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- EdmontonEh, on 09/08/2008, -1/+26I am going to be a Dad for the first time in about 4 months... Dugg for stuff I didn't know!
- DickyT83, on 09/09/2008, -1/+16"During his first week outside the womb, a typical baby sleeps for 16.6 hours out of every 24 in as many as 18 separate naps. By the age of six months, his total sleep time is 14 hours, and by the age of five, it is down to 12 hours per day."
Hmm, pretty reminiscent of my current sleep cycle. - bodegit, on 09/09/2008, -2/+15For a second, I thought this article was going to be about the power potential of human babies. Like, as a clean, alternative source of energy, running off babies.
- drunkinbda, on 09/09/2008, -0/+12heres another tip ive heard from peeps since my roommates are goin through this. Apparently the crowning is not "a beautiful thing", and you should stay by the mothers head >.
- Azohko, on 09/09/2008, -1/+7Top Right baby = Hilarious
- smokeylizard, on 09/08/2008, -2/+7Very interesting, babies are amazing.
- Jashobeam5, on 09/09/2008, -0/+5Baby=beautiful.
Birth=cover your eyes and shiver in horror.
EdmontonEh- Congrats on being a new Dad. I hope you have skin like steel since everyone and their brother are going to be attacking you for every choice you make as a parent. Start early by telling people you are adult enough to make your own parenting choices. And always remember, back to sleep saves lives. - Kyrgizion, on 09/09/2008, -1/+6I know who you're voting for.
- inactive, on 09/09/2008, -0/+5I feel bad for the mom who had to give birth to the 22 pound baby.
- pinchduck, on 09/09/2008, -0/+4Congrats!
- ParanoydAndroid, on 09/09/2008, -0/+4No. They're saying no matter how high you estimate the importance of their first two years, you still won't be too high.
Mathematically: If we have the importance of a baby's first two years measured numerically as a function F of whatever factors your wish to throw in there, then you could say that for any arbitrary integer K, F will, at some point on its curve exceed K and never go below it again. I.E. the growth of F is unbounded. - DeadBabySoup, on 09/09/2008, -0/+4Wind farm's generate only half as much power as wind farms with babies strapped to the turbines, true story
- charlietuna, on 09/09/2008, -0/+3And the husband who had revisit the scene of the crime later. I hope she took up yoga afterwards.
- sloonark, on 09/09/2008, -0/+3Aren't most of these things common knowledge?
- OfNumbers, on 09/08/2008, -1/+4The human is the most defenseless creature during infancy. And why did they use a photoshop baby?
- zip000, on 09/09/2008, -0/+3I became a father about 8 months ago. I was really planning to stay away from the business end, but it really wasn't possible to not see stuff, so I just went ahead and looked.
The crowning really isn't all that bad.
What's bad is the blood and crap. There will most likely be crap and blood coming out too, so be aware of that.
Also, the umbilical cord is really nasty and alien looking. I had no idea! I was expecting it to look an odd mauve color and be veiny...but no. It is silver colored...yes. Silver. Weird. - bobbknight, on 09/09/2008, -1/+4Huh, interesting.
How come this was not submitted by Mr babyman? - inactive, on 09/09/2008, -1/+4Babies would kill us in a heartbeat if they could, in order to get their way
- Azerael, on 09/09/2008, -1/+4Yeah, I'm voting for the tooth fairy too.
- daverod, on 09/09/2008, -0/+2I think it's safe to say that most of the babies pictured are ***** themselves silly.
- shortyjacobs, on 09/09/2008, -0/+2"Like a wet Saint Bernard coming in through the cat door."
- tennman, on 09/09/2008, -0/+2And any parent knows that the top middle baby is pinching a loaf.
- zhaowei190, on 09/09/2008, -0/+2oh,it is a great job,babies are amazing.
- tennman, on 09/09/2008, -0/+2poTAYto, poTAHto
- Sebach, on 09/09/2008, -1/+3"Oh babyman, you're amazing."
- SRCR, on 09/09/2008, -0/+2Great article. I'm the proud father of three, so I was already aware of a number of these things, but there a several I wasn't aware of.
- shortyjacobs, on 09/09/2008, -0/+2potato, potato
(that saying doesn't work nearly as well in print...) - PresidentSoup, on 09/09/2008, -0/+2He meant the baby in the top right. It's the one used in the photoshop to look evil/angry.
