- Hi everyone, welcome back to my channel.
This week I have been trying out some
weird and different baby hacks that I found on Pinterest
and I'm going to share with you today
whether they work or whether they don't work.
If you know my channel, you'll know
that I love making hacks videos.
I will link all my previous ones down below
and when I was looking on Pinterest recently
I found a few that I was like, I have never tried that
and I wonder if that even work with a baby or child.
So I have about five or six I want to share
with you today, so here we go.
(bell dinging)
Right, so the first weird baby hack
involves a glove that is heavy and the idea
of having this glove is that you put your baby
to sleep with it, pat them a few times with it
and your hand, and then you can leave
this weighted glove on your baby's back
or stomach or wherever and they fall asleep
thinking that you are still touching them.
So all you have to do to make this glove
is get a random spare glove, fill it up
with something heavy.
You can use dry pulses.
I actually ended up using risotto for mine.
I did also think about maybe using quinoa
but you just fill it up and wiggle all of the seeds
or risotto down into the fingers.
Make it until it's quite heavy
and then I used a glue gun to seal it shut
and I used quite a lot to make sure
that it was really, really sealed.
Yeah, so I tried this out on my son
and I patted him with it and he did fall asleep
with it on him and he slept for quite awhile.
But he is quite a good sleeper as it is.
He's four months old.
So, in theory, this hack does work
if your baby wants to fall asleep being held
or touched but I actually think this
is quite a dangerous hack.
If you used it past the age of like
12 weeks then what is to stop your baby
from grabbing it or biting it and maybe
getting into the contents and choking.
Like it's actually quite a dangerous thing.
I also think it's a bit silly because you're
effectively giving your baby a sleeping
association with a fake hand.
I felt really silly using it as well.
My husband was like, it's like Cousin It.
Do you remember from The Addams Family
but patting your baby with this
and then leaving it on them,
they might get used to having that and when
they're older and they start crawling around
you might have to get up in the night
just to replace the fake hand on their back
or on their stomach or something like that.
Almost like you would a dummy so I just think
it's really, really silly.
So yes it works but no I would never use this.
(bell dinging)
So the second weird hack is another one
to do with sleep and this one involves
using a tissue to stroke your baby's face to sleep.
The idea is that if you stroke your baby's face
with a tissue for up to 40 seconds,
they will fall asleep.
So I tried this on our baby Jackson,
when he was due a nap and he was very tired.
So we laid him on his back and I started
to stroke his face for the 40 seconds.
It did make his eyes close.
It did make them close for longer
but it just annoyed him.
He was just really frustrated and at one point
he even grabbed it.
So this really did not work for Jackson
and he was very tired when I tried it.
So I was hopeful that it would work.
So by all means, try this on your baby
and see if it works but it really
didn't work for Jackson.
And again, I think it's a bit silly
to train them to sleep in this way.
I think it's much easier to just help them
learn how to fall asleep on their own.
(bell dinging)
The next thing that I came across on Pinterest
that I thought I really wanted to try
was a hack that said that if you cut your baby's nails
once they've been asleep for 20 minutes,
that is when they are deepest asleep
and they won't wake up.
So my son Kaylor, he's three, and he hates
having his nails cut.
He's afraid of it, he thinks it's gonna hurt,
and he just won't let me get near him.
So I was like, perfect.
I'm gonna try this on him.
So my husband and I snuck into his room
with a torch on our phone, and my nail clippers.
And he didn't wake up.
We cut all of his fingers and all of his toes
20 minutes after he'd fallen asleep
and he's actually quite a light sleeper.
So this hack for me really did work
and I would completely recommend it.
So that one gets a big thumbs up from me.
(bell dinging)
The next hack was that you can apply
barrier cream or diaper cream to your baby's bottom
using a makeup brush or you can even get
these special nappy cream applicators.
So as you can see, yes you can apply the cream
really easily using either of these things.
But I really didn't like using them.
I think it's much safer to use your
own fingers on your baby.
To use a piece of apparatus on somewhere
that is so gentle and so tender
seems crazy to me.
I also then after using it, I had to then clean it
with a wipe because if you left it
then bacteria would collect and you're not
going to wash and sterilize the makeup brush
after every nappy change.
So I just thought that this one actually did not
work for me at all.
I would much rather just use my hands
on my baby and then wash my hands
with an antibacterial soap.
So that one gets a big thumbs down from me.
(bell dinging)
The next hack is a way of making your
baby's room really, really dark just
by using tin foil.
So you can literally open up the window
and scrunch some tin foil around the window itself
without sellotape or anything
and that can make the room dark.
You can also use sellotape or blue tack
to stick it to the windows and I tried this out
in my son's room and it really, really worked.
I was surprised at how little sunlight
actually go through the tin foil.
So this one really did work.
It gets a big thumbs up from me.
I must say though, this is one that I would use
on holiday sooner than I would use at home.
You can easily pack a roll of tin foil
and some sellotape and then you can make
a hotel room darker if you have a baby
that really needs to sleep in pitch dark
like my baby does.
For a longer term solution, I think getting
a black out blind or product called
Magic Blackout will work longer than tin foil would
because tin foil could tear and then light
could obviously come through the tears.
But overall, it was a really great discovery.
(bell dinging)
The last hack is a way of not losing a baby sock.
So all you do is order a mesh bag like this.
I actually ordered five on Amazon and they
were really, really cheap and the idea is
that you get this mesh bag, you put all the baby socks
in it, and then when you wash your laundry
you just wash it all in this bag,
and even dry it all in this bag
and it comes out clean and you have not
lost any of the tiny baby socks in sheets
or randomly anywhere.
This hack really, really works.
The socks got clean and dried and they
didn't get lost anywhere.
It's simple to hang this over your laundry basket.
Thinking that this is something that you could do
for the whole family.
Guys, so thank you so much for watching this video.
I really hope you enjoy trying out
these hacks with me.
There were some that worked, there were some
that really didn't but I hope you enjoyed it.
If you want me to do more videos like this,
please give it a big thumbs up
'cause there were loads of weird hacks
on Pinterest and I had so much fun making this video.
Yeah, thanks a lot and I will see you very soon.
Bye!