Green Options » fetal monitoring http://greenoptions.com/tag/fetal-monitoring Posts tagged 'fetal monitoring' Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:43:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Kick This: Another Pointless Device for the Paranoid Parent http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/07/03/kick-this-another-pointless-device-for-the-paranoid-parent/ http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/07/03/kick-this-another-pointless-device-for-the-paranoid-parent/#comments Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:43:34 +0000 Cate Nelson http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/07/03/kick-this-another-pointless-device-for-the-paranoid-parent/ Every 21 minutes a baby is stillborn in the US; 70 babies each day.

Scared? Get a medical device to track your baby’s kicks. This piece of electronic junk product records the number of kicks per day. And if your baby sometimes kicks noticeably less, you can totally freak out and head to the OB for an unnecessary appointment. Whee!

With marketing like

Help Mothers protect their unborn babies!

what’s not to love about the kickTrak?! I mean, besides using scare tactics to sell more useless stuff?

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