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.
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?
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’m not saying it isn’t, but you’re acting like the downvotes are an indication of botting. I’m just telling you why people are downvoting. I doubt someone found your comments important enough to engage a voting bot.
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….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?
That has nothing to do with the statement the doctor made. Yes you should be baby proofing your house. No one is arguing that. What the doctor’s statement means is that they can fall from standing or walking on a regular floor without much risk of injury.
Yes; this is a normal developmental process. The initial situation I was responding to was the presumption that letting a baby fall all over a location that has not been baby-proofed while learning to walk would be dangerous, and everyone is making incomplete assumptions based on that. The steps are dangerous, the table could be dangerous if the baby knocks into the chair and the chair topples over on them; the mother is not reacting in this video like she is cognizant of those dangers, which leads one to question the “first steps” and randomness of the camera placement. There’s not even a playpen or other toys visible, prompting the idea that the largest stimuli in the room is mom and the vacuum, prompting the baby to move towards them rather than crawling towards a toy or something easier.
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u/coy-coyote 3d ago
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?