Think you’ve seen it all when it comes to baby gear? Think again. The gang at
Cracked.com shows how low you can go in a “20 Baby Products Great for Traumatizing Infants.”
First let me say, I actually love one of these products that unfortunately you can’t actually buy yet. It’s a Japanese invention called the Baby Mop, a playsuit with a mop head front that allows baby to scoot and shine the floor at the same time! Creepy? More like brilliant, and my husband would be the first one to open his wallet for another item on the list, a
CD of Metallica lullabyes.
That said, there are some truly creepy items on this list. Let’s start with the tacky. I think I have a pretty good and weird sense of humor, but I wouldn’t want to send grandma and grandpa photos of baby’s first Halloween dressed as a
whoopie cushion!. Then there are
Baby’s First Heels, soft baby shoes designed to look like high heels in hot pink, leopard, zebra and of course, black. It’s like “Sex and the City” for babies. It’s like WRONG!
Then there’s the
Zaky Infant Pillow. I guess the idea is nice, a pair of hands to cradle baby when you can’t, but it’s just a little too “Thing from The Addams Family’” for me.
Again, I’m on board with the idea of Sweden’s
Nosefrida, a manual nasal aspirator that is apparently quite popular over there. However, the actual idea of sucking the stuff out of baby’s nose through a tube connected to my mouth is just kind of gross.
Finally, I had the uhm, honor, of writing about Creepy Baby Product #2,
The Baby Toupee. I thought they were kind of funny, especially the Bob Marley, but like I said, I have a weird sense of humor.
