There’s 20% off the Tommee Tippee Closer To Nature Video Sensor Monitor at Amazon right now, bringing the rather expensive gadget from £199.99 to £159.99.

• Keep an eye on things with the video sensor monitor

I must confess, that on the baby monitor scale, this one ranks pretty high. Yes, we have it, and although we don’t have call to use it too often, it’s brilliant.

It consists of a parent unit with a video screen, a baby unit with an adjustable video camera, and a motion sensor mat. There’s also 2 mains power adaptors, a battery pack and an instruction leaflet.

We’ve never used the mat, but the camera swivels in all the right ways, the sound quality is brilliant as is the video quality and the range is pretty good too – enough for popping out to the garage or sitting out in the garden and still keeping an ‘eye’ on the sleeping babies.

This monitor also features the two-way talkback function.

The Tommee Tippee Heat Sensitive Bath Mat is reduced by 51% to £9.71 from £19.99, saving a nice £10.28.

• Check the temperature with the Tommee Tippee Heat Sensitive Bath Mat

I’ve never fussed too much with the bath water – so long as it didn’t feel too hot, then someone gave us a thermometer and my daughter was playing with it. According to the thermometer, what I consider practically a cold bath is what it recommends as ideal! Well. That would put an end to bathtime with mummy!

This bath mat features a fun fishy design and it attaches to the bottom of the bath. This is great as it makes the bath non-slip according to one of the reviewers, although another says that the suckers don’t always stick, then the mat slips around the bath.

The mat is nice and soft and colourful to look at and provides a fun focus point at bath time, while serving a practical purpose too.

Thanks to dudebar at HUKD

Asda has knocked a third off the cost of this bottle two pack. The Tommee TIppee Closer to Nature bottles, 2 x 150ml, have been reduced from £8.49 to £5.16. Standard delivery is £2.95, so if you're going for home delivery make it part of a bigger order for the best value. However, you can collect them instore for free.

• Click here for your Tommee Tippee bottles at Asda

According to the manufacturer, what makes the Closer to nature baby feeding bottles different to other baby bottles is that they come with easivent slow teats made from soft silicone which stretches and flexes to mimic a natural breast feeding action.

You get 2 x 150ml Bottles with Slow Flow Teats. 150ml/5 floz bottles with easivent slow flow teats made from soft silicone designed to mimic a natural breast feeding action, and also featuring a super-sensitive anti-colic valve.

Bottle or breast? Although they say you shouldn't mix the two, as baby will go for one and reject the other, I didn't have that problem. I started using a bottle for one feed when he was 2 weeks old, partly because I needed that sleep and partly because my other half wanted to have some of that time to bond with our son too.

Some of my friends did this successfully too, although they were able to use expressed breast milk. No matter what I did, I never seemed to have anything left over! Despite working with the midwife, the breast feeding 'cafe', and a couple of other breastfeeding experts, nothing I did increased milk production. It just seems like sometimes breast don't work. I compromised with 'half and half', half the feeds were breast feeding and half were formula from a bottle.

Use this Tommee Tippee promotional code to get 20% off your order on all full priced products. Unfortunately, it does not work on sale items, or with any other offers.

Click here to use your Tommee Tippee promotional code

• Discount: 20%
• Promotional code: WEL10
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To use this promotional code, go to the full Shopping Basket page and enter it in the Promo Codes box. It will be automatically applied, so you'll see the discount straight away in the Totals column. If your order doesn't work with this discount, the code may be accepted but there won't be any discount shown in the Totals column.

I tested the code out on 2 Easivent Bottles. This was priced at £9.49. The promotional code reduced this by £1.90 to £7.59.

Tommee Tippee sells more than just bottles. The site has a wide range of products for feeding, soothing, weaning, bathtime, baby changing and even keeping baby safe.

Thanks to lovebargains at HUKD!

I've written about this Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature complete starter kit before; I'm always happy to tell you about it again because I think it's such a good deal.

• Click HERE to get closer to this deal

Now, Amazon are selling the Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature complete starter kit for £64.99 reduced, they say, from £99.99.  Babies R Us are also selling it for £64.99 but they state the original price as being £129.99.

