Core77

I glanced at this and thought it was a joke. I had to read to find out it wasn't a giant blender.

I have three kids, I am not sure I would buy this product as a bath - however maybe as a soaking tub for rash relief or similar need for extended soaking... Newborns are really hard to hold onto while trying to keep their head from flopping around, doing all of these things in a bucket of water seems difficult and somewhat unsafe?

Oh my god it's a baby blender!

It looks a bit like a blender. I don't think I'd buy it, but that is true of any baby bath: a sink full of warm water worked fine for my kids.

I"m curious as to why the precariously high stack up? It looks terribly unstable.

YES. Bathing babies is a royal PITA, IMO. Sinks are all full of metal poking objects that make babies cry when they smash into them. Baths require you to bathe with the baby or bend over the tub for 15 minutes and kill your back. Plus, tubs are hard and smashy on delicate baby heads, too. Oh, and the nearest analogue to this, the 5 gallon bucket, causes people to call CPS. I like this. Less falling over, head thwonking, fewer mini-drownings, less back pain = happier everyone. I might want a little more water volume for particularly grubby babies, but otherwise, total design victory.

As a parent I can see how that would work well up to about 4 or 5 months - no cold sinks, faucets in the way, kids 'getting away' from you. But after that age there is alot fun play activity in the bath.

Absolutely yes, but only for children under 6-8 months. It seems comfortable for the baby and for his parents.

As a parent, never ever.

well, the resemblance to a blender is what bothers me most... not a fan of babies in blenders.

It looks like a flippin' blender. That's whats off. It's a baby blender!!!

It looks really top heavy and bizarre.

How is this better than what's already out there.? It looks like just another uneccessary product to sell to naive parents. I bet it would be easier for a kid to drown in this thing, AND how can you easily wash his butt in this thing? Pfft.

I'm a parent and an industrial designer. I wouldn't buy one of these. It looks like something from a science lab that you would stick a dead animal and formaldehyde in.

On the environmental side, I suppose it would use less water ...

As a dad this creeps me out. It looks like the babies head could still get under water. And if it did, getting the child out I think would be harder. That kids head isn't even fully above the rim of the bucket, which looks like it could have a lid put over it. So there is the potential of have a kid trapped in the water with a lid on them. I would rather by a steel wash tub than that.

There is no way that I would by this contraption. It's pretty bad looking besides the more important fact that it seems unsafe. It also discourages a closeness to your baby that a normal bath in the bathtub entails. Dutch Baby products are usually great.

ha. my first impression was that it looked a bit like a cooking pot over a gas fire.

My question is how do you scrub the baby? You can't reach a wash cloth down in that thing without all the water washing off the soap. As a parent, I'd pass.

I'm not a industrial designer, but I am a parent, and to me that looks rather iffy.

Considering how flexible and floppy my son was when he was around that babies age, I couldn't ever trust a device that could potentially turn into a death trap for my son.

A slip of mommy or dad's supporting hand could result in baby in a jar, and clearly that's not the point of this exercise.

This reminds me of a plethora of "dead baby" jokes. involving blenders. why do we need this? the kitchen sink is a fine place to bathe your baby. I've had many a shampoo next to the knife rack.

what happened with thinking out of the box? this is a great product (although I wouldn't mind redesigning it) This is a product that actually knows a lot of satisfied babies and parents and is almost a standard baby product in The Neterlands!

oh its great i used it with both my kids which enjoyed it a lot and it looks great with or without baby inside!

P.s I put them In when they were 3 days old and used it for 18 months. Its small and you can put it everywhere in the house and it IS stable !!!

I have one of the baths, although not the odd looking stack underneath it. The bath is called a Tummy Tub and comes from the Netherlands. It does work very well for as long as the baby can fit in it - especially for very young babies. It is comforting and womb-like. It does feel odd holding them up around the chin, but you get used to it. However, it makes a lot more sense to put it in the bath (possibly with older children in the normal bath) rather than perched on a stack like this.

I have a one month old and she would totally slip down into a little ball and drown at the bottom of that. she can't hold her head up let alone keep a stiff back. its too cumbersome for parents of newborns. babies that can sit up is probably better. but once they sit up they want to play and splash and move. so this isn't really practical since you could only really use it for a couple months. so save the money and just use your kitchenaid stand mixer's bowl instead.

I don't have kids myself (yet) but I have a couple of female friends who have been using this type of bath for their kids and they love it.
The advantages of this type of bath (instead of a smaller "lay-down" bath or sink) is that you don't have to support the kid all the time from drowning since it can not slide down on it's back. So actually the design is safer. According to those friends with kids, the kids also like it much more then a normal bath.

So, I would definitly buy one of these. (And if it's not for being used as a baby bath, it can always be used as a big ice bucket ;)).

We have it and it's perfect. We don't have the stand but the tub works really well. Baby has nowhere to slide. I will use it for next baby again.

As a parent and an ID, I like the concept of a smaller wash basin, but this precariously stacked bucket is not quite right. I think that emptying it would be heavy and it is at the wrong height, I would want something I stand next to. Personally, I have been washing our babies in a utility tub when "dooty" calls for it. It used alot less water than a tub, its deep enough for them to stand in as well as soaking. Two fit in fine as well. I wouldn't know where to store this beast, do you fill it with a hose or move it from the sink to its base? Why is the bucket clear, do I want to see pressed baby flesh?

We have one of these tubs and honestly: we can't miss it anymore. It's fun and ease in use...

Water stays warm for 25-30 minutes, the baby can sit up straight and play with all the floating toys in front of her, her whole body is submerged without us having to fear her being drowned...

The bottom piece is totally obsolete, just put the tub on a table, and you're set. As a father and user, I would advise this goodie to every baby and parent.

Way too dangerous unless we're just not seeing some sort of plastic fitted mold that supports the kid at the bottom . . .

The Eurotub is perhaps the best form factor for a babytub we've used for both kids.

OH. MY. GOD. This design appears criminal.

So ultimately it is just a bucket with some extra pieces of plastic to make it look "unique".
No to mention not very practical. How do you wash the parts that actually get "dirty"?

This is a joke, right? I'm a father of 2 and say no to this product for many different reasons.
Why would I want to set up another place to bathe my kids, when a counter top next to the sink is a perfect height and washing area. This design appears to force the parent to keep the baby's head up and from flopping forward into the water (we all get distracted, a disaster waiting to happen) traditional tubs have the baby lying their backs with support for the head. I'm sorry but babies are out of the womb and they need to get use to real life. etc... ect... ect...

It's like a baby incubator for baby X-men.

Looks like it might tip over.

Reminds me of the torture scene from Red Dawn where Christian Bale is dropped in a narrow pit of water up to his nose.

I am with you. This one seems "off".

I actually bought one! Yes, I know.. a sucker perhaps, but my son loved it. (I kept mine on the floor though, not sure it would be too safe up high) I tried a conventional baby bath but he was a slippery little devil! This was great and even before he could support his head, the water helped support him for me. The little fella loved it so much that he didn't want to go into the big bath.. it was only when I almost got his big 5 month old bum stuck in the thing that we eventually graduated!!!

The people that have actually used this tub, according to these posts, all love it. The rest of you can just STFU until you have tried one. So F-ing Amerikan, I'm also one, but I'm not dead between the ears as the bulk of the posters here seem to be.

The hypocrite