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First Look: Stokke Xplory Colors and Prints

Nicole Feliciano — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 05:38:00 GMT

Winter may be gripping your neighborhood, but spring has sprung at Stokke.

For all those parents who adore the front-facing, high-off-the-ground Stokke Xplory, you’ve got two new reasons to brag about your stroller choice: Stokke is rolling out a new limited edition color for spring ’09 and some jazzy new prints. First, the new color. Sunny yellow is just the thing to perk up your mood after a sleepless night of sleep training. The Xplory (expect to pay around $1200 for a complete Stokke Xplory set-up) is currently available in turquoise, olive, orange, red, black and cream this hot new color should be on sale in February at Planet Kids.

The other big news: Stokke is adding a Forest Accessories Kit. We’re pleased to see print making its way into the Stokke world to shake things up. Pick from two textile patterns: Forest Cream and Forest Olive. The kicky patterns match back to the basic solid colors of the Stokke’s sun canopy, seat and bassinet. The accessories kit package includes: canopy (comes with ventilation net), parasol with an extra UV-protection coating inside, diaper wallet, changing mat, and bottle bag and will retail for $199.99.

20 Best Baby Deals on eBay – Save Thousands, Really!

SunnyChanel — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:05:00 GMT

In these days of stock turmoil, credit crunching and good old -fashioned recession style, saving a buck has never been so prudent and, sadly, necessary. If you have a newborn or a bun in the oven, it’s a bit late to “reschedule” that recent or impending birth for a more auspicous era. So although the future financial forecast includes rain, cloud and scattered storms, if you don’t do the standard baby shower route, don’t fret, you can get a significant discount on pert near everything you need for your baby.

Below are 20 baby necessities (not all of them are must haves, but all are popular with the parental units) that are in regular rotation from everyone’s favorite auction site eBay.com. You can get items that are brand spanking new or “gently” used and your savings can, seriously, be phenomenal. Let’s say you bought everything on this list,if you got it all at the retail sticker price you’d pay $3459.39. If you wisely went to eBay and got a mix of used and new items, you could pay as low as $1320.52 for all of it, I mean everything, saving more than $2000! Now that’s a recession friendly deal.

Petunia Picklebottom Diaper Bag
Regular Price = $175
eBay with a range from $36 used to $137.50 new

There are a lot of choices for diapers bags out there. Why did I pick this one? Because I had one and loved it. It has a zip out changing station, two generous sized side pockets, is easy to carry and also tres chic. There are lots of different styles, colors and patterns to choose from .

Medela Breat Pump - In Style with Bag (don't worry it's new!).
Regular Price = $350.99
eBay price range - $260.50 to $200

Yeah, this is something that would probably be best bought brand new. You could always save even more by renting one but if you know you'll get lots of use out of it, you might as well just make that investment.

Baby Bjorn Original Carrier in City Black
Regular Price = $89.99
eBay: $1.04 (used) to $84.99 (new)
The always popular and utterly classic Baby Bjorn is the go-to carrier for both moms and dads. It’s practical, safe and makes multitasking with a baby plausible and possible.

Native Baby Sling
Regular Price: $54.00
eBay: $8.07 (used) to $34.99
For those of you who prefer to sling instead of Bjorn (or perhaps you play both sides of the baby carrier field) there are many options in slings out there and almost all of them are listed on eBay. I picked the Native Baby Sling since that is the one I used with my daughter and we both loved it. Simple, no straps, buttons, or zippers. Just cloth, baby and me.

Britax Marathon Car Seat New - Various covers
Regular: $279.99
eBay: $92.74 to $279.99

Your newborn won’t be able to cold chill in the Britax Marathon Car Seat right away, but one thing about those kids, they grow quick. So having a car seat ready to go when they suddenly grow out of their infant seat is a good thing to keep in your basement. I’m a fan of the popular Britax Marathon Car Seat. Not only is it sturdy and safe, but it comes in many interesting patterns and hues.

Mobile -
Regular: Wide, wide range
eBay .81cents to $69.00
(one pictured above is $39.99)
When my daughter was a baby, I was convinced the mobile was what was keeping her up at night. So I pretty much immediately tore it off her crib. Other parents swear by them. There is an extremely wide range of mobiles from modern to Mickey.

