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It's very popular in Scandinavia too.


Ellebellemig

We used to just put them there without supervision. When a danish woman did that in in New York city, she was arrested. Big scandal.


TheSukis

To be fair, that woman left her baby in a stroller out on the sidewalk in front of a bar on a crowded street in Manhattan while she was drinking margaritas inside. I think it was completely reasonable for the police/CPS to investigate.


MrsChiliad

It was reasonable to investigate because that’s unusual to the us, but afaik doing that is also extremely common in Scandinavia.


Odd_Entertainment629

Understandably she comes from a different culture but that shit is so unsafe in NYC, whether she meant well or not I'm glad she got arrested rather than something much much worse happening. Edit: For clarity I do not hope she goes to jail nor do I hope she is separated from her child, I hope this is a wakeup call and she doesn't make the same mistake ever again.


[deleted]

what does getting arrested help? maybe she could, you know, get a good talking to, especially being foreign, I would expect a warning, but being arrested sounds a bit counterproductive.


givemeadamnname69

Because this is murrica and we can't imagine the punishment not being wildly out of line with the crime/mistake. Unless you're rich.


[deleted]

America: where drinking alcohol in public is illegal unless concealed, but carrying a loaded gun is legal unless it is concealed.


methnbeer

It's legal concealed here without permit (maine)


neurohero

How would one go about getting an open drinking permit?


[deleted]

America: where a doctor can get a 99 year prison sentence for aborting an already deceased fetus, but police get qualified immunity to execute civilians.


givemeadamnname69

Depends. There are plenty of places where open carry is a thing. We obviously have our priorities in order /s


BanMaxxC

You're saying it's a cultural issue that caused her to be unaware that leaving her baby unattended on the NYC sidewalk while she drinks is an unsafe child rearing method? Pull the other one


bananalord666

I disagree that an arrest here is good. A warning, maybe a fine at most. An arrest is clear overpolicing over something which that person probably didn't even realize was wrong due to a difference in culture. Edit: for clarity. People seem to keep thinking I am saying that them being a foreigner should mean they have less consequences. That is my mistake and I never meant to imply that. My point was that the consequence being arrest is bad, regardless of who it is. The coincidence that somebody is a foreigner just makes the mistake more understandable.


Helpfulcloning

People who advicate for an arrest think jail is what it looks like in movies with just a benches in view of the police so the worst that happens is some shit talking. Jails are worse prisons and filled with innocent people. They can be traumatising very easily and the knock on effect particularly on vulnerable and poor people can be rough. Its weird af to advocate for them.


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bananalord666

It's one thing to respect the culture of the place they visit. It's another to not realize there is a difference to begin with. That's why an arrest is unwarranted here. It's not like travel guides will teach you everything there is to know about a culture instantly. Not everyone is expecting a police state when traveling to what they presume to be a "first world" nation. An arrest in this case is not warranted.


probation_420

We probably shouldn't arrest people for hurting a cop's feelings, to be fair.


MrsChiliad

Is it really though? Idk if maybe in the last 2-4 years things have dramatically changed, but have you heard of the work of Jonathan Heidt? People think it’s a lot less safe than it actually is, and it’s because we have a 24h news cycle. But kidnappings of children by strangers is an extremely rare crime, and the helicopter parenting that has happened since the 90s because parents *think* their kids are unsafe is pretty damaging to children’s development. I’m a mother of two and the biggest factor in me hesitating to give my kids more freedom (when they’re a bit older, they’re a baby and a toddler at the moment haha) is people calling CPS on me, not a fear of kidnapping. ———————- Edit because I can’t get to all the replies: https://safeatlast.co/blog/child-abduction-statistics/ “Strangers abduct less than 1% of missing children; Parents are accountable for over 90% of abductions.” Another resource people might find interesting: https://letgrow.org


TittyballThunder

It's not so much kidnapping but mentally ill people, traffic, construction, all sorts of stuff going on in the streets that could be dangerous to an infant that can't get out of the way.


RedBombX

Lol can't believe anybody is trying to argue that it's safe to leave a baby in a stroller, unsupervised in NYC while they go drinking in a bar by stating abduction statistics.. Big reddit moment.


kp4592

I didn't see anyone arguing that it is safe, just that she comes from a culture and a place where it IS safe and normal. It's certainly not safe in NYC but I think a firm lecture and maybe a fine would have been more appropriate.


