Anonymous
Post 12/17/2013 09:58     Subject: Please cover your baby's heads and ears. It's cold out there!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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!


I see this a lot. Takes half a second to pop a hat on baby's balled head!


And it takes another half second for that baby to rip the hat right off. If you have one of those babies who will keep a hat on, more power to you.

And "balled"? Seriously?


Wild guess, but I think she meant "bold".

I'm proponent of bundling babies. Here are reasons:

Their heads are usually bold or have very little hair. Babies' heads are large, compared to their tiny bodies. I think it is like 40% larger then adults, so more heat loss there.

Babies do not walk or move around as much as adults do. Compared to adults, babies bodies aren't as good at regulating and maintaining proper temperature.

Babies cannot help themselves by covering up when they are cold, that is your job.

You have to put at least one more layer on your baby then what you are wearing. Think about it, your hair provides you with a natural "hat", does your kid have it?

Chronic sniffles is a good sign that your kid is usually underdressed. Chronic sniffles are likely to lead to chronic ear infections.

Unsurmountable problem of babies taking off their hats only affects very few kids and is completely new phenomenon in a human history.



Anonymous
Post 12/17/2013 09:01     Subject: Please cover your baby's heads and ears. It's cold out there!
How do I know whether my baby (now a toddler) didn't mind the cold on a quick run from the car to the house? He screams his head off when he is unhappy, and he doesn't fuss about the cold. That and he always pulls his mittens and hat off, and throws off anything we try to use to cover him up in the car. I do, however, bundle him back into his coat and hat to take him from the car into daycare so our daycare provider won't fuss at me
Anonymous
Post 12/17/2013 08:57     Subject: Please cover your baby's heads and ears. It's cold out there!
Anonymous wrote:
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!


I see this a lot. Takes half a second to pop a hat on baby's balled head!


And it takes another half second for that baby to rip the hat right off. If you have one of those babies who will keep a hat on, more power to you.

And "balled"? Seriously?
Anonymous
Post 12/17/2013 08:56     Subject: Please cover your baby's heads and ears. It's cold out there!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Are you my MIL?

She's constantly chasing after my kid and trying to bundle her up.


Seriously, mine gave heat rashes to my LO last summer by overheating with a polyester blanket all wrapped up while I was recovering from my delivery. This despite saying no multiple times, jeez.


OMG mine too, except it was MY mom. Then she kept rubbing his hands and feet when she thought we weren't looking because she thought he was cold.
Anonymous
Post 12/17/2013 08:47     Subject: Please cover your baby's heads and ears. It's cold out there!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:How old are you? This seems to be common with older women, the obsession with covering babies heads. I do not think it is a big deal if babys head is uncovered for a 30 second walk from a car into a heated store.

Odd how mom needs a hat for herself, but baby doesn't.[/quote]

Not odd at all. If she was like me, her 2 day unwashed hair was hiding under there.
Anonymous
Post 12/17/2013 08:45     Subject: Please cover your baby's heads and ears. It's cold out there!
Anonymous wrote:Sorry, bolded wrong thing...

Meant to question the car seat issue. What issue?


Coats in the carseat are a safety issue because if you have to loosen the straps to fit your child in the seat with a coat on the coat will compress in an accident and the child can be ejected.
Anonymous
Post 12/17/2013 08:10     Subject: Please cover your baby's heads and ears. It's cold out there!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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!


I see this a lot. Takes half a second to pop a hat on baby's balled head!


My DD was never bald or "balled"
Anonymous
Post 12/17/2013 07:11     Subject: Please cover your baby's heads and ears. It's cold out there!
Anonymous wrote:
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!


I see this a lot. Takes half a second to pop a hat on baby's balled head!


My DD was never bald or "balled"
Anonymous
Post 12/17/2013 05:02     Subject: Please cover your baby's heads and ears. It's cold out there!
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!


I see this a lot. Takes half a second to pop a hat on baby's balled head!
Anonymous
Post 12/16/2013 23:53     Subject: Please cover your baby's heads and ears. It's cold out there!
In Minnesota when it warms up to the 20s in winter we all talk about how warm it is. For 37 my little nieces and nephews who live their don't even bother to zip up the hoodies they would wear when running out to the grocery store.

Now if it is windy that's a different matter but generally speaking a dash through the parking lot at 37 is not a problem.
Anonymous
Post 12/16/2013 23:29     Subject: Re:Please cover your baby's heads and ears. It's cold out there!
What's the big deal about exposing a child to the cold anyway? I'm someone who runs between the store and the car without bundling him up. People who feel strongly that the child should be bundled, what are you worried about? Illness, comfort? It's not how you catch a cold, it's not enough exposure to worry about hypothermia and if the child is uncomfortable, s/he'll let you know. So what's the problem?
Anonymous
Post 12/16/2013 23:25     Subject: Please cover your baby's heads and ears. It's cold out there!
Anonymous wrote:Are you my MIL?

She's constantly chasing after my kid and trying to bundle her up.


Seriously, mine gave heat rashes to my LO last summer by overheating with a polyester blanket all wrapped up while I was recovering from my delivery. This despite saying no multiple times, jeez.
Anonymous
Post 12/16/2013 23:20     Subject: Please cover your baby's heads and ears. It's cold out there!
Anonymous wrote:It's 37 degrees. The kid is not going to get frostbite while being transferred from a warm car into a warm store.

Slightly OT: Dear lady who yelled at me to put mittens on my baby--if you know of mittens that she can't remove, please, please, please tell me. As you can see, she has mittens attached to her coat with clips, so I obviously purchased her mittens. I even put them on her hands when we left the house. However, she has figured out how to remove them with her teeth.


When I really need to, for short periods, use socks and put a gentle rubberband...
Anonymous
Post 12/16/2013 22:58     Subject: Re:Please cover your baby's heads and ears. It's cold out there!
Since we all agree on hats, let's talk undershirts.....
Anonymous
Post 12/16/2013 22:55     Subject: Please cover your baby's heads and ears. It's cold out there!
Wow, my baby has multiple heads... And I need to protect those AND his ears? The More You Know.