Posts tagged as Babies
Babies Should Feed Themselves, Maybe
The latest from the Generating Parental Anxiety genre of scientific study: Your attempts to lovingly spoon-feed your infant may make him an obese toddler.
How Straight People Buy Cars
"I want to start a family in the next 4ish years. BUT, we aren't engaged (we have been together 5+ years, he knows I want to get married and have a family but he's not ready yet) so it's not like we are going to have kids soon.... My boyfriend is going car shopping with me on Saturday and he has promised to take the back seat as it were and let me make my own decision. I feel like I am being super emotional about this whole thing and I don't want to freak him out by saying BUT WHERE WILL THE BABY GO????? while we are looking at cars. Am I being irrational?" READ MORE
Please Don't You Cry, Robot Baby
"Babyloid, Japan's latest therapeutic robot baby, is also designed to help ease depression among older people by keeping them company. Towards the middle of its round, silicone face are two black dots that act as blinking eyes and a small slit that poses as a mouth and that can produce a smile. The cheeks have LED lights embedded and turn red to signify when it Babyloid contented. Blue LED tears are produced when it is unhappy.... Babyloid knows what's going on through its acceleration, temperature, touch, pyroelectric and light sensors. If you hold the crying Babyloid and rock it, it might – if you're lucky – fall asleep."
It Is Probably A Bad Idea To Glue Gemstones To Things Babies Put In Their Mouths
Now that you mention it, blinging out pacifiers and baby bottles does seem somewhat unwise.
It's An Underwater Babies Kind Of Day
Here you will find a photogallery of babies swimming underwater.
Summer Babies Are Stupid
Are you a summer baby? Then you might not want to read this. Not that you'd understand it anyway.
Skinny Women Impregnable
"A study found that skinny women are less likely to become pregnant than those who are overweight – including those classed as dangerously obese," which is pretty ironic when you realize that the only reason you are starving yourself in the first place is to trick a man into falling in love with you so he will put a baby in your tiny belly. Life is full of surprises sometimes.
You Are Not Getting Any Younger
Ladies, hurry up and freeze those eggs before it is too late or you will never have that baby that you want so badly but are too busy with your "career" to have right now. What's your deadline? Well, if you're under 30, GO GET THOSE THINGS FROZEN NOW. Otherwise, you may have missed the boat. READ MORE
Some (Sort of Bad) Advice for New Fathers
"Baby yoga is basically one step up from cat yoga. Also, babies are incredibly flexible. My biggest fear before becoming a dad was that I’d break baby. But I went over to my friend’s place and he has a seven-month-old and I watched him change some diapers, and I realized, babies are completely bendy. You can wave them around like chicken. But to be totally clear, I am totally fine with baby hatha yoga, but very mixed on ashtanga and iyengar for babies." READ MORE
When Baby Met Lion
Have you seen that video of the baby at the zoo, and he's playing by the lions, and the lioness keeps tracking him and it looks like she wants to play with him... or EAT HIM? You have? Well watch it again. This is what summer's gonna be like.
