Wanting to have certain keepsakes to commemorate your pregnancy is normal and totally understandable -- but would you actually consider purchasing a miniature 3D replica of your fetus? Yes, a replica, as in a tiny little statue that sits encased in resin and rests in a jewelry box -- and looks exactly like your baby-to-be.
The new Japanese token of pregnancy affection is called "Shape of an Angel," and in order to get one, an MRI is taken of your baby and the replica gets printed out from a 3D printer -- and voila! You've got yourself a fetus statue, to the tune of $1,230.
Do you believe that? $1,230!?! Who would shell out over a thousand dollars for something that looks like it came out of a gumball machine?
Please tell me I'm not the only one who finds this thing to be a little bit on the creepy side, not to mention over-the-top weird. Don't get me wrong, the 3D ultrasound technology that is around now is amazing, and I did purchase some of the images from one of our sessions when my husband and I were expecting our son.
However, there's a big difference between a photo sitting in a frame on my bedroom dresser and a figurine modeled after my unborn baby sitting in a jewelry box! The whole idea just seems so strange to me, but something tells me there are actually moms who will eat this sort of thing up.
But honestly, if you really want some sort of memento to remember your baby when he/she was a newborn, those hand and feet casting kits work serve the purpose just as well -- and they cost a whole hell of a lot less too.
Be honest, would you buy one of these things?
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I have other friends with pregnancies that had conditions "incompatable with life" who would probably love this. Now my healthy term daughter.. Nah.
toooo expensive :( i would get one tho!
Ok... I guess I'm weird because I find it awesome. I think I would give it to my kid when they were older, just as I would their baby pictures. Having something that is life size is cool because you can see how tiny they actually were. I don't think I would shell out that kind of cash, nor would I expose my unborn to any electromagnetic radiation from an MRI machine... so highly unlikely that I would get one of those. Still... it is cool.
Odd and out of my price range!! You have to wonder what the kids will think of it when they get old enough to understand what it is.
I would of loved to get one.. but my baby was always smushed up against something, we took 7 3-D ultra sounds trying to get a cute pic and always got mushed baby :( She totally didn't want to show her face, but her legs were spread always, husband joked and said honey we gotta do something about this one. :P
I think its pretty cool! It's pretty expensive and I don't think I would ever get in an MRI machine being pregnant but I think its neat!
I think it's awesome! Plus it would really cool to see this as you get older and can think THAT is what you looked like in your mom's stomach....and might help answer the question about pregnancy if the mom has another baby to the older sibling.
This would have been especially awesome with my twins! I'd love to see how they were sitting in there. :)
I also didn't have a 4-D u/s. My hubs thought it would ruin the surprise of what they looked like...I'm pretty ok with not having that but I'd love to have this....and honestly probably would have loved a 4-D u/s of my twins but I'm fine without them. :)
if i had that kind of disposable money i would totally get this!!!!!
I agree creepy