Celebrate Your Babymoon with a Metric Ton of Ice Cream

Published on Monday, November 5, 2007, by James Norton / Edit Post

Food Arts magazine presents the newest in new for expectant mothers who—in addition to being burdened by baby—are burdened with excessive wealth. All you have to do is check in to the Westin Kierland Resort & Spa and request the Bundle of Joy Babymoon Package. Voilà! You’ll find yourself pampered 24/7 by a “Cravings Chef” who will do stuff like bring a full-on rib-eye steak breakfast with grilled onions to your room at four in the morning. You’ll also pay $759 for the first night, and $399 for each additional night.

In case you can’t wait for the Cravings Chef to bring your pile of meat and cheese and whatever else to your room, you’re also equipped with an in-room make-your-own-sundae bar so you can just slap together a big pile of sugary crap the second your body demands a sacrifice. W Hotels provide a downscale equivalent: Expectant mothers can order “Womb Service” (har!), which offers ice cream, hamburgers, pickles, nuts, grilled cheese sandwiches, etc. etc. etc. And the practice is on the rise at other hotels, too.

Not having carried a baby to term, it’s hard for me to weigh in on the process. But there seems to be something a little condescending about presuming that not only are pregnant women absolute crazy slaves to their bodies’ demands for high-fat food, they are also so emotionally unbalanced they can be hornswoggled into paying the equivalent of a serviceable used car for one night of abandon.

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  • CurlieGlamourgirlie, I thinkyou're on to something there! I wish you a safe, happy delivery and a whole lot of happy motherhood.

  • This is ridiculous. I'm at 35 weeks now and can barely stay awake to watch Heroes let alone think about going on a vacation. What do you want to bet these women are spending most of their time SLEEPING in these expensive resort rooms.

    I somehow manage to survive without a "Cravings Chef". It's called stopping at Carvel/the diner/Entemanns on the way home. From work.

    Since so many...+READ

    This is ridiculous. I'm at 35 weeks now and can barely stay awake to watch Heroes let alone think about going on a vacation. What do you want to bet these women are spending most of their time SLEEPING in these expensive resort rooms.

    I somehow manage to survive without a "Cravings Chef". It's called stopping at Carvel/the diner/Entemanns on the way home. From work.

    Since so many celebrities are pregnant now every industry imaginable is getting on the "charging outrageous prices to make us all feel like we can be celebrities too" bandwagon.-COLLAPSE

  • Arrgh. What a horror. And I have carried a pregnancy to term -- I didn't have any weird food cravings, but I did have some food aversions, and guess what? I dealt with them.

    I agree with EWSflash. Of course, a woman who thinks this is a fun way to blow a few bucks can probably afford to pay someone to raise (and clean up after) her children for her.

    And finally, given the "healthy pregnancy"...+READ

    Arrgh. What a horror. And I have carried a pregnancy to term -- I didn't have any weird food cravings, but I did have some food aversions, and guess what? I dealt with them.

    I agree with EWSflash. Of course, a woman who thinks this is a fun way to blow a few bucks can probably afford to pay someone to raise (and clean up after) her children for her.

    And finally, given the "healthy pregnancy" police and worries (justified or not) about pregnancy weight gain and gestational diabetes, you'd think that this would be a hard sell even to women who can afford it.-COLLAPSE

  • My brother-in-law was one of the construction foremen on that hotel. We stayed there one June when the temp was 117 in Scottsdale- I'm glad we didn't have to pay full price.

    This is a hot button with me, who, along with a couple thousand other working females at a large health care organization, actually worked my way through my pregnancy. Women who expect that kind of absurd pampering...+READ

    My brother-in-law was one of the construction foremen on that hotel. We stayed there one June when the temp was 117 in Scottsdale- I'm glad we didn't have to pay full price.

    This is a hot button with me, who, along with a couple thousand other working females at a large health care organization, actually worked my way through my pregnancy. Women who expect that kind of absurd pampering shouldn't be having babies, is my feeling. Women like that are going to be furious when the baby spills on the white carpet.

    Why not just get the occasional massage, eat as well as you can afford, and if you're of sufficient means, donate the balance of that daily $759 to a shelter for abused women or a food bank? What makes you so damn special? There are people in our own country- probably within a few miles of where you live- going hungry while you beach yourself on a hotel bed and eat like a glutton.-COLLAPSE