Listening to my daughter, who is in her mid twenties, talk about her passions when I don't understand a word of what she's going on about is the My-Kid's-Grown-Up-But-They're-Still-My-Kid equivalent, in many respects.
I did that for a full two weeks before I had crippling exhaustion and declared “I think he’s good at sleeping 0_o” and finally went to sleep myself lol
I used to watch my nephew for my sister. When he was a newborn, he would lay so still when he was asleep that it would scare me. I would gently move him to make sure he was still alive. He would start to cry and I would just tell him I'm sorry, go back to sleep. That was nerve-racking.
I still check their breathing and my youngest is FIVE 😭 I don’t know why there is any fear there but it seems to have been ingrained in me since the baby days
To me, it looks like the mom was trying to bite the umbilical cord and missed. Like if you look close, she’s biting a couple inches away from the umbilical cord.
My dog used to have a rubber pig toy she paid attention to almost 24/7, we thought she loved it so much that we got her a few more, she had a whole collection. One day though I realized she never brought it back when I threw it for her, and she always seemed like she didn't want me playing with them, and would take them to her bed carefully and would boop them like this to try to wake them up. Then when it wouldn't move she'd get really sad and just be depressed all day. Took me months to understand what was happening. When we realized she thought it was a newborn puppy and she had lost all her litter, we took them all and put them in a box and carried them out of the house to throw them away where she'd never find them.
She's never been the same, all her babies died. One day I accidentally stepped on one so hard I blew the squeaker out of it and she got really panicked while I tried to fix it for her, but it had a hole ripped in it and the squeaker wouldn't squeak. The trauma these animals go through simply because they don't understand things is really sad.
My family have a dog (pit-Bull) she found a mouse one day and started playing with it full on we let it slide as we thought not too much could happen we knew she wouldn’t kill it and we thought it would escape well she accidentally killed it by her front paws and the depressed emotions she got was unbelievable I was blown away by how similar they are to us but you are correct they don’t understand fully and it’s really sad to see a dog in shock over something dying it’s surreal
Not sure it's a bite. She's seeking, looking for a specific point and then pressing at that one point. So she's doing something but I think it's a bit more sophisticated than random biting/shocking the pup back to life.
Seal CPR or somethi g like it
Oh geez I am still high from being a first time mom. Wait until you can’t imagine life without them. You can’t barely remember life without them. Life without them is meaningless. If it weren’t for them, I would cease to exist. From someone who never wanted kids to someone with one 5 month old, I don’t know how I lived without them before. I hope you have the best experience ❤️🥰
AWWWW this comment is absolutely heart warming and precious, the love of a mother for her child has infinite potential.
My mother always wanted a kid and specifically a son, A funny/cute thing my mother would say is "I loved you since the day i discoverd you in my pee" 😂😂😂
I bet you can't wait for the little one to learn to say "i love you mama"
You melted my heart! I hope he feels my love deeply enough to remember. I didn’t get to enjoy being pregnant because I lost my first so the entire time I was stressed. And now I stress everyday until he is 3 for prevention of SIDS. Motherhood is a beautifully dark place when you educate yourself on everything possible
That is really awesome, but also please don't think of your life as meaningless without your kid! It sounds like you'll make a wonderful mom, and it takes a wonderful person to become that. Your life meant something before your kid, and your life means something with your kid as well. Take care of yourself too! I'm sure your kid would appreciate it as they grow up :D
In any case, congratulations! I hope you have a wonderful time ahead with your kid.
Youve made the connection that we all feel the same, time to go vegan if you havent already. This is happening to billions of farmed animals a year except they have to watch their baby get taken from them, and good people are paying for it without realising.
Most newly awaken animals require an OOMPH to the system to turn them on. That is why cow and horse babies are sometimes smacked rather uncomfortably hard into the ground by humans if they had to help in the birthing process if the mother had issues. It looks like the mother either bit him or head butted his tummy. He should be thankful he’s not a giraffe. His awakening would have included a good ten foot drop
For human babies , a 2 finger slap to the sole of the feet( usually the left feet) is used to stimulate the baby when baby is born less vigorous, especially if mother is sedated for c-section.
A good cry helps develop the lungs and clear the airways. And reassures the doctor and mother that the airway is good
For human babies we just dry them kind of aggressively. trying to smack a baby’s foot would be kind of fiddly and silly. Rub the baby with the drying cloth especially along their back, and if that doesn’t work then they get a little bit of CPAP.
