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PancakeTrebuchet@lemmy.world to pics@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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Just got the crib into our first child's nursery, and the cat wasted no time in claiming the territory.

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Just got the crib into our first child's nursery, and the cat wasted no time in claiming the territory.

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  • Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world
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    Hey, I’m sorry to be “that poster” about it, but please consider the dangers of encouraging or even allowing the cat crib access.

    Your infant can’t protect itself from a cuddly cat that could cause suffocation.

    • PancakeTrebuchet@lemmy.worldOP
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      Cheers, and thanks. The baby is still 2 months out, and the cat will not have access to the room once they’re here.

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        Better restrict cat’s access to the room right now. Once it has been allowed there several times it’s much more complicated to untrain that habit.

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      • Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world
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        I said consider it.

        I also have a cat that just plain will lie across my head and go to sleep. All of the studies in the world would not convince me to let that cat sleep in a crib with a neonate.

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        Does it have to be a ‘significant’ number of cases to mention the possibility?

        Edit: Unrelated snopes links aside, turns out it does happen.

        https://www.researchgate.net/publication/16388009_Can_a_cat_smother_and_kill_a_baby

        From their own freaking snopes link:

        It is possible a cat might lie across the face of a sleeping child and thus upon extremely rare instances accidentally cause a death, but that is not the old wives’ tale at hand wherein the cat does so with malice aforethought.

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          • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
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            Exactly which part of ‘cat might sit on an infant’s face’ is improbable and baseless fearmongering? Some of them certainly do it to adults. Don’t bring up autism, that’s a scientific impossibility while this has reasons for being possible. They’re two entirely different things.

            harmful myths

            Would you care to explain how this might be ‘harmful’?

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                Here’s the result of a quick Google. Huh, turns out it is possible…

                https://www.researchgate.net/publication/16388009_Can_a_cat_smother_and_kill_a_baby

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    “Look at me. I am the child now”

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    Congrats on the upcoming new arrival!

    We found success in keeping the cat out by putting a layer of aluminum foil on the crib mattress one day, about a month before the due date. The cat jumped in once, hated it, and couldn’t get out quickly enough. She never tried jumping in again.

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      Cats jumping on tinfoil are proof we’re in the simulation and the AI can still get physics wrong from time to time

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    Thay ceiling is beautiful. I wish more people decorated theirs instead of sticking with plain white

    • PancakeTrebuchet@lemmy.worldOP
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      Thanks! I hope the little dude appreciates it. It was a royal PITA to put up 😆

  • Reef@lemmy.ca
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    Wow that room is beautiful, do you have more photos?

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    That’s a beautiful room, I love the starry theme! I also like the cat poking up from the crib :)

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    He fits.

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    Nice space theme you have going here. Hopefully the newcomer appreciates it too =)

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    I do not see the problem. Crib is for baby. Cat is baby.

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    What is a crib but a large box?

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    It was the child’s crib. It now belongs to the cat.

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