Dear Bibs,
Yeah, I’m talking to you, you combination of napkins and a shirt. You were created in order to help keep babies’ clothes clean while they are eating.
My daughter is now 1.5 years old, and she has never really successfully worn a bib. For understandable reasons, she doesn’t like having you, or your kind tied around her neck.
When we were trying to use cloth bibs, typically Babs would keep the bib on for about ¼ of the meal, which was plenty of time to get the bib dirty. Then the remaining ¾ of her meal would end up on her clothing. We had to wash the bib, and her clothes. The cloth bibs just made the entire process more difficult.
Eventually, we tried using plastic bibs. These were much easier to clean, and had a pocket that crumbs would drop into, that Babs didn’t get into her mouth. However, Babs figured out almost immediately how easy is was to pull the Velcro part off. She would then throw the bib on the ground, and all of the crumbs would fall out of the pocket and cause an even bigger mess.
Due to the lack of effectiveness of bibs, and us not wanting to wash Babs’ clothes after every meal, we would often feed Babs dinner while she was just wearing a diaper, followed immediately by a bath.
See what you have done to us, bibs? I blame you and only you.
And one more thing, bibs… all those clever sayings you have written on you… they are not even funny when a baby has thrown you onto the ground.
I do, however, think bibs would be much more effective if they were acceptable for adults. Adults have the maturity to keep their bib on the entire meal, and it will help stop pasta sauce from Buca di Beppo from spraying onto your best white button-down.
Those are all of the thoughts I have on bibs for now.
Later bibs.
-TR