Frida Mom Upside Down Peri Bottle for Postpartum Care, Portable Bidet

Why it's worth it

The neck angles down and the bottle sprays while inverted, so you can aim water where it hurts without twisting your wrist behind you. If you're recovering from a tear, an episiotomy or a C-section, this is the single item worth adding to your own hospital bag.

Hospitals send you home with a peri bottle. It's a straight plastic squeeze bottle, and it only sprays when it's mostly upright, which means contorting your arm at exactly the moment you least want to move. Frida flipped the design: the neck bends and the bottle works upside down, so you hold it in a natural position and the stream goes where you need it.

This is the rare product where owner feedback is nearly unanimous. Parents who used the hospital bottle first describe switching to this one as an immediate, obvious improvement. It's the kind of thing people say they'd give to every pregnant friend — and buyers repeatedly describe it as their top postpartum purchase, which is not a phrase people use lightly at two days post-delivery.

From our review of 8 frida baby products

What we like

• +Hospitals send you home with a peri bottle
• +This is the rare product where owner feedback is nearly unanimous
• +It holds ten ounces, which is enough for a full pass without a refill, and the soft bottle compresses fully so the pressure…
• +The use case is broader than childbirth

What to know

• –It's the outlier in this guide — a Mom Care product in a lineup of baby tools
• –You need to be able to reach and squeeze it, which sounds obvious until you're a day out from a C-section