Originally Posted by googleking:
“The apprentidicks went on about how they had five children between them but none of them can have been particularly involved in bringing those kids up as they clearly had no idea that practical reasons mean the baby glow is really rather useless and especially at that ludicrous price.”
You're perhaps missing the point. The retailers bought it because new parents, who don't have a clue, will think it looks like the best idea ever and will buy one or two. The retailers will sell boat loads of them because new parents will happily shell out huge amounts of money on things that look like a good idea but have no practical application - go and visit any Mothercare and you'll see shelf loads of things that any experienced parent will tell you are useless but it doesn't stop them flying off the shelves.
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“Exactly what I thought. If you're going to sit there all night and watch for it to change colour surely you'd notice your baby dying anyway.”
I'm guessing you're not a parent

If you have a sick baby who has kept you up for the past 24 hours because of some bug or other it is a minor miracle when you get them off to sleep. The last thing you want to do is risk waking them to take their temperature so a product like this looks good on paper - a visual check will tell you whether the temperature is still high or not.
Having said that it still fails as a practical product for a couple of reasons:[LIST][*]A healthy baby goes through babygros at a rate of knots, a sick baby goes through them even quicker.[*]How do you tell the difference between a high temperature and a dangerously high temperature - the product just seemed to change colour when it reached a certain temperature.[/LIST]