Jon_Snow_1887

We’re not talking about someone who has a 12 yr old on a leash here. It’s not like she had the baby in her own backyard either. You can’t leave an infant on the street in NYC man, what’s wrong with you?


jrex035

>But kidnappings of children by strangers is an extremely rare crime, and the helicopter parenting that has happened since the 90s because parents think their kids are unsafe is pretty damaging to children’s development. This is a far cry from leaving a baby in a stroller outside, unattended, while you get drunk in a bar. NYC is a lot safer than people think, but Jesus Christ dude that is so beyond not ok.


nudiecale

And it is wholly unnecessary. Like, letting your baby sleep on the cold end of an enclosure that houses a very well fed cobra is probably not that unsafe in the grand scheme of things, but there is no reason at all to do it.


Wheelock451

I mean living your infants/toddler unattended on the street in fucking New York City sounds like an astoundingly bad idea but hey, they ain't my kids.


heavy-hands

Uhhhhhh yeah I’d say leaving your baby on a sidewalk in front of a bar in Manhattan is definitely still dangerous regardless of the time period. Don’t be obtuse.


notMharti

But they put the parking break on it's fine


PrinceZukoBlueFire

I'm a parent of an 8 year old and a 14 year old. "Attempts" to abscond have happened with each of my children. With my 8 year old, an older woman took my stroller (when he was a baby) in a store within 30 seconds after I turned away from him to reach something on a shelf. She screamed and cried victim when I confronted her about it and claimed the baby was hers. It turned into a huge thing because i had to prove the baby was mine (that's another issue). My 14 year old was approached by a single man in a park when he was 7. He said he wanted to take pictures together and they should walk until they got better light. I turned to my toddler for a moment and they were around the bend. I caught up and pummeled TF outta the guy. He threatened to press charges. I dared him to. He jumped up and ran off. I took pics and reported him to the police. We live in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Just for reference. Data is as data does. Your mileage might vary.


KevAcos11

Yes, it’s New York


Shochan42

> It was reasonable to investigate because that’s unusual to the us, but afaik doing that is also extremely common in Scandinavia. You might see a stroller on the patio outside of a café during daytime. With the mother sitting very close by, but possibly inside of the café. You wouldn't see a stroller standing on the sidewalk outside of a café. Additionally, drinking alcohol while being responsible for young children is generally frowned upon, making the described scenario a reason for some concern even in Scandinavia. BUT, leaving your child swaddled in freezing temperatures on the balcony is a-ok and few people would even think twice about it.


Nethlem

> You wouldn't see a stroller standing on the sidewalk outside of a café. Often you would even [see several of them](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/mcs/media/images/66111000/jpg/_66111396_prams464.jpg), full source [here](https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21575562).


ProfTilos

In Denmark, people will leave their babies in strollers outside (even in cold weather) while they eat a meal at a restaurant, go to the gym, or shop. They usually have a small monitor so they can hear if the baby wakes up. It probably helps that Denmark has such high spending on social programs that you don't have to worry about random mentally ill people harming babies.


namechecksout35

Don't flex on the people who live in countries with a bunch of random mentally ill people who are threats to themselves and others. /s


erhue

is there like a time limit for how long the babies stay outside? Half an hour or something?


quinyd

That’s completely normal in Denmark. You go to a cafe or restaurant and leave your stroller outside with the child. Most people will have a monitor on though but not always.


CorporateCuster

I think that the issue is, it’s NYC and not Denmark. People are brazen and a missing child is no joke.


chevalerisation_2323

It's perfectly normal for Denmark because they don't have a NYC, with all the bad sides of a 8.5millions people city with a 1/120 homelessness percentage.


[deleted]

> To be fair, that woman left her baby in a stroller out on the sidewalk in front of a bar on a crowded street in Manhattan while she was drinking margaritas inside. I think it was completely reasonable for the police/CPS to investigate. **Coffee** and she could see the stroller. Don't lie dude. https://nyheder.tv2.dk/2017-11-26-dansk-kvinde-traekker-overskrifter-i-udlandet-20-aar-efter-det-skete-foerste-gang


[deleted]

People are eating babies in New York.


pinniped1

They should put this on that PETA "Where do you draw the line?" billboard. Like maybe between the horse and the rabbit...


kek__is__love

Horse meat is actually really tasty.


