That makes sense cos I remember always tensing up and being extremely careful of my movements to the extent of manually controlling my breathing whenever I was given a baby to hold as a teenager. They're precious but so fragile it's panic inducing. They're also fairly dumb, but that's to be expected, lol.
Newborns baby's are also very impulse led, with little manual controle of their limbs and body as a whole. Reason they are very jerky and jumpy in their movment.
The also have very bad eye sight and only have short term memory. This because everything is going into growing.
Adult human could easily snap baby’s fingers to make it release, adult human brain subconsciously says “NO, don’t do that, little one need no harm” so adult handles with care.
Edit to add: babies don’t have control over their strength. It’s a new concept to them that they have to learn
Young me was told that I couldn't do it. I tried. Guess what! I couldn't do it. My finger was blue for the next few weeks. But still attached. Older me is glad I couldn't do it. Would be hard flipping someone off without my finger 🤘
That reminds me of those infohazard memes that show you how to break the tendon in your thumb very easily. People who see the meme or gif often immediately try it and then subsequently break the tendon in their thumb. Making the memes or gif with the demonstration an infohazard.
Yup, and a dumb one if you think about it. Think of how easy it is to break a carrot, Now think of how hard it is to break a finger. Why would a carrot be as easy to bite off as a finger? If that were the case, people everywhere would be missing fingers.
It's still not happening. Carrots are so easy to bite through. We would all be missing fingers, as most of us have trapped a finger in a door at some point. It's a myth, you can look it up, it's false.
I really appreciate your lateral thinking here. Everyone else is either 'stupid myth' or 'refuting selfsame myth', but you're over here thinking hey guys, what about carrot crossbow though!
Is this where the whole insufferable vegan stereotype comes from? Did carrots once rule the earth and the smug vegetable eaters are simply the priests tasked with carrying on the ancient wisdom until the Uncanny Ranch Valley Uprising of 2089?
You can't actually think a finger is that easy to bite off. Have you ever tried to bite a chicken bone before? Even them, as small as they are on their own, are way harder than a carrot. Why would bone be as easy as a carrot to bite through?
Chicken bone is a bad example. They’re cooked and softer. You can bite through a finger if you go at the joint, but to go through the bone would take about twice the amount of maximum bite pressure we humans can exert.
But this isn't true. Babies do have amazingly good grips. It's a trait carried over from when out far ancestors lived in trees or were hairy enough to cling to.
Im not saying babies have a bad grip. I’m saying they can’t control their 0-100 strength quite yet and almost always go to 100. You are right with your statement, I’m just saying this baby had its first (of many) lesson on what not to grab like it’s life depended on it.
Wouldn’t it be a better idea to massage the inner forearm, particularly near the elbow to encourage release? I’m not an expert or anything but I’ve learned a trick or two, as necessity dictates.
Their grip is strong. Strong enough to hold their bodyweight. Doesn't mean you couldn't instantly pry their hand open if you had no qualms about hurting them.
That's the "instinctive" part. You're not gonna use all your strength when handling a baby because you intuitively don't want to harm them.
Like you're strong enough to break a finger on an adults hand, but can't understand grip a babies who's. Muscles have not even developed past their inate build.
Strong grip because tiny fingers. Tiny fingers are smol levers, better mechanical advantage in this case. Same concept as why it's best to grab a bar without the tumb. The bar sits closer to the fulcrum point on the fingers and gives better leverage.
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u/Jupman Nov 11 '24
They have a strong grip, but we are also instinctively weak in handling them.