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Nordic napping

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suedehead · 22/02/2013 08:37

So, I spotted this one this morning:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21537988

Whilst at first you may think 'blimey', I can actually see the logic! Anyone tried this? Do you reckon it leads to healthier children?

Are we all just paranoid about someone nicking our babies...!?

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5madthings · 22/02/2013 19:06

Lol at flying bears honey

babyboomersrock · 22/02/2013 19:13

I'm just smiling - wryly - at the idea of my being a Relaxed Parent. I did put my babies outside to sleep, but I'm a big worrier. I rarely took my eyes off mine when they were small, and I'm the same with my grandson.

Incidentally, I'd never put him (grandson) in the garden to sleep when I'm looking after him - because a) his parents don't do it and b) his pram is too flimsy to be warm enough.

giraffesCantFlipPancakes · 22/02/2013 19:16

I often snuggle kids up in very warm clothes, blankets etc and go out for a long walk while they nap, similar I guess.

TheBigJessie · 22/02/2013 19:17

It's going to be the subject of some rentagob celebrity's next article, I know it. All about her superior parenting, and how she was never stiflingly clingy.

Perhaps Katie Hopkins could do it? Staggering hypocrisy hasn't been a problem thus far. Grin

It will become this trendy, apparently new, controversial thing. Sorry, I mean, on-trend, naturally. It's already got a fancy alliterative name, coined by some journalist. It's not Nordic Napping. It's the baby sleeping in the pram, while the pram is outside! The whole reason people buy prams is in order to take the baby outside, in the first place.

Oh, and another thing. Oi, give me my PC back! I had a rhythm going!

CheerfulYank · 22/02/2013 19:19

The first temp mentioned (-5C) isn't really that cold! That's what it is today and DS and I have been out and about all day.

I never left him to sleep outside as it just didn't occur to me, but I always brought him out in all weathers.

recall · 22/02/2013 19:19

Mum said her GP told her to do it when I was a Baby, and her MW said don't. She would shove me out when he was due to call, and then quickly bring me in for when the MW arrived Grin

CheerfulYank · 22/02/2013 19:21

But then again my dad made us bundle up and go play in -30 and 40, so my perception may be skewed. :)

sapphirestar · 22/02/2013 19:21

DDs nursery does this with the younger children. I was horrified when it was first mentioned to me, even though I could see the logic in it. After picking her up a few times seeing her properly snuggled and toasty warm fast asleep in one of those old fashioned prams, it didn't bother me. She always slept well in the fresh air, this was also the awful 2009/2010 winter that someone else mentioned.
This was in a secure area that only staff can get to though, I would never have just stuck her outside in my back garden!

LondonBus · 22/02/2013 19:23

My mother strongly believed I should put DS1 outside in his pram for a nap when he was a new born. She told me all her babies had slept outside for naps. (They were all summer born babies, though by the time winter came, they would have been 6 months)

She used to get DS1 and stick his head out of the window so he could experience fresh air. Hmm I did used to take him for walks in the park, ect - if you're out walkingfor 1.30 hrs, it's the same as leaving a baby outside in the gardenfor that long I suppose, but it's not something I would do.

TheBigJessie · 22/02/2013 19:34

i wasn't being evangelical. someone mentioned foxes and cats (was it you? i dont know) and i just said raincover as that's what i would do if i was concerned about cats or foxes getting at the baby. i'm not saying a raincover would win a fight against a starving fox but it's certainly going to stall the fox and in my situation i would have definitely seen/heard the fox trying to get the raincover off or tearing it so would have been out there before it got near the baby. i wasn't saying it's safe to leave your baby by the mouth of a fox's den (is that the word?) overnight with only a raincover for protection.

I don't think you're ostentatious. Smile however, I will be watching and if I see a lifestyle piece on parenting with your name as the byline, I'll... Whinge on the internet some more, just you see if I don't!

Foxes could have been me. I distinctly remember wowing that I would swear at anyone who asked me about "Nordic Naps" and I probably said so in the thread. (For fox's sake, it's like people calling me a baby wearer! It's a. Baby. In. A. Sling.) And yeah, it's a foxes' den.

SamraLee · 22/02/2013 19:37

I also have a daughter that sleeps on me for two hour stretches, however I do not have any other children. My daughter tends to get better sleep when she is with me because if she starts to wake up, I can quickly soothe her back to sleep. Even if you can see your baby, can you hear them and respond to them quickly? If my baby was in the room with me and flipped over or stopped breathing I would notice much faster with her being in the room with me. I can (and do) check on her every few minutes. I'm a bit of a nervous person though and perhaps if I have more children I will be more at ease with doing things I wouldn't consider doing now.

TheBigJessie · 22/02/2013 19:38

*evangelical

*vowing.

As you were.

shockers · 22/02/2013 19:43

I sleep much better with the window open, even in winter, so I imagine that children sleep better with fresh air too.

Booyhoo · 22/02/2013 19:44
Grin
SoggySummer · 22/02/2013 19:45

We used to live in the Scottish Highlands and I recall being advised by my Dr and HV to put baby outside for a nap. I did this daily summer/winter (not in the wet though). DD would be wrapped up warm and put out in the back garden in her pram for her nap. I used to then keep an eye out the kitchen window whilst I prepared the evening meal or ironed or something else.

shockers · 22/02/2013 19:46

A foxes' den is called an 'earth' btw!

Jux · 22/02/2013 19:47

Standard practice for centuries. My mum did it with us, her mum did it with her and her siblings, goes back generations.

Nothing Swedish about it.

TheBigJessie · 22/02/2013 19:50

Shockers I stand corrected!

shockers · 22/02/2013 19:52

I only know because it was in a baby picture book the DCs had Grin.

JenaiMorris · 22/02/2013 19:52

I'm feeling quite broody now.

I could happily sit here with a baby snoozing on me. I suspect I'm looking at the past through rose tinted spex though...

Wink
ssaw2012 · 22/02/2013 19:54

The parents put sensible clothes on their children. I have hardly ever seen babies wearing hwts in cold or windy weather here.

Booyhoo · 22/02/2013 19:57

me too jenais! i loved those early days with long walks with the pram and cosy cuddles while older ds was at school.

thegreylady · 22/02/2013 20:28

We were always told to put our babies ouside in all weathers.[70's] As long as baby was well wrapped up and protected from rain/wind/sun they had their naps outside.I brought mine in if it was raining but most didn't.

JenaiMorris · 22/02/2013 20:53

hang on a minute grey - there were no raincovers in the 70s.

All those rainsoaked babies! ver fellow 70s borns

JenaiMorris · 22/02/2013 20:54

The > is in the wring place

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