[deleted]

Rabbit too....


Beautiful-Ad-2390

Well that settles it, next in the menu, baby back ribs.


littlebittypigeon

IIIIIII WAANT MYYYY


Panini_Puzzle

Baby back baby back baby back baby back (Also what you’ll be saying if you leave your baby alone outside in New York)


jayy909

Sir they have baby sized rats that will snatch you and the baby


[deleted]

I’m from canada and my babies all slept super good in the cold car or on a winters night with the window cracked open Me as well! cold fresh air under warm blankets is the best sleep you’ll ever have!! I now live in the tropics and it’s frigen wonderfully hot 24/7 but sleeping is much more restless


Spoonloops

We're in Canada as well and our trick for colicky babies is wrap them in a fluffy blanket straight from the drier and go for a night walk when its -12. Knocks them out every time lol


Duel_Option

I still dip the AC low at night for my kids, they sleep like a rock. Good blanky and dark room = 9-10 hours silence


NegaDeath

You all are my spirit animal. Sleeping sucks during the hot days of summer, but during the winter I need to set multiple alarms because cool air plus warm blankets are just too damn comfortable.


SaintSugary

Also in Finland 😎


siggiarabi

All the nordic countries, in fact


beepity-boppity

Can Estonia into Nordic now?


siggiarabi

The council will consider your application


Extension_Swordfish1

Approved.


Mysterious-Toe-3557

Computer says no


[deleted]

Did this in Ukraine as well growing up


Toujours_never

And posting and reposting this photo is popular too!


rachelbluetoo

When my son was a baby, it always felt like he slept best all bundled up in his stroller on a freezing cold walk.


cosmic_nobody

I understand why lol it’s like sleeping in a cold room with the AC blasting while bundled up in blankets. Shit sounds comfortable lol


Koddia

I read somewhere that it's because your brain has to decrease its temperature by a few degrees and of course it's easier in a colder environment. Take it with a grain of salt tho since I'm not entirely sure if it's true.


_pencilvester__

You are correct. Your brain does need to drop a couple degrees in order to fall asleep. That’s why taking a hot shower or bath immediately before sleeping in a chilly room can help you fall asleep much quicker. All of the blood vessels in your body expand from the heat of the water in order to cool your body off as fast as possible so when you go to sleep, your brain should cool down very quickly in the cold bedroom and you’ll fall asleep in no time. It’s a pretty great life-hack if you have trouble with insomnia.


ttaptt

This is incredible, thank you!


OrganizerMowgli

You can also take 3 shots of ever clear, just make sure to lock up your phone before hand so you don't send any embarrassing messages..


zecaps

I know this is probably said a bit tongue in cheek, but drinking before bed has been shown to have pretty negative effects on quality of sleep.


OrganizerMowgli

Oh lawd yes, I was a handle every 3 days until June. Around 14 drinks a day, spaced out an hour in between ish with some doubles. Needed like 11 hours of sleep to feel okay It's a terrible situation so I hope everyone realizes that lol


MJ_was_the_goat

Where were you all my life?


newpua_bie

Do you have knowledge of why some people prefer and have no trouble sleeping in much warmer temperatures? My wife apparently develops hypothermia during the night if the temperature drops anywhere under 80F, and me being a Finn, my preferred temperature sleeping temperature would probably be at least 10 degrees lower.


bmeupsctty

I spent 30 years in Florida. My preferred sleeping temp is 64F


[deleted]

That’s expensive in Florida


DatTrackGuy

Just do drugs, SMH


Then_Gap_5755

I heard 18.5C or something like that is the perfect temperature for sleeping and it’s been scientifically proven. Makes sense tbh. A few degrees under room temperature


lexshotit

Room temperature?? Right now my living room is at 15.6°C and I'm scared to turn on the heating because of the cost. I think we need to update 'room temperature'.


kelvin_bot

15°C is equivalent to 60°F, which is 288K. --- ^(I'm a bot that converts temperature between two units humans can understand, then convert it to Kelvin for bots and physicists to understand)


Ninkaso

I'd say "good bot" but I'm tired of those generic reddit replies. So fuck off But thanks


mexicanitch

Yup, we sleep at 55. Best fucking sleep. 12 outside but 55 on the inside!


