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One of those viral tweets fluttered across my page about a week ago and I can’t stop thinking about it. It basically claimed car seats are no better than a normal seat belt after 2.They linked to this episode of freakanomics.https://ift.tt/cUbXlpE read the transcript but not the studies as I have a newborn and my brain can’t handle that. Is the claim that car seats don’t matter after 2 untrue? How does that stack up to all the claims that your kid should be rear facing as long as possible?I wish there were a flair that didn’t require links. via /r/ScienceBasedParenting https://ift.tt/ycsnefW

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My 10 month old is alternating between being an ENT or a dentist. He also toys with the idea of being a cobbler but I don’t give him much opportunity to play with my shoes! via /r/NewParents https://ift.tt/NFjuyWJ

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Hello! I am a first time mom to a healthy and happy 3.5 month old. She is following the recommended vaccine schedule, however this post is more so referring to other illnesses, not specifically VPDs. As the season for sickness is approaching, I am wondering if I’m doing my baby a disservice by keeping them home and away from large gatherings/populated stores, etc. My husband and I have agreed to not attend our large family holiday gatherings in fear of sickness (lots of school aged children, cannot trust family members to stay home if sick). This of course causes a stir because everyone wants to love on the baby. A family member told me recently her granddaughters never get sick because their mom always took them everywhere and exposed them to everything. I’ve also read that constantly being sick doesn’t actually prime the immune system, it just wears the immune system down. Which is true? Is one better than the other?I definitely don’t want to stunt her immune system but I also want to avoid serious illnesses at all costs while she is so young. Thank you in advance! TLDR: Will not exposing to germs/getting sick hinder my baby’s immune system growth? via /r/ScienceBasedParenting https://ift.tt/h24TCKG

