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4. Dynastic Gymnastics

Aside from the hilarity of getting people to stick coffee up their butts, alternative therapies can take a distinctly dark turn very quickly.

"Extreme baby yoga", or dynastic gymnastics, is a world away from those cutesy mother-and-baby yoga classes and involves swinging your newborn around your head like a pizza base.

Seriously, try to watch the video without your jaw hitting the floor in disbelief (yes, that's a real baby). The most obvious danger here is death, plain and simple, through shaken baby syndrome. You also run the risk of dislocated limbs and causing serious brain damage leading to cognitive/motor impairment and blindness. Then, of course, the run the very real risk of dropping your baby.

Proponents say that this practice makes their baby smarter, more sociable and more relaxed, but there is little to no evidence that any of this is true and, even if it were, the benefits of treating your infant like a pair of nunchucks certainly do not outweigh the dangers.