Kind of cute

Christmas is fast approaching, and if youâ€ve still got some last-minute shopping to do, you can find gift guides galore online and in magazines and newspapers to help you come up with some great present ideas. The following product, though, is one weâ€d suggest skipping as a holiday gift this year. And every other year after this one, for that matter.

Glamour reported via The New York Times last week on a new handmade doll called MamAmour that is pregnant and can give birth – vaginally.

Kind of creepy

Weâ€ve heard of baby dolls that cry, pee and drink from a bottle, but a mom doll that gives birth to a baby doll? Thatâ€s certainly a new one. While weâ€re all for young people understanding child birth and discussing it openly as a natural part of life, these discussions should probably be reserved for those that are not young enough to play with dolls.

MamAmour gives birth through an elastic vaginal opening and comes with a woven umbilical cord and a placenta. The baby dollâ€s mouth has a snap that corresponds to one on the mom dollâ€s nipple, so that the new-born can breast-feed.  Just when you thought it couldnâ€t get ant weirder, right?

The dolls can be custom-made with any skin, hair and eye color, which, along with being handmade, is actually a nice feature.

Hereâ€s what sticks the nail in the coffin for us, though: each MamAmour doll costs $130, with custom dolls starting at $145. Toys “R” Us sells baby dolls for $14.99, and those wonâ€t provoke awkward questions from a child thatâ€s too young to need to know all of the scientific details about birth. Apparently there is a significant shopping audience who disagrees, however: all of the pre-made $130 dolls are sold out through January 2011.

We’ve seen $1400 collectible toys for adults. If you thought the $3,000 price tag on T-shirts that popped up in Valentinoâ€s Rodeo Drive, Los Angeles boutique this summer was ridiculous, get this: following strong second quarter sales, Hermès now offers a childrenâ€s coloring book going for $130. {The Cut}

Thatâ€s $130 for something a toddler is likely to draw all over in disarray. If a parent handed this pricey art toy to their youngster, the pages would likely be torn out and hung on a refrigerator before inevitably fading and being tossed out. Not to mention that in this economy many shoppers are unwilling to pay that much for clothes, much less temporary entertainment for their kids.

Parents can also score a $600 pull-along wooden horse from Hermès for their little ones. A wooden horse is at least a bigger item with more longevity, but similar ones are available for much lower prices at Toys ‘R Us. In fact, a better-looking, pink and green horse can be purchased for $26.99 at toysrus.com.

Hermès†collection of pricey kid toys does not stop there, though. The luxury brand also offers a $390 plush horse, a $405 silver-plated music box and a $435 sterling silver rattle. The rattle and music box are nice decorative pieces, but is anyone really going to give their newborn a sterling silver rattle to play with? The weirdest part of all is that children inevitably grow out of their baby toys, so itâ€s not as if the price tags can be justified with the potential for lifetime use.

Is there something weâ€re missing here? Let us know in the comments if thereâ€s ever a convincing reason to spend so much money on childrens toys!

Counting down the minutes until Christmas, it seems only yesterday we were all joined around the table for Thanksgiving. To help ease the stress of last-minute shopping, 364 K-Mart locations will stay open for 64 hours straight! We admit, we’re procrastinators, and if you haven’t had the time or have just been waiting on the sidelines for the absolute lowest prices possible, now’s the times to shop.

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