Everyone 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, 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, this will be the baby trend for 2016. Expectant parents can pay about £400 for a full eight-inch “baby” before the real thing is born. If that’s 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, right? Just a little sawn-off sculpture of the head of your foetus to take to work? No?
Well, steel yourselves, because a quarter of British parents have apparently shown interest in getting their hands on one of these oddities, inspired by the US trend for “gender-reveal parties’”. Yes, just when you thought this was bad 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, 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, 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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