PancakeTrebuchetJust got the crib into out first child's nursery, and the cat wasted no time in claiming the territory.
Hey, I’m sorry to be “that poster” about it, but please consider the dangers of encouraging or even allowing the cat crib access.
Your infant can’t protect itself from a cuddly cat that could cause suffocation.
Cheers, and thanks. The baby is still 2 months out, and the cat will not have access to the room once they’re here.
HalcyonBetter restrict cat’s access to the room right now. Once it has been allowed there several times it’s much more complicated to untrain that habit.
[deleted] in lemmyYou are that poster. The idea that cats suffocate infants is not supported by a significant number of cases and is generally an assumed outcome based on proximity.
Reducing the number of things an infant could possibly stuff their face into and suffocate is a good idea, but cats are not a threat just because they are cats.
I said consider it.
I also have a cat that just plain will lie across my head and go to sleep. All of the studies in the world would not convince me to let that cat sleep in a crib with a neonate.
Does it have to be a ‘significant’ number of cases to mention the possibility?
Yes, otherwise it would be baseless fearmongering. Especially when the cases said to be caused by cats are not proven to be cats.
Exactly which part of ‘cat might sit on an infant’s face’ is improbable and baseless fearmongering? Some of them certainly do it to adults. Don’t bring up autism, that’s a scientific impossibility while this has reasons for being possible. They’re two entirely different things.
harmful myths
Would you care to explain how this might be ‘harmful’?
Exactly which part of ‘cat might sit on an infant’s face’ is improbable and baseless fearmongering?
The part where cats don’t fucking do that or we would have overwhelming evidence that they do, since millions of cats are around infants every single fucking year.
Cats have been demonized for centuries due to myths like this. Have fun spreading lies I guess.
Here’s the result of a quick Google. Huh, turns out it is possible…
The Comment section expands that there were complications unrelated to the ‘smothering’ and that they only found one reference to a smothering in textbooks of pediatrics and forensic medicine. The expert they referenced at the beginning was also only aware of one case. The child had multiple other health issues, but the authors decided the one incident must have been caused by the cat.
The authors of this paper are also perpetuating the myth of cats suffocating infants. If it happened regularly enough we would have far more confirmed cases of it happening.
You can accidentally kill yourself while cutting onions, but it doesn’t happen enough to treat cutting onions as a fatal trend worth ‘just mentioning’ when someone talks about cutting onions. That would be fearmongering. Being possible isn’t the same thing as being a danger.
“Look at me. I am the child now”
He fits.
Congrats on the upcoming new arrival!
We found success in keeping the cat out by putting a layer of aluminum foil on the crib mattress one day, about a month before the due date. The cat jumped in once, hated it, and couldn’t get out quickly enough. She never tried jumping in again.
Cats jumping on tinfoil are proof we’re in the simulation and the AI can still get physics wrong from time to time
amniotic druidThay ceiling is beautiful. I wish more people decorated theirs instead of sticking with plain white
Thanks! I hope the little dude appreciates it. It was a royal PITA to put up 😆
Nice space theme you have going here. Hopefully the newcomer appreciates it too =)
ReefWow that room is beautiful, do you have more photos?
WahotsThat’s a beautiful room, I love the starry theme! I also like the cat poking up from the crib :)
What is a crib but a large box?
ShaggySnacksIt was the child’s crib. It now belongs to the cat.
Ricky RigatoniI do not see the problem. Crib is for baby. Cat is baby.