Top Pregnancy/Baby Trends I Don't Understand

[bcpr]

Top 5 Pregnancy/Baby Trends I Don't Understand

I know I'm the minority here, but these are the things I just don't get, even when people I love and respect do them. These are industries from which people make money!

Comments

[owlsarentaholes]

ITA about everything except the belly cast, which I made when I was pregnant with Rylie and I like having. It was just something fun to do. I took pregnancy pics to see how big I was getting (and mostly show my friends online) but I never wanted the professional kind done; I spend too much taking the actual, living breathing kids in for photos once a year.

[bcpr]

Does your belly cast look like this?

[fuzzy_logick]

OMG, that picture! Hahaha. I bet the woman whose belly cast that is wears Winnie the Pooh t-shirts and white Keds.

[calimama]

omg you comment almost made me spit out my coffee

[fuzzy_logick]

"First off, there is no such thing as "4D" The fourth dimension is time"

THANK YOU! Personally, I think the "4D" ultrasounds look pretty creepy.

#2 and #5 made me laugh, a lot. I personally think that belly casts are ugly, and I don't understand what you do with them when you're done. #5 is a pet peeve of mine too.

[bcpr]

Shows what you know, Jen! When you're done, you sit in a field with it.

[fuzzy_logick]

She has belly casts to spare! One to hang precariously over the couch to make guests uncomfortable, one to sit in the attic collecting dust, and one to use as a cat food dish.

[owlsarentaholes]

Could make for a really freaky art show, I suppose. We had fields like that (until last night when we mowed them down) and there's no way in hell I would sit in one. Ick.

[calimama]

hahaha i wrote thank you cards written from babys perspective for his first christmas & felt silly for doing it a few months after the fact.

the 4D ultrasounds look cool but yeah I'm not paying that much money to see someone I'll be seeing in a few months.

[bcpr]

While I mostly agree with you, I've had several u/s this pregnancy and I think they were all extremely important. They were all for medical reasons, not just to "see the baby".

I was rushed to the ER at about 5 1/2- 6 weeks with the most extreme abdominal pain I've ever experienced. Must worse than child birth or apendicitis or normal ovarain cysts, or even all 3 put together. So, they had to do an u/s to make sure there was fetus in my uterus, not in a tube.

Then i had surgery. The pregnancy was still too young to detect a heart beat over doppler, so I had another u/s to find the heart beat. They also needed to date the pregnancy, as I had a miscarriage and then no period afterwards.

Then I started bleeding and had an u/s every week, first to make sure there was a fetus inutero, then to make sure the heart was beating.

Now everything is normal, so I'm not doing it any more, but the first 12-16 weeks were such a roller coaster ride, I really needed to know things were OK.

[bcpr]

O yeah, I understand. I just didn't want you to think I'm a total moron if I ever mentioned I've had more than 10 ultrasounds!

[vdreamgoddessv]

I spent time my first pregnancy hiding it (and the rest working at KFC so there was nothing beautiful about that) so this time around I took more pictures. I sent them to my parents (and posted them on LJ) but they were taken for me too since I was enjoying my pregnancy and was actually surprised at the change only a couple weeks could make. I also was wearing decent clothes this time and that made a huge difference on how I felt.

We caved into the shopping cart cover (then sold it for almost as much as we paid for it at a garage sale before she turned one) and won't be doing that this time around, I agree that it (like so many other baby things) is just a waste of money and a way for the "baby industry" to make more.