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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Some things just need to be left alone. Birth is over commercialized as it is, and it seems there is no privacy anymore. A child growing in the womb is sacred. It also looks like some sort of trophy to me--one more way for people to show off their offspring. Enough already.
technology/art capturing the miracle happening inside you....awesome, especially for first time moms when its hard to grasp there's really a life in your belly. It would have helped me emotionally to feel more connected during my first one, wish i had been wealthy!
I would do it,it would be a great memory.But my husband also paid $800.00 for a belly button ring that is silver. It's a baby in the fetal postion and has the "birth" stones of the month i miscarried our babies.
In a heartbeat! I love the idea!
As a mother of loss, I can see it being a wonderful memorial gift. When you have a miscarriage or stillbirth it's nice to have memories because that's all we're allowed. When I lost my son at 33 weeks, I held on to every single last memory of him. When I miscarried at 9 and 8 weeks, I kept every memory. So I can see this being a wonderful memorial to a mother that will never see that child grow and continue to make memories.. I hope that makes sense.
I find it to be pretty cool. If I had that much money and I could spend it, I would invest in something like that. You will never see your baby from the inside, so why not. They grow to fast and I would want to try to catch every momment. I have 6 boys and now I am on my seventh and its a girl. This is the first baby I actually got a 3d 4d ultrasound with. I wish I did it for all of them.
I think it's awesome! To call it creepy means, to me, calling a fetus creepy. I wish I had one of me as a baby to look at, how neat would it be to see how you looked? And for mother's who miscarry late or stillborn, what a precious thing to have.