People judge what is risky for their children differently than I do sometimes.
Of course, they’re wrong, but it still happens.
I used to do push-ups with my daughter on my back when she was little, or go for walks with my son clinging to one leg, but that’s completely different.
Regards,
Shodan
Eh. Not something I would do, but I don’t really care if other people do. The number one most dangerous thing you can possibly do to a kid is drive it somewhere, and yet people take their kids on unnecessary car trips all the time.
As a former gymnast and occasional yoga practitioner, this doesn’t look very risky to me. Also, I’ve had infants who didn’t want to be put down. I used that time to read the SDMB, but maybe strapping them on for yoga would have been more productive.
That would only be fair if the bear had 5 babies strapped to it.
The baby being upside down too is what bothers me. You can do that for much longer for yourself than you should with a baby. And it is more risky than a lot of things. Many not throwing the kid up in the air, but I’d not do that either. (The leg flying thing is done on a bed, usually. And it doesn’t last as long as a yoga pose.)
I know for sure that I’d never put anything that even looks like it might be bad for the baby on Facebook. At best I’m feeding the gossip machine. At worst, it gets shared among friends of friends of friends and goes viral, where less nice people will find out.
I think it’s fine. She appears to be quite capable, and honestly you’re a lot more likely to fall down when you’re walking somewhere on autopilot than when carefully concentrating on a particular movement. The closest I’ve come to falling/crushing my baby was not climbing mountains, it’s walking through the house and tripping over the toys he leaves all over everywhere.
Babies that age want to be right next to you pretty much all the time, and the way you keep your sanity is to strap 'em on and go live your life.
The baby is upside down for all of 18 seconds in that video.
This is my go-to answer too. Is doing x with a kid dangerous? Yeah, but 90% of the danger is the 20 minute car trip to get there.
Think about how many people put their kid in the car seat and go for a drive to help it get to sleep.
Cite? Because I’d expect the reverse. Babies are much smaller than adults, and therefore the pressure difference between the top and bottom of a baby will also be much smaller. Similarly, babies aren’t at as much risk from falls as adults are: A baby that falls onto the ground from a standing position isn’t falling nearly as far as an adult who does the same thing, and they’re not hitting with as much energy.
And this lady has to do something with the baby. Is she supposed to just leave the kid unattended in a crib while she engages in her leisure activities? Give up all of her leisure activities entirely to tend to the baby 24/7? Is what she’s doing really any worse than any of the alternatives?