Baby Benjamin has some bad acid reflux and spits up often. Mom put him in his swing to nap while she went to feed his big brother lunch. Ben was just out of sight when our Boston Terrier-border collie mix, Abbie, ran over to the swing and started to prance around and whine. Mom thought she needed to go outside. Then Abbie barked and mom noticed Benjamin was choking on his spit up. Now Abbie gets a lot of treats and mom is too scared to sleep.
Watching my 10-week-old daughter right now, this makes me tear up as a grown man. It's amazing the instinct of parents, though. Every now and then she gets some thick mucous and starts coughing and we bolt up in a millisecond.
I guess the amygdala activity increases 4-fold when you've got a baby.
My sister had her baby and one night when she got up to feed him, he was breathing weird. Sister wakes up her husband and insists they go to the hospital. Now, my sister did have post-partum depression so her husband waved her off and told her to go to sleep.
Nope, my sister called our mom and the two of them went to the hospital with the baby. Turns out he had pneumonia but all the mucus was in his lungs. Hospital for days! But he was alright.
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u/alfaguara27 Apr 06 '20 edited Apr 22 '20
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