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"Easing parent-to-be overload; Professional baby planners find a ready market" by Sarah Schweitzer, Globe Staff | August 25, 2008
Cue the Baby Coordinators, the latest entry in the burgeoning "baby planning" field that helps expectant parents prepare for a new baby by advising on everything from the most absorbent diapers and sleekest strollers to decorating a nursery and readying a pet. For a fee of $250, Kristen DiCicco of Natick, a Baby Coordinators cofounder, walked White through Babies "R" Us. She offered the pros and cons of products, and when White left the store, she had a baby registry list and peace of mind.
As a growing number of older women - many professionals, with disposable income - join the ranks of bulging bellies, pregnancy has acquired a slew of luxurious accoutrements.
It's a RICHERS WORLD, isn't it (page one, Boston Globe)?
How many women out there have DISPOSABLE INCOME to care for a child?
There are prenatal spa treatments, personal pregnancy chefs, prebaby vacation packages known as "babymoons," "push presents" given to a mother to reward her for carrying and delivering a baby, prepacked hospital bags containing items like a hard-cover journal and breath mints, and now, baby planning - a kind of full-flight concierge service for the pregnant.
If you have the TIME and $$$ that is!!!!
The agenda-pushing elitism is really sickening these days, shit MSM!
Tell it to the Gloucester kids you bat-mouthed, assholes!!!!
Baby planning first surfaced in England and on the West Coast, in Los Angeles and Portland, Ore., two years ago as a variation on the concept of wedding planning. It has caught on in other cities, including Boston, where two start-ups were launched in the last year by women who say the market is ripe for their services.
Like a ripe mother ready to give birth, huh?
Boston-area baby planners say their clients are working women, in their late 20s to mid 30s. Most look for help putting together baby registries and baby-proofing their homes, but a number of other services are offered, including "babymoon" planning, daddy preparation, and readying birth announcements.
Perfecting Expecting charges $100 for baby registry consultation and $500 for putting together a complete registry, $100 for help maternity shopping and $500 for baby shower preparation. The Baby Coordinators charge $250 to compile a baby registry, $300 to arrange and set up a nursery, and $200 to baby-proof a home.
If I had that money, it would be going for things for the kid, not to pay some "consultant!"
And what does it say about a mother who is TOO BUSY to care for her kid?
Both companies have partnerships with baby-product companies.
Aaaaaaaah, cha-CHING!!!!!
WTF, the BG just a business agent for the wealthy now?
The Baby Coordinators receive 10 percent of the sale proceeds from clients they send to two companies, Your Bags Are Packed and Baby-Strong, DiCicco said. Perfecting Expecting has business partners that give discounts to clients, and those companies send business to Perfecting Expecting.
It's what is known as a KICKBACK!!!!
Carolyn McLoughlin, 28, a therapist who lives in Brookline, said that after watching a friend spend 30 hours researching strollers, she decided she would go the baby-planning route. "We wanted to put a lot of thought into adding a new family member, but we didn't have the time," McLoughlin said. "Also, I don't like shopping."
Then how about tying those tubes off then, if you are not going to be more RESPONSIBLE!!!!
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