Cat pile
Cat pile
Aha you are officially my grandmother, LOL.
“The notion that your cat will smell the milk on your baby’s breath and suffocate it is an old wive’s tale – one that was even published in medical journals in the early 1900s. “There is a real danger of a fatal termination by suffocation,” a 1905 pediatric journal reads.”
Babies that can’t move their head shouldn’t sleep with plishies with “long fur” when they’re too young because of the risk of them breathing in the “fur”, so until they’re old enough to do something about it, they shouldn’t be left to sleep unattended with at cat in the room.
There’s also a big difference in strength between a newborn and a baby even just a child of months old, it wouldn’t be surprising that a newborn could get suffocated by a car sleeping on their chest or face…
In the end the question is… Do you really want to take a chance with a baby?
Grown cats can suffocate a baby, but small kittens most likely won’t.
It’s not that you should “keep them away” it’s that they shouldn’t be left unsupervised.
I think this image is setting a dangerous precedent. These cats will grow rather quickly and believe it’s okay to hop onto this child’s head and take a nap
At least with peanuts you’re supposed to feed children peanuts because not eating peanuts as babies is what tends to lead to peanut allergies in later life.
Perhaps the same is true of cats.
Although I don’t know of anyone who was allergy to cats is potentially fatal. Presumably because you’re not actually eating cat fur