Please cover your baby's heads and ears. It's cold out there!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
Today’s Washington Post - Health & Science Section:

“If your head is the only part of your body not covered, you will lose a lot of heat during the winter.”

— Ken Zafren, MD, Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University Medical Center

Why do people want their children to get cold, and sick?
The article goes on the explain which hats are best, and recommends a gaiter or infinity type of scarf, which can’t fall off or get caught in a car door.

Hahahah. That is an article by consumer reports that wants you to know they rate hats. And they make no connection between being cold and getting sick.

Sucker.

Exactly. Makes no connection between this and getting sick.

And you know what? Losing heat is a good thing if you are overheated. I'm a pediatrician, and we always have a rash (heh) of babies and toddlers brought in with rashes during the cold months. It's called prickly heat in some places, and more technically miliaria, and it's from being overbundled. Those kids would have benefitted from losing some heat, not suffered.

How do you tell parents to know what’s appropriate for the cold?

[Anonymous]

To ALL THE NEW PARENTS ABOUT HATS ON BABIES!

Things today for somethings are the same as always- Putting a hat and covering
your baby’s ears is to protect your child. A newborn is stil trying to strengthen the immune system and developing to be strong
In a world that is infectious. The uncovered ears, even in 30 seconds of cold can become a problem. If your baby has asthma, or other unknown
issues, you open up a world of pain and suffering. Ear infections can cause many problems and even cause deafness. Not only
Is it sharp pain in the ears of a baby - the long long crying for the parent is very trying. The babies head is the largest part of the body
And holds the heat in. If just one second of cold prompts a cold in newborns, it prompts many things in the respiratory system and
anewborn is still developing. The ears head hands and feet is where heat escapes.
Seriously, why wouldn’t you want to protect and prevent your baby and discomfort if it’s in your power to do so.
Preventive maintenance in anything is always a good idea - but to prevent something for a baby or a child from suffering and being
Uncomfortable is an action. Hat no hat .. is not modern day parenting. Protecting the child is a always things.
A little more empathy- if it were you wouldnt you want to be protected? again you are also protect yourself from long nights of screams
And stress - just by putting a hat and covering the ears.. a baby needs to stay warm - not be like a light switch in temperature control - that
30 sec to the car- is just the beginning of what will become lazy and your child will suffer. Protection is number one. Why would you question what you can protect?

[Anonymous]

Why did you bring up a 7 year old thread to post nonsense?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To ALL THE NEW PARENTS ABOUT HATS ON BABIES!

Things today for somethings are the same as always- Putting a hat and covering
your baby’s ears is to protect your child. A newborn is stil trying to strengthen the immune system and developing to be strong
In a world that is infectious. The uncovered ears, even in 30 seconds of cold can become a problem. If your baby has asthma, or other unknown
issues, you open up a world of pain and suffering. Ear infections can cause many problems and even cause deafness. Not only
Is it sharp pain in the ears of a baby - the long long crying for the parent is very trying. The babies head is the largest part of the body
And holds the heat in. If just one second of cold prompts a cold in newborns, it prompts many things in the respiratory system and
anewborn is still developing. The ears head hands and feet is where heat escapes.
Seriously, why wouldn’t you want to protect and prevent your baby and discomfort if it’s in your power to do so.
Preventive maintenance in anything is always a good idea - but to prevent something for a baby or a child from suffering and being
Uncomfortable is an action. Hat no hat .. is not modern day parenting. Protecting the child is a always things.
A little more empathy- if it were you wouldnt you want to be protected? again you are also protect yourself from long nights of screams
And stress - just by putting a hat and covering the ears.. a baby needs to stay warm - not be like a light switch in temperature control - that
30 sec to the car- is just the beginning of what will become lazy and your child will suffer. Protection is number one. Why would you question what you can protect?

Stfu

[Anonymous]

I never understood why Americans love to go outside in the cold in shorts and flip-flops, why they let the kids play in the winter with no jackets, why they don't put hats on babies, why they like to drink ice cold water when the A/C is already blowing cold air on you, so many whys.... All of this sounds like torture to me and I'm pretty sure most immigrants. We like to be warm and cosy! Even at the hospital they just keep your baby in a diaper and sometimes swaddle. That was so weird to me. My family is always the one bundled up at the playground while others are just in their hoodies.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:At River Road Bethesda Whole Foods. Mom is bundled up warm coming out of her BMW, but baby isn't. Sorry, but WTF is wrong here? It's 37 degrees!

IT. IS. NOT. THAT. COLD.

Yes! Thank you.

Where are you from OP?? 37 degrees is not even freezing. Ridiculous post.[/quote''

Agree. It is not that cold out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I never understood why Americans love to go outside in the cold in shorts and flip-flops, why they let the kids play in the winter with no jackets, why they don't put hats on babies, why they like to drink ice cold water when the A/C is already blowing cold air on you, so many whys.... All of this sounds like torture to me and I'm pretty sure most immigrants. We like to be warm and cosy! Even at the hospital they just keep your baby in a diaper and sometimes swaddle. That was so weird to me. My family is always the one bundled up at the playground while others are just in their hoodies.

Not all immigrants. I assume you’re an immigrant from a warm tropical climate? It’s not cold here to us and we don’t bundle up but my family is from a much colder part of the world.

[Anonymous]

This one woman tried to tell me in 65 degree weather to cover my baby’s feet that I was playing with while I was carrying her. My baby was sweating on her head.

[Anonymous]

My favorite are the old nasty women telling me my kids will catch cold from no hats. Umm that’s not how it works Karen

[Anonymous]

My poor baby is so over-dressed for the cold weather and I don't even have a scolding grandmother. It's just like, a contact high from other grandmothers. Today I layered a hat over a balaclava and it is MAYBE 40 degrees.


But when I'm using the car I try to resist because A) the car gets warm quickly and B) hats can shift over her eyes and make her upset and C) aren't we supposed to not do coats in the car? There's no way I would put all that stuff on just to run from the heated car to the heated store.

[Anonymous]

Lol white ppl don't cover their kids. It's a thing for ya'll. Must BIPOC ppl laugh about it.

[Anonymous]

A lot of people overdress their kids. They shouldn’t be sweating inside their clothes— it can give them painful rashes or exacerbate eczema.

I also used to get really annoyed when the FIRST thing someone would say to me was “Where’s your baby’s hat/jacket/socks/etc.?” It’s so rude. In most cases, it was just removed, by the baby. Calm down.

My kid is 3, rarely gets sick, and has had 1 ear infection ever. I know a lot of people like to pretend they are medical professionals or health experts because they’ve raised a child, but they usually don’t know anything and are often wrong or just repeating old wives tales. MYOB.

[Anonymous]

how is this thread 19 pages????