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This Woman Leaves Her Baby To Sleep Alone Outside In Public — But In Her Country, It's The Norm [Denmark]
Buzzfeed via Yahoo ^ | September 30, 2022

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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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: childrearing; denmark
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1 posted on 10/02/2022 1:30:35 PM PDT by grundle
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To: grundle

There must not be many large birds of prey there.

You couldn’t do that in Australia. Dingos.


2 posted on 10/02/2022 1:34:33 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: grundle

Maybe all the democrat run cities bums are actually Danish


3 posted on 10/02/2022 1:36:01 PM PDT by Track9 (You are far too inquisitive not to be seduced…)
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To: Larry Lucido

Shoot. In the USA these days, you don’t even leave your kid alone in the car, lest someone steal the car with your kid in it.


4 posted on 10/02/2022 1:36:06 PM PDT by fr_freak
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To: grundle

Buncha years ago a woman from Northern Europe was arrested in NYC for doing just this...child endangerment was the charge I believe


5 posted on 10/02/2022 1:36:07 PM PDT by Roccus (First we beat the Nazis........Then we defeated the Soviets....... Now, we are them.)
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To: grundle

There was an FR thread years ago about a Danish mother who was arrested for leaving her baby and carriage unattended outside a New York restaurant.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/26/anette-sorenson-denmark-new-york-baby-left-outside


6 posted on 10/02/2022 1:37:39 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: grundle

Unless the baby was guarded by my big dogs, I would not do it.

Interesting article. Thanks.


7 posted on 10/02/2022 1:38:18 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: fr_freak

Yep. See #6.


8 posted on 10/02/2022 1:38:21 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: grundle

We could do it here too, if the bad guys were put in prison and not released back out on the streets without even a slap on the wrist.


9 posted on 10/02/2022 1:41:56 PM PDT by ryderann
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To: grundle

I don’t even let my dog go out to pee by himself


10 posted on 10/02/2022 1:43:32 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: grundle
It’s pretty common in parts of Northern Europe. The demographics are a lot different there than the US though. I expect you would have seen things like that here in the 1970’s and before. Now, no way, you can’t trust anyone.

Japan is another place you could be perfectly comfortable doing something like that.

I really don’t know what has happened to America. There are so many scumbags here now.

11 posted on 10/02/2022 1:45:16 PM PDT by GaryCrow
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To: Roccus

Here’s the story from 1997

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1997/05/14/a-baby-alone-lands-parents-in-ny-jail/5ba88b9b-a323-4b09-b4e7-dc4e9a780ffd/


12 posted on 10/02/2022 1:46:49 PM PDT by Roccus (First we beat the Nazis........Then we defeated the Soviets....... Now, we are them.)
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To: grundle

Its 95% one race nation.


13 posted on 10/02/2022 1:49:08 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Ruling class noticed our total lack of pushback for how the election & Covid was handled.)
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To: grundle

It is lovely to live I. A culturally homogeneous high trust society.

Leftists are poisoning our cuture.


14 posted on 10/02/2022 1:50:50 PM PDT by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives. Leftists are genocidal. )
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To: GaryCrow

I can remember being left outside the A&P to watch my sister in her baby carriage. Doubt if I was more than 4 at the time. This was in Queens, NYC.


15 posted on 10/02/2022 1:52:42 PM PDT by Roccus (First we beat the Nazis........Then we defeated the Soviets....... Now, we are them.)
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To: GaryCrow

I remember babies sleeping in strollers on porches. 50s and 60s and 70s in small towns


16 posted on 10/02/2022 1:52:55 PM PDT by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives. Leftists are genocidal. )
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To: Roccus

That would hwve been late 40s


17 posted on 10/02/2022 1:53:52 PM PDT by Roccus (First we beat the Nazis........Then we defeated the Soviets....... Now, we are them.)
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To: grundle

Not good to post this on Tic toc.

A criminal can locate her, snatch the kid and hold it for ransom.

This has been a PSA.

5.56mm


18 posted on 10/02/2022 2:01:44 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho got to go.)
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To: grundle

I would NOT leave a baby unattended under any circumstances.

just no


19 posted on 10/02/2022 2:01:49 PM PDT by Bobalu (The bear has been poked in the eye..... Now what?)
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To: grundle

Cool thing is; everybody goes home with a different baby every day.


20 posted on 10/02/2022 2:04:13 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐Public hangings will wake 'em up.⭐⭐)
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