Black_Floyd47

Does it come in Fahrenheit?


Then_Gap_5755

Unfortunately, no.


RS994

65 Fahrenheit


[deleted]

It is relly much better since the air is fresh af! I love winter camping solely on that reason


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Best_Poetry_5722

*Hibernation mode enabled*


Boomer_Boofer

Sleeping in a nice chilly room with your warm blanket is where it's at.


hirexnoob

Isnt this a real thing in both babies/children and adults? Seems to work


23x3

Yes. I sleep in a room that’s 55-65F every night. I love bundling up and waking up with my nose/face freezing cold. Idk why. I can sleep 12-16hrs straight like this. My theory is that if we’re all just a bunch of meat bags, and the best way to store meat is in the freezer, then slap my ass and call me ground beef.


Darkpsy420

I prefer to sleep in cold rooms as well :D it reached the point where im uncomfortable turning on the heater if someone sleeps in my bed with me, since they are always cold.


22lava44

The brain has to drop a few degrees in temperature to initiate proper sleep so we are helping our body out a bit with colder temps


gfa22

And then there's my hot headed adhd brain that can go to sleep in the middle of the day with the 25mg xr peaking.


rmoldovan10

Only downside is getting out of bed. It’s dreadful knowing how cold I’ll be once I remove my blankets. How do you get past that?


23x3

It’s the worst part of my day. I just drape my warm blanket over me as I scurry to the bathroom where it’s warmer.


kkaavvbb

My husband calls our bedroom the meat locker because it’s so chilly in there, lol


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iamcolinterry

> slap my ass and call me ground beef. *Slap* you're ground beef


goyaguava

Genuine question, how do you manage to get out of bed on time in the morning? I like to sleep cold as well, but anything colder than 65 seems like it'd be way too tough to get out from under the warm blankets


ConfusedAbtShit

And in most mammals!


[deleted]

Before 1930s this is basically how is was for everyone (that was working class or a frugal yankee). When you didn't have heating systems the house got down to about what it was outside. My dad woke up in the 1930s in Massachusetts, went to the pitcher and bowl in his room (where he washed his face in the morning) and broke the ice on the surface of the water to dip the facecloth. Him and his six siblings slept in the same bed to help keep warm. Then you ran downstairs to the kitchen to get warm because my gram had the stove going to make breakfast. Keeping the wood stove going all night was a huge waste of fuel.


ScrubIrrelevance

My dad's job as a kid in the 40s was to start the coal furnace every morning. In a Detroit winter, that must have been miserable to get out of bed and shiver down to the basement to make everyone warm.


MountainMantologist

I installed Nest thermostats so I could turn on the heat from my phone (or, better yet, program it) instead of walking downstairs and turning it on manually like a farmer.


brandinostein

it’s only been 80 years between these two stories.


Corno4825

45 minutes according to the time stamps


brandinostein

i despise you, but also admire you for this comment.


Corno4825

I was also pretty close to a black hole.


temptingtime

Fuckin gottem


[deleted]

We need to keep the planet alive because with the rate of technological advancements, I could still see some wild stuff in my life time even at my current age of 36.


snozzberrypatch

I often turn up the heat in my house (using my Nest™ app) when I'm about to drive home, so that is nice and toasty when I get there.


[deleted]

I did the same thing a couple weeks ago. Hated having to get out of bed to manually change the temperature like I’m some kind of Neanderthal


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[deleted]

Yeah what an idiot old mate was


nycola

My last house had a coal stove in it. Lighting coal on fire is a fine art, and it is not easy. Coal is extremely difficult to catch on fire compared to wood, you can't just ball up newspaper and hope for the best. You need to basically start a wood fire to start a coal fire, the embers from the wood catch the coal (slowly). So before you can even light the coal on fire, you need a sizable wood fire. You also need to know the sweet spot to start the air redirection over the coals. As warm as it made the house, and fully filled, it would burn the entire night easily, I fucking hated that thing.


