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[/QUOTE]OMQ! I laughed so hard at the end of that video.
If you believe that… what? You don’t sue to block the plan? Your synopsis doesn’t seem very accurate, incidentally.
I could have sworn I posted this at the time, but…never mind.
I’d just like to provide the contemporary guidelines for infant care in Scandinavia: if the baby is properly dressed and out of direct wind (in a enclosed carriage or whatever) then the cutoff for bringing them outside is -10 degrees centigrade. Not because the exposed face will be in any danger (it won’t), but because any colder than that will be hard for the babies lungs to handle.
Properly dressed is something like at least two layers of thin pure wool or wool blends, as well as the aforementioned flyverdragt, voksipose (or other brand) or a hand-knit driving bag (basically a sweater attached to sleeping bag).
Typicall baby clothes are somethinglikethese. (These are fairly high end brands, if the price seems off).
So a baby will be wearing 1 woolen body without sleeves, one with sleeves, an outer suit with legs, pants(trousers)/socks and a flyverdrakt/sleeping bag/driving bag.
Oh, and all Scandinavian babies get vitamin D supplements from 2 weeks old, and iron supplements from 6 months old, both until 2 years old. (I’d specify “breastfed babies”, but they’re almost all breastfed).
For crafty folks, this is appropriate outerwear for a baby: zzz-jumpsuit
Alright, who’s the clever motherfucker who’ll help me scale that pattern up to, say, a 6-foot tall adult? Because damn.
if you mean it, the pattern is quite basic - you really just need to figure out how many stitches go around your chest, arms and legs, then follow directions as described. It’ll be expensive as hell though 
Alternately, if it doesn’t have to be wool, here you go: OnePiece
If you call that living. 
My son was a winter baby, and breastfed. It was cold that winter, but his doctor said if we could get him outside everyday between 11am and 4pm for at least 20 minutes with his face exposed (as long as the windchill was above something I don’t remember, but she was very specific), we could avoid giving him vitamin D drops. As it happened, he needed a little formula supplement, so for his first five weeks, he got about 4ozs of formula a day, and got some D that way too.
It turned out to be a cold winter, after being a hot summer (which was just really fun when you’re pregnant). When we dressed the boychik to go out when it was below freezing, he was in a soft, short-sleeve onesie, a waffle-knit union suit (long legs and sleeves), socks, a sleeper, and a snow suit. He survived it just fine, and now he likes cold weather. He can play outside in the snow forever. Also, no rickets.
He’s a really big kid, who started on cereal when he was only four months old (fruit & veggies at five, yogurt at six) so he’s never needed any vitamin supplements.
Have you ever been out here? We live pretty damn well out here.
Clearly the cold has gotten to you.
I love the cold and despise hot. So I guess it has.
Kimballkid…we’re all here because we love you and we think you have a problem. We want you to be healthy and safe, and we feel that you need to realize that you have a problem.
Come to the dark side, we have snow!!
Right, see, that’s what we’re talking about.
I love the cold! Why, there were a few weeks last year when not only did I wear a T-shirt, sweatshirt and jacket, I actually zipped the sweatshirt up! (My jacket’s zipper broke 5 years ago; I haven’t felt the need to fix it). It was so cold I had to wear socks indoors!
Ooh, don’t forget the six-hour winter days!
Do me a favour and blow it a bit to the north-east of you. I’m sitting in here in Thunder Bay with three seasons’ passes, lots of hills, but no snow yet. No brrrrr, just GRRRRRRR.
Well, we really don’t have snow yet. We did earlier but it melted right away.
North Dakota is the resting place of Sondre (Auverson) Norheim, the greatest skier ever, bar none. He developed the first heel binding and the first sidecut ski, out of which we now have skis that turn. He gave the world the Telemark turn, named after his home region, and the Christie turn (now know as the parallel turn), named after the location of the first World Skiing Championships. He won the first World Ski Jumping Championships, and he won the first World Skiing Championships. He had to ski a couple of hundred kilometers over three days just to get there.
He was also a loving father. It isn’t too hard to imagine what he would have though of helicopter parenting.