This. The way he stands up in a split second and readies to move shows he’s been stepping for a while. That or mommy is very confident in his balance and not toppling over for the clonker on the chair or parquet floor?
My boss has a baby that just started crawling. They were worried about him falling. Their doctor said that it’s okay to let the baby fall from however high he could get himself off the ground without climbing.
So if the baby can stand up on its own like this, then it’s okay to let him fall on his own.
Is it true that this is why we still have skull softspot at that age? So it flexes when we fall when learning to walk? I mean yeah, catch the kid, but I always heard that was an evolutionary thing.
We still have soft spots in our skull at that age because our brains are still growing. There are actually cases of babies whose skulls fuse together too soon, and they need cranial surgery to "break" the prematurely fused spots and allow the brain to grow normally. The fact that babies can handle a fall from their own height has more to do with them being low to the ground already than it has to do with anything else. If a one year old were to fall about 4 feet, for instance, that is an immediate emergency room visit.
Their pediatrician recommended letting them fall while in the initial stages of learning to stand and grab for support? You don’t have the pediatrician’s name or office # do you?
Why was he talking to his boss about his pediatricians recommendations for learning to walk anyway if he doesn’t have a kid? This doesn’t smell like bullshit to you? Lack of critical thinking wild out here
Uhh, I’ve had conversations with my coworkers about their kids and how they’re doing. One even mentioned taking them to the doctor and how it went after they missed a meeting for it when we were talking. It’s not that unusual, some people establish social connections at work that aren’t solely based on work.
Okay, so why is there suddenly this barrier between him asking his boss for a referral for the pediatrician, and the boss sharing intimate details of the pediatricians medical advice in regards to raising the child!
Well for one, if you don’t have kids, it’s weird to ask for a referral to a pediatrician lol
All I’m saying is that one of my coworkers talked about the kids doctor visit and what’s been going on and what the doctor said, it’s not that out of the ordinary. It’s not even the first time. I tend to make friends with coworkers and we share parts of our lives that aren’t necessarily related to work.
Most know about my medical issues too, which are aplenty. Most know things about my partner from stories I’ve told, and I know things about theirs.
Brooo look at all these ratio’s, comment heavy engagement bot accounts, they’ll post anything contrary to reason and the actual recommendations of real pediatricians to drive comments.
But what they've said is not wrong. It's common advice from pediatricians. Your response shows a concerning level of paranoia when there's no real evidence that any of the people you are talking to are bots. You think they're bots just because you disagree with them?
….I used to be an MA in a pediatrician’s office in Boston. The doctors absolutely do tell parents it is okay to let your child fall while they are learning to walk. If they can stand, they will be okay to fall back down. Their body mass is not enough to cause much damage from such short distance.
Baby-proofing that staircase for a kid learning to walk might be a good start, how many kids did you see with massive facial disfigurement from impacts from falling while learning to walk?
Blatantly false, commenter has posts dating years back, and their comments are all always both consistent and logical.
Divisive, easily debunkable statement
Let's return to the commenter's original statement and see if it is really divisive and easily debunkable, as you claim.
My boss has a baby that just started crawling. They were worried about him falling. Their doctor said that it’s okay to let the baby fall from however high he could get himself off the ground without climbing.
So if the baby can stand up on its own like this, then it’s okay to let him fall on his own.
Commenter is just posting what they'd heard through a conversation with their boss. They respectfully provide the advice that they heard. They did not posit an opinion or directly attack someone else's (your) opinion. They merely stated this particular doctor's recommendation. Their comment is not divisive in any way, until you flipped that arbitrary switch in your head that somehow makes you feel incredibly personally attacked. You jump in, already hyper-confrontational, aggressively and patronizingly questioning them. When they respond, still respectfully, you arrogantly claim "this is fiction and you’re making up shit."
Furthermore, you say that their claim is easily debunked. You have not provided a single piece of evidence debunking their claim. If it were really so easy to debunk, then let's go ahead and see your evidence!
Corroborated by “employee of a friend/associate”
True statement. So what? Perhaps you've never heard of people having normal conversations with their friends because you've never had any friends to begin with ;)
No relatable personal experience
Um, do you know what relatable means? You ain't got a baby, so how tf are you expecting to relate to what commenter is saying?
Of course, in the end I also have no clue whether the commenter is really a bot or not. But your evidence and reasoning are easily debunked! :D
P.S. I hope you someday learn how insufferable you are :)
My boss and I are a two person department, and we get along well. We talk to each other about stuff outside of work, because that’s a thing normal people do. He’s excited to be a dad and likes to talk about his baby, so we end up talking about the baby sometimes.
I didn’t respond for about nine hours because I was at work.
Why would they have the name/number of his boss's pediatrician and Why would they supply it to some random trying to argue him?
Just googling it I found multiple parenting threads agreeing with OP including this article that says on average babies fall more than a dozen times an hour while learning to walk.
You're wasting your time. The people you're "debating" with either have no children, or are hovering/hovered over the One child they had, ignoring all written advice and avoiding any medical professionals that "thought" they knew "so much".
Why would you post an article that doesn’t even mention the topic you’re talking about? It’s not talking about handholding while learning to walk; it’s not talking about the developmental stages of learning to walk in environments that could be hazardous to a baby to fall in. Cherry-picked crap research that’s not even salient to the topic.
Listen, just because your parents dropped you from various heights (on your head, presumably) as a child, doesn't mean it's unsafe for normal babies to fall from standing position.
Absolutely, you should take precaution that there are no sharp things around to fall onto (like furniture corners), but on a flat surface a toddler has almost 0 chance of hurting themselves by falling. It doesn't even hurt them, they usually just land on their ass..
Two legs of the chair are not visible, so you have no evidence supporting this statement. The chair does not move or wobble, so your claim is easily debunked.
staircase with the glass edge railing
The mom is standing in front of the staircase. The baby cannot hit their head on the staircase without walking to the mom first and getting picked up. Anyone with a nonzero number of brain cells would understand this spatial relationship.
No toys on the floor?
Who vacuums without cleaning up toys and any other stray objects on the floor first?
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u/Triangle_Player 22h ago
Incredible moment....all caught on camera randomly placed 👏