QuilotoaWhoever invented the phrase, "I slept like a baby," never had kids.
「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」 | (aka: 鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma)I slept like a teen who’s parents had to go to work early, and decided to sleep in and skip school
Lucy :3
idunnololz“I slept like god during the Holocaust.”
MinnesotaGoddamI farted myself awake because it stank like an outhouse gave birth to a sewage company and the whole damn honeydipper family was invited?
redlemace
brap“I slept like a baby” basically translates to “I pissed and shit myself and woke up screaming”.
Can confirm, my son did that at least once.
Jo Miran
BjörnHad our newborn with us to a party. And since this was our first kid everyone wanted to hold him. We were passing him around like a joint. Usually he’d wake up easily. But that day nothing would wake him up. We probably could have chucked him over the table without any trouble.
Herbal GamerHad our newborn with us to a party.
YTA
How newborn? Because for that first few weeks you absolutely should not be trying to expose a newborn to every possible disease.
Sibbo
eliDepends on weight, but usually 6 months or older. Around the 12lb or ~5.4kg mark.
If they get sick before that…just have to keep fluids up, deal with the crying, and if the fever goes over a specific temp you gotta take them to the hospital.
Our 4 month old got a bad fever and we called the nurse hotline for our hospital to see the next steps and they said “we don’t have any appointments open, take him to the ER” and we were flabbergasted because that’s the LAST place you should take a sick baby. We pushed but they wouldn’t budge.
So we took our kid to the ER, the ER nurse and doc flipped their shit and said why we brought him there, told them so-and-so nurse on the hotline said to and that there weren’t any appointments. They took the baby immediately just to get him out of the ER and did whatever they could(I was at work, momma was at home still on maternity leave, so don’t have details), but the ER doc asked for the name of the nurse on the hotline and we’re guessing he said some shit up the chain.
So yeah, fun times!
Have a friend. Her second child always slept through the night and was a very heavy sleeper. That’s it. One kid of every single one I’ve ever heard of. The rest…literal shit show.
Maybe it originally meant a long sleep
I think they do. You could also interpret the time spent in a cot as sleeping, but just very restless sleeping.
I think it meant the period just after the birth where they are more inclined to sleep a lot.
I head a comedian once say they’d rather sleep like a drunken frat boy
if you’ve done something reprehensible you might be asked how you sleep at night. maybe sleeping like a baby is due to the association with innocence rather than literally how a baby sleeps (this is probably nonsense)
I think it’s both directions. I baby sat a lot of babies before having my own and I learned two things from it. Firstly, a comfortable baby will not wake up for anything. Second is just just how much of the world we learn to tune out by adulthood.
That second one is important, babies dont have any understanding to base things on and everything is new. Which means that there a million possible ways to exhale that the baby has never heard you do before and it doesn’t have an association for exhaling to connect those yet so that’s one million strange noises that could be a threat just from you breathing. You may recognize ever creak in your floor, but do you realize ever distinct variant of creak that each creaky board makes? Because a baby can tell the difference and doesn’t know what a floor or a board, or friction between wood and nail, or resonance, or even what sound is. All it know is it’s never heard that before and it might be danger, better call for help.
For those dealing with babies like this, I have advice. Be noisy around your baby. Put a rocking chair on the creaky board, clear your throat while you hold them, burping and farting are a big one, we try to hide those socially and that’s why we get those videos where dad burps and the baby looks terrified, all of a sudden safety person just made scary new noise, what the fuck do I do? You’d look at your parent the same way if they just casually opened their mouth and made perfect whale noises. Take them around the house and show them benal things. I used to walk my boy through the kitchen and open and close cupboards and drawers. Lastly, respong with nonchalance. If they get spooked by a noise and you run in worried that the baby is crying, they feel fear about noise, see fear in you and that tells them they were right to be scared and noises mean danger. If instead you’re cool and collected, they see you’re not scared so they don’t need to be scared.
To be fair, babies do sleep a lot. But they also wake up a lot. So we’ve gotta be constantly ready for whatever their vibe is.
ChaisWaking up a lot is a side effect of sleeping a lot. When the fall-asleep-count and the wakeup-count diverge by more than 1 parents tend to worry rather quickly.
skrlet13i kid i am working on building myself a custom bed so maybe i will sleep again
switcherooI like to think of it as “slept like a baby puppy/kitten” because those little dudes just pass out wherever they’re at and you can’t wake em
Oh my god my baby literally slept all the time. She would fall asleep on me constantly, always fell asleep in the car, etc. She slept like a baby.
It’s “slept like a baby”, not “slept like a baby’s parent”. The baby is sleeping just fine, they just don’t need to sleep for long uninterrupted periods like when they get older
-RJ-
TrackinDaKrakenMaybe it should be “slept like a teenager”. I remember sleeping for 10+ hours straight, just dead to the world. Man, I miss that.