July 19, 2007

East meets West: Maternity Design

PingMag offers a comparison of pregnancy styles in Japan, and the West.

I picked up a pregnancy magazine in a waiting room recently (just looking, I tell you). A far cry from the Mothering magazine that was my favorite resource back when I was pregnant, quite a different world entirely. There were six full-page ads for umbilical cord banking, and ads for a gazillion pieces of baby furniture. Never thought I'd see camo diaper bags, I always thought that if there was enough kinderscheisse and baby throwup that would be camoflage enough.

Nice audio-visual component to this, the moment I opened the PingMag website my toaster oven went "Ping!"

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