Baby Gear - Cool Mom Picks

Wanting to Put Your Baby In a Bubble Never Made More Sense

My first email to my editor after reviewing the UPPAbaby Bubble was This contraption rocks! Let me backtrack a bit here.If you crane your neck to peek at my baby in his carrier, I’ll gladly angle him to give you a better view because I’m a sucker for...

Summer gear questions? Join Cool Mom Picks on the radio

by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment + Media

Hope you’re free from 9:00 to 9:45 EST tonight because that’s when Cool Mom Picks co-founders Kristen and Liz will be dishing about summer gear live on Kristen’s weekly parenting podcast. Get the kids to bed, grab a glass of wine (or coffee if...

Play Mats Fit For Trust Fund Babies

by Cool Mom Team | Baby

Well it’s about time that someone created the high-end, fancy pants, gorgeous version of all those ubiquitous fugly play mats. Here the honor goes to Plain Mary, creator of the Kensington Baby Play Mat. And it is indeed very fancy. Did I mention it’s...

The Medela Freestyle: Holy Heck, It Actually Works

by Cool Mom Team | Uncategorized

You’ll never guess what I was doing while I typed this post. Even if you guess, you’ll never believe it. I didn’t believe it either.I was pumping. Given my dubious relationship with my old breast pump, which caused total work stoppage (and parental...

A play mat without the ugly

by Cool Mom Team | Baby

When I was expecting, I dutifully put a tummy time play mat on my registry. It came complete with lights, music and hanging rattles, and to be honest, it was slightly less than beautiful and slightly more than stimulating. If I had only known about the awesome play...

Car Seat Covers That Even Your Kid (Who Just Peed On It) Could Put On

by Cool Mom Team | Uncategorized

I’m all for car seat covers, but my measure of their usefulness has to do with whether they are actually easier to install than the car seat. Thank you, Traffic Glam, both for getting into my head and making a cover that does not require a master’s degree...

The Glass Sipper

by Liz Gumbinner | Baby, Food + Recipes

We’re always looking out for safer, non-leaching plastic baby bottle alternatives, like the ones from Green to Grow and my own baby’s choice, Adiri. But I know that some moms are like Ack, plastic! Plastic is the devil! Plastic will come to earth, eat our...

A High Chair That Grows With Your Kid: Magic? No, Mutsy.

by Cool Mom Team | Uncategorized

I’ve definitely had several registry regrets, like my high chair for example – that ugly, cumbersome, "good for only 2 years maybe" high chair. Not one of my finer decisions. But at least I have an excuse for that choice because back then, there...

Shopping Cart Covers You Don’t Want to Cover

by Cool Mom Team | Uncategorized

We are considering starting a category in the CMP archives called "If You’re Freaked Out By Germs…" There are seemingly more high chair and shopping cart covers out there than people actually using them. Perhaps because most of them are so ugly,...

A rare high-end pick from Cool Mom Picks: The Mutsy stroller

by Cool Mom Team | Uncategorized

I fully admit to gawking in disbelief at my friend who had bought a $700 stroller. I mean, unless the stroller self-propels itself down the street AND gives you a foot massage when you arrive at your destination, I just didn’t see the need for it.But then I...