scene: THE KITCHEN, EARLY EVENING
Father and Mother are in kitchen, busily preparing dinner while listening to the radio.
OTIS (running into the room): Baba? Can you tie this bandana around my head so that I can be a pirate?
F: (distracted) Uh, yeah. Sure.
Otis runs from the room with bandana around his head. The noises of playing, in the background.
scene: THE PLAYROOM, 5 MINUTES LATER
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So we finally felt the sharp little points of Bee’s first tooth on Wednesday. Finally! It feels like she’s been teething forever. She’s been drooling like nobody’s business. I always feel like I’m holding a sopping sponge on my shoulder. I made some little bibs for her when the whole ugly process started, although for some reason, my mother seems to prefer draping little cloths on her chest and holding them in place with one hand while dabbing gently and constantly at her mouth with the other.
So give me your opinion, will ya? A couple of questions:
1. The pointy bibs are just meant to be little spit bibs. Is that a ridiculous idea? A bib for mere spit? Would you ever BUY one? Or feel glad that your weird friend/aunt/neighbor gave you one as a present?
2. How do you feel about tying a bib on? I have to say that I prefer the look of the bib with the ties, but I will also admit that she almost never wears that bib. Yes, my kid has an unusual excess of hair, but it would be a pain even if you didn’t have to worry about getting your kid’s hair caught, right? Do I have to make a choice between form and function here? And does tying thin lariats of fabric around a baby’s neck sound like a dangerously bad idea to anyone?
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I love the pirate outfits! :) As for bibs, when the babe was teething, I always had bibs on him just for drool. Otherwise, his shirts would get wet and he’d be cold. (In my mind, anyway.) So I think they’re a great idea, although I would use velcro rather than ties. Ties scare me. They’re super cute – I’ve never seen pointy ones before!
Perhaps it’s not a “bib” at all — just a new kind of baby fashion accessory to keep the underlying shirt dry. Sort of a “teething scarf”, if you will.
And yes, tying something around a baby’s neck sounds less than desirable — but, you could get the same basic aesthetic effect if you had a little loop on one end that you thread the string through and then double it around onto a little clasp/snap.
So cute! I’m not a fan of ties, much rather prefer velcro. Here’s an idea for you, instead of having the closure in the back, which I always find hard to remove if my B has fallen asleep, have the velcro closure right in front of the shoulder.
love it. think of it as a baby-spit (non-turtlenecked) dickey:
I have a 6-mo-old (with 2 budding teeth) and a habit of regurgitating milk. We use smallish cotton bibs (lined with PUL on the inside) when we can to soak everything up. Of course, as soon as she turns her head, she drools and spits all over her shoulder, and there’s no bib coverage there. So hubby never puts one on her, and I am halfhearted about it.
Ditto about the velcro closure, though – if somehow it gets caught, you want the bib to break free easily from the neck. Our day care never allows babies to sleep with bibs (they use ones with snap closures) because it’s a choking or strangulation hazard.
Heh – rather, the BABY has a habit of regurgitating milk, not me! LOL.
I would be nervous with the little ties. I think the boys had the velcro but I don’t remember them drooling a lot either. I wonder if you could make a bib that goes all the way round LOL…As June says when the baby turns her head, there’s no bib coverage. I cannot remember the name for the piece of clothing that most resembles it…
Love the pointy bibs! I would be a buyer.
I don’t like ties. I always stress about tying to tight and choking him or not tight enough and having it slide around. Plus, they seem to come untied very easily.
The downside of velcro is when you throw it in the wash without fastening it and it seems to find the most expensive item in the wash to attack!
Cute! I like the pointy spit bib. I stuck with the terry drool ones on the kiddo (Bumkins brand, I believe…organic, inoffensive and highly boring). Yours most definitely rocks.
love the way ties look, but i would hate to constantly tie/untie bibs as i’m switching them out. i prefer snaps more than velcro ‘cuz the babe can just yank the bib off even with the velcro. i thought that the side velcro bibs would be a great idea, but those are the ones that can be removed (by the babe) the easiest, so we never use those anymore. i made some bibs from angry chicken’s “bend the rules sewing” and used ripstop/nylon in between some of them. it really helps to prevent the moisture from getting through.
love the way you’re experimenting with different styles of bibs. all those drooly/spit up babies need something. i hated how i had to put a bib on my son ALL THE TIME b/c of the spit up (not so much drool). He lived in bibs and we never got to see his cute outfits! I swear, every picture I have of him when he was an infant….bib, bib, bib. That’s why I finally decided I had to make some bibs with at least cute fabric!
all for drool bibs, pointy or not, but velcro not ties. amelia drooled so much that we couldn’t even use regular cloth bibs, but had to use the plastic backed ones, unless we were willing to change her bib every half hour. hurray for newly-teething pirates!
I always liked bibs with snaps. I found a local crafter who made beautiful quilted bibs with a row of snaps (to adjust fit as baby grew), and I bought at least a dozen from her. I despise velcro because it snags so many things, especially knits, and ruined more than one of her fine-gauge sweaters. I finally removed all velcro from our lives, purchased a snap attaching tool, and replaced all velcro with snaps on bibs, coats, etc.
Pointy bib? Yes, if it was long enough. Would have to be long enough to lay flat on the chest, and not get stuck in the neck folds and stick straight out like an arrow!
The pointy bibs are so cute! I like the snaps/velcro on bibs — the ties do hold the interest of kids. We gave up using bibs with #3 — she just gets a new shirt if she makes a real mess. And none of my kids are real droolers.
When my 3yo went to preschool last year, there was a real drooly kid who wore a mini bandana around his neck every day. I think it was supposed to be a spit bib.
The bibs are creative! :)
Check out my bibs. They’re just the thing for your little drooler. They’re handmade from organic cotton and bamboo.
Drool bibs are a must and totally worth buying. Ties not so much. I have bibs with ties and dont use them :)