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I wasn’t sure where else to post these stories, so I figured I’d share them here. I’ve been an SAR officer for a few years now, and along the way I’ve seen some things that I think you guys will be interested in. I have a pretty good track record for finding missing people. Most of the time they just wander off the path, or slip down a small cliff, and they can’t find their way back. The majority of them have heard the old ‘stay where you are’ thing, and they don’t wander far. But I’ve had two cases where that didn’t happen. Both bother me a lot, and I use them as motivation to search even harder on the missing persons cases I get called on. The first was a little boy who was out berry-picking with his parents. He and his sister were together, and both of them went missing around the same time. Their parents lost sight of them for a few seconds, and in that time both the kids apparently wandered off. When their parents couldn’t find them, they called us, and we came out to search the area. We found the daughter pretty quickly, and when we asked where her brother was, she told us that he’d been taken away by ‘the bear man.’ She said he gave her berries and told her to stay quiet, that he wanted to play with her brother for a while. The last she saw of her brother, he was riding on the shoulders of ‘the bear man’ and seemed calm. Of course, our first thought was abduction, but we never found a trace of another human being in that area. The little girl was also insistent that he wasn’t a normal man, but that he was tall and covered in hair, ‘like a bear’, and that he had a ‘weird face.’ We searched that area for weeks, it was one of the longest calls I’ve ever been on, but we never found a single trace of that kid. The other was a young woman who was out hiking with her mom and grandpa. According to the mother, her daughter had climbed up a tree to get a better view of the forest, and she’d never come back down. They waited at the base of the tree for hours, calling her name, before they called for help. Again, we searched everywhere, and we never found a trace of her. I have no idea where she could possibly have gone, because neither her mother or grandpa saw her come down.A few times, I’ve been out on my own searching with a canine, and they’ve tried to lead me straight up cliffs. Not hills, not even rock faces. Straight, sheer cliffs with no possible handholds. It’s always baffling, and in those cases we usually find the person on the other side of the cliff, or miles away from where the canine has led us. I’m sure there’s an explanation, but it’s sort of strange.One particularly sad case involved the recovery of a body. A nine-year-old girl fell down an embankment and got impaled on a dead tree at the base. It was a complete freak accident, but I’ll never forget the sound her mother made when we told her what had happened. She saw the body bag being loaded into the ambulance, and she let out the most haunting, heart-broken wail I’ve ever heard. It was like her whole life was crashing down around her, and a part of her had died with her daughter. I heard from another SAR officer that she killed herself a few weeks after it happened. She couldn’t live with the loss of her daughter.I was teamed up with another SAR officer because we’d received reports of bears in the area. We were looking for a guy who hadn’t come home from a climbing trip when he was supposed to, and we ended up having to do some serious climbing to get to where we figured he’d be. We found him trapped in a small crevasse with a broken leg. It was not pleasant. He’d been there for almost two days, and his leg was very obviously infected. We were able to get him into a chopper, and I heard from one of the EMTs that the guy was absolutely inconsolable. He kept talking about how he’d been doing fine, and when he’d gotten to the top, a man had been there. He said the guy had no climbing equipment, and he was wearing a parka and ski pants. He walked up to the guy, and when the guy turned around, he said he had no face. It was just blank. He freaked out, and ended up trying to get off the mountain too fast, which is why he’d fallen. He said he could hear the guy all night, climbing down the mountain and letting out these horrible muffled screams. That story bothered the hell out of me. I’m glad I wasn’t there to hear it. One of the scariest things I’ve ever had happen to me involved the search for a young woman who’d gotten separated from her hiking group. We were out until late at night, because the dogs had picked up her scent. When we found her, she was curled up under a large rotted log. She was missing her shoes and pack, and she was clearly in shock. She didn’t have any injuries, and we were able to get her to walk with us back to base ops. Along the way, she kept looking behind us and asking us why ‘that big man with black eyes’ was following us. We couldn’t see anyone, so we just wrote it off as some weird symptom of shock. But the closer we got to base, the more agitated this woman got. She kept asking me to tell him to stop ‘making faces’ at her. At one point she stopped and turned around and started yelling into the forest, saying that she wanted him to leave her alone. She wasn’t going to go with him, she said, and she wouldn’t give us to him. We finally got her to keep moving, but we started hearing these weird noises coming from all around us. It was almost like coughing, but more rhythmic and deeper. It was almost insect-like, I don’t really know how else to describe it. When we were within site of base ops, the woman turns to me, and her eyes are about as wide as I can imagine a human could open them. She touches my shoulder and says ‘He says to tell you to speed up. He doesn’t like looking at the scar on your neck.’ I have a very small scar on the base of my neck, but it’s mostly hidden under my collar, and I have no idea how this woman saw it. Right after she says it, I hear that weird coughing right in my ear, and I just about jumped out of my skin. I hustled her to ops, trying not to show how freaked out I was, but I have to say I was really happy when we left the area that night.This is the last one I’ll tell, and it’s probably the weirdest story I have. Now, I don’t know if this is true in every SAR unit, but in mine, it’s sort of an unspoken, regular thing we run into. You can try asking about it with other SAR officers, but even if they know what you’re talking about, they probably won’t say anything about it. We’ve been told not to talk about it by our superiors, and at this point we’ve all gotten so used to it that it doesn’t even seem weird anymore.On just about every case where we’re really far into the wilderness, I’m talking 30 or 40 miles, at some point we’ll find a staircase in the middle of the woods. It’s almost like if you took the stairs in your house, cut them out, and put them in the forest. I asked about it the first time I saw some, and the other officer just told me not to worry about it, that it was normal. Everyone I asked said the same thing. I wanted to go check them out, but I was told, very emphatically, that I should never go near any of them. I just sort of ignore them now when I run into them because it happens so frequently. I have a lot more stories, and I suppose if anyone’s interested, I’ll tell some of them tomorrow. If anyone has any theories about the stairs, or if you’ve seen them too, let me know. 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Major mum guilt. I have a 6 month old and toddler and recently went back to work full time, starting at 7am after being up with baby several times each night. I know the recommended coffee limit is 2 cups a day but I feel like I could just lie on the pavement and sleep!! So I often have 3/4 even 5 cups- BUT I am still fully breastfeeding. Does anyone know any studies on the impact of caffeine in breastmilk? If there is a decent scientific basis I will do my best to reduce it.Thanks!! via /r/ScienceBasedParenting https://ift.tt/rWfpLMa

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At what age can a child comprehend that if they throw a toy on the floor (like at a restaurant) that they won’t be able to play with that toy anymore? FTM to a 5 mo. We spend a lot of time with our friends that have an almost 2 yo. When we go to restaurants, the 2 yo continuously throws her toys on the floor and they pick them up and give them to her again. She seems to be able to comprehend a lot of what they say to her even though she can’t respond well. They say, “if you do that one more time, we’re leaving it on the floor.” But then she throws it on the floor, they leave it, she cries, so they pick it up. Rinse and repeat. Obviously I have no idea what it’s like to be a parent of a 2 yo, so I’m genuinely curious what they can comprehend, at what level, and what would be an ideal response in a situation like this. Appreciate it! via /r/ScienceBasedParenting https://ift.tt/iD9d1kc

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Looking for new ideas of things to do with a toddler (just over a year old) around Mississauga or even the GTA. I’ve done parks, picnics, playgrounds, splash pads and petting zoos many times. Curious if anyone has any unique ideas outside of the obvious options. via /r/mississauga https://ift.tt/8PQ7hTO

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