that you can switch out for a cup top later when the baby doesn’t notice. I bet that would totally work!” to which, right on cue, I responded, “Oh good idea, we should do that – we’d be billionaires!”
Well, kids, you know how this one’s gonna end. This bottle/cup already exists (I’ll save you the Google search: http://nuby.com/en/Nuby/bottle-feeding/1110). I’d like to say congratulations and thank you to the Nuby people for figuring this out way before the thought even crossed my mind, just like the multitude of other “inventions” we’ve thought of since becoming parents over three years ago. We may not become billionaires any time soon, but it’s good to know that what we “need” is out there and only a click away.
Happy Clicking!
Sincerely,
From the Stork’s Nest~
Liz
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