Whatever the original price is/was one thing that can't be disputed are the positive reviews the Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature starter set continues to receive:

"Brought this when it was on half price offer and I'm so pleased we did. This is a well known brand and so any extras you may need are easily found. The additions in this set are great, bottle warmer is very handy, the two carriers for keeping bottles warm are brilliant and will be much used."

If you’re an expectant mum and dad and are having trouble working out how many bottles you're going to need then sets like this will be your knight in shining steam steriliser!

It comes with:

Tommee Tippee teats are designed to make the breast to bottle switch uneventful, so that their bottles can be used for expressed breast milk too.

And just to top off a great package, the Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature complete starter kit is BPA free; marvellous.

Thanks to Dcontrol at HUKD

Okay, I’ll confess that I’m just not a super-clean-neat-freak kind of mum. I bought a travel sized hand sanitizer for the nappy bag before I had my baby, and now, 19 months later, it’s still there, looking a little worse for wear and with only about 2ml gone off the top.

But, since we travel a lot we decided to pop the bottle of Tommee Tippee Steri-Fluid we were given into our travel case, in case we ever need it, and last week it came in handy. To my horror, I discovered that the sippy cup my daughter uses only in the car had become rather slimy on the bit that slows the flow – the bit we don’t really get to see when we’re filling it up. Being on the road we didn’t have hot water and soap, so I pulled out the Steri-Fluid, mixed it with some water and dropped the parts of the sippy cup into the mixture, where I left it for about an hour.

After the hour, I rinsed everything off, filled up the cup again and had some water through it myself as I was afraid that there would be a chemical residue in the taste, but there wasn’t at all, which both surprised and pleased me.

Apparently the Steri-Fluid is proven to kill MRSA, E.coli, Listeria, Salmonella, Campylobacter, Staphylococcus and Candida albicans – and I don’t know what the slimy stuff in the sippy cup was, but it removed that too.

The Steri-Fluid is alcohol and bleach free and is intended as a cold water sterilisation of bottles, teats, soothers, small toys and weaning equipment. Oh, and teethers. I did use it on a teether too, that same week, after I found it neatly lodged in a cow pat. Nice.

There are a few more items in this new range from Tommee Tippee, including a surface spray, hand serum and a travel sized hand serum. There are also wipes which aren’t intended for use on your baby, but can be pretty handy if you are a bit more germ conscious than I am – although I have used them to clean high chairs in restaurants, and also a particularly gross looking toilet seat at an Easter weekend fair, with the added bonus that they are 100% biodegradable.

The Tommee Tippee Closer To Nature cleaning range is useful, rather convenient and great for travel, certainly, but the list of unpronounceable chemicals worries me somewhat. However, if you have a child that’s prone to illness or has a lowered immune system, they are certainly better than sterilisers that contain bleach or alcohol.

Tommee Tippee's cleaning range is available from Tesco, Toys R Us and Asda.

Babies R Us are selling this Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature Essentials Set for half price; it was £119.99 but is currently £59.99.

• Click HERE to bag these baby essentials

How's this for a statement to make new parents' blood run cold: First time parents in the UK will spend, on average, £4000 on their first child during pregnancy and the first year. You don't even want to KNOW what the figure is by the time that first child leaves school, so it makes sense to save as much money as you can, wherever you can.

If you've been getting in a tizzy about which bottles to have and how many to have fear not, this minefield just got a whole lot easier and cheaper with this fantastic deal on a Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature Essentials set; it comes with everything you need to get going so you can just buy 'the box' and tick 'baby feeding' off your list.

It includes an electric steriliser, a bottle warmer, two insulated bottle bags, six large (260ml) bottles and four small (150ml) bottles, two medium flow teats, two fast flow teats, six milk powder dispensers, three milk storage lids, a soother, teat tongs and a bottle brush.

Tommee Tippee teats are designed to make the breast to bottle switch uneventful, so that their bottles can be used for expressed breast milk too.