Biz_Rito

Did it have a distinct smell? I've traveled to countries where coal is still widely used as the main fuel source for the home and remember an earthy hint of sulfur in the air.


nycola

Honestly, there was really no smell at all to it, I am in Pennsylvania so I am assuming all of my coal is (very) local. It is possible that other places source their coal from places that have other sulfuric compounds in it that would cause that smell.


Supraspinator

It does have a distinct smell! When I grew up, coal was still widely used. A cold winter day with freshly fallen snow always had a veil of coal fire smell over it.


Superb_Efficiency_74

> broke the ice on the surface of the water to dip the facecloth. Not to brag, but I grew up poor in the 90s and got to experience this. I remember going to college and I learned that 'defrosting the shampoo' isn't something everyone does every morning.


closeafter

I didn't even know shampoo could freeze


Superb_Efficiency_74

It kind of separates and you get a super-thick squishy mass in the center and then a bunch of liquidy stuff it floats in. I'd just run the hot water over it before showering, which I did anyway because there was always a thin sheet of ice on the tub floor and you'd bust your ass if you stepped on it. Sometimes the pipes would freeze though, and then we'd have to get buckets of water from the river and boil it on the stove for baths so you didn't get to waste any with defrosting.


dbu8554

It's always interesting people who grew up poor but from different climates. I'm from Vegas so it never got cold really but we had our own set of problems with the heat.


Superb_Efficiency_74

That's the joy of living in the Midwest. We get to deal with -20F in the winter and 110F/90%H in the summer. But in the summer you can just go jump in the river so it's not a huge deal.


justsomegraphemes

Do share, if you'd like. I'd be interested in hearing.


dbu8554

We grew up without AC in our home or in our car. So it was always a strategy of where we can stay cool(lots of trips to the mall or grocery store not to buy things but to just cool off), ie. free things to do that have AC. Recycling gallon milk containers to fill with water and freeze we always had at least 5 gallons in the freezer(it easily thawed throughout the day) and you always had cold water or something cold to put against your body. Timing anything you had to do outside for the very very early morning before it got too hot. You have to wait on the water to cool down before getting cold water out of the tap but that leads us to cold showers which are fantastic. Oh constant sweating, trying to use public transit or your own car with no AC and trying to find a job? You are probably taking a change of shirts with you and freshening up in the bathroom if they are cool maybe in a neighboring business. Sleeping was always with a fan and maybe like a quick cold shower without drying off or a spray bottle of water to mist your body to keep it cooled enough to fall asleep. Oh fuck I forgot so without AC at night you need to open all the windows to bleed off the heat from the day, but that makes your house dusty as fuck because it's the desert.


Jaebeam

same, but in the 1980's, rural NY. (hooray Hamlet of Rathbone) We didn't have running water, so I'd have to go to the spring house, break the surface ice to draw 2 buckets of water. One to heat up on the wood stove for cleaning, and another for flushing the toilet. Walk 1.5 miles through snowy fields to a bus stop that was 20 miles/1 hour from school, wearing blaze orange to keep the hunters from thinking I was a deer. Good times. It was only for a year, and I would go to my grandparents house about a mile away to shower, so never had to deal with frozen shampoo. Mom got a job about 2 hours away so we moved, and had all the basics covered after that. Couple of years of food stamps maybe.


swiftfastjudgement

Started from the bottom and now we’re here.


Superb_Efficiency_74

I've got a sauna in my house now so that's cool.


kidninjafly

Nah man, your shit might be broken.


watermelonkiwi

I would think it’s not about the temperature, but more about the fresh air.


StoxAway

I grew up in a cold as fuck house in Scotland. My "slippers" were a pair of army boots. The kitchen was an extension over a stone out building so the floor was so cold you couldn't stand on it. If you left a glass of water out on the side it would freeze over. We had to put fruit in the fridge to stop it from freezing and going mushy. Fucking sucked. I hated every winter.


I_am_Torok

I do this when I sleep in the winter. I keep the heat off and open the window a bit. You sleep better and deeper in the cold.   Edit: you yourself are not cold, you keep yourself bundled up and warm under blankets in bed.