Fisher-Price Butterfly Garden Papasan Cradle Swing
Regular: $160
eBay: $36 (used) to $129.99
The Fisher-Price Papasan series of swings are a great way to cradle and keep your baby safe so you can do crazy things like brush your teeth, make a meal or just sit down and space out for a couple minutes. Babies grow out of these pretty quickly so getting one in good condition on the second hand market is a pretty easy feat.

Graco Quattro Tour Travel System
Regular: $239.99
eBay: $49.99 (used) to $239.99
The Graco Quattro Tour Travel System will take your baby on their first car trip home from the hosptial to strolling them when they're a big-ole toddler. The set comes with a car seat base, infant car seat and the "tour "stroller (which the car seat easily snaps into). The above pictured unit is in the Kasbah pattern but there are a variety of hues and patterns to choose from .

BebeSounds Flat Screen Baby Monitor:
Regular: $200
eBay: $127.50
Things have certainly gotten high tech in the world of baby monitors. Instead of just listening for your baby's cries, you can peek in on your little one with a petite video monitoring device, and via a flat screen at that. When you don't need to watch them in their crib anymore, just put the camera next to the cookie jar.

Huggies Diapers Jumbo Pack
Regular: $12.92 (56 diapers) to $62.00 (220 diapers)
eBay: $5.50 (56 diapers) to $26.11 (192 diapers)
Yes, you can even buy diapers on eBay. There are a variety of brands, styles and sizes. Although you may take a toll on shipping, but even so the price may be much better than at your local drugstore.

Prince Lionheart Diaper Warmer
Regular Price: $23.00
eBay: $2.99 (used) to $21.99 (new)
If you choose to warm up those wipes for your baby's bum, the Prince Lionheart will keep them moist and warm.

Baby Trend Diaper Champ
Regular Price: $29.99
eBay: $8.99 to $19.50 (new)
There are several disposable diaper contraptions out there. But my favorite is the diaper champ since you can use whatever bag you want and don’t have to buy any kind of special replacements. You can risk buying a used one, but you risk also purchasing some lingering smells. I’d splurge here and buy new.

Stokke Tripp Trap Highchair
Regular Price: $249
eBay: $128 (used) to $227.50 (new)
If you’re fond of the convertible furniture pieces, than you may be a fan of the simplicity and multi-aged usage aspect of the Stokke Tripp Trap highchair. You can get padding to cradle the youngin’s and you can adjust the chair to grow with them. Plus, it’s just so damn Swedish looking.

Bugaboo Cameleon Stroller
Regular Price: $899
eBay: $355.55 (used) to $835 (new)

Yeah, this is the big ticket item on the list. But if you’ve lusted after the celebrity style of the highfalutin Bugaboo, for god’s sake, don’t buy one for $899. Seeing one recently sell for $355.55 almost makes it affordable.

Baby Einstein Activity Gym
Regular Price: $49.99
eBay: $3.25 (used) $41.00 (new)
The activity gym is another great item to keep your immobile kid active and interested. It’s soft, colorful and portable. Mine used the Baby Einstein one and loved it. But it is another item that has a short lifespan in babyhood, so picked up a used one isn’t a bad idea, just look for one sans spit-up.

Fisher Price Zen Collection Luxury Gliding Bassinet
Regular Price: $219.99
eBay: $170 to $219.99
An attractive peaceful place for your baby to lay their pliable little head. The "Zen" provides a smoothing enviroment that features music, nature sounds, and even womb sounds and has a smooth gliding motion to rock the baby to sleep. Man, I think I need one of those for myself.

Dwell Studio 3-Piece Zoo Crib Set
Regular Price: $79.99
eBay: $14.99 to $41.00
Who doesn’t love Dwell? I know we at Babble sure do. Their simple, modern designs are pert near perfect for any nursery. And with their line for Target, the beddings were finally affordable. Add eBay into the mix and it gets darn right cheap. The above pictured set is in the Zoo pattern and includes a fitted crib sheet, comforter and a bumper pad.