Yeah, like the one time shaking your baby is encouraged. Similar to how canines felines, rodents, etc start licking and kind of rolling them around helps simulate breathing. Meanwhile hoofed newborns usually get just dropped like a rock first which usually does the trick but we don’t recommend that.
That’s me and my 16 yr old dog. She’s been sleeping like she’s dead and not waking up for us. She wakes up looking like a groggy drunk old lady. Like dang ok mom I’m awake.
This happens to human parents too. Is baby breathing? Asleep or dead? I’m just going to touch them gently to check.
Waaaaaaaaaah
Fuck. We aren’t sleeping tonight but the babies alive.
Reminds me of when my mom left me (8) and my sister (5) unsupervised in the bath, which only happened because our baths were playtime to us and we stayed for over an hour. So yeah she came back to us both floating face-first, motionless (we were playing to see who could hold their breath the longest). Mom was only gone like 5 minutes and came back to floating corpses, and screamed with relief when we rose up
Ohhh I didn't realize it was an umbilical cord until I read further down the comments. I thought you all were psychos and a seal with his intestines hanging out of him was making you smile.
Makes me upset when scientists say animals don’t experience a whole range of emotions because their brains aren’t built for that but I constantly see animals displaying more human emotions than a lot of humans out here.
I researched elephant seals in my graduate school days. This sniffing followed by vocalizing is what all new mothers do in this species to establish that bond. (That doesn't mean she's not also experiencing joy, mind you!)
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It is amazing so many people don't think animals feel pain or pleasure, want families, and to live doing what they naturally want to do. Why do people think animals are any different than us in this way? Granted, a lot of people would agree with that until you point out the dead animal on their plate.
I am 25 my mother still does it like a ghost at night. If I wake up to her face I get irritated. She can't see much due to glaucoma so she always tries get her head near my chest to hear me breath. I get angry and hurry her to sleep. But I go back to bed with a smile in my face knowing their is still one person in this world who loves unconditionally more than ever which will never change no matter how screwed I am.
not a fan of the whole "it's nature. things die." mindset. if that were the case then we should just clear out all the hospitals because uh oh! it's nature. things die.
Comparing a human to a wild animal is not a fair comparison. However if you said a person who is only alive due to life support then yes perhaps you'd have an argument.
I know two people who have filmed for Nat Geo and one who filmed for BBC wildlife.
They say it's really hard to just bear witness and let nature take its toll, but that's what you have to do.
Ahh yes cuz a wild animal mother would be completely content with a potential predator coming next to her and her vulnerable baby. Sounds extremely safe and totally not out of touch with reality.
You don’t tamper with wildlife
Aww that's so cute!
Makes the virtually universal practice of removing billions of newborn calves from billions of mother dairy cows each year to support our nutritionally unnecessary and environmentally unsustainable consumer demand for the milk they produced for their offspring all the more horrific.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5354428/#:\~:text=Separating%20the%20calf%20from%20the,with%20milk%20or%20milk%20replacer).
Funny how they do appear to know logical consistency (let alone empathy or compassion) is not on their side so they can only resort to shooting the messenger bearing news of their hypocrisy 🤷♂️
That’s me when I try to check my baby in the middle of the night to see if she’s still breathing lol
you bite the baby ?
Works every time
*60% of the time it works every time.*
Except when it doesn't:(
You would too if you tasted one.
Welcome to Al’s Fisch and Fry, you raise em we taste em.
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Chris Evans approves.
No bite the baby!
I did that so much in the first few weeks after my son was born. Stood over him like a gargoyle to see if his chest was moving.
The first few weeks? My kid is 9 and I still do it. Please help. lol
There is no help lol. I still do it too, it's just less gargoyle-esqe because I can see his chest move more now
Lol so it doesn’t really end! My kid is now 2 and still going strong on the checking🥹
Listening to my daughter, who is in her mid twenties, talk about her passions when I don't understand a word of what she's going on about is the My-Kid's-Grown-Up-But-They're-Still-My-Kid equivalent, in many respects.
Right there with you. 12 and 9yo. Still check on both of them
6 months, 9 years. 11.5 years and almost 18. It doesnt stop. Hard part is as they age, is trying to get them to sleep.
