Review: Babybeads-UK Animal Jingle Necklace – with Giveaway!
Tags: breastfeeding, Keep Britain Breastfeeding Scavenger Hunt 2012, necklace, review.
Product: Animal Jingle Necklace
Price: £12.00
Age Range: 0+
Manufacturer’s Description: This necklace consists of brightly coloured beads of many different colours, sizes and textures including animal and bells! This necklace would make a fantastic gift for an expectant mum, a baby shower or for your own baby whether breast or bottle-fed. It is suitable for Mums with a baby boy or girl. Wipe clean only. Babybeads necklaces are safety tested to EN 71 ( European toy) standards.
Rating: 
(5/5 stars)
Review: James Georgie gave me an Animal Jingle necklace for Mother’s Day and it came at just the right stage of our breastfeeding journey! Georgie was 10 months old and we were having quite a few problems with her grabbing my face or scratching me while she was feeding.
It’s not uncommon for babies to become more & more restless during feeds as they get older, and products like this one can really help make it easier to keep them entertained while they have their snack!
Our first ever feed with the baby beads! Please excuse my terrible hair 
As you can see from the photo of our first feed using the beads, Georgie cottoned onto the idea straight away and was having a great time waving them about! I wore my necklace for most feeds after this and her little hand would come up to my neck hunting for the beads to play with.
Before we got the beads, I was able sometimes to give her a toy to play with when feeding at home to distract her from her unintentional mummy bullying. When out & about it was a bit more difficult though, as she would generally throw the toy away at some point and when you’re in a cafe with a babe on your boob you don’t want toys going flying in all directions! This is where the necklace really comes into it’s own – it is safely attached around your neck so it isn’t going anywhere!
The animal jingle necklace I have is really great fun – it has little bells on as well as all different shapes of animal beads, including elephants, teddy bears & turtles. As well as these, there is an absolute riot of coloured beads of different sizes and patterns. The jingling is fun without being too irritating which is an important consideration for long feeders!
Fast asleep after a feed, still holding on!
One of my favourite thing about the necklace is that even when Georgie was holding it or pulling on it, it didn’t become too uncomfortable against the back of my neck. I have a few gumigems which are teething necklaces designed to be chewed, and occasionally during a feed Georgie would pull on the pendant, which would become a little painful on my skin.
Even now we have stopped breastfeeding, Georgie still loves to play with the necklace – she really enjoys wearing it and then wriggling & rolling around to making it jingle. She can put it on herself and likes to look at the different shapes & colours of beads. Obviously this is all done under strict supervision!
Some babybeads gymnastics!
I would love (and am hoping!) to be able breastfeed any further children we have too, so I will be able to use it again, fingers crossed. This one is a really easy 5 stars for such a great product that saved me lots of scratches!
Necklace Giveaway
To win one of these fabulous necklaces, just enter the following giveaway. If you are here for the scavenger hunt don’t forget to enter the grand prize giveaway at the bottom of the post too!
Keep Britain Breastfeeding Scavenger Hunt 2012
This post is part of the Keep Britain Breastfeeding Scavenger Hunt 2012. You will be able to view more great articles about breastfeeding at the following participating blogs:
I am working with Babybeads-UK for the duration of the scavenger hunt, and will be hosting a special giveaway of one of their products on the last week of the hunt! Established in 2006, Babybeads-UK manufacture and sell breastfeeding necklaces and reminder bracelets. All of their products are hand-crafted in the UK by specially trained staff and can be useful for fun and educational purposes well after the breastfeeding stages are over. Even better, they are always happy to make a bespoke necklace for no extra charge and you can even have them personalised with your baby’s name! They have also donated a breastfeeding necklace and reminder bracelet to the grand prize.
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30 Comments
esther james
I love the Toddler crazy mix
esther james
my breastfeeding goal is to continue breastfeeding and working full time
Attachment Mummy
The Jess Jewels pink onee is very pretty, love the hearts.
Attachment Mummy
I don’t really have a goal as such, just to keep feeding both girls for as long as they want to. Lara is showing no signs of stopping at 26 months, and I’m sure Sophia will follow in her footsteps. Could be interesting when number three comes along though…
bexB
The toddler crazy mix is awesome
bexB
To feed every child i have for as long as we are both comfortable
Gillian Holmes
Animal Jingle
Laz
I love the toddler crazy mix
x
Hannah Moody
My Breastfeeding goals are to do my best and to go a little longer next time (I only managed 1 month with my first as I had to express due to him being in an incubator).
My fave necklace is animal jingle
Steph
Life on the reef is my favourite. My original bf goal was 6 months which we’ve passed now. My goal now is as long as she needs it! X
Louise
To carry of feeding for a few more months
Katrina Day-Reilly
animal jingle
melanie stirling
I love the animal jingle
Samantha Holloway
The pretty Flower fairy is my fav.
Samantha Holloway
My breastfeeding goal for my next child is to feed past the six months mark.
Catherine Reynolds (@ReynoldsCren)
I have been toying with buying one of these myself, so thanks for the review!
Claire Willmer
I love the animal jingle necklace it looks cute and like it has lots o keep tinyhands buisy lol
Katherine Aitken
I love the Christian Cross.
motherhooddiaries1
The toddler mix is great!
My breastfeeding goal is to make sure I keep my boys on the breast for at least 15 minutes as they get distracted and sometimes lose out on the hindmilk.
Danielle Baker
My breastfeeding goal is to carry on for as long as my daughter needs
xxx
Sara-Jayne
Citrus burst is my favourite… and my goal is to nourish my son for as long as he needs and wants me to.
Samantha Bowes
I love the harlequin jingle. A good mixing of engaging colours, shapes and jingles!
Samantha Bowes
My breastfeeding goals this time round will be the same as last time. My ultimate goal was 1 year but ended up going longer than that but I broke that up into 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, 2 months etc.
hannah
I really like the wood effect necklace it’s lovely
hannah
My goal Is to feed wherever without being embarrassed and to go for as long as my baby needs and wants it.
marie
I love the Toddler Crazy Mix which is handy because my breastfeeding goal is feed as long as he needs/wants into toddlerhood
Robyn Logan
I love the Newborn Stimulation beads, I’ve been fascinated for a while how babies like black, white and red.
Robyn Logan
My goal was to breast feed for a few months, but after reading several blog posts for breast feeding week I think I’m more inclined to go with the flow now and let my baby boy decide
Sally Geldard
Love the idea of the beads! My little nursling likes to pull my hair while she feeds which is very ouch!! I am at 11months now and hope to continue for as long as she wants. My first daughter also self weaned at 13 months so am hoping to go a bit longer this time round!
Have a great holiday!
Sally Geldard
All the necklaces are fab – it’s hard to choose a favourite but Toddler Crazy works for me and my nearly toddler!