00:06Oh, hi. I'm just trying mom on for size. Turns out, not ready. Hi, I'm Laura
00:13Wilcox and this is FemEd. This is what having it all looks like. So today on
00:21FemEd, we are going to explore the mystical, exciting world of technology
00:26for babies. Now I'm some years old, so according to science, the ideal time for
00:35me to get pregnant would be like three years ago. Cool. But technology is changing
00:43pregnancy and it's changing the way we parent. So I'm going to conduct some
00:47experiments today to better understand what it means to be a baby of the future.
00:53So come step into my very scientific laboratory as I find out if you can
00:59raise a healthy baby using a telephone. Hello? It's for you. Babies can't talk on the phone.
01:09It's just a goof. Now I'm also hoping that these experiments will help me decide if I am in fact
01:16ready
01:17to start popping these guys out. Or if maybe I should get like a plant or something.
01:25Oh, that's cute, right? So let's throw my biological clock up there. Why the hell not?
01:29Come, let us experiment. Away! Put my baby down here. So wow, this is a lot of baby stuff, huh?
01:41The baby industry is a billion dollar industry. So let's talk about this thing, the Hatch Baby Smart
01:46Changing Pad, which back in my day, changing pads didn't know shit. So what's this?
01:53Well these know shit because they measure shit. Literally. So this is a changing pad with a scale built in.
02:02So it is for neurotic parents who want to know exactly how much breast milk or formula their baby took,
02:10pooped,
02:11and re-weigh their baby to see how much possibly between when they fed how much that feeding weighed
02:17or how much that poop weighed so they can know exactly at that moment in time what their baby weighs.
02:23I'm just wrapping my head around that as someone who's not a mother yet. It's just like a lot of
02:28poop a lot of the time.
02:30So this looks low-tech. What's this thing?
02:32Well, it's deceiving because the fabric is from, is NASA designed.
02:37Oh my god, get out of here. Didn't they get defunded?
02:40But the Little Lotus actually has a nice background. So this is a baby swaddle, which is like a wrap
02:46with Velcro to keep your baby snug when they're newborn.
02:49With NASA technology. With NASA technology. So the price point is very high for this product. It's $99.
02:55$99 for a blanket. Yeah, which is, I think it's pretty high, but...
03:00That blanket better feed the baby. Yes.
03:03It better teach it how to read. It better teach it how to walk if I'm paying $99 for a
03:08blanket.
03:08Let's talk about this thing, the baby pod. What is the baby pod?
03:13So the baby pod is a speaker that a pregnant woman can insert into her vagina.
03:20Oh, wow. Wasn't expecting that. Yep.
03:22She attaches this to her phone or her iPod, and she's supposed to play music to help her baby's brain
03:29development.
03:30Do I think it's necessary? I think it's complete nonsense.
03:33Okay, good. Because this feels like utter bullshit.
03:36This is a toy by Fisher-Price that comes apart into different pieces, and every way you assemble the colors
03:45with the arrows, your caterpillar will crawl in a different way.
03:49Okay. So they market it as early coding, an early coding toy because kids figure out patterns.
03:55This is coding, this is like a coding toy to trick your toddler into learning how to code.
04:00Yeah. So this is a toy developed for those like parents who worry about getting their kids into Harvard when
04:05they're like six months old.
04:06Exactly. They're gonna be geniuses for using them.
04:08Right. This is a little baby genius toy. Okay. Wow.
04:11I used to play with like cereal boxes and markers when I was little. What is this?
04:16This is the Mimo baby monitor.
04:19Okay. Mimo baby monitor. It looks like a little onesie to me.
04:23It is a onesie, and I believe there's two parts to it. I believe there's a monitor on this shirt,
04:28and I believe that this is also a monitor.
04:30That goes onto your baby's sheet in the crib. It will send messages to the parent's phone or the caregiver's
04:37phone if the baby's not moving for how long they haven't moved.
04:40Or trying to like sneak out. Or trying to sneak out.
04:42This is kind of like the NSA, but for babies. Exactly.
04:46In onesie form. The Starling.
04:48You're supposed to put that onto your baby, and it measures how many words your baby hears in like a
04:5324-hour period.
04:55Okay. So we need to know how much they're pooping, what they're pooping, how much milk weight they've gained, if
05:03they've moved up or down, if they know how to code, and now we need to monitor how many words
05:09your baby hears.
05:10I need a nap just from thinking about being a baby.
05:17Oh, yeah. She loves it. She looks sedate. She looks calm.
05:23That's all the time we have for today. So until next time, come back next time.