Graco Pack 'N' Play Portable Play Yard
Regular Price: $179.99
eBay: $35.00 (for a simple used one) to $129.99 (for one like the item above)
I personally didn’t use a Pack N’ Play but I know many, many parents who swear by them. If you travel, bring your kids places where the environment may not be baby proofed or if you just need to put them down for a second, the Pack n’ Play seems to fit the bill. There are oddles of styles on ebay from old-school versions for dirt cheap prices to ones with all the bells and whistles.

Boppy Nursing Pillow
Regular Price: $34.99
eBay: $2.99 (used) to $19.99 (new)
If you nurse, then you bop. The breast feeding pillow, like the above Boppy Nursing Pillow and the My Breast Friend, makes nursing a much more comfortable affair for both mom and the baby. There are lots of Boppy covers out there so if you don’t like the cheap Boppy you found on eBay you can always buy it and then bid on a more stylish cover.

Fisher-Price Rainforest Jumperoo
Regular Price: $89.99
eBay: $20.50 (Used) to $79.95
Yes, yet another tool to occupy your baby. Personally, I’m fond of the Jumperoo, they get to strengthen those leg muscles, get their wiggles out and pretty much just jump for joy. And I prefer the stand alone version rather than the kind that just fastens preciously from your door frame. And seeing the bidding wars for these on eBay, it looks like I’m not the only one who is a fan.

Star Baby: Naomi Watts is Totally Stokked!

SunnyChanel — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:29:00 GMT

Naomi Watts is totally Stokked, dude. She left a the kid’s store The Right Stuff with a Tripp Trapp by Stokke “the chair that grows with the child”. This stylish, popular and practical chair allows a smooth transition from babyhood to toddlerland. You can you’re from All Modern Baby here and it’s on sale! $249.00 instead of the original price $299.99.

ABC Kids Expo 2008: Stokke Table Top

Chris Ford — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:30:00 GMT

Leave it to Stokke to take a simple concept like the placemat and step it up a notch. The Stokke Table Top isn't really a placemat, but more of a whole table top eating and playing system. The way it works is there is a clear plastic no-slip mat that contains spills, and inside the mat you put inserts that are appropriate for a particular age group. It comes with six different patterns that are appropriate for 6 months - 2 years, 18 months - 4 years and 3 years - 8 years.

Hopefully you'll get a full eight years out of it, because at a retail price of $89.99 it's going to cost you.

Check out all the information about it over at StokkeUSA.com

ABC Kids Expo 2008: Stokke Baby Set

Chris Ford — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:02:00 GMT

Stokke had some new products at ABC this year, and my favorite is what they're calling the "Baby Set." It's a plastic railing (for kids aged six to eighteen months) that goes around your Tripp Trapp chair, but now it has a higher back for extra support. I'm a huge fan of the Trip Trapp chair for older kids, and with this attachment I can really see using it as a high chair for any aged child. It's available in all eleven colors that the Tripp Trapp is available in, or you can mix and match like in the picture above.

The Stokke Baby Set should retail for $89.99. Check it out at StokkeUSA.com

New Tripp Trapp Colors from Stokke

elizabeth leach — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:07:00 GMT

Introducing Tripp Trapp's new Trend Collection from Stokke. The Trend Collection comes in gray, yellow, pink, and green. (The classic collection comes in white, natural, cherry, walnut, black, red, and turquoise.) We've written about the highchair that grows with your child before. The Tripp Trapp chair gives the perfect support at every stage of a child's development starting at around six months until they can sit in the same chair as Mom and Dad.

What I like most about the chair is it’s easy to clean. Without all those little grooves everywhere you can easily wipe it down after the slop-fest. Some feel it's better to use the Tripp Trapp after they've outgrown the high chair or booster and I probably agree. (See Droolicious archive of that post here.) Without a doubt, the Tripp Trapp is a great looking chair and now there are even more colors to choose from. There are also eight new cushions available for the Tripp Trapp: denim blue, linen natural, tales green, tales pink, art stripes, beige stripes, dots brown, and dots black. Shop the Tripp Trapp's new collection at All Modern Baby for $299.99 and free shipping. Visit the Stokke website here.

