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My brother had a kid and I always feel like some out of touch old man when we talk about it. Once he told me todlers can only have distilled water and I had to stop myself from going “Back in my day, my parents gave me tap water and I turned out fine!”
I thought distilled water was bad for humans to consume as it leeches nutrients from you?
That’d be deionized water, I think…
Nope, distilled water has nothing, no minerals or anything else, including ions. Deionized water is also not the best for consumption.
But distilled is perfectly safe to drink… it just tastes weird from the lack of minerals and other stuff.
For once, yes. But exclusively? It’ll extract minerals from your body, causing health issues.
Source?
Osmosis
Can’t find it right now, lots of articles online about electrolyte imbalance causing issues, but none linked to an actual source.
I’ve been exclusively drinking distilled water for half a decade.
It’s fine. Turns out food is also full of minerals and shit.
Especially shit.
I thought that it was deionized water, not distilled water that strips your body from minerals
Neither do that. It’s a complete myth.
What. That can’t be true. Maybe there’s some advantage, like less fluoride etc. But it’s not true they can’t drink rap water…
Maybe they live in Flint Michigan 🤷♂️
Well, sure, not all tap water is potable for adults either. But giving special water to toddlers sounds like overzealous parenting. I rather give tap water, which is totally safe here, than water from a plastic bottle.
I was just being facetious lol.
Not everything that is safe for adults is safe for little ones. Honey, for example, has to be boiled.
While boiling should work the medical recommendation is no honey at all until 1y.
Babies, babies can’t have tap water.
~6 months you start with cooled boiled water.
~12 months you can move onto tap water.
That also depends on where you live and on the quality of the tap water. Doctor here now recommend you to use tap water also for formula - without boiling it first.
wait, how did babies back in the day (~1000s years ago) survive?
Sporadically
By and large, they didn’t
Breast milk
You have 10 or 15 kids and three or four of them will tough it out enough to grow up. There’s a reason the population exponentially exploded around the time antibiotics and vaccines were invented.
Make baby drink boiling water so they’re cool. Got it.
todlers can only have distilled water
I’m pretty sure that’s unhealthy (lack of minerals)
That is a myth. Food is the major source for nutritional mineral intake, and purified water does not have any weird “mineral stripping” effect on the body
you don’t get your minerals from water, you get them from what you eat.
You can drink distilled water if you compensate for the possible demineralization.
If you think that by drinking distilled water, you’re missing out on all the forever chemicals and pesticides; you can still go lick a car tire and be done with it.
Where would that be? Africa?
That’s only if you haven’t blessed the rains down in Africa.
All I’ve learned from this tread is that people have some very strange beliefs…
Maybe talk to your DR instead of trusting what people say online.
But I listened to 90 seconds of a podcast from my favorite fitness influencer, so basically I have an MD now, right?
Clean your ice machine unless you like to consume mold
What if I don’t consume ice?
Clean your mold machine then
So why are mothers expected to just figure things out on their own? We humans have women living way past fertile age because they were important for children, and suddenly we decided we don’t need grandma’s help passing along generational knowledge and helping first time mothers. Grandma/Grandpa are supposed to be free and focus on helping the parents so they learn and don’t make mistakes because they don’t know anything.
And community too. It’s so isolated. Makes me sad, and afraid to have children.
Let’s be real, the whole “only mom and dad are supposed to FAFO on their own” is an extremely stupid societal expectation. Humans were never meant to live as isolated animals, always in groups
I know right. I don’t see why countries promote this kinda individualism and expect people to have children.
It’s easier for them to control large scale populations if those populations don’t have a strong social structure
Some things you really do just have to learn by experience, but there is no reason to withhold knowledge that can help someone be better or do something easier.
YouTube has converted “sharing knowledge” to “monetization”, so no one helps unless they’re getting something back for it.
When you’re planning on having kids, or pregnant, your health care providers will recommend you take some parenting classes. There’s ways to learn, don’t let your parents not being there for you stop you. You will also likely get recommended to get a doula and midwife.
It’s not the same. For starters, none of it is free. Like every other aspect of capitalism, it disproportionately affects the poor. Also, I don’t know about you, but I would never be able to trust a stranger as much as my own family. And the family is also missing out. It’s so rewarding to raise a baby. I was involved in raising many of my nieces and nephews, and it was so great. Just interacting with kids is a beautiful thing, and a wonderful stress reliever. (I know not everyone likes babies, but many do.) I know that there’s some real threat of perverts, but the fact that babies are pretty much isolated from the society is not great for their growth.
Free where I live.
And why do you think the family still can’t be involved? Your parents likely don’t know everything, and there’s recent discoveries to know about too. Even with family support, you should still do all the above as well. Prepare yourself, don’t expect others to always be there.
Lotta people lose their families
To christianity, fascism, just being personally shitty
Edit: oooooh downvoting. Don’t want to be reminded how christianity shatters families?
In the Netherlands, “kraamverzorgenden” come by the house of new parents every day for ~the first week to show you the ropes, and just in general to help with chores and/or entertaining brothers and/or sisters.
What does “kraamverzorgenden” mean? In my country that’s always a woman and is called “grandma” but in a diminutive or loving style or a pet name for grandma. Basically “gammy” or something to that effect.
It roughly means “someone who takes care [of the new family] in a newborn situation”.
Thank you, @otter@lemmy.ca, for showing a perfect example of what a post should look like.
- The title has the name of this particular comic strip and the name of the comic/author.
- The post has the original image for full quality.
- The description includes a link to the specific page of the author’s website for this strip.
I award you with the highest medal I can bestow:
Thank you so much for this medal, I will cherish it 😁
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you don’t check your brain’s file system regularly?
They will never suspect
I once discovered that my moka pot had an industrial grease stuck to it in an area that is almost impossible to clean. I used it so many times before finding that out…
I read the cat mommy’s voice in Princess Caroline’s voice.
A side-effect of capitalism is the destruction of community. Back in the day when nuclear families weren’t the only kind of family possible, first-time parents leart all of this from their in-laws. But now they need to take parenting classes.
I’m from semi-rural India, and it worked that way when I was a kid, but things are starting to change there as well.
Ah yes the famous learning curve of having to READ the INSTRUCTION BOOKLET of the things you buy
Land sakes ahead, HOW WILL WE MANAGE TO COPE WITH IT ALL
The worst this is that it’s not even a READING thing.
Its a CARING thing.
God-damn, it’s your fucking baby. You wanted it? you should have turned since conception into a linear algebra organic machine, devoted solely to calculating solutions for MIGHT DIE scenarios for your baby, applying n dimensional matrices to explore possibility space
Within the first few years, you should have been able to calculate most obvious scenarios (choking hazards, sand pits, piranhas, etc)
That frees up time to calculate the utmost edge cases ( wormhole traveling, memetic incursions, local brane collapse, and so on)
If you are smart about it, you can find an optimal stock selection strategy algorithm within P-Space
You should print the output in binary tho
You have no kids and probably a man because I bought many sippy cups for my boys and they don’t come with instruction booklets. Most havs if you lucky a tag with no instructions on cleaning them. So shut the fuck up. Besides its a comic and funny and those of us with kids can relate.