You can click and collect your Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature Essentials Set in-store for free if you want to, or you can have it delivered to your home - as you've spent over £50 delivery is free too.

Happy baby feeding!

I like, and have concerns with, the Tommee Tippee Digital Sensor Mat and Monitor. As a product, I think it's great – but I wish it could be sold only to sensible parents! Let me explain:

The Tommee Tippee Digital Sensor Mat and Monitor has three parts – a parent unit, baby unit and sensor pad.

The Tommee Tippee sensor pad lies under the baby's mattress and monitors breathing. It sounds an alarm if no movement has been detected after 20 seconds. Personally I don't find it a necessarily addition to a nursery (probably because we co-sleep) and think it would make me rather neurotic.
I do think, however, that sickly, premature babies or smoking parents could benefit from this, as such babies are at higher risk.

The Tommee Tippee baby unit has a nice design and has a very useful built in night light with three brightness settings which can be controlled from it or from the parent unit. It has volume control buttons and an on/off switch for the optional sensor pad. It also gives a room temperature reading. Helpfully, there's a locator alarm for those inevitable I-can't-find-the-parent-unit moments.

The parent unit is sleek and has a clip for attaching to clothes. The Tommee Tippee parent unit can be battery operated – two rechargables are included in the box – has a docking station for electric charging, and a sound level monitor.

The two things that bother me about this monitor are also probably its biggest selling points: it has a 300 meter range, and an out of range indicator, and it has a two-way talk back function to “reassure baby from afar”. While this is fantastic for older kids – “Johnny! Stop teasing your sister!” or “Kids, wash your hands and come down for dinner” - I have real concerns about it being used to 'shush-shush' babies who really need human comfort.

So, for sensible parents with older children, I love this monitor, but would urge parents to think twice about using the two-way talk back function as a replacement for physical comfort with infants.

Tommee Tippee are selling their own Closer To Nature Steam Steriliser for £20 whilst stocks last.

• Click HERE to steam over to Tommee Tippee

This is a rather nice price as all the other ususal suspects are selling this Tommee Tippee Closer To Nature steam steriliser for upwards of £32.99, which is Amazon's price, Tesco are selling for £40.99 and Boots are the most expensive at £43.99.

I read an article a while ago stating that first time parents in the UK spend on average £4000 on their first child during pregnancy and the first year. £4000!

That's crazy, so whether you’re a frugal parent or a ‘must have everything’ parent, getting ready for a baby can be incredibly expensive, and new mums and best friends to expectant mums should jump at the chance whenever a good deal comes along.

This Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature Steam Steriliser is just one of those deals.

It has a new and clean-looking oval shape, to mimic the shape of the Closer to Nature bottle, and takes up less space on the kitchen worktop.  It will hold six bottles, teats and even dome tops, it also has space for the tube attachments from the Closer to Nature anti-colic pus bottles if you use those.

There’s a single push button which glows orange when switched on and goes off when the cycle is finished after five minutes.  If you keep the lid closed the contents will stay sterile for a full 24 hours, so you can switch it on at bedtime and have clean bottles waiting for you in the morning.

Not only that, the Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature steam steriliser is BPA free; it comes with one bottle to get you going, a pair of teat tongs and a bottle brush too.

Now, delivery.  Standard delivery costs £4.95 but hotstuffs on HUKD says, "if you register they send you a thanks for registering email with a discount code took £4.00 off my order making delivery only 95p."

Marvellous!

Thanks to hotstuffs at HUKD

I am totally in two minds about the Sangenic Hygiene Plus nappy disposal system. On the one hand it's great, and on the other, completely unnecessary.

We were given the Sangenic nappy disposal system as a babyshower gift, and used it until the cartridge it came with was empty. With a breastfed baby, the nappies don't have a particularly bad smell, so we popped supermarket bags in the bucket and used it as a normal nappy bin.

We changed to reusable nappies during the days and disposables throughout the night. We didn't leave them in the nappy disposal system, because the smell would become overpowering before the bin was full. Our washing machine broke and for a few weeks we returned to disposables full time, and by now, with a partially breast fed, partially weaned baby, the nappies weren't quite as pleasant smelling.

