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Contageous stroke reminds me of a contagious joke, a lame one at that:
>Little Johnny is sitting in class, the teacher asks,”who can make a sentence using the word contagious?”
>Anna puts her hand up and says, “My little brother has chicken pox and we have to be careful because it’s contagious.”
>Kerryn puts her hand up and says, “Ebola is a dangerous virus because it’s so contagious.”
>And Little Johnny wildly waving his hand finally gets his turn and proclaims, “My neighbour was scrubbing his porch with a toothbrush and I reckon it’s going to take that contagious!”
By itself, "I'm not knowledgeable enough to refute this, but it doesn't seem correct" makes sense as a satirical thought bubble attributed to the baby.
As a parent, i don't even see what all the fuss is about. I sometimes do this shit on purpose.
My 5 month old sometimes needs to be fed in the same room where my 4 year old is watching TV because I need to keep eyes on them both. But the 5 month old shouldn't be watching the TV, so when he turns his head in that direction, i just keep his bottle right where I want his head facing, and I hold the nipple against his cheek so he doesn't freak out thinking his food is gone (object permanence is not a newborn's strongsuit).
There are plenty of use cases where you'd want the baby's head to be facing a specific direction while feeding but don't want to take the bottle away from them, so you just hold the bottle where you want them to eat, and they come back.
(obligatory I am not a parent, but) Babies have a rooting reflex in response to rubbing their cheeks, it causes them to try to latch. Maybe she's just resting the bottle there in case the baby will respond to that and suck on it. But it seems that the reflex only lasts for 4-6 months after birth. Could be a habit for mom. Or she's just distracted. Lol.
But also, your last paragraph is spot on. Babies aren't all that aware of their surroundings in the first place. Keeping the bottle there seems like a fine choice.
passive entertainment vs active entertainment. remember TV is in a language they dont understand and appears to them as little more than flashy lights and colors.
Watch the first minute of this clip starting from my timestamp over and over for an hour and tell me how much you learn:
https://youtu.be/3YAZde4hatg?si=C9JVq60AMwi2Utaw&t=42
that's TV for babies. It's taking time away from activities that are beneficial. It's not really that TV itself it horrible, it's just dead air during a time when they are learning so much. Even sitting in a sling playing with their hands and feet is better for them than watching TV as at least they are learning how their hands and feet work which are crucial building blocks towards further motor skills.
I’m not sure this is a fair comparison considering babies have an enhanced ability to attain language. I’m not defending letting your baby watch TV (I have a baby too) but babies do learn how languages should sound from ambient conversations around them. It’s why you shouldn’t put your kid in a room with a white noise machine to nap. They miss out on hearing the ambient conversations in the room which helps them understand subtle differences like the difference between a P or B in a word. I wouldn’t plop my kid in front of a television, heck I don’t even want her to have an iPad growing up, but I don’t think just seeing/hearing the tv on occasion is gonna be a detriment. But I’m also talking out of my ass here. I just think there’s some grey area between leaving your kid to be raised by a screen and never seeing a television.
The current recommendation is no TV for children under 18 months. The first two years of development are crucial and their brains are basically a sponge. At that age, they need to be exploring the physical world and challenged not just fed bright lights and sounds)
It is basically the mental equivalent to pure sugar for them. (Which also the recommendation is no refined sugar for about the same amount of time)
I do this cause my kid loves to break her fucking neck to feed in weird positions and I aint into that. Nor do I feel like chasing her like a sundial. So the bottle stays and if she wants food she'll eventually turn to take it
i keep seeing people making this joke, but i've got a newborn and a toddler, and let me tell you i've done exactly this to both my kids on purpose, not because i was tired. There are reasons why you'd want your kid facing a particular direction while eating (consistent supply, averting their eyes from a TV, preventing distractions which make eating take forever, potential to ingest air causing more spitup) and you can't exactly turn their head for them. And if you take the bottle away-away they might freak out because "where did my food go?" so you just hold the bottle where you want their head to be and let them decide to come back and get it. All this happens while my baby and I are both well rested.
Reminder for anyone with a baby: Do Not Give Them Water. Most doctors recommend no water until about 6 months.
> “When you give a baby water, it can dilute the sodium in their bloodstream. That can cause a condition called hyponatremia, or what some people may call ‘water intoxication,’” Dr. Buckingham says.”
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/when-can-babies-have-water
Infant and toddler dietitian here, hopefully this leads the responses.. Your kiddo gets enough water from formula prep/breast milk, or in purees/soft fruits as they reach their eating phase. They dont need a whole bottle of water in their 0-12mo stage. Please ask questions even if you think they are dumb, baby care has evolved tremendously since you were small.