- pcadelman, on 09/09/2008, -1/+2Very informative article.
- kishosingh, on 09/09/2008, -1/+2Hi, Baby! These babies are really amazing.
- ldkronos, on 09/09/2008, -1/+2When the title is "Oh Baby You're Amazing " and the description starts with "Zoologist Desmond Morris admits" I was a bit worried about where this was going.
- magamiako, on 09/09/2008, -1/+2I read this assuming that we had learned something new key to a baby's self survival compared to babies of other animals. I was sorely disappointed.
- occasus, on 09/09/2008, -1/+2"Evolution has armed the infant with an irresistible appeal"
No, evolution has armed adults (not me though, strangely enough) with a will to care for infants, whos features already serve other purposes. - Albumen, on 09/09/2008, -2/+3Intelligent Design is nothing more than a manufactured pseudo-scientific theory created as a toehold to get Creationism taught in schools.
From Wikipedia:
Intelligent design is the assertion that "certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection." It is a modern form of the traditional teleological argument for the existence of God, modified to avoid specifying the nature or identity of the designer. The idea was developed by certain United States creationists who reformulated their argument in the creation-evolution controversy to circumvent court rulings that prohibit the teaching of creationism as science. Its primary proponents, all of whom are associated with the U.S.-based Discovery Institute, believe the designer to be the God of Christianity. Advocates of intelligent design argue that it is a scientific theory, and seek to fundamentally redefine science to accept supernatural explanations.
While I don't disagree with parts of this idea, I would never support or endorse it because its raison d'etre, in its current form, is as a stepping stone for Creationism in schools. - shortyjacobs, on 09/09/2008, -0/+1Evolution has failed you, my friend
- fatas, on 09/09/2008, -2/+3God damn babies, they think they are better than us.
Uppity would be the correct word. - Jashobeam5, on 09/09/2008, -1/+2You have never read Genesis apparently. We were created perfect. We are not perfect now due to our own choices.
- inactive, on 09/09/2008, -0/+1I'm happy to see Desmond Morris isn't wearing that hideous comb-over anymore. I used to watch his shows and think "if he's so savvy about anthropology and human quirks, why does he try to hide his baldness in such a stupid fashion?"
- inactive, on 09/09/2008, -2/+2Just because I mention Intelligent Design, doesn't mean you know for whom I'm voting. I don't even know that, so if you want to tell me, that would be really helpful.
- twoyups, on 09/09/2008, -0/+0"Oh baby, you're amazing, man."
My parents smoked reefer. - inactive, on 09/09/2008, -1/+1Dont know what the next stage in baby evolution would be??
- dianebl, on 09/09/2008, -2/+2I don't think those are as photoshopped as you think (touchups maybe). I've seen babies that look like all of those.
- Gforze, on 09/09/2008, -3/+3It most certainly does not make me want to attribute the wonders of nature to some imaginary friend of yours.
- inactive, on 09/09/2008, -5/+5If someone 'designed' the human body, they weren't very intelligent because the design is flawed. The lower back problems many, many humans suffer because of the awkward shape of the load-bearing spine, for instance, which clearly has evolved from horizontal to vertical. The smooshed-up sinus cavities, that in animals are larger and form a snout, in us cause numerous problems for people due to lack of drainage. And of course the appendix. There are numerous other examples of flaws in the human body, the narrowness of the birth-canal due to hips in many women which in history have caused the deaths of babies *and* mothers during birth is surely not an example of a beneficent all-knowing Designer who cares for his creations, rather an incompetent bungler. He couldn't come up with a better system? What a dumbass.
If 'God' (or some other bio-engineer out there in the sky) designed it, then he is a ***** idiot.
As Frank Zappa once said, if God made us all to be just like him, and we're dumb, then GOD is DUMB (and maybe a little ugly on the side). - inactive, on 09/09/2008, -1/+0That's hilarious.
- xbxoxy1, on 09/09/2008, -3/+2cause i'm a prom night dumpster baby...
- munna80, on 09/09/2008, -5/+1"But the importance of a baby's first two years cannot be overestimated." - don't they mean "underestimated"?
- inactive, on 09/09/2008, -9/+4All those babies are ugly to me. 99.9999999% of babies are ugly at that age.
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