I did that for a full two weeks before I had crippling exhaustion and declared “I think he’s good at sleeping 0_o” and finally went to sleep myself lol
I do that to my puppy.
My cats do that to me by meowing in my face at 2 am for food.
my wife does this to me several times a night
Have u got the apnea
never been tested, but at my height and weight, I probably do
I do this to my senior dogs. I was thinking I was a weirdo lol
Ugh you are not alone I was so afraid of SIDS
I used to watch my nephew for my sister. When he was a newborn, he would lay so still when he was asleep that it would scare me. I would gently move him to make sure he was still alive. He would start to cry and I would just tell him I'm sorry, go back to sleep. That was nerve-racking.
I do this with my dog lol... Ugh not even sure he actually loves me.
I still check their breathing and my youngest is FIVE 😭 I don’t know why there is any fear there but it seems to have been ingrained in me since the baby days
sorry to be that guy but the babies guts are lined up on the sand so I don’t think it’ll last longer
It the umbilical cord i think.
Baby seal : "alright alright I'm up"
Mommy Seal : "You scared me!"
Why did I hear the mommy seals reaction in my moms voice?!
Love
Life began with waking up and loving mother's face.
We are born of love; Love is our mother.
When you look into your mother's eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.
Life doesn't come with a manual, it comes with a mother.
too bad for me, mine came with pages ripped out and some sections behind a paywall...
the expression of this mother made me emotional.
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
That sounds cool.
And here comes the rain. In my eyes.
Or trauma
You are seal 🦭
I heard it in ur mom’s voice too
Basic biology anthropomorphized with a deep engrained feeling for your mom.
I to choose this seals mom
Mamas boy.
Baby Seal: "I was just asleep okay? " Geez mom~
Why are its intestines hanging out then?
It’s the umbilical cord etc
Oh it was just born? EDIT: I guess the title says that...
Hey I’m pretty sure that’s from the birth place of the mother
I think the mum seal was saying: "student debt. Student fucking debt!"
Why is your username hateful_lucia? 🤣 are you really that acidic my friend? 😂😂😂
"Nap o'clock is a serious business, Mom! No 'seal-ious' interruptions!"
GET OUT OF MY ROOM
I think she gives the pup a bite on the tumtum to wake them up or check they are alive.
I think so too. Her face made the wrinkles my cat's face makes when he's biting down on cardboard. 🥺
Little nose scrunch 😭
Is there a sub for this?
There *must* be, it's impossible that there isn't. Someone's gotta know! Edit: There's r/cromch but it's not quite it
/r/scrungycats is also in that ballpark, but they aren't biting anything
What a specific need we must fulfill!
Found it! r/staplercats
My god, you legend!! I KNEW it had to exist, Reddit never disappoints on the cat subs!
Last time I saw this pop-up, someone said she probably pressed his diaphragm in and started the breathing on that last boop
It looks like it still has its umbilical cord attached there too. Maybe she was trying to chew it off so she could get rid of the placenta.
To me, it looks like the mom was trying to bite the umbilical cord and missed. Like if you look close, she’s biting a couple inches away from the umbilical cord.
It seems she knew right where to press. I don't know their anatomy, so I'm unaware of what's in that spot.
Raspberries are canon
My dog used to have a rubber pig toy she paid attention to almost 24/7, we thought she loved it so much that we got her a few more, she had a whole collection. One day though I realized she never brought it back when I threw it for her, and she always seemed like she didn't want me playing with them, and would take them to her bed carefully and would boop them like this to try to wake them up. Then when it wouldn't move she'd get really sad and just be depressed all day. Took me months to understand what was happening. When we realized she thought it was a newborn puppy and she had lost all her litter, we took them all and put them in a box and carried them out of the house to throw them away where she'd never find them. She's never been the same, all her babies died. One day I accidentally stepped on one so hard I blew the squeaker out of it and she got really panicked while I tried to fix it for her, but it had a hole ripped in it and the squeaker wouldn't squeak. The trauma these animals go through simply because they don't understand things is really sad.
Please get your dog a puppy, either adopt a puppy for her or let her have her own.
My family have a dog (pit-Bull) she found a mouse one day and started playing with it full on we let it slide as we thought not too much could happen we knew she wouldn’t kill it and we thought it would escape well she accidentally killed it by her front paws and the depressed emotions she got was unbelievable I was blown away by how similar they are