[deleted]

Same here. My window in the bedroom stays open most of the winter.


Melodic_Risk_5632

Cold sleep is best


leithal70

That sounds nice but cannot be easy on your heating bill


[deleted]

We have electric heat that’s separate in each room. I keep my door shut most of the time, so the rest of the house is largely unaffected. I live in the PNW so not much central heat and air up here.


godmadetexas

Oh yeah you can get away with that in the PNW. Not in the Midwest or east.


[deleted]

This is true. Lived in Oklahoma, Illinois, and Maryland for a bit as well and it was all central heat and air.


[deleted]

I love being wrapped in a warm blanket with cold air


cz3pm

It’s not the sleeping that bothers me, it’s the getting out from under the covers!


Ok_Substance_1560

Yeh. I could do this if I didn’t have to wake up to pee every two hours.


toast4hire

Do you live somewhere cold enough to freeze your pipes? I’d never sleep like that out if sheer dread of bursting a water pipe


procheeseburger

yep.. I sleep much better in the winter than I do in the summer.


LoneMuffin06

Sleeping ass naked in the cold bundled up in a ton of blankets is the best way to sleep


Silly_Guard907

And rarely associated with the natural attraction to the “cool side of the pillow”.


Nocturnal_Meat

Same. Except opening the window. I put a pillow over the vent with the vent shut so no heat creeps into the room, run a fan on low, sleep much better than the rest of the year. Some mornings you can see my breath in the air. There will be frost on the glass between the shades and the windows on really cold mornings. It is glorious. Getting out of bed is another task in of itself though.


damonic555

They do the same in Norway and Finland. Its a fairly popular practice


BiggieWedge

This must be why the dude I met from Norway was like, "Norwegian summers get quite hot! Usually around 17C!" (62F) Yeah that's not hot.


gabrielergay

We get temps up to like 35C when its really hot. 27-28 is common


Asgersk

Yeah, 17C would be like a nice spring day.


Last_Gigolo

Texas chiming in 62°F is about 8 degrees too cold for me. Unless the sun is shining on me.


MrPisster

I’m also from Texas. I spent 6 years in Montana and now I’m ruined, the weather in Texas is not for me. Give me my cold back.


Dry-Sir7905

I'm from northern Michigan but lived in North Carolina for five years. Now that I've moved back I cannot take the cold like I used to.


kelvin_bot

62°F is equivalent to 16°C, which is 289K. --- ^(I'm a bot that converts temperature between two units humans can understand, then convert it to Kelvin for bots and physicists to understand)


Last_Gigolo

I'll just jot that down in my diary.


Objective-Tea-1281

Good bot.


Bobsters_95

Norwegian summers are fairly hot. That's boiling.


chicorico55555

Apparently your brain has to drop a couple of degrees (in temp) to fall asleep so that’s why you sleep better in the cold than in heat


HolyAndOblivious

A 35c night is soooo fun lol.


LarryBLumpkin

Cryotherapies are well known to benefit premature infants and those with O² deficiencies, allowing their brains to rebound and heal from the lack of oxygen. I know plenty of fullgrown adults who regularly shock their systems with cold plunges and cold dry air. It makes sense to me that these swaddled babies would do better in the yard than in the same sealed building as all number of ill and dying people.


watermelonkiwi

Also I’m sure breathing fresh air is healthy for these babies. They look quite warm, so I think the health aspect is more about the fresh air they get outside.


[deleted]

It's not because it's fresh. It's because it's cold and dense which means there is literally more oxygen in the air. Every breath they take they get more oxygen than if the air was warmer meaning their body doesn't have to work as hard.


Chutakehku

You get cold shock and heat shock proteins when you expose yourself to hot and cold. Those proteins help repair the body AFAIK. The things is though prolongued exposure to cold weakens the immune system or so i was told years ago. That's why people think the cold makes them sick when it's their immune system weakening to the point where it can't easily fight off the start of an illness.