Last Day To Get Tori Spelling's Baby Stuff

Chris Ford — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:03:00 GMT

Like Fame Crawler told you over a week ago (and we mentioned here on Droolicious), the Johnson's Celebrity Hand-Me-Down auction is going on, and you've less than a day to bid on all kinds of used baby stuff from celebrities. Of course all the money goes to charity, but is a diaper bag really worth over $500 - even if Donna Martin used it first?

More info on what else is being sold after the jump.

There are eight items in the auction, all from celebrity moms except Matt Damon, who is offering a diaper bag. (Apparently it's not good enough that Matt Damon is a dad. Unlike the celebrity moms, someone decided they needed to include his wife Lucy's name in the auction too. But I digress...).

In my opinion the best item up for bids is the Stokke Tripp Trapp chair from Julianne Moore, but you can also bid on car seats from Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Elisabeth Rohm, a high chair from Poppy Montgomery and "baby gift ideas" from Jeri Ryan. It's too bad I'm not a celebrity - I've got a closet full of unused baby gifts too.

Check out the Johnson's Celebrity Hand-Me-Down Auction at eBay.

Tripp Trapp: Not a High Chair but a Transition Chair

Chris Ford — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:01:00 GMT

If you're looking for the perfect high chair for your brand new I-just-started-eating-solid-foods son or daughter, then check out some of the other chairs we've written about. However if your child has outgrown that high chair and you're looking for something better than a booster, then the Tripp Trapp from Stokke might be the chair for you.

The Tripp Trapp from Stokke (or KinderZeat in Europe) is a clever design that allows the seat and foot rest to adjust as your child grows. I guess the theory is that if young legs aren't swinging about (as they would in a normal dinner chair) then your child will be less fidgety at the table. Better than that though is the way it looks. Reminiscent of the Rietveld Zig Zag chair, it's a chair you won't mind having to look at every day.

There are cushions you can buy, but I think they kind of ruin the look, not to mention they become one more thing to keep clean. There's even a plastic enclosure so an infant won't fall out, but I don't recommend that either, Leave the high chairs for the babies, and this chair for the big kids.

Oh, and one last thing. Having just purchased my second, I'm definitely not a fan of the new strap system they've implemented (you can find pictures on their web site) I prefer the old lap belt only. But as a chair for kids who have graduated to the family's table, it's still my favorite.

Stokke Tripp Trapp Chair is available in many colors for $229. Find a local dealer here.

14 Days of Nursery: Growing Crib for Changing Spaces

Aaron Burgess — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:01:00 GMT

I'll be the first to admit there's something off-putting about this Stokke Sleepi Crib (pictured here in its "Mini" version), and that's not just the $1,150 price tag. But if you're strapped for space and also need a bed that's going to grow with your baby through the big-kid years, maybe you wouldn't mind sacrificing warm-fuzzy design for functional minimalism. Plus, you know, the thing does come with a drapery rod, so you can hang a piece of fabric over it and re-enact your own final scene in Rosemary's Baby, only with Ray and Charles Eames in place of Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes, or, you know, whatever.

As your little one grows, so does the Sleepi: The adjustable mattress position (four heights in total), expandable frame and removable center railing accommodate sizes ranging from baby to toddler to junior kiddo, and it even has a life beyond that, as you can separate it into chairs when it's officially time to invest in a bigger bed. All of which kind of puts that price tag into better perspective, as you're looking at roughly $287.50 per growth stage -- probably not far from what you'd spend at IKEA when you factor in all the stage-by-stage purchases and inevitable breakage. (Or maybe it's just my kids who snap IKEA furniture like so many Bruce Lee practice boards.)

Stage two: bigger baby:

Stage three -- toddler:

Stage four -- one chair to seat them all:

Can't Sit Still, Baby?

Karen — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:02:00 GMT

We have featured Stokke products (here and here) before and the new Stokke Xplory stroller doesn't disappoint. This on the go unit is designed for the tot who likes to see everything that is going on. It supports the child to sit upright and have the vantage point of a Captain.

Available in Red, Turquoise, Beige, Black and Green, it offers 5 positions and can be had for $768 (basic)-$948 (complete) at Modern Seed.