The Peekaru is one of those vests you wear to help carry your baby. These vests have been around for decades, but there’s never been one quite as creepy as the Peekaru.

The Peekaru fits like a Snuggie, and the little porthole for the baby’s head can make it look like the baby’s living in a tummy aquarium. The poor tyke spent nine months in the womb, only to finally achieve freedom, before his mom shoves him back in a womb-like contraption. The Peekaru is essentially baby prison.

To me, any mother who uses a Peekaru is desperately trying to re-create the famous alien-out-of-chest scene from Alien. Or perhaps (as others have deftly pointed out) Kuato from Total Recall.

Ultimately, the Peekaru is a terrific waste of money, not to mention that keeping your baby suffocatingly close to you is probably pretty indicative of what the next twenty years of his life are gonna be like.

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