So, we bought a new cartridge for the nappy disposal system, and it definitely helped with the smell. To use it, you pop the nappies in the hole, turn the handle around a couple of times, and it twists the bag to 'seal' in the nappy and the smell and apparently the germs. Once the nappy is sealed, the easi-push plunger pushes the nappy into the tub, where the germ-seal film continues to kill bacteria, and for a day or so, contains the smell too.

It holds up to 28 nappies at a time, but for us that would be almost a month's worth, which is definitely not going to be hygienic, so we've never tested that claim.

Truth be told though, since our kitchen bin goes out every day, there's no reason the nappies can't go straight in there. So, is it a worthwhile purchase? I think that depends entirely on your circumstances. It was nice to have, and great to have been given as a gift, but it's certainly not on my list of essentials if I ever have another baby.

Babies R Us have knocked £60 off the rrp of this Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature Essentials set, making it half price and yours for £59.99.

• Click HERE to get closer to this deal at Babies R Us

If you’re going into meltdown over how many bottles you might need, then this Tommee Tippee ‘Closer to Nature’ Essentials set could just be your knight in shining steam steriliser!

Not everyone wants to, or can, breastfeed and sometimes parents choose to do some and some so that dad’s can feed their baby too. But ‘which bottles to use?’, ‘how many to have?’, ‘what else do I need?’ are questions that fry your brain!

Here's what you comes inside the box of the Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature Essentials set: One electric steriliser, one bottle warmer, six 260ml bottles, four 150ml bottles, two medium flow teats, two fast flow teats, six milk powder dispensers, three milk storage lids, one Pure soother, one set of teat tongs AND one bottle brush *phew*
And just to top off the Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature Essentials set, everything is BPA free; a rather nice cherry on the top of a storming deal I think, and I'm not the only one as its reviews are excellent...

"Bought this for my daughter, who is very pleased with it. Great value for money, has everything she needs for when baby comes, no need too buy anything else because it literally has everything in it."

Thanks to louisef08 at HUKD

The Tommee Tippee Manual Breast Pump is only £10 in the Asda Baby Event - £16 off it's £26 price.

• Express yourself with Tommee Tippee's Manual Breast Pump

The Tommee Tippee Breast Pump is apparently the best-selling manual breast pump on the market.

It has only three parts to put together, which is great compared to it's electric counterpart which is way more fiddly.

The set includes a 5oz BPA-free bottle and slow flow teat with and Easivent valve, a sealing cap for breast milk storage, a Steri box for steam sterilising in the microwave, and also a convenient storage place when not in use and breast pads.

Tommee Tippee state that the soft touch cup is 'rippled for easier and more comfortable expressing' but this is definitely a matter of personal opinion. Some users find that it actually hinders expressing. As with most things in parenting, every woman is different, and while this pump might not work for you, another might – I know I never got on with a manual pump – so it's worth trying another pump before giving up.

A reviewer here says the pump is “easy to use and clean and I found it really easy to switch between breast & bottle with the closer to nature system. I've since tried the closer to nature electric pump and the medela swing pump, but am about to buy a second one of these as it's by far the best for us.” Which is ironically the exact opposite of what worked for me.

Which is why this one at only £10 is great – if it works for you, it's a bargain, and if it doesn't, you haven't lost much!

Thanks to Chris197 at HUKD

The popular Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature Electric Breast Pump offers reasonable value considering it is frequently on sale, but it does come with a few drawbacks too.

The sleek design makes it a 'pretty' pumping system, and the four speed control is simple to operate. Compared to other pumps I have tried, it's relatively quiet too, allowing for discreet, although not secret, pumping.

There are two big disadvantages, though. First, the air pipe connects to the area the milk flows through before dropping into the bottle, and if the pump is held any other way than the one instructed in the manual, milk goes up the pipe and into the electronics. You then have to unplug the air pipe and blow the milk out the other side, which isn't great for hygiene. As a one-off it's no big deal, but having to do it three or four times a session because you're also juggling a child and so aren't holding the pump exactly right quickly becomes annoying.