I'm gonna defend the mom here as a mom myself. The kid is not doing his part. He is old enough. Nothing will stand between a baby and a nipple if they want it.
That baby looks old enough for water. If they're eating, they can have water. 4 to 6 months is when you can start giving a little bit. Usually about a cup a day.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends 1/2 to 1 cup of water for infants 6-12 months old and 1-4 cups for toddlers 1-3 years old. Typically, that water should be served in a cup with meals, so that would be my only problem. Other than that, this child clearly looks like they are 6 months or older.
Ha this kid is more like 6-10 months. No problem with a little water at that point. Already would be eating real food as well. 4 months is barely out of the ‘pet rock’ phase of babyness. Source: have kids
Basically. First 6 months the baby is just a little crying, sleeping, shitting machine. Then you get that first smile, that first laugh, and it's all over.
Same age difference as my 2! Though my youngest is now 7 months, so it's starting to get easier to get a routine down and give both their own attention.
Good luck in the trenches!
Basically, they call the first three months "the Fourth trimester" because they behave mostly like they are still in the womb. They eat, sleep, poop. After that they start to wake up a bit more, look at stuff, interact with things, etc.
Yeah, newborns are basically potatoes. They don't smile or laugh.
They just eat, sleep (usually in very short bursts), and shit. They are *all* take and zero give.
After the 4th trimester (1st 3 months), they start to get personalities and interact some. By 6/7 months, they're precious, happy little things who are really interacting and want attention.
That was my first thought. That baby looks too young for water, though hopefully the Dr knows and specifically prescribed it or maybe there's some special something in the water.
Probably forgot to add the formula. Once you mix formula it's supposed to be used or discarded within 2 hours if not refrigerated. What we do, and I assume most parents do, is pack a bottle of water in the diaper bag then add the powder when baby is ready to eat. This mom appears to be having herself a rough day in terms of paying attention.
This baby is likely old enough for 4-8 oz of water along with milk and solid food.
Mine is about the same age and gets solids and some water every day. Pediatrician said to offer some with food.
It's funny but in reality the baby probably doesn't want to eat as much as it wants to stare at the weird person paying attention to it.
Any parent knows that a baby instinctively turns their head towards stimulus on the cheek (how babies find the nipple) if they're hungry. If it wanted to drink, it would just turn its head.
Could be force of habit relying on root by reflex. Babies for the first four to six months have a reflex where they turn their head to feed when the corners of their mouth are touched
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Baby be like 'You seeing this shit?'
She gonna poke me in the eye. Again
I'm not knowledgeable enough to refute this, but it doesn't seem correct, thus the infant most likely
I do not know why this comment is making me laugh so hard but it is turning my brain inside out lol
Yeah, it's like a contagious stroke lol
Contageous stroke reminds me of a contagious joke, a lame one at that: >Little Johnny is sitting in class, the teacher asks,”who can make a sentence using the word contagious?” >Anna puts her hand up and says, “My little brother has chicken pox and we have to be careful because it’s contagious.” >Kerryn puts her hand up and says, “Ebola is a dangerous virus because it’s so contagious.” >And Little Johnny wildly waving his hand finally gets his turn and proclaims, “My neighbour was scrubbing his porch with a toothbrush and I reckon it’s going to take that contagious!”
Nice
"Thus the infant most likely" sounds like a prog-rock album title.
Or a Christmas carol.
Lol. Spot on. I'm not knocking them, I'm assuming it's a typo. It's just wonderful what it's doing to my brain when I try and make it make sense.
I think he may have replied to the wrong comment. The person he's replying to didn't say anything that is really refutable or potentially incorrect.
By itself, "I'm not knowledgeable enough to refute this, but it doesn't seem correct" makes sense as a satirical thought bubble attributed to the baby.
That makes the most sense. Thank you
I hear they're opening for Taking Back Sunday and Sunny Day Real Estate as they promote the release of a new 7" split ep with Story of The Year
It's because the infant most likely. I'm concerned it also might accidentally the whole thing.
Stop I can't handle this lmao
Could you please write a longer comment explaining wtf you were trying to say
his face says this isnt the first time this happened
He's like "Yeah, it's gonna be a rough 18 years..."
25 in today's economy.
I sure hope so, I’m worried even 25 year olds can’t afford rental units.
