३० जानेवारी, २०१५

Did you know how alarming it is for the baby when you drive the car through a tunnel?

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The reactions are so strong and so similar. Why? Because they have no idea what is happening... or because their trip through the birth canal is so recent? Am I going to be emerging into a completely different life?

३३ टिप्पण्या:

Quayle म्हणाले...

"Am I going to be emerging into a completely different life? "

Yes. New Jersey.

Curious George म्हणाले...

Because they have no idea what is happening (Yes)... or because their trip through the birth canal is so recent? (No)

Quayle, funny! ^

Original Mike म्हणाले...

How is this different than experimenting on cats?

richlb म्हणाले...

I have noticed the same thing with car washes and babies.

Scott M म्हणाले...

Showed that one to my kids a couple nights ago. When they asked me what the babies were all thinking, all I could come up with was, "Oh, no...not again!"

tim maguire म्हणाले...

It's possible that reaction is just fascination, but it sure looks like alarm.

Bob Boyd म्हणाले...

A hard wired fight or flight response to a sudden shadow falling over them? Dogs and cats do it too. Even a fly will flee when a shadow covers it. I'm glad flies don't turn and attack instead.

MayBee म्हणाले...

Come on. The birth tunnel experience would be a completely different sensory experience.

MayBee म्हणाले...

I bet they feel the car tunnel air pressure change in their ears.

Vet66 म्हणाले...

It could also mean that Mom is going to have a diaper change in the near future. The baby's diaper that is.

Ann Althouse म्हणाले...

I think the real lesson is that babies need a calm environment. Flashing lights and big shifts from light to dark are really upsetting.

Note that the bright light does not make the baby squint or close its eyes. It makes the baby open its eyes very wide (with lots of white showing above the iris, indicating fear).

Ann Althouse म्हणाले...

@Curious George Oh, really?!

PB म्हणाले...
ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.
David म्हणाले...

Some of the reactions look like fear, terror even. Others are more like awe and fascination. Personality may be revealing itself early.

MadisonMan म्हणाले...

Not shown in the video: Babies who had a different reaction.

Selection bias.

Gabriel म्हणाले...

My son loved tunnels as a baby and still loves them as a toddler.

He hated the car wash and found it frightening.

Laslo Spatula म्हणाले...

Early signs of Vagina Fear. Thank goodness the tunnel does not have teeth.

I am Laslo.

Gabriel म्हणाले...

Incidentally when my son was born his fetal heart rate monitor showed that his heart beat remained steady even as his head was being squeezed through the birth canal.

Once he was out, and he got injections, THEN his rate went up (and he screamed of course).

I would argue though that he didn't really feel fear, as an adult uses the word, until he was about one.

I learned this from his immunizations. Babies don't hold still, so they pretty much stab a baby in the thigh to give them an injection. He would always yell AFTERWARD, and then he was immediately soothed.

But once he got to be about one, the yelling was accompanied by shaking and crying that didn't stop for several minutes afteward, which I interpreted as he was old enough to understand what had just happened, including my role in it.

Known Unknown म्हणाले...

Tunnels are a microaggression against the youngest and weakest of humanity and should abolished in favor of over-mountain catapults.

Wince म्हणाले...

I saw the same reaction when I brought a baby to a tittty bar.

'TreHammer म्हणाले...

Laslo Spatula said...
Early signs of Vagina Fear. Thank goodness the tunnel does not have teeth.

I am Laslo.

1/30/15, 8:13 AM

...vagina dentate...:-)...

'TreHammer म्हणाले...

...sorry about the spelling...vagina dentata...

sane_voter म्हणाले...

@EDH
I saw the same reaction when I brought a baby to a tittty bar.

The tears come when they realize all those big titties hold not one drop of milk.

mikee म्हणाले...

Generic startle reactions in babies are generic.

What I like are reactions of small children to experiences completely novel to them. A child seeing its own shadow for the first time - that is priceless.

Big Mike म्हणाले...

Or the person who made the video deliberately chose clips where the babies had similar reactions.

SteveR म्हणाले...

"The Tunnel Monologues"

Oh the horror!

Johanna Lapp म्हणाले...

Every morning when we wake up, we're emerging into a completely different life.

The babies in the tunnels just let us know that they haven't forgotten that fact.

FullMoon म्हणाले...

EDH said... [hush]​[hide comment]

I saw the same reaction when I brought a baby to a tittty bar.


Wow, That was you? What a small world. I'm the guy who helped you put your baby in the carseat when you left because you were to drunk to do it unassisted, go figure.

p.s. Under new management now, ok for you to come back.

Michael म्हणाले...

Their eyes fly open to adjust to the sudden darkness. We associate wide eyes with fear which I doubt they are experiencing. Car washes are a different story. My kids all hated them.

kzookitty म्हणाले...

For some reason the title of this post reminded me of this old SNL skit.

kzookitty

Rusty म्हणाले...

"Did you know how alarming it is for the baby when you drive the car through a tunnel?"


No.

MrCharlie2 म्हणाले...

No, they're looking at the lights

MrCharlie2 म्हणाले...

Let's have an experiment: different reaction from C-sections babies?