If you recall three months ago my daughter came home and told me that I was going to be a Grandmother. Today Grace Marie Rose DesRochers was born weighing 6 pounds 3 oz and she is 23 cm long. Mother and baby are doing fine, but little Gracie just woke mommy up from a sound sleep. Needless to say my daughter is not too impressed.
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Wrote: Apr 13, 2007 at 12:11 am
I think this “baby think it over,” is an excellent learning tool. It has stressed our daughter out totally, but hopefully she will learn a very valuable lesson that having a baby at this age is not an easy task – it’s a lot of hard work, patients and understanding.
A teen that is pregnant or already has children should speak to their friends to discourage them and tell them the reality of having a child as it should not be dealt with lightly. This baby think it over is just a doll but it gives them just a little taste of what it could be like!
Teen pregnancy is still at an all-time-high for Ontario, and I know for us it scares the crap out of us. Teens need to finish school, get a dependable job and most in important a steady relationship where their not hoping from partner to partner.
I congratulate the creator of this Baby Think It Over; as it’s as close as it can get to maybe making our teens think twice about becoming a parent.
Shawn DesRochers
Wrote: Apr 13, 2007 at 12:14 am
Yeah kids tend to wake you up from sound sleep ..lol so how is she liking being a “mommy” lol
Wrote: Apr 13, 2007 at 12:19 am
Wow you are young to be a grandma. Congratualations! Grandkids are always the best because you can send em home and laugh.
My kids are still small. I figure I won’t be a grandpa for along time as long my kids can keep it in their pants. My six year old is already asking me when it’s ok to start dating.
Wrote: Apr 13, 2007 at 12:33 am
lol it looked real to me. Ha now I feel stupid
Wrote: Apr 13, 2007 at 12:34 am
Hammer, take a close look. I’m not really a grandma. lol Gracie is a learning tool to show my daughter what having a real baby is really like. Gracie (that’s what my daughter named her) – Baby Think It Over® is used in sex education and parenting classes’ world wide. The simulators are supposed to resemble a three month old baby. A computer chip records response times, episodes of neglect and incorrect handling. Baby Think It Over® requires rocking, changing, feeding and supporting the head. Being a parent is a lot of responsibility and Baby Think It Over® is suppose to shown teens that.
Wrote: Apr 13, 2007 at 12:36 am
Don’t feel stupid. She sounds real too. You should of saw the looks my daughter got when we went shopping and out for coffee. lol
Wrote: Apr 13, 2007 at 5:02 am
I think this “Baby Think it Over” is a wonderful educational tool. I often have told my husband that they should teach in school what mothering and parenting is all about. I agree with you Shawn, this is a wonderful “reality check” for teens. I know a couple of teens who thought it was cool to have a baby. Guess you is raising the baby? Yes, the grandparents are. How fair is that ???
Good job!
Wrote: Apr 13, 2007 at 8:49 am
Let’s hope this baby has colic, refuses to be comforted or soothed and drives your daughter practically insane with frustration and sleep deprivation. Assure her that this is not just a ‘doll’ thing, either; my ‘real’ baby spent the first 14 months of her life getting by on 10 minute power naps and screaming the house down the rest of the time. An experience like that knocks all the soft illusions about motherhood right out of you.
Wrote: Apr 13, 2007 at 10:49 am
My neice went thru a program like that in her school her in the US, and I think I seen more real parents taking care of the baby than anything. It is a good tool if they actually take care of it themselves.
I do not know the results of how this is working though. Seems kids have their own mind these days and nothing seems to get thru their thick skull.
Wrote: Apr 13, 2007 at 2:56 pm
thank goodness i read the comments first and then took a closer look! we don’t have thing like that in south afrika (not as far as i know) but its a GREAT idea!
Wrote: Apr 13, 2007 at 3:44 pm
I was looking at that baby thinking, “Hmmm, doesn’t resemble its grandmother!” That is indeed a wonderful tool, and should be required for girls AND boys in 5th grade or so.
Wrote: Apr 13, 2007 at 4:39 pm
This Eclectic Life , hmm when it was fussy it resembled me. lol
To be honest I think that grade five is way to early. I think it should be a subject that they have to take in grade nine and part of health.
Triston thank you for dropping by my blog and it is a great idea. My daughter will be blogging about it later.
Dawyne, we did not take care of the baby. We did not help her at all. My daughter’s day started at 3:30 am. I had a great nights sleep. Muhahaha
Peri, my daughter had colic too. Oh boy can I relate to your comment.
Viola, if our daughter was to get pregnant we would not be raising the baby. She would be!
Wrote: Apr 14, 2007 at 10:59 am
Comgrats Rose! heh
I loved this teaching tool. Both of my girls had to bring it home. What an eye-opener for them, as it records every move you make with the “baby”.
Every kid in public school here,must take one home for a weekend in high school. It does shut off at 5:00 on Sunday evening so the kids can get a good night sleep in before School on Monday, but from Friday until then, it was hard, sleepless, and a wonderful lesson learned.
Wrote: Apr 15, 2007 at 4:38 pm
That was a great idea above, that the baby should have colic, it is awful falling asleep with a baby that needs your protection in your arms having not slept in days, make that weeks. . . I’ve always thought this ‘tool’ was genius.
Wrote: Apr 15, 2007 at 10:54 pm
You had me going for a minute there!
I didn’t read your initial announcement. But then I started really looking at the picture, thinking to myself, “Oh, she looks like a little doll.” DUH! 
Then I did the math and thought, “She didn’t tell her mother until she was 6 mos. pg? What?”
Glad it’s a “false alarm.” I’ve heard about those dolls . . . I think it’s a great idea. A friend of mine told me her daughter got so exasperated, she figured out how to turn it off (but wasn’t supposed t0) so she could get some sleep! She didn’t even care what grade she was going to get for doing it! We laughed, realizing, of course, that you can’t turn a real baby off and her daughter would probably be very cautious in her future relationships!
Wrote: Apr 16, 2007 at 9:09 pm
What a cutie!!
Wrote: Apr 16, 2007 at 9:41 pm
They should also give the kids a fake paycheck for school, make them hunt for child care people and pay the child care bills. They should make the kids pay for formula, diapers, bottles, Etc.
Then, kids will realize that being stuck in a minimum wage job while having kids is no fun.
They could even make the girls wear fake stretchmarks, saggy bras, and meat-sack bellies.
…or maybe I’m going too far with this.
For what it’s worth, I was a little shocked by your blog picture and the comments. You’re pretty good at drawing people in to read your blogs. I did think it was a real baby, and I was interested in finding out how a baby could have spawned in three months!!! Now I know.
Wrote: Apr 16, 2007 at 10:30 pm
Chris, she brings ‘Gracie’ home again on Thursday.
I wish she had it for a week. 
Teena, you do realize it is a doll right? lol
JHS, lol When we went out a few people asked how old is the baby. lol
Saraswati’s Understudy (Devrie) she just finished a project where she was given a budget and had to do all that. I wish they made them wear the Empathy Belly”® Pregnancy Simulator.