5 ridiculous products people try to sell to parents!

A toupee for your baby? How about an alarm that beeps when your baby poops? Check out these ridiculous products and more made for babies and marketed to parents.

5 ridiculous products people try to sell to parents!

Becoming a parent is probably one of the most exciting times in a person’s life but is the birth of your child making you go a wee bit crazy in the spending department? Check out these ridiculous products people try to sell to parents:

Babies poop alarm

According to the supplier’s website, the babies poop alarm is a unique device that is able to detect your baby's pee and poop, and alerts the parents with an audible melody and a blinking LED light. Not only that, it can also double up as a detection device for adults who wear disposable diapers.

Brilliant or downright ridiculous? Despite its seeming usefulness, this is definitely one of those ridiculous products people try to sell to parents and is also a waste of money, especially since a baby in discomfort (from a wet or dirty diaper) is his own alarm when he cries or screams.

Placenta teddy bear

Kids love teddy bears but one made out of placenta? This product is both creepy and ridiculous in equal measures. Worst thing is that you can make it into a craft project with your kids. The ‘Twin Teddy Kit’ allows you to prepare the placenta so it may be transformed into a teddy bear.

You must first cure the placenta by cutting it in half and rubbing sea salt into it. After it has dried out, it has to be treated with an emulsifying mixture of tannin and egg yolk to make it soft and easily pliable to shape into a bear. Then, you can craft it into a teddy bear of your own design. This definitely deserves a spot on our list of creepy and ridiculous products people try to sell to parents!

Baby toupee

A baby toupee is exactly what it says it is - a man wig for babies. For parents who are thinking to buy this for their currently bald baby, we suggest that you don't, especially since your child will probably cringe in embarrassment when you bring out the snapshots that you took of him wearing the baby toupee years ago. This definitely is up there on our list when it comes to ridiculous products people try to sell to parents because it's so obnoxious.

Also check out this video of parents who have bought and are parading their babies in baby toupees. [embed]https://youtu.be/S3uHABEsWRw[/embed]

Pee and Poo plushies

Yes you read that right, our daily potty deposits are being immortalised in plushies especially for the little ones to cuddle to bed. This plushie duo is shaped and coloured in the form of poop and pee with eyes and hands to make them more friendly and huggable. Yet we can’t think of any plausible reasons why you would want to get it for your child. A gag gift for an adult friend maybe, but we suggest getting a Winnie the Pooh plushie for your little one instead.

The Zaky pillow

This product brings new meaning to the term ‘attachment parenting’. The disembodied hands are supposed to cradle your preemie baby and make him feel safe and secure while he is sleeping in his own cot. Yet there is something really freaky about the product from the abnormally big hands and it’s similarity to ‘thing’ from The Addams Family. The Zaky pillow is just creepy. Not to mention the possibility that it could result in SIDS especially for babies who are active sleepers, as well as it can cause your baby to have nightmares about disembodied body parts.

Do you think these five products are absurd or would you be interested in buying them? Whatever your opinion, don’t forget to check out our next installment of ridiculous products people try to sell to parents and share with us other ridiculous products people try to sell to parents that you think should go on this list.