I’m still mulling over the baby items in Pet Society. Frankly, they surprised me. First, it made me wonder if our pets could now pop out a kid like a little pile of poo. If so, who’s the babydaddy?
Then I realized that the items were for the pets themselves. Ah…OK. That keeps things simple. Or maybe not. As one reader, “Greena,” commented in my last post, “It seems a bit weird after having dressed [my pet] in Marie Antoinette creations or hula dresses to put her in diapers with a rattle. No, I don’t like it.”
Greena is obviously drawn to the more grown-up fashions and didn’t see the appeal of turning her pet into a baby. But perhaps players who are mothers see it a different way. Do the baby items allow mothers to relive the early years when their kids were round squishy things that didn’t ask questions?
Or, in the case of young girls or women without kids, are these items a way to train them as future parents?
A bit of research on virtual babies turns up all sorts of online games where the avatars resemble human toddlers. There is also a published study from 2007 that showed that computerized baby dolls encouraged British teens to become unwed mothers.
Finally, here’s a really strange video of a Second Life figure made into a pregnant Jennifer Lopez-type.
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Gah! I totally thought it was a fetish thing at first!
For me, it’s just cute items, and I used some of them just to decorate the house.
But if I have to find a meaning, I would say they’re toys. Little girls like to play with dolls, pretending they’re real babies. Our pets now can play and pretend they’re parents.
Because, I couldn’t see my pet, neither like a parent, nor like a baby. She’s somewhere between.
Not my thing! My pet, K.C., is still into her careers, hobbies, and having fun. She is totally into her boyfriend too but a baby is not in their near, or not-so-near, future! (I did like the hoodie though)
I was glad to see myself quoted in your blog today
Actually my pet’s name is Greena and my name is Ulrika. I have two daughters, 16 and nearly 19, so I AM a Mommy… but I still don’t try and relive those early happy days through my pet 
I think my main problem is that I already have an idea in my head of Greena as an adult- I mean she visits, she fishes, she bathes, she goes to the stores, she goes to the hairdresser’s… what baby can do those things? 
All the pink and baby blue hurts my eyes! =)
If pet society like the sims (can have a baby), i buy that items. Trims sushi
how do i post pics to ur site???