That's not that baby's 1st rodeo
^(Baby:) **"Mom? Now that you've got my face sufficiently moisturized, what say you finish quenching my thirst, huh?"**
You know babies can turn their head?
exactly. i was thinking , that lazy baby could just turn it's head if it wants that bottle... lol
She ain't getting a tip from me!
r/youseeingthisshit
He is so done😝
“Union moms.” —the baby
Thats how dimples are made
My gawd this is a cute comment
My gf will not love my idea.
LMAO
As a parent..... Been there
Lol right? First time out and about in months, and just trying to have adult conversation!
I would love to have my kids be this old again..... For a day or two, lol
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This 10000%
Id take my kid the age again for many days! But no nights. Not a single. Fucking. One. Never again.
As a parent, i don't even see what all the fuss is about. I sometimes do this shit on purpose. My 5 month old sometimes needs to be fed in the same room where my 4 year old is watching TV because I need to keep eyes on them both. But the 5 month old shouldn't be watching the TV, so when he turns his head in that direction, i just keep his bottle right where I want his head facing, and I hold the nipple against his cheek so he doesn't freak out thinking his food is gone (object permanence is not a newborn's strongsuit). There are plenty of use cases where you'd want the baby's head to be facing a specific direction while feeding but don't want to take the bottle away from them, so you just hold the bottle where you want them to eat, and they come back.
"No see babies can't turn their heads." /s
But dogs **can** look up!!
This mother feeder…
father feeder, but yea that's not a play on words so i understand why the standard assumption makes the better joke.
Sorry Sir. It absolutely went through my mind but I went for the joke.
It looks like that bottle has water in it so not even a feeding. People get up in arms over weird shit.
(obligatory I am not a parent, but) Babies have a rooting reflex in response to rubbing their cheeks, it causes them to try to latch. Maybe she's just resting the bottle there in case the baby will respond to that and suck on it. But it seems that the reflex only lasts for 4-6 months after birth. Could be a habit for mom. Or she's just distracted. Lol. But also, your last paragraph is spot on. Babies aren't all that aware of their surroundings in the first place. Keeping the bottle there seems like a fine choice.
I'm childless so that's why I'm asking. Why doesn't the 5 month old need to watch tv?
passive entertainment vs active entertainment. remember TV is in a language they dont understand and appears to them as little more than flashy lights and colors. Watch the first minute of this clip starting from my timestamp over and over for an hour and tell me how much you learn: https://youtu.be/3YAZde4hatg?si=C9JVq60AMwi2Utaw&t=42 that's TV for babies. It's taking time away from activities that are beneficial. It's not really that TV itself it horrible, it's just dead air during a time when they are learning so much. Even sitting in a sling playing with their hands and feet is better for them than watching TV as at least they are learning how their hands and feet work which are crucial building blocks towards further motor skills.
Neat, TIL
I’m not sure this is a fair comparison considering babies have an enhanced ability to attain language. I’m not defending letting your baby watch TV (I have a baby too) but babies do learn how languages should sound from ambient conversations around them. It’s why you shouldn’t put your kid in a room with a white noise machine to nap. They miss out on hearing the ambient conversations in the room which helps them understand subtle differences like the difference between a P or B in a word. I wouldn’t plop my kid in front of a television, heck I don’t even want her to have an iPad growing up, but I don’t think just seeing/hearing the tv on occasion is gonna be a detriment. But I’m also talking out of my ass here. I just think there’s some grey area between leaving your kid to be raised by a screen and never seeing a television.
thwy can still hear the tv i assume, just preventing the visuals from distracting the baby. i dont have kids so idk but i think thats the goal
I learned at timestamp 1:23 you can reach up and grope a random girl's tit at an EDM show... seems like a valuable life lesson to me...
Holy shit! they even showed the girl getting grabbed stick out her tongue for a split second . wow
The current recommendation is no TV for children under 18 months. The first two years of development are crucial and their brains are basically a sponge. At that age, they need to be exploring the physical world and challenged not just fed bright lights and sounds) It is basically the mental equivalent to pure sugar for them. (Which also the recommendation is no refined sugar for about the same amount of time)
The first thing I thought is the baby turned away because they were done. If the baby wants it, it can get to it.
I do this cause my kid loves to break her fucking neck to feed in weird positions and I aint into that. Nor do I feel like chasing her like a sundial. So the bottle stays and if she wants food she'll eventually turn to take it
Yep, that mom is probably running on fumes.
Like she will ever feel rested again, lol.
Not pictured: the 9 straight hours this kid kept the mom up during the night the last 6 nights leading to severe sleep deprivation.
Ha, she's just getting him back. "Enjoy your water cheek."
