Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing found this ’supposed’ baby bath on sale at John Lewis on London’s Oxford Street. It’s apparently a bucket which the instructions refer to as “womb-shaped” that you are supposed to wash your baby in. The unfortunate reality of this contraption is that it brings on a whole bunch of horrible, bad parent thoughts, like, Baby blender, Baby soup maker, Baby crock pot, and a general water torture device. In some respects this does actually look like a decent idea, sort of. But the “ways to kill my baby” imagery is a bit too much for me. Also I would think it gets harder to wash your baby as you move down the body?

I think an AWESOME addon/mod for this would be a whirlpool feature, so you can actually look like you are blending your baby. Add some red food coloring, or green if you want to pretend you have an alien child.

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Yesterday we seemed to have a pretty good day. Mom and I have made a decision, which is, ignore all the opinionated strict irrational advice of how you HAVE to feed and sleep and care for our child. We will take all the opinions, mix em, mash em, ignore them as we see fit, and in the end do whatever the hell works, and prevents us from making larger bad decisions that can have longer consequences. Let the baby sleep through the night at 2 weeks old, BAD PARENTS!! pfft, bite me, the kid ain’t dead, and quite frankly, she’s been much happier the past few days since. Not all kids are the same, and ours is already a weirdo.