Flip through any pregnancy magazine or take a walk through your
average baby superstore, and you'll be confronted with gadgets that
will, if you have any retained any sense, make your eyes roll clear out
of your head.
My favorite ridiculous thing when I was pregnant
with my daughter was the special CD player that had headphones you
could stretch over your belly so the baby could listen to classical
music before it was born.
Now, the "Mozart effect" is in fact
disputed, no studies have been done on the effect of music in utero,
and even if it were as accepted as folic acid and putting down the
smokes, why this ridiculous contraption is any more effective than a
regularold Discman which you can probably find on eBay for $5 escapes me.
This time, it's the BabyPlus Prenatal Education System (it makes my heart hurt a little to even type that out).
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