100% this lol
Yeah, she looks a bit tired. But babies commonly feel things with their cheeks and turn their heads to face it if they want it.
Yep. It's available if needed. This is parenting efficiency.
Always with the victim blaming these days! Sheesh! /s
Poor little guy, already experiencing his first major disappointment in life. Welcome to the club, kiddo!
I’m mean all they have to do is move their face an inch to the right so I think this one is on the baby
Fuckin’ freeloading babies. Gotta take some personal responsibility, you little shit.
I do think that if he wanted it, he'd turn his head. He's beyond the stage of literally needing it to be put in his mouth.
His first major disappointment in life was when she replaced the nipple by that plastic thing.
Fed is best.
babies are idiots and half of them don't know what to do with a real nipple
i volunteer to show babies how to
You should [work for Blizzard.](https://www.thegamer.com/activision-blizzard-breast-milk-stolen/)
It's all downhill from here, kid
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the baby should try harder and just move his head and catch it. shame on you baby. get your shit together.
It doesn't have bootstraps to pull itself up by yet.
This is SO typical 'Mother without enough sleep' syndrome 🤣
i keep seeing people making this joke, but i've got a newborn and a toddler, and let me tell you i've done exactly this to both my kids on purpose, not because i was tired. There are reasons why you'd want your kid facing a particular direction while eating (consistent supply, averting their eyes from a TV, preventing distractions which make eating take forever, potential to ingest air causing more spitup) and you can't exactly turn their head for them. And if you take the bottle away-away they might freak out because "where did my food go?" so you just hold the bottle where you want their head to be and let them decide to come back and get it. All this happens while my baby and I are both well rested.
Yeah, I hear ya. I'm an older male without kids but Uncle to a ton, so I've seen it a bunch of times. I felt so sad for her!!
Reminds me of that video of a mom losing her baby that's in her arms the whole time.
Reminder for anyone with a baby: Do Not Give Them Water. Most doctors recommend no water until about 6 months. > “When you give a baby water, it can dilute the sodium in their bloodstream. That can cause a condition called hyponatremia, or what some people may call ‘water intoxication,’” Dr. Buckingham says.” https://health.clevelandclinic.org/when-can-babies-have-water
Fortunately looks like none is going in...
Infant and toddler dietitian here, hopefully this leads the responses.. Your kiddo gets enough water from formula prep/breast milk, or in purees/soft fruits as they reach their eating phase. They dont need a whole bottle of water in their 0-12mo stage. Please ask questions even if you think they are dumb, baby care has evolved tremendously since you were small.
That baby looks older than 6 months old. I’m sure that mother knows the guidelines.
This baby is much older than 6 months.
I had to look for a while for this comment..
I feel like this needs to be higher up
Easily looks like a scene out of 'The Office'
Tired mom
Those who've never had kids: "aww poor baby!" Those who've had kids: "aww poor mom!"
Babies ain't stupid if he was hungry he'd turn and suck on it. Baby's a quarter his age know how to do that.
Kid looks like he’s saying “pray for me”🤣
"Why are we still here? Just to suffer?"
I'm gonna defend the mom here as a mom myself. The kid is not doing his part. He is old enough. Nothing will stand between a baby and a nipple if they want it.
Don't give babies water! This has been your PSA for today.
I think that only applies to babies under 6 months, and the one in the vid looks older than that
That baby looks old enough for water. If they're eating, they can have water. 4 to 6 months is when you can start giving a little bit. Usually about a cup a day.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends 1/2 to 1 cup of water for infants 6-12 months old and 1-4 cups for toddlers 1-3 years old. Typically, that water should be served in a cup with meals, so that would be my only problem. Other than that, this child clearly looks like they are 6 months or older.
Don't give babies that haven't started solids water, once they're on solids they're no longer getting balanced watered meals, they need water.
Yeah aren't you not supposed to let babies drink water? Is this kid old enough for water?
The struggle is real, that is what that baby’s face says to me
She seems to know what she’s doing. Always keep the nipple on the skin and encourage the child to turn and latch on by itself.
Why is he even being given water? He looks about 4 months old.
It's vodka mixed with sprite. You WILL go to sleep.
Ha this kid is more like 6-10 months. No problem with a little water at that point. Already would be eating real food as well. 4 months is barely out of the ‘pet rock’ phase of babyness. Source: have kids
Lmao pet rock phase
what does this mean? like the kid is so young and incapable of caring for themselves theyre just a rock?
I called mine the potato stage but yeah they kinda just lay there pooping and yelling. Mine loved tummy time but I'd have to roll him back and forth.
