For a second I thought that baby was boiling, but then I remembered Fahrenheit exists 😂
Dropping onions in boiling baby makes more sense.
People need to learn that you need to slow cook baby on low temp. They get chewy otherwise
A story that The Onion would be proud of. Could have been used as a form of self-advertising, too.
You really want to add some rosemary and sage to the sock as well so it’s a proper bouquet garni. Then braise in a slow oven until fork tender.
They probably saved the onions and made a soup.
My child instantly feels better when I supply vitamin TV.
The next time she checked the temperature it was 76F works really good!!
I think its kind of weird everyone just assumes this was posted by a woman, unless I’m missing something. Men are parents too, and they can also be dumb like this.
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Wtf this comment just made me realise I always assume these “natural remedy” posts are done by a female oop
This can’t be the way I find out I’m sexist
It’s not sexism. Your brain naturally attributes probability from things it has seen in the past. The natural remedy of OPs sort is dominated by female sex so your brain just makes natural connection because it wants to be efficient in it’s world building process.
Sexism is when you don’t self reflect on initial thoughts that you do not control and pursue these notions further in thoughts you control or simply refuse this dichotomy all together if you’re a wilful idiot powere by trauma.
That is sexism though because there us no rational reason to believe this individual is a woman just because most of the time it has been a woman doing this in the past.
What you have done is explain why casual sexism exists and why it continues to exist. I don’t think it is bad to have these thoughts as long as you recognize them for their irrational nature and respond accordingly.
I think you’re missing the difference between sexism (or any ism for that matter) with human bias.
There’s a point in every enlightened person’s life when they wake up and realize “Everyone, INCLUDING ME, have ingrained biases developed from years of past experiences.” It’s not good, and we try to recognize it when it happens so that we can improve as humans. But at no point does that become “sexism”; it just human nature and one that we have to be on the lookout for in ourselves.
What becomes sexism (or any ism for that matter ^save Ferris^ ) is when that bias becomes purposeful and targeted. It’s not a bias anymore, it’s been taken and turned into a weapon.
In other words, please lighten up. Running around calling everyone evil sexist nazis because they have a harmless bias is the reason that we end up with reactionary groups like Incels and MAGA.
Harmless bias LOL. No, sexism does not have to be at all intentional, it’s baked into society and culture, it’s still harmful even if you don’t declare you’re a sexist or even know it for that matter.
This is how a lot of systemic racism and sexism persists, yes. But to be sexist, I think it’s the lack of self awareness to check yourself and the things you are doing or a willful disregard for it.
While racism and sexism is taught, I do think it underscores a key aspect of how the human mind works. We all have prejudices because the brain would be overloaded if it couldn’t take historical patterns and apply them to new information and situations. “Being taught” doesn’t necessarily means a person showed them or told them to be sexist or racist, but just being exposed to stereotypes will make the brain take that shortcut in the future.
That also means that we all have to be vigilant to identify them when they occur and challenge them. It also means we as a society need to put up safeguards to protect us from the shortcomings of our species. It’s why DEI is necessary. It’s why hate crime laws need to be on the books and enforced. We need to hold each other as a society to a higher standard than we as an individual could ever be.
Mom groups are definitely a thing, and even where things don’t have to be for moms specifically the mentality still exists. My daughter was a “nano-premie” and was on oxygen for a while. I’m on a group for parents that have to deal with that, and every week or two there will be a post starting with “any moms who _______”
I like to answer those posts and start by asking if dads can also answer (but also give a real answer too!)
It is kind of hard when you try to be an involved dad but then get ignored in different ways
That does sound hard. You deserve recognition and respect and appreciation, I’m sorry you have to deal with that.
Appreciate it. I’m generally able to roll my eyes, make that comment, still help, and move on.
And to be fair, I did make a post in that group about that subject (basically, that dads exist and feel a bit ignored when questions are needlessly directed at “moms”, but understanding that Mom groups have their place in the world too) and the response was overwhelmingly (I believe entirely) positive. And there have since been “and dads” mentioned in posts was well! But there are a lot of people who come in and don’t stay forever.
Child abuse.
Conversely, if you burn your onion while cooking, you can put a few baby slices in the pot to make it go away.
Sock onions, of course, why didn’t I think of that.
If the baby lives, the onion worked. If the baby died, didn’t use enough onion.
God’s plan
If you use this trick repeatedly, temperature may drop way further!
Or… Ya know, you’re full of shit or your thermometer also doesn’t work.
Or the fever happened to come down on its own.
Or they used it wrong
The annoyingly stupid part is that for most fevers that don’t approach the “You need to go to the ER right now” point it’s actually best to simply let it run it’s course and not try to “break” it with drugs since a fever is your body’s own defense mechanism.
But these antivaxxers will do this stupid shit, then go “see it works” and then try to apply it to everything else
102.6 in an infant was er territory I thought
Yeah above 100 is doctor visit time, be it in C or F
In Celsius, 40º+ deserves a hospital visit (35-36º is the usual body temp). If you somehow manage to get it to 100º, please take pictures, I’m pretty sure the body would glow
At 38c you should be calling the doctor and at 39 you should be in the ER.
I’m pretty sure the body would glow
Nah, boiling water doesn’t glow. But it would probably be pretty foamy, from all of the proteins in the boiling blood.
Above 100c I’m not wasting money on a doctor.
Then I sure as hell hope you’ve never been responsible for caring for an infant.
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At 100c it has been dead for a very long time. 63C is medium rare for pork which means most humans should be well cooked at that temp.
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I would have though a baby would be treated more like a brisket and that’s way to little time.
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Yeah, pretty much anything in the triple digits is “call the pediatrician” levels when dealing with babies. Babies’ immune response is more focused on accepting immunizations from breast milk, and it will basically try to integrate things that have been filtered through mom first. The default response isn’t straight to “kill it” but rather “study it so we can protect against it later.” So babies’ immune systems really aren’t prepared for a full blown infection, because it won’t jump to actually fighting the infection until it is already pretty bad. If their temp is in the triple digits, it’s usually a sign that they caught something that didn’t already get filtered through mom’s immune system.
For infants it is usually recommended to seek treatment from your pediatrician for a temp over 100.4°F. (See link)
Gotta love that metric-conversion decimal dust.
100.4 F is 38 C which is the actual measurement.
In defense of Fahrenheit, the resolution for human relevant temperatures is higher. Theoretically ideal for medical settings.
But not if you use whole number Celsius and just convert to Fahrenheit.