The second, bigger problem I found was that the silicone shell – which ironically is meant to mimic a baby's natural feeding action – somehow prevents any expressing. After ten minutes of pumping I had dishearteningly less than an ounce of milk. Once I removed the shell and just used the hard plastic cup, I filled almost five ounces in the next ten minutes.

The pump comes with a feeding bottle with a slow flow teat, a milk storage lid, milk storage pots, breast pads and a handy steriliser box that doubles up as a carry case or storage container for all the bits.

If you can work around the issues, this is a great pump – especially at sale prices – and if you're only looking for occasional use it shouldn't be too bothersome. For a daily use pump, however, I'd pay a little more for something needing less workaround.

Setting up for a new baby just got a whole lot easier and cheaper with this fantastic better-than-half-price deal on a Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature Essentials set from Toys R Us for just £49.99, down from £110.99

• Click HERE to snap up this offer from Toys R Us

I remember an article stating that first time parents in the UK spend on average £4000 on their first child during pregnancy and the first year – an astronomical amount, in my estimation! Whether you're a frugal parent or a 'must have everything' parent, getting ready for a baby can be incredibly expensive, so new mums and best friends to expectant mums should jump at the chance whenever a good deal comes along.

This is one of those times. For £49.99 the Essentials kit includes an electric steriliser, a bottle warmer, six large (260ml) bottles and four small (150ml) bottles, two medium flow teats, two fast flow teats, six milk powder dispensers, three milk storage lids, a soother, teat tongs and a bottle brush.

Tommee Tippee state that their teats are designed to make the breast to bottle switch uneventful, so that their bottles can be used for expressed breast milk too.

Standard delivery is £4.95, but if you spend over £150 – easy to do when preparing for a new arrival – delivery is free.

The Tommee Tippee Explora Roll 'n' Go bib is my new favourite bib for when we're out and about.

The Explora Roll 'n' Go bib for babies six months and up is made from a BPA free soft rubbery plastic, which is softer on baby skin and doesn't cut in to the flesh as the old hard bibs used to do. The pelican bib is a great catch all and stops a lot of food reaching the floor – meaning my toddler can pick it up again and keep eating without my having to worry about germs and cat hair.

The Explora Roll 'n' Go bib actually rolls up and the 'buttons' with which you fasten it around the baby's neck also serve as clips to fasten it so that it doesn't unroll in your bag. It is small enough that it can go in a handbag, nappy bag or picnic basket without compromising too much space in already jam packed baggage.

So what makes this bib any better than a simple .99p cloth version?

Well, just the fact that it's so easy to clean! That was it's selling point to me, anyway. A mucky bib in my handbag has never really appealed to me, but with the Explor Roll 'n' Go, a quick wipe down or rinse under a running tap, and you're good to go all over again. No plastic bags to keep it in and later throw away, no dirty bib to forget about, no running out of clean bibs when I'm out and about.

We took an Explora Roll 'n' Go bib with us on a camping trip over the summer and with no washing machine, it was really useful to be able to just wipe it off.

The Tommee Tippee Explora Roll 'n' Go bib comes in pink, green and blue and retails for £5.49 for two.

I'm generally pretty sceptical of anything announcing itself as 'essential' for your baby and although this Closer to Nature Baby Healthcare Grooming Kit for £10, down from £14.99, from Asda is no exception, I will concede that it contains enough useful items to be worth buying, especially at almost 1/3 off.

• Groom on over to Asda for this offer

The grooming kit contains nine healthcare and grooming items in a handy material pouch. If you listen to your mother and put things back where you found them this is great as they'll always be easy to locate.

In the case are a digital oral thermometer – useful for checking baby's temperature, especially when teething, and a nasal aspirator - not that essential, I don't think, having never yet had to use one.

On the grooming side, there's a toothbrush, brush, comb, scissors, nail clippers and two emery boards. These will probably all come in handy at some point or other during your baby's first few years, and are enough to make the kit useful to own.

