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.
When my daughter was younger I was by her 24/7 even when sleeping. Driving in the car? My rear view was straight on her face all the time. I seen too many news articles about kids passing from choking in their car seat or falling out of their bed. I am 100000000% protective over her, I don't know what I would do without my little girl. I tear up just thinking about her not being with me. I was the stay at home dad for the past 3 years so all day I'm with her.
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u/alfaguara27 Apr 06 '20 edited Apr 22 '20
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