>More Proof That a New Mom and Her Money are Soon Parted
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Thanks to my friend Rachael for finding another item for my baby shower unregistry: The stimulation top. It’s always a bad sign when the model looks humiliated, isn’t it?
Anyway, here’s the description:
The luxurious soft cotton of the Yes! SuperBaby™ Stimulation Top, textured straps and attachment rings promote visual and tactile stimulation for the child. The top consists of one multi-colour stimulation zone which caters for babies of 4 months and older. This colourful design can be flapped open to reveal a high-contrast black and white stimulation zone for newborns up to 3 months.
The Yes! SuperBaby™ Top is worn by the parent/carer and thus allows the stimulation zones to be easily viewed and touched by the infant. The top also includes two rings that allow to attach rattles, teethers, books or small toys. The advantage of being able to add and remove toys is that a child can play with her/his favourite toys. Improves daily life for mothers as you can keep your child entertained while you can multi-task on the phone, internet or during travelling with the baby on your lap!
What. The. Hell. Seeing as the “stimulation zone” coincides neatly with the um, boob zone, I have to wonder: Who exactly is supposed to be stimulated here? The baby, or the mama? Because my stimulation zone, in my humble opinion, really doesn’t need to be messed with by my baby at playtime, thank you very much, nor do I want rings or teethers attached to it.
Besides, this stimulation top is really expensive. 34 pounds equals what… around $70? I can make my own for way less.
On sale now for the low, low price of, um, $60! Just let me know if you want me to make you one.
>Wow…the shirt and the model scare me.And to think that my daughter has managed to survive for ten months without that amazing shirt!
>Personally, I feel that the boobies are missing tassels.
>I think Einstein’s mommy had one of those, too. Wait…maybe it was Freud’s mommy.You are hilarious.
>*The advantage of being able to add and remove toys is that a child can play with her/his favourite toys.*You don’t say! Thanks, Yes! SuperBaby!
>LOLThat was so funny!
>My favourite part is that baby can play on your lap while traveling. No more lugging those pesky safety seats when you can stimulate baby with your shirt before he goes flying out of your lap. Fabulous!
>What the hell!?!Just throw on an old tie dye concert t-shirt and be done with it!
>LMAO! I wonder if any of these have sold!And to think I relied on carpet fuzz to entertain my son!
>You know, my first instinct was to laugh my ass off.But now, I’m half tempted to go off on some kind of rant about how THIS is what mothers are told they SHOULD be these days.All baby, all the time. Your freaking CLOTHES now have to be designed for your children?!GAH! What is with this current trend to encourage women that once you give birth, everything about you dies except motherhood?!?!?But, then, I thought – it would be rude to rant in your comments. 🙂
>that is completely ridiculous. It makes me laugh too.
>I am scared of this…terrified, actually. But I think just to be mean – I mean for the education of my nephew – I will get one for my SIL to wear for the new baby!!!WHAHAHAHAHA!!!
>That is the world’s ugliest shirt. It’s stimulating my reverse peristalsis right now, which may not be what the manufacturers really want.I’ll take one of YOUR shirts please.
>I’m with Miss Britt. While the ugliness of that shirt is a given (I mean, come ON), the concept plays into the idea that mothers are not enough as they are, that they have to always be more and do more, more, more if they want their infant to attend Harvard someday. A mother’s face is always interesting to her baby! Babies need plenty of downtime as well if they are to process all the new information they’re constantly taking in. But that point aside, no one wants to stare at a Gymini (human or otherwise) all day long — or look like one. Super UGH. They should call that shirt the “I Sure Hope I Never Get Laid Ever Again” model.
>Wow, if that isn’t birth control….
>I find it scary, not stimulating. And I agree with Miss Britt, just another way to sacrifice mommy again. Now, your clothes, style and body are no longer your own. They must be sacrificed for the sake of your baby. They must be exciting and playful, not just the major food source.Gag! I like your design much better!
>Yikes!Although it occurs to me that the next time I’m not in the mood, I could just don the Stimulation Top and it would unstimulate the Hubs in short order. hmmm…
>This scares me in more ways than I can even articulate. Funny as hell, though 🙂
>That ranks right up there with Garanimals!I wonder if people actually buy those things? Let alone wear them in public?Yours is much better. Hee, hee.
>That shirt is just wrong on so many levels but I do think it is funny that they were careful to put 3 faces on their shirt in the boob area.
>Holy Crap!Yeah, as if the boobs don’t get enough tugging on with a nursing baby, now they are the baby’s personal PLAY-TOYS, complete with ATTACHMENTS.Lord, help us.(Hey, my word verification is “nipdubr”…”nip” get it? ha-ha!)
>That has got to be the scariest fucking thing I’ve ever seen.
>It is sad and sick that there are people that will spend more money and more time trying to find ways to interact with their kids, than actually just plain ol’ interacting. You have just confirmed that Yes, the world IS going to Hell. in a Handbasket. Directly.
>I kept reading through the comments, waiting for the one from you that says, “Just kidding!” But there isn’t one. I am scared. Hold me. No, not there. Here.
>Uh…what goofy crap does dad get to wear?Or should I just dress my husband in my ex-boyfriend’s black and white ska shirt for his own dose of humilation?I like your shirt much better, lol.
>oh. my. God. are you kidding me? seriously? ya, like i need to give my kids a reason to yank/grab/grapple/climb/maul me anymore than they already do! although, i’m sure hanging a couple of rattles from your shirt is a real sexy look…
>If you are crazy enough to add toys to this (which, if you’ve bought it, you might be) – they will dangle nicely at boob level. Having my daughters blue monkey or rattling giraffe bouncing on my chest would certainly add a new dimension to the motherhood experience for me!
>That is just funny in a ridiculous way!I would be more apt to wear your model tee, as it is much funnier and much less tacky…not to mention your model rules out my boobs being used as a teether.
>Too funny! The things that they try to sell to people these days!
>For the love! I never wore one…I wonder if The Boy’s problems stem from me wearing my old Rolling Stones t-shirt most of his baby life..hmmmm
>LOL! The original shirt is going to give me nightmares.
>As if new mom’s don’t have enough fashion obstacles to overcome- with our new pudgy waistbands, leaking boobs and inability to shower. horrible.
>Ewwww….thats so wrong.