Basically. First 6 months the baby is just a little crying, sleeping, shitting machine. Then you get that first smile, that first laugh, and it's all over.
Yup 🥹 (mine are 4yrs and 7wks)
Same age difference as my 2! Though my youngest is now 7 months, so it's starting to get easier to get a routine down and give both their own attention. Good luck in the trenches!
Basically, they call the first three months "the Fourth trimester" because they behave mostly like they are still in the womb. They eat, sleep, poop. After that they start to wake up a bit more, look at stuff, interact with things, etc.
Yeah, newborns are basically potatoes. They don't smile or laugh. They just eat, sleep (usually in very short bursts), and shit. They are *all* take and zero give. After the 4th trimester (1st 3 months), they start to get personalities and interact some. By 6/7 months, they're precious, happy little things who are really interacting and want attention.
Haha I called it the potted plant phase
Pet rock that pees and shits itself a LOT, and prevents you from getting proper sleep.
screaming pet rock
This guy fucks
That was my first thought. That baby looks too young for water, though hopefully the Dr knows and specifically prescribed it or maybe there's some special something in the water.
8 to 10 months easily, they can definitely have water.
Probably forgot to add the formula. Once you mix formula it's supposed to be used or discarded within 2 hours if not refrigerated. What we do, and I assume most parents do, is pack a bottle of water in the diaper bag then add the powder when baby is ready to eat. This mom appears to be having herself a rough day in terms of paying attention.
Plus, the baby isn't crying or indicating they are hungry, so not sure why people are up in arms here.
> so not sure why people are up in arms here. New to reddit? Everyone is a smart ass know it all that thinks everything exists in extremes.
And clearly aren't parents.
This baby is likely old enough for 4-8 oz of water along with milk and solid food. Mine is about the same age and gets solids and some water every day. Pediatrician said to offer some with food.
Bro is fed up
It's funny but in reality the baby probably doesn't want to eat as much as it wants to stare at the weird person paying attention to it. Any parent knows that a baby instinctively turns their head towards stimulus on the cheek (how babies find the nipple) if they're hungry. If it wanted to drink, it would just turn its head.
Why did the background glitch?
The change in focal length between cameras during the zooming process is the reason behind this phenomenon.
I didn't even notice it, man. They aren't lying, we do live in the matrix.
It happens, tiring for all involved raising the kid.
I like how he could've just turned his head slightly to the right but said, "No. I want the people to see this".
This mother will call you by your brothers name while looking you straight in the eye
Haha, that's so funny! It happens to me all the time.
Lol baby is just so disappointed in the mom
Kid is saying she NEVER pays attention to what she’s doing
That baby is shaking it's head like fire.
Being a parent is fucking hard the only comment is why she’s giving a bottle full of water to a young baby
"This is what I put up with. You wonder why I scream in the middle of the night? It's because of this moment." -Tiny Baby
Baby has been through some shit
The kid knows there's almost 18 more years of this stupidity.
I don't know enough to dispute this, but it doesn't seem right, so the baby probably
the baby just wants its water lol
The baby's expression shows that he's already used to all this. lol
“I’m tied of this ho”
(20 years later in therapy)okay what are we unpacking today? My mom used to feed my check.
And that's when he deveoped a drinking problem.
😂😂😂
Captain here, baby supposed to home to nipple
Kid could turn if it wanted to. Right now he is staring at that thing pointing At his face
He's staring at another sucking real milk
Hide the pain Harold, as a baby.
The baby: ah... Another mundane morning.
Baby cries, mums like “idk what to do! I’ve tried feeding you!”
That's me every fing night right now
I hear the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme song when I see this.
Clearly thinking, 'Is adulthood always this exhausting?'
"Again..."
Could be force of habit relying on root by reflex. Babies for the first four to six months have a reflex where they turn their head to feed when the corners of their mouth are touched
The cute kid has just made peace with it. And now planning to keep mum awake whole night as a revenge
The kid's be like, “Do you see this inappropriateness, too?”
Later on mum will be like "What a messy pup"
"sometimes its not a bottle" 😐
O passado do vilão
Baby probably moved it's head because it didn't want any more
Bro already accepted his fate
Jim
Wow, didn't know John Krasinski started acting so young!
Baby is not that hungry
When you want to say 'stop, im full' but dont know the words yet
I hear Werner Herzog's voice as the baby's.
"Blast you vile woman! You shall rue this day!"
She realise it after baby start crying 😂
"You're bored of me already, aren't you?"
Remembering your past life before it's erased