WTF Wednesday

Now that I've cleared most of the scary milestones in my pregnancy (first trimester "danger zone", genetic testing, chromosomal testing, etc.), I've been anxiously awaiting the day when I'll feel our little Nugget move. While all the books say this can occur anywhere from 16 to 20 weeks, I still find myself frequently googling "When will I feel baby kick?" I've read all kinds of answers, including many expectant mothers claiming to have felt movement as early as 13 weeks. (Let's be real, ladies. That's just gas.) But what I wasn't expecting one of my searches to turn up was this...

According to the Kickbee website, this crazy-ass product "...is a stretchable band worn by a pregnant mother. Vibration sensors are attached directly to the band, and are triggered by movement underneath. The band and electronics are covered in a soft fabric cover for design and comfort. A microcontroller in the garment captures the movement and transmits the signals wirelessly to a computer running a custom application. The application receives the sensor values and analyzes them. When a kick is detected, a message is posted to the social messaging service Twitter via its API (Application Programming Interface). Twitter makes it easy to share these short messages of "I kicked Mommy!" with family and friends, and allows them to be sent as text messages to any mobile phone in the world. The Twitter account can also act as a data log that can be accessed later for visualization or archiving."

First of all, how uncomfortable must this contraption be? At only 15.5 weeks, I'm already SO aware of my growing belly. I can't imagine strapping something around it all day! While I can understand the importance of some monitoring kicks, do our poor Twitter followers REALLY needed to be alerted every time? Won't they be annoyed to keep getting the same "I kicked Mommy!" tweet in between funny memes, celebrity's self-promotions, and pictures of people's dinners? I'm pretty sure one would lose at least 75% of their followers, and friends, after only three days of using this thing. Not to mention, a tweet from a fetus?!?! That's just weird. Let's at least wait until they're out in the world before we get them all hooked on technology and social media!

WTF, you guys?!?!?