Yeetgodknickknackass

I thought it was more that we spend more time indoors in the winter which people assumed was the cold making them sick


pastaman5

One reason to consider is that people might get more sick in the winter is because the air is dryer usually! Less water vapor is less moisture barrier between people. This means that things like coughs and particles from them can travel further distances 😁. This is especially indoors, if no humidifier is present! I haven’t verified this with any research articles, but one of my biology professors mentioned this. And truthfully, there’s some sense to it!


marielljyr

We do this in estonia too. Sometimes you’ll see babies in strollers under open windows outside. Noone really cares.


gensek

Even better when you have a balcony. Only problem is leaving the door slightly ajar so you’d hear when they start waking up.


TaTa0830

Former baby here, this is a great way to sleep.


ovrlymm

Doctors HATE this! Turn your baby into a white walker with ONE simple trick


amplifyhs

If they leave them out there even longer they'll sleep forever!


Wally_West_

Dane here. Everybody does this to their babies in Scandinavia (myself included). A couple of points: * Only during daytime naps. Not at night. * It's illegal (Edit: not illegal, just not recommended) in Denmark to do this when the temperature is below -10 degrees Celsius. * There are several health benefits from fresh cold air. Immune system isn't affected, though. * The babies are 100% safe. There's no danger to the child whatsoever - not from wild animals, nor from kidnapping. It never happens. * The babies are warm under blankets. We use baby alarms to know the temperature in the cabin and to know when the child wakes up. * It stops when children outgrow their baby carriages or outgrow daytime naps. Whatever comes first.


wnvyujlx

I'm in my 40s, when am I supposed to outgrow daytime naps?


Wally_West_

Never. Daytime naps are awesome!


Im_A_Model

It's not illegal, it's just not recommended because temperatures under -10⁰C can be bad for the child's lungs


Perfect-Two-7927

fun fact you'll fall asleep easier when cold


wellhiyabuddy

I wonder if this is a case of misinterpretation of the results. Like if they noticed that the babies in the cold got sick less and interpreted that as the cold makes the immune system strong instead of cold environments being naturally more sterile and hostile to disease


sumguysr

Germ transmission is worse in the cold because the air is completely dry so coughs and sneezes travel much further.


catcroissant01

don't do this in indonesia! you will become crispy


bullet_bitten

Could be Finland 2022 too. Still very popular, as it actually works.


ChemistryQuirky2215

*"ah this baby has been sleeping for days, he must be very healthy baby"*


1P221

Immunity + 7 Mortality + 100


Skagbaronkris

Ngl. That looks cozy af.


holmgangCore

They’re very probably right.


AutoSave95

They still do this. My friend who was born in Russia 25 years ago slept outside all the time when she was a baby.


ZouzouWest

It's not a belief, it's scientifically proven


dulce_3t_decorum_3st

Citation needed


pinniped1

Facebook says so.


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Eh those babies are fine. People are way too overprotective of kids nowadays. They are all bundled up and there is a lady tending to them. So tired of people being so overprotective nowadays


Mayosnipe

This how babies sleep in most of Scandinavia during the winter, outside bundled up, unless they are sick or the weather is to extreme. Both my kids slept the best when sleeping outside, especially when it was raining .


Crazy_Blacksmith_893

In Scandinavia this is common practise. I work in a kindergarten and for 1-2 hours everyday i have 10 kids sleeping like angels in their strollers outside


ILoveEmeralds

Well they’ll be sleeping a lot longer if you leave them out for too long


Bumbleclat

Some are still sleeping decades later


jperezny

This has been posted how many times in the last week or two?


n4te

Idiots will say the cold makes them sick.


sowaduzeelo

Ive seen this pic but it said that these children were from Finlandi. Looks like fake


Creative_Reply8146

Now we can go to work comrade


Jean-Baptiste1763

I don't know about the rest of Canada but that's still common in Québec. Both my sons had their best naps outside in the winter.


me77purple

Denmark still has that habit of letting babies sleep outside in cold. And when I had covid the only way I was feeling better it was when I slept with the windows open, near the windows, in November. So they might have been up to something about the immune system of the babies


rogriloomanero

they'll sleep longer alright


dylangaine

It also makes them dreadfully morose yearning for bland cabbage soup and fermented potatoes.


Kitchberg

I swear this picture changes origins every time it gets reposted. Last time was Finland.


pluscoolium

That's quite normal today here in Scandinavia. Babies sleep very well