Asda says it is ideal for travel – so long as you pop it in your checked in luggage so that it won't be confiscated at the airport for containing nail clippers and scissors!

If, like me, you like having a travel kit ready to go, this is perfect. If you want somewhere zipped up and safe to keep sharp objects and grooming items specifically for your little one, this is it.

Although it can be purchased online, the £4.95 delivery fee arguably means buying in-store makes more penny-pinching sense for PlayPennies readers.

Thank you to hardikjshah83 from HUKD

If you're going into meltdown over how many bottles you might need, then this Tommee Tippee 'Closer to Nature' Essentials set could just be your knight in shining steam steriliser!

• Click HERE to steam on over to Toys R Us for this deal

Not everyone wants to, or can, breastfeed and sometimes parents choose to do some and some so that dad's can feed their baby too. But 'which bottles to use?', 'how many to have?', 'what else do I need?' are questions that fry your brain!

I used both a Tommee Tippee steam steriliser and bottles for all of my children and found them easy, functional and reliable, so I've got no hesitation in recommending them as a brand to you.

Toys R Us have reduced this Tommee Tippee 'Closer to Nature' Essentials set from £119.99 right the way down to £49.99. It's jam packed full of all the feeding bits and pieces you'd ever need and is, in my opinion, an absolute BARGAIN!

Here's what you get:

• 1 x Electric steriliser
• 1 x Bottle warmer
• 6 x 260ml bottles
• 4 x 150ml bottles
• 2 x medium flow teats
• 2 x fast flow teats
• 6 x Milk powder dispensers
• 3 x Milk storage lids
• 1 x Pure soother
• 1 x Teat tongs
• 1 x brush

If you've got a Toys R Us close by then it might be worth popping in to see if this price applies in store too.  If not, standard delivery will cost you £4.95.

Thanks to Cobman over at HUKD!

If you’re looking to stock up on all those baby necessities then this spring sale from Tommee Tippee should be right up your street. They have a ton of useful products marked down by as much as 50 percent.

• Click here to see the deals at Tommee Tippee

There really are too many products to list them all at once so I’ve decided to pick and choose a few so you can get a taste of what’s on offer. To start with, those of you that have meandered on over to bottle feeding will love the electric steam steriliser down to £20.42. It has a super fast five minute sterilising cycle, is a neat design to fit most kitchen spaces and can fit up to six bottles at once.

They also have a microwave steriliser down to £11 and some nifty travel bottle and food warmers down to £7.86. If you’re looking for a breastpump then they have both the manual and electric ones available, although the price difference is enormous – the manual one is £12 while the electric one is £40. Personally I recommend you go with the latter as a manual pump is just so tediously time consuming.

Go and have a peek and see if you can nab some of those essentials while the sale is on.

Thanks to miat1974 at HUKD!

It's easy to get all steamed up about sterilising, especially when you're expecting your first baby, but there's really no need to fret.

• Click HERE to steam on over to Kiddicare
  

Back in the day (and I'm talking before my parenting days here) there was really only one sterilising option - big cold-water tanks full of Milton sterilising fluid - I can still smell that smell today, it reminds me of going to Aunty's house when my youngest cousin was a baby.

But today we are spoiled for sterisiling choice which CAN actually make things harder - which is the best way to go?   Should you be an traditionalist and go the Milton route (other cold water sterlising products are available!)?  Or join the revolutionary new age of STEAM sterilising?  Microwave or stand-alone electrical unit?!

Well,this microwave steam one from Tommee Tippee looks fabulous AND can double up as cold water version for when you're on the move and don't have access to a microwave; a multi-tasking product - they'll always get the thumbs up from me!

It comes with 1 x 260ml bottle, 1 x pure soother 0-3mths, 1 x bottle brush and 1 set of teat tongs.  It takes  just 4 minutes to get the job done in the microwave and has room for four Tommee Tippee or wide neck bottles and accessories (or six standard neck bottles).

This is a great deal at £9.99 - the RRP is actually £22.49!  Still not convinced?  Read the reviews on the Kiddicare site - they're excellent!

Thanks to babimama09 over at HUKD!