12 Cool Baby Products From the 2025 ABC Kids Expo

You might have heard about the new safety regulations for nursing pillows that just went into effect at the end of April—but if not, here’s the TL;DR: All nursing pillows sold after April 30, 2025, have to adhere to specific design standards to help make them safer for babies.

Postpartum and early infancy feeding products tend to be utilitarian and ugly. Not so the beautiful new baby bottles and hand pump from Hegen, a feeding brand from Singapore. The bottles are made from polyphenylsulfone (PPSU), a sturdy plastic that can resist high temperatures, sterilization, and impact (what, your baby has never chucked a bottle out of the crib?) better than many other forms of plastic. 

Hegen’s feeding system is available in a lovely golden color, and the stackable, squared bottles can also be used as food containers. 

Ask any breastfeeding parent if they enjoy the process of pumping, and I’m betting you won’t get the most enthusiastic response. Pumping breastmilk can be painful, tedious, messy, and monotonous—it’s a means to an end, which is why any innovation in the pumping category catches my attention. Enter: Muu, a hands-free, wire-free, suction-based milk collection system. The 5-ounce, food-grade silicone pumps fit inside your bra cups (where tiny feet can’t easily kick them off, spilling your liquid gold) and silently help you express milk (no whirring motor required).

Toward the end of my breastfeeding journey, I relied more on my manual pump than my motorized setup, mainly for convenience’s sake (fewer wires and tubing!). But my manual pump wasn’t hands-free, which meant I sometimes pumped while driving one-handed (oops). Muu’s continuous suction means you can pump on the go, hands-free, whether seated or standing.

There’s a reason most baby bottles are made of plastic: Plastic is durable, lightweight, and relatively inexpensive to produce. Plus, as a parent, knowing a plastic bottle won’t break if your baby somehow launches it is pretty priceless. But with research and awareness around microplastics on the rise—especially those originating in polypropylene baby bottles—some companies have begun offering glass versions of their bottles as an alternative. If you’re worried about the weight or breakability of glass, the Chicco Duo baby bottle is a bridge between two worlds: It’s plastic on the outside for durability and flexibility, and glass on the inside, meaning baby’s milk touches only 100 percent medical-grade glass that won’t shatter, crack, chip, or flake.

File under “practical solutions that have been staring us in the face but that somehow no one came up with earlier”: Chicco’s Stash Basket, available with the company’s 2025 Corso and Bravo stroller models, upgrades the standard stroller basket with a clever built-in zipper compartment. Zip items inside to keep them safely out of sight and out of the weather, or load your stuff right on top of the zip-up compartment, which collapses into the stroller basket when nothing’s inside. And it’s not some rinky-dink, crossbody-bag-sized thing either—the Stash Basket covers the stroller’s entire storage area, which is generously sized on both the Corso and the Bravo lines. —Siobhan

Do I need another stroller, strictly speaking? No. But I’m tempted by the beautiful, full-featured Oxford Travel System. 

Maxi-Cosi exhibited two arguably more impressive strollers at the expo: The Fame Modular stroller has battery-powered lights, so evening walks (or afternoon walks, if you’re picking up your baby from day care at 5 p.m. in New England in January) are better lit and, crucially, safer, as you and your baby are more visible to passing drivers. And a new, not-yet-named resin-based stroller is unusual for its material and being made in the U.S. (the vast majority of strollers are produced overseas). Both are due out later this year. 

The Baby Jogger City Prix stroller, which came out late last year, is a return to form for the brand that invented the jogging stroller. (The company’s City Mini GT2, while not a jogging stroller, is also justly beloved by urban parents like myself.)

WonderFold is well-known for its ingenious stroller wagon designs, from two-seaters with collapsible side walls to six-seaters with five-point harnesses for every tiny rider. But the company’s latest innovation is sure to become a category-defining moment: the E-assist, designed to work with its W-series wagons. 

The electronic push support powers the wagon wheels with a slight boost, helping tired parents (hello, it’s me) lug a wagon full of children uphill (this should be part of a parenting triathlon, TBH) or cart a cache of playground equipment to and from the park. It’s the helpful extra feature that might just save your back. 

I was also intrigued by the rocking mode: With the push of a few buttons, your wagon turns into a rocker on wheels with a gentle back-and-forth motion, perfect for when your playground warriors desperately need a nap under the canopy. 

A full-featured high-end stroller at the (gulp) reasonable price of $650? That’s the Dfy R1, a compact modular stroller with all the features and capabilities of many of the tank-sized strollers you see on city sidewalks. The Dfy R1 is the most city-ready full-sized stroller I’ve seen in my several years of testing strollers (assuming it lives up to its promise; I haven’t tried it out in the real world yet). It looks tailor-made for families who live in small spaces and are frequently on the go. 

At 25 pounds, the Dfy is on the lower end of typical overall stroller weight (compared with the Uppababy Cruz V2 at 25.5 pounds, the Nuna Mixx Next at 28.3 pounds, and the Mockingbird at 27 pounds). Its size is compact, with the seat low to the ground, similar to the Doona. But it’s still suitable for tall people—according to the manufacturer, it has the highest handle height on the market. Its lowest handlebar height felt perfect for me, however, indicating that Dfy has thought of its caregivers of various sizes when designing this stroller. 

I remember being baffled by my son’s cries in the early days after his birth. Was he hungry? Gassy? Tired? Only now that he’s a toddler can I interpret his hollering (oh, that “ya ya ya” cry in the middle of the night clearly means “milk!”). 

The new Motorola PIP1710 Connect with Adorable Intelligence baby monitor, due in September, promises to help tired parents translate their newborn’s communication. According to the manufacturer, the AI (Adorable Intelligence—get it?) has 93 percent accuracy at interpreting a baby’s cries until they’re 6 months old. At that age, your baby’s early language development makes translation more difficult, although Motorola tells us that understanding older babies’ crying and babbling is a project already in the works with its partner Zoundream (which also powers the Cry Assist technology available with the Maxi-Cosi Starling Smart Bassinet). 

New in March of this year, the Graco GoMax baseless infant car seat installs literally in seconds, with rigid LATCH connectors that snap right into your car. (It also comes with an optional base, which is just as easy to snap in.)

Car seat nerds that we are, we enjoyed a nice long chat with the folks at BabyArk. This innovative convertible car seat (one of Time’s Best Inventions of 2024) was adapted from military technology by the company’s founder, a father and engineer.

My jaw was on the floor while I watched the 30-second installation of the Axkid One+3 rear-facing car seat in person at the Expo. Not to wax too poetic, but it was a symphony of clicks, latches, and ratchets, and it was incredibly satisfying to watch. CR has not tested the Swedish-designed One+3 because it’s not yet available in the U.S., but the thoughtfully designed car seat has passed Sweden’s strict safety standards and the ADAC safety test, considered to be one of the most rigorous car seat safety tests in Europe. But what stood out to me the most about this stunning seat is the fact that it can be used rear-facing from birth (with an infant insert) up until age 7 (or 65 pounds), with a sliding feature that allows for extra legroom as your kid gets taller.