We started Burple in our kitchen here in Charleston, SC, exhausted, holding our son, and staring at yet another shirt we'd just changed out of.
 

If you've ever burped a newborn, you know the scene. You drape a cloth over your shoulder. You pat. You wait. And then it happens — somewhere between your shoulder, your collar, and the rug. The cloth caught about a third of it. The rest is on you, on the couch, on the floor you just mopped.

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We tried everything. Muslin. Cotton Towels. The thick ones, the prefolds, the bandana-style bibs that promised to be different. They were all the same product in different colors: a piece of fabric trying to absorb a problem that really needed to be caught.

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We tried everything. Muslin. Cotton Towels. The thick ones, the prefolds, the bandana-style bibs that promised to be different. They were all the same product in different colors: a piece of fabric trying to absorb a problem that really needed to be caught.
 

One night, somewhere in that blurry stretch between feedings, one of us said it out loud: there has to be a better way to do this. 
 

When we realized it didn’t exist, we started building one.

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We sketched at the kitchen table. We hunted down sheets of silicone — the same material we already trusted for our son's bibs and feeding spoons — and began cutting and taping. The idea was simple: stop trying to soak up spit-up with something that doesn't work. Build pocket. Catch it before it lands anywhere else. Pair the silicone with a soft cotton liner so it's still gentle against the baby's skin. Make it easy to clean, easy to roll up in a diaper bag, and easy to actually use at 4am when you can barely see straight.

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That became the Burple Burp Catcher — a silicone shoulder shield with a pocket that physically catches and contains what other burp cloths can't.

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We filed for patent protection because we knew what we'd built was genuinely different, and we wanted to protect it for the parents who would use it. Two U.S. utility patents later (US12465095B1 and US12075858B1), Burple is officially the world's first silicone burp cloth and spit-up catcher.

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We didn't set out to start a baby brand. We just wanted to stop ruining our shirts and feeling defeated by something as small as a burp. But the more parents we showed it to, the more we heard the same thing we'd been saying to each other: why does this not already exist?

That's why Burple is here.

 

Less mess. Less stress. More of the parts you actually want to remember.

 

Thanks for letting us be part of yours.

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— Will & Amanda Evans Charleston, SC