Posted on 10/02/2022 1:30:35 PM PDT by grundle
Annie Samples is a 36-year-old content creator, copywriter, and mother who lives in Denmark with her husband and four kids.
Annie is American, but she and her family moved to Denmark a little over three years ago when the design company her husband works for opened an office there.
I found out about Annie through a video she made that went viral on TikTok. In the video — which now has over 13 million views on the platform — Annie discusses the Danish practice of letting babies sleep alone outside in their strollers.
https://www.tiktok.com/@annieineventyrland/video/7147957022116318470
I decided to reach out to Annie to learn more about this tradition and why people do it in the first place. "I actually had heard a lot about the outdoor naps before I moved here, and I genuinely thought it was common knowledge about Denmark," Annie told BuzzFeed. "Even still, it sounded wild to me and I was pleasantly shocked to see that it actually does happen here. ... I previously attempted it with no success with my third child and sort of gave up on the notion altogether. After my fourth child was born, our visiting nurse stressed the importance of outdoor stroller naps, and that's when I gave it another shot. Outdoor napping is extremely common. Most families do it, and daycare institutions have infants nap outside in strollers as well."
"Some benefits of outdoor sleeping are supposedly that the baby will sleep more deeply — the fresh air is good for their health and immune system — but what my visiting nurse emphasized most to me is that it would help with my stress levels and help the family function better, which I agree with."
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I grew up sleeping outside in the back yard during the summer. It was great
I’m pretty sure it gave my mom a respite from us five kids
I can remember when this was not uncommon in the former United States...
Denmark is a high-trust society. Very uniform. Our country is not. In most parts of the USA your baby would be gone and never seen again or the police would have arrested you.
Then the state would take the baby.
The lack of trust is 100% the fault of the politicians who refuse to put criminals in jail where they belong.
In the 1950's my Mother had a giant American perambulator with about eight inch wheels made of dark blue Naugahyde, including the proverbial black neoprene "rubber baby buggy bumpers." It could hold two toddlers and an infant, which it did in our family. I am sure Mom left it outside the store a few times in Gadsden, AL where I was born.
It got handed down to each of my Aunts and Uncles as needed through the years and was a slight nostalgia trip to see it stored at Grandma's house from time-to-time.
I would agree but I think it was two stages, decades of reluctance or refusal to employ the death penalty, which morphed into outright reluctance or refusal to even prosecute known criminals.
Which is morphing as we speak into freeing criminals who have certainly committed horrible and violent crimes.
This was my father’s belief 25 And this is also mine: Let the corn be all one sheaf— And the grapes be all one vine, Ere our children’s teeth are set on edge By bitter bread and wine.— Rudyard Kipling
Baby napping outside? Yes.
Outside Alone; aka in a public park with Zero Supervision? NO!! Are U kidding me? Are you trying to get rid of the Baby?
So I checked and saw that it was Founded in Manhattan in 1859. RIP A&P.
My mother told me that back in the 1930s-50s mothers used to leave their sleeping babies in strollers parked outside the store while they shopped.
I recall a few times that younger siblings would fall asleep on a car trip and be left in the car until they woke up. No, really!
Maybe they were hoping someone would make off with them.
This was common in the 1970’s and into the 1980’s in Czechoslovakia. I used to see it when visiting my relatives. I don’t think I’ve seen it in my last few visits though. Times change and for all the unpleasantness of a police state, there was a lower level of street crime before freedom returned.
Apparently, they care more about whatever is inside the chained and locked box (electrical?) than babies.
“In Denmark, most people only have a classical ring lock for the rear wheel, but more and more people have begun to fasten their bikes to a fixed object when possible.” https://cyclingsolutions.info/preventing-bicycle-theft/#:~:text=In%20Denmark%2C%20most%20people%20only,typically%20only%20fastened%20at%20night.
I grew up in Colorado. Can’t tell you how many naps I took in the back of my dad’s truck, in the front seat of the same truck, in alfalfa fields, corn fields, horse corrals or on the side of a hill. Where I sleeps, I sleeps.
If you did that around here the raccoons would find it inside an hour and drag it off to eat like they do with roosting chickens or improperly penned ducks. Too many people around here leave food out for their pets or stray cats, feed birds, or feed coons because they are so cute, and the raccoons are always checking for snacks.
Good thing they don’t have many gypsies there, huh?
We were always put outside on the front porch to sleep. In prams, not strollers. Nowadays, forget it. I’m talking about the 50s....someone taking a baby never crossed anyone’s minds.
Clearly, muslims have not reached a certain percentage of the population...yet.
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