Chiggs Ltd

I'm Elizabeth Geldart, and my business, Chiggs Ltd, based in Harrogate, sells my own inventions- the Baby Feed Wheel, Baby Medicine Wheel and the Get Well Wheel. These are parenting products, cards and gifts with numbered dials to keep track of baby 's feed and everyone 's medicine times! The inspiration for my first invention, the Baby Feed Wheel, came in October 2005 when I was visiting a friend who 'd just had a baby. In the midst of sleep deprivation, she couldn 't remember her little boy 's last feed time, so I jokingly suggested she used a car parking disc to set the time whenever he had a feed. A couple of days later I took round a little 'homemade ' version (covered in blue paper with a little picture stuck on the front!). Remembering my own 'hazy days ' after my daughter Holly 's birth, when I would write all her feed times down on pieces of paper, I realised what a useful idea this would be for new parents. After two months of design, research and sourcing suppliers I secured a design patent and commissioned the first print run of Baby Feed Wheels. The Baby Medicine Wheel followed a couple of months later. Whilst on a short break with friends, their little boy started teething and needed medicine. Our friends used a Baby Feed Wheel to record the time of each dose so that they knew when the next medicine would be due. Shortly after the holiday I contacted the Patent Office with my second product! The Get Well Wheel completes the Chiggs range, (which are all printed in the UK and hand finished in Harrogate), and came about when my husband's Gran asked for a Baby Medicine Wheel to keep track of her daily medicines! With 'time of last medicine ' printed on the front, older children and adults of all ages can monitor their medicine times whether recovering from illness, or taking regular medication.