Our Story

Spewy began on a family road trip to Queensland in 2017. At the time, founder Jo Hardie was travelling with her three young daughters, aged 5, 3, and just 7 months old. Like many families, Jo and her crew made the 10-hour journey regularly to visit her brother’s family near Toowoomba, so she knew the drill and what to pack — including the all-important “just in case” towels.

But on this particular trip, only a couple of hours in, her eldest daughter announced she was feeling sick. Moments later, with no warning, vomit went flying across the back seat. The two towels Jo had packed were used up almost immediately, and by the end of the trip, clean clothes had been sacrificed as makeshift wipes.

It was messy, chaotic, and one of those parenting moments Jo would never forget.

Jo was fortunate that her girls were never particularly “spewy” babies. It wasn’t until they got a little older that she was truly introduced to the chaos of childhood vomit. In 2018, when her eldest daughter started school, she brought home a vomiting bug that quickly made its way through all three siblings.

That week was one Jo would never forget. Every towel in the house was used, she was running on no sleep, and the washing pile — full of bedsheets and clothing — seemed never-ending. Desperate for a solution, Jo went online in search of a product that could help manage the mess, particularly something that could be placed under the girls in bed to prevent vomit from soaking through. But nothing suitable existed.

Certain she couldn’t be the only parent facing these challenges, Jo decided to create something herself — and that’s how Spewy was born.

Jo began the journey of designing a completely new product. After several rounds of prototyping, testing, and refining, she partnered with a trusted manufacturer. Today, the Spewy is making life easier for parents around the world, helping them manage life’s messiest moments with less stress and a lot more confidence.