The Pregnancy, Babies and Child Expo

This past weekend was Perth’s very own Pregnancy, Babies and Child Expo and of course as a pregnant couple we had to go and look at the so called bargains. Well actually it was a good chance to look at all the stuff the baby shops have in one place and not have to spend days driving to each store (but don’t tell anyone I said that!!)

I thought the best way to capture the expo was in statistics (note some of these statistics may not have been scientifically proven):

Number of People – 3,000

Number of Pregnant people – 1,500

Number of Prams – 1,000

Number of Children – 1,000

Number of haggard looking men - 500

Number of pram collisions with my legs – 10

Number of feeding babies – 150

Number of exposed breasts – not sure was looking at the roof

Number of essential baby items available – 100,000

Number of essential items purchased – 1

Cash left in wallet at exit - $0

Amount spent – think of an amount and double it

So like all expos this was a couple of halls full of booths of all relevant stuff – so all baby and pregnancy stuff basically. Expect for Ford – I saw a big Ford sign down the end of one of the halls but I’m not sure what baby stuff they were selling as we never got there as the pram situation hit critical mass and I couldn’t get down that aisle.

What could Ford be selling?? Surely you can’t persuade people to buy a new car just because they are pregnant.

Navigating around the halls was certainly not the easiest thing. The number of prams was amazing. I think at one point the number of prams hit crisis point and we were one pram away from gridlock. This meant that pram related injuries were high and mainly at ankle height.

This combined with staff that seemed to be able to hear what you were thinking and keep saying things like “it might look small but it’s the perfect size” when I thought I was just reading their sign about breast pumps, meant the expo had its moments.

Speaking of breast pumps apparently you should only get an automatic breast pump as manual ones don’t work as well. I would have to say I’m not sure I would put an automatic pump anywhere near breasts if I had any. Automatic?? What if it doesn’t know when to stop sucking?

The highlight for me was the lady who told us that the price of the car seat we were looking at was the cheapest it would ever be and would never be repeated outside of this show. Really?? Never to be cheaper??? I find that hard to believe.


My final comment is about “Tupperware” how can that company find a reason to be at every and I mean EVERY expo. Sexpo, Car shows, food shows, boat shows… now I know why we own so much of it.