Baby Gifts Blog

(Remember hypercolour t-shirts? Those t-shirts that changed colour when you touched them? All the rage when I was at uni…)

The motion-sensitive ‘Bloom’ baby bassinet has sensors that respond to breathing movements and activate pulsing illumination intended to reassure, calm, and sooth both parent and baby. The illumination can be set to a slow pulse, a steady glow, or turned off completely depending upon the user’s preference.

A great baby gift idea for someone who loves lava lamps.

It costs one dollar on iTunes (that’s less than I paid for Pink’s I wish I was a Punkrocker… but I digress)  and this iphone application will monitor your baby. Perhaps you might sit in the loungeroom next to the landline? It will give you a call once the baby makes a noise.

Not a great baby gift for someone with a baby who snores.

I know, most of the techno baby gifts I have found involve sound.

But this more than just one product. Called the Pico-ipod, it’s an iPod-enabled  baby stroller.  It clips apart to be an iPod-enabled  car seat and an iPod-enabled  baby bag. I have a question, what is an iPod-enabled  cosycoon. All I know is that I want one!

An ideal baby gift for someone, wait for it, with an ipod.

Q: What goes beep, bep-bep-be-bebep-beep?   A: A Prenatal education system

This interesting baby product is based upon the premise that a baby in the womb gets used to hearing it’s mother’s heat beat. So you strap on a little “heart beat-er” to a pregnant belly to (they say) help baby learn and distinguish the difference between the mother’s heartbeat and the “fake” heartbeat.

It sounds a bit like a mean mind-game to me, but the company’s research indicates that babies who used the Babyplus Prenatal Education System, nurse better, reach milestones earlier, get better grades at school, even drive a porsche…

Not a great baby gift for someone with palpitations or cardiac arrhythmia.

“The Ritmo Advanced Pregnancy Sound System consists of a controller and a fashionable (my emphasis!)  fabric belt which has four speakers fixed into it. The pregnant mummy can tie the fabric belt around their pregnant belly and plug in an audio player such as iPod into the controller.”

A cool baby gift, agreed. But a fashionable one? An ideal baby gift for the not-so-fashion-concious-music-lover in your life.