Favorite Baby Products, Places, and People from the Portland BabyFest NW Show: Stuff You Need Part Two

There were just so many great vendors and products at the Portland BabyFest NW show that I simply couldn't pick a top 12. So here are the rest of the vendors and products that I loved!

1. Bamboobies* - these darling breast pads (to stop breastmlk leaks for nursing mamas) are bright pink and heart shaped. #LOVE! Let's have fun with it! 
   
2. Love reusable water bottles. I was lucky enough to score a free one in my VIP goodie bag! Yay! And I've loved (pun intended) using it - it is like a Grolsch beer bottle, which we used to save to use for water! Plastic water bottles are a pet peeve so I love to see a company making a great reusable bottle while doing good for the planet too!
3. Blowout Blocker*: What an ingenious mommy invention! This clever cloth extender stops baby poop travelling up your baby's back and through their onesie (because getting a poopy onesie off over baby's head simply isn't fun!!!)
4. Upscale Resale Boutique in Boring. Yes, you have to go shopping in Boring just so you can say you did ;) I haven't yet made it out to this resale boutique but I loved meeting the owner and chatting with her. One nice benefit here is you can take in gently used items for consignment and get an instant credit to spend at the store - no more having to wait and wait before you can buy the next size up! Closed Sunday and Monday. Open Tuesday through Saturday 9am-5pm at 28112 SW Hwy 212, Boring, OR 97009
5. StopAt4: This was a sad but very educational booth about the dangers of kids falling from upper story windows. The mama who was talking to us had lost her child from a window fall and is now on a mission to prevent it  happening to others. It just about broke my heart, but it did put the fear of God into me and we rushed out and bought window locks* from Home Depot and Lowes (we cleared out Home Depot!) for our house and our rentals. 
6. Oaks Park is one of my favorite places to take kids in Portland. It is a wonderful old fashioned type fair that operates March through September and has a Ferris Wheel and a fabulous old fashioned indoor roller skating rink with hardwood floors. I've been here many times so was super happy to get two free passes to indoor skating in my VIP bag!
7. U. Konserve has great solutions for reusable lunch packaging including sandwich wraps and stainless bento boxes. I LOVE these for picnics (since we homeschool, no packed lunches here!). Use coupon HCHWKIT15 to get 15% off your next order! For sandwich wraps, I also LOVE these beeswax covered sandwich wraps at the Apothecary Shoppe!
8. Junoblu Breast Pump Totes - Totally gorgeous bags, although I didn't have a chance to look at them super closely as this was towards the end of the show. I have checked our their website and these looks flash! I work from home with the twins, so have been super lucky to be able to breastfeed on demand and not need to pump, but if I had to pump on the go, I'd want one of these bags! Get a 15% discount off any order with the code MILKMOM3!
9. Speaking of milk, if you are breastfeeding or pumping, you need cookies! And I LOVE these Milkmakers cookies! You can get them from Amazon* - I LOVE the mix :)
10. Bona wood floor cleaners*. I love Bona and use it already on my hardwood floors.  We have about half hardwoods in our house and I would love to replace all our carpet with hardwoods as our oldest daughter has asthma and both her and I are allergic to dust! And I loved the brochure Bona shared at the show, which lays out your "Four Simple Steps to Healthy Floors for a Healthy Home"... 

• Step 1: Daily Dust with microfiber* to reduce allergens; 
• Step 2: Weekly Clean with pH-neutral, residue free and non toxic formulas like Bona*; 
• Step 3: Quarterly Shine with a product like Bona polish*; 
• Step 4: Long-term protection - Bona deep clean system or refresher a few times a year and refinishing with no- finishes every 5-7 years will keep your floors in tip top shape. 

But back to why this made me giggle... I had a flashback to my best calling me many years ago telling me she'd found a great microfiber mop "for my daily mop".... "It won't replace your heavy duty weekly mop" she went on. I snorted through my nose. "Daily mop??! What is this daily mop you speak of!" At the time my floors were lucky to get washed weekly! Now we do have a shoes off policy in the house so it was not quite as gross as it sounds, but it seems that she was already following the Bona system even then lol! And, with the twins now crawling around, I have been converted to a daily mopper! Sometimes I have to mop twice!!! 

That's it for the rest of my faves from the show. I know when I was on bedrest with the twins, I spent hours surfing for recommendation on baby supplies and to see what was new. I hope these tips are helpful for you and would love to hear what you liked! 


A disclaimer: I have not been sponsored to write this post. All opinions are my own. I purchased a VIP ticket to the BabyFestNW and received a VIP gift bag with some free items, others I purchased at the show. Some of the links in this blog (asterixed) are affiliate links - you pay the same when you click on them and it helps support my blog! Thank you!