We thought an umbrella valet was over the top, now we're reading about maternity concierge services. When we think of indulging ourselves during pregnancy we picture a Häagen-Dazs-stocked freezer and foot rubs from our partner.
Blogging CNN: Belly 'facials,' photographers for moms-to-be
A recent article on CNN.com opened our eyes to the new maternity luxuries: belly "facials," professional pregnancy photo sessions, lavish babymoons, and pregnancy-tailored daily meal deliveries. Maternity concierge services are cropping up in cities around the country and offer services from nursery decoration and registry consultation to "spoon-feed[ing] you Ben and Jerry's ice cream or slather[ing] cocoa butter on your belly."
The article points out that as the average age of pregnant women has risen, so has the disposable incomes of moms-to-be. While this may be true, we're still having trouble picturing the maternity concierge client - is this just for the super rich (we don't happen to know any of the super rich)?
What about you? What was your greatest pregnancy extravagance?
(Image via Moments of Serenity.)
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The photography session and the five-star vacation sound normal to me. The other stuff that CNN mentions like personal concierge services to get you wonton soup at midnight when your husband is out of town sounds funny, but all of these peripheral business services point to our modern lack of village where the "cost" of such things is usually absorbed by relatives who bring you a month's worth of food, help tidy your house, help babysit, fetch you things. So many of us do not live in the same neighborhood as extended family, so we either tough it out alone or with little help or break the bank to hire help. Looking back, I should have invested in a postpartum doula.
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I had a prenatal massage, manicure and pedicure about a month before I had our daughter. That was heaven. :)
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We're going on a "babymoon" next week, but it's really just our yearly vacation. In fact, it's a scaled-down vacation, we had planned to go to Europe as the second half of our honeymoon (we got married last June) but with the state of the dollar and the state of my abdomen, we decided that a shorter and cheaper (and shorter flight) to Jamaica would be a better idea. I will have a pregnancy massage while I'm there.
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I had a pregnancy massage every week for the last eight weeks. It was the smartest move I made to prepare for the delivery. Felt great.
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Oh my god. No, I didn't have - or consider - any of these things, and my "babymoon" was 3 weeks snuggled in bed with my baby. I wouldn't have had it any other way, which is fortunate, because I couldn't have.
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