My Weekend With a Robotic Baby

Last weekend I had a baby stimulator for child development class. This robotic baby was programmed to go off every couples hours during the day and many times during the night and what you had to do was swipe your bracelet and guess what it wanted.

If it wanted food, you had a bottle that had a sensor in the top and in the baby’s mouth that would sense when you put it up to its mouth and it “ate”. If the baby wanted a diaper change, you took one of the diapers and swiped it on the baby’s butt (its got a sensor on the diaper and butt). You also had to rock and burp it. It sounds easy right? WRONG. I was about to kill the baby, because I couldn’t sleep for more than 2 hours at a time. And I only had the baby for a weekend…it really made me think what teen mothers had to go through!

For me, I just had to turn the baby in Monday morning, and then I was done with it. I didn’t have to worry about picking it up or anything. For teen mothers, they don’t have that. Teen mothers also have very little time for anything, such as schoolwork! And real babies aren’t programmed to go off at certain hours, like the robotic baby I had.

What was the point of this project? The main reason was to teach about the life of a mother, but also to prevent teen pregnancies. And believe me when I say Im not gonna get pregnant any time soon. Being a mother was hard work, and this wasn’t even a real baby!