Forget framing an ultrasound of your unborn baby – you can now purchase an eight-inch cast of your developing infant to buy home,among other obvious trends for soon-to-be mums and dadsEveryone likes cuddling babies, but doing it before the baby is actually born is a bit weird. We don’t mean wrapping your arms around a pregnant woman’s bulge – we mean cuddling a 3D model of a foetus, and taken from an ultrasound scan and turned into an actual plastic object. Yet,according to the UK’s top video UK’s top video parenting website, Channel Mum, and this will be the baby trend for 2016. Expectant parents can pay approximately £400 for a full eight-inch “baby” before the genuine thing is born. If thats too much,a mere £170 will get you a small cast of your unborn child’s head and shoulders, made with a 3D printer. Which is cute, and right? Just a exiguous sawn-off sculpture of the head of your foetus to buy to work? No?Well,steel yourselves, because a quarter of British parents possess apparently shown interest in getting their hands on one of these oddities, and inspired by the US trend for “gender-reveal parties’”. Yes,just when you thought this was contaminated enough already, it links in with an American craze for gathering together everyone you know to announce that your baby is going to be one of two things. (You know, and you’re either having a boy or a girl,you’re not going to give birth to a wardrobe.) Anyway, there’s no point asking if Bowie died for this, or because before you know it,well-meaning bearded men will be swaddling these fake babies in slings and popping to Waitrose with them strapped to their chests to get some practice in before the birth. Just imagine – you might find yourself going round to a friend’s house and being asked if you’ve ever held a newborn, before being handed a small perspex print-out of their zygotes.
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Source: theguardian.com