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The story of the Baby Dipper bowl

As a stay-at-home mom of twin baby girls, Barbara Schantz faced an enormous task just in feeding the girls.  Frustrated with the bowls she had already purchased, she investigated and bought other bowls, but still remained disappointed.  The vision for the Baby Dipper ^TM bowl came to her when the girls were about 6 months old, not long after the girls started eating baby cereal and other pureed foods.  Barbara needed a bowl that required only one hand to successfully feed a baby, but why wasn't there one on the market that satisfied this need?

To accomplish one-handed feeding, the bowl should not slide around on the table and should aid in the collection of the baby food.  A non-slip bottom surface would keep it from sliding.  A sloped interior surface and a spoon-shaped collection point would help gather the food down to the last bite.  Also, adding to those features, the vertical sides help push food onto the spoon and  transparent sides allow the food to be seen easily by both the parent and the child.  The bowl Barbara designed has proven to make feeding much easier for parents and even for toddlers trying to spoon-feed themselves. The Baby Dipper bowl is truly unique in the marketplace and will hopefully help parents everywhere.

A bit about Barbara Schantz

Barbara was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, living there until 2000 when she met her husband, Hans, and moved to Huntsville, Alabama.  She attended Georgia Tech (Go Jackets!), majoring first in architecture and then in history.  She worked for Volvo Cars of North America for 8 years, the last 4 as a Product Specialist training sales consultants about the features and benefits of Volvo cars.  She left Volvo in 2004 when her twin girls, Greta and Cora, were born and has been a stay-at-home mom ever since.  Barbara was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis the same day the patent for the Baby Dipper bowl was filed, August 17, 2005.  So far she has not been affected very much by the disease, but since there is no telling when there will be a sudden downturn, she keeps going full steam all the time.  Barbara never dreamed that she would have twins, much less that she would come up with a product that could help parents everywhere feed their babies and help toddlers learn to self-feed.  And all of this in spite of the fact that Hans is also a co-founder of another start-up company, The Q-Track Corporation, which is working on a tracking system to supplement GPS.  Things have certainly not been easy the past few years, but the Schantz family believes that each of these companies has a place in the business world to help people with different needs.

Thanks for visiting BabyDipper.com.  We look forward to hearing what everyone thinks of the Baby Dipper bowl.  Please share your thoughts with us after you've had a chance to use the Baby Dipper bowl at home.