20 Baby Products Great For Traumatizing Infants
Raising a baby is a tough gig. "Experts" declare at every turn that the wrong decisions on nutrition, napping or enrichment will render your child emotionally barren, homeless, sexually deviant and, worst of all, short. It's no wonder child rearing products are such a huge industry. Here are 20 products perfect for developing little tykes ... into adults who want to murder their parents.

The Zaky Infant Pillow will simulate your touch to soothe your child into rest, provided the baby is accustomed to being palmed by disembodied sausage-fingers.
They are weighted to remain firmly positioned, which is useful to parents who don't want to baby's first memory to be "The time mommy's massive foreman hands mercilessly pinned me down"

This is a dangerous idea. Not because it looks unstable or poorly constructed, but because its utility is too seductive.
Once the parent realizes how freeing this is, it will never stop with bathroom breaks. Want to vacuum? Slap that squirming bundle of modern art up on a closet door for a few minutes! Not enough room for the groceries and the child safety seat in the car? Use those hooks on the bumper and make an impromptu side car!

This product, previously named My First Auto-Erotic Asphyxiation Trainer , appears to be primarily designed to protect the baby's head in the event of shark attack.

It's not just a mechanism to block rogue urine sprays , it's a festive party hat for your baby's junk!
We noticed they are sized so adults can wear them too, but you might consider not breaking it out at the next office shindig. You don't want your last name being synonymous with HR's "Penis Hat" precedent for inappropriate conduct.

This product is a bit befuddling, since "new baby smell" is cherished by adults nearly as much as "new car smell". Strangely enough, the secret to both is liberal application of Armor-All.
Even stranger, the perfumes come in a series of food-flavored scents such as marshmallow, pear, almond, citrus and raspberry, meaning these perfumes may end up serving the dual function of a marinade if you enter dingo country.

This is a great way to teach your children "I trust you exactly none." Think of it as a renewed umbilical cord designed to transfer shame instead of nutrients.
Note: this product is NOT recommended for joggers. That's a mistake you'll only make once.

Helmet jokes are too easy and, frankly, a little unfair. Babies learn to walk with a drunken stagger that invariably gravitates towards peril in all directions. A little protection is sensible enough while they are too young to be scarred by it (babies don't develop the shame gland until 18 months).
However, this emblem from the site goes too far:

First head gear? If your plan for parenting involves scaling their walkabout helmet yearly you might as well send them to school pre-wedgied.

If you're concerned that your toddler doesn't have enough dipping sauces for their zwieback crackers, this is ideal. In fact, we kind of want one of these for our car and easy chair both. It looks convenient as hell.

Sure, you could provide "horsie rides" without it, but then you wouldn't have a baby toy that doubles as an accoutrement for submissive sex play.
Not many kids toys come with the advisory "Don't leave children unattended with this toy. Also never forget your safeword."

Technically speaking, wouldn't this be a veal costume?








These weird products are [redundant] weird [/redundant], but these babies are CUTE!
ReplyThe baby keeper actually serves a real need. The one thing I've never quite mastered (and I've got 5 kids) is what to do with a crawling-age baby or toddler when you use a public bathroom. At that age, you no longer carry them around in a car seat. Even using a baby sling is awkward and annoying in a bathroom. What do you do? Set them on the floor so they can catch a horrible disease and try to eat the toilet paper? Watch them dart under the door the second you sit down and hope they don't make it to the parking lot? The world needs a solution!
Replythere is a chinese baby in that hamburger, don't think about eating it unless you want to get poisoned
Reply"...and, worst of all, short" - Funniest part of the article.
Replylmao, make your children work for their keep.
ReplyI... do people really manually remove snot like that with babies? I mean, maybe if they're sick and it's over-excessive...
Reply Hide All See All 3 RepliesThis is normal, though not with a contraption like that. :P That's just nasty. The usual tool is a rubber ball that is kind of like a miniature turkey baster. Much better, see?
I've seen the turkey baster thing. That IS very normal and stuff but - your mouth never goes near it! It goes up the baby's nose and back out, since babies can't blow their noses.
That said, did anyone go to that website? They also have "The Windi" - a catheter for a baby's butt to get rid of excess gas...
Strange company.
Well yeah there's saline mist bottles of the sorts that helps irrigate nasal passageways along with that squirt bottle type, they're known to be quite beneficial but that...erm... yeah that, what in gods unholy fuck?
13 and 6 are pretty cool actually...
Replyafter the birth of a child, there's always the temptation to say "yes it's cute, but what can it do?"
ReplyI feel kind of bad that I read that as "yes it's cute, but will it blend?" out of habit.
Wasn't that baby mop on Raising Hope? But that one had a handle too...:P
ReplyThe cowboy boots (with "spurs!") on the baby shoes website are actually kind of cute, but the site's so bad I couldn't ever justify giving them money....
Reply#13.3rd Arm- For you future Doctor Octopus Supervillan.
Reply#5- Hell my younger brother has those, just drink plenty of beer and don't get any exercise.
#1- Helping prepare your kid for their future as either a bank robber or perhaps biker.
The po-knee actually looks kinda cute.
ReplyThat snot sucker made me feel genuinely ill...
ReplyI have one of these, and I've bought them for a shower gift. You can't actually get baby snot in your mouth; there's a filter. It's a fantastic product and it beats the hell out of the bulb syringes the hospital sends home with a new baby. You have to use one or the other if your newborn gets a cold, since very new babies just don't know how to breathe effectively through their mouths. On the list of gross newborn stuff, sucking snot out of their noses doesn't even rate.
My mom probably could have used the leash, I was always scurrying off.
ReplyWhatever happened to kids just dressing up in mom's clothes? Why do you need kid high heels?
ReplyClearly to have their feet ruined before they are 10 years old.
#5 was from "Meet the Fockers." Robert De Niro's character
ReplyThis was hilarious
ReplyMy mom used #15 with me when I was a kid.
ReplyThe very first one, the Zaky, is actually a pretty great product. It's for preemies stuck in incubators. Mom sleeps with it close to her skin so it smells like safety, and then it's tucked in with the preemie to hold it propped up so that the tubes are positioned right.
ReplyThe baby wig things remind me of that SNL skit about baby toupees.
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