A great gift for baby … if he likes Friday the 13th films

Is your child having trouble sleeping? The solution may be simpler than you think. Perhaps you’re not throwing enough SEVERED HUMAN BODY PARTS into his crib.

Mommy has man hands.

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This is what Norman Bates’ crib looked like.

Just when you think you’ve seen every bizarre baby product imaginable, along comes the Zaky Infant Pillow — or as we prefer to call them, Scary Dismembered Mommy Hands. These fake hands filled with plastic pellets apparently have a practical use with premature babies, but the makers of the pillow are trying to to mass market them for a much larger demographic.

When a colleague forwarded the web address, and I saw the slogan for the product (“Zaky — It’s Like Leaving a Part of You With Your Baby”), I assumed it was a joke. For one thing, this product will only fool babies with mothers who have man hands. And it’s hard to decide what’s more frightening — the idea of throwing a few severed hands in your child’s crib or the fact that the product costs $34.95 per hand.

In the realm of disturbing baby inventions, the Scary Dismembered Mommy Hands are in a league with the WIVA-VAC Nasal Aspirator. (But until Zaky develops dismembered feet pillows and a severed mommy’s head, the reigning disturbing baby product is still the Nite Train’R.)

Mommy has man hands.

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Mommy has man hands.

Peter Hartlaub