Oh my goodness. Now that’s a story that will be retold at family gatherings for many years.
Has this happened to anyone here?
I would have liked seeing how she got out of the crib. LOL Life’s not easy when you’re only 5 ft tall.
Moment five-foot-tall mother tips UPSIDE DOWN while trying to put her 30lb two-year-old son in crib | Daily Mail Online
Warning: clicking on the video in that link crashed my browser and froze up my computer.
Sounds like adobe flash crashed.
I’ve had video lock up my browser. It hasn’t happened to me for a couple years.
That looks totally phony. 5’ is not terribly short. Why would she let her legs go up like that, when the natural instinct would be to try to keep them pointed at the floor? Why wasn’t the side lowered already? Why, when I clicked on the link via my cell phone, was there an offer on the page to pay for submitted video?
You know, not everything you read on the internet is true.
I don’t think it looks phony. Thirty pounds is pretty heavy and awkward to set down if you are stretching out perpendicular to your body and leaning over. Especially if you’re trying to do it slow to not wake the kid. Drop side cribs have been against the law for quite a few years now.
Really? Because we bought one for our granddaughter just last year. Is Bassett making illegal baby furniture?
I found this video of a grandmother falling into the crib. I guess it does occasionally happen to short people.
Cribs have gotten so big. We had a traditional one that was more accessible.
That’s interesting. I was also under the impression these have been illegal for a few years. I have kids 4 and 3 and I don’t remember them being available at that time.
They haven’t been widely available for a long time. I think they only became illegal in the USA recently – an easier move, since they haven’t been available for a long time.
Personally, I was never in a drop-side crib, although we used one for the youngest. I started out in a drawer, with solid sides that meant there was no entrapment hazard at all. I was never in anything with high sides.
That is definitely not the natural instinct. The natural instinct is to do what she did and try to add counterweight by putting your legs backward.
BTW, I do this same maneuver every night to kiss my baby daughter goodnight. I intentionally fall into the crib, kiss her cheek, say goodnight, and do a pushup to get back out while sticking my legs straight backward like in the video.
Her legs are sticking almost completely upside-down, though. If I fell in, I would not just hold my legs upside down like a aerial artist, I’d keep bent at the waist. She’s not even trying.
Surely this isn’t the first time she’s lowered her kid into a crib.
I’m the same height as her and it looks staged to me.
I think this is a one-off over-balance, it’s not general incompetence. We all have been in a position of over- or under-compensating and nearly toppling over before. I’m sure she posted it because it was funny, not because she wanted people to point out how her understanding of physics was below par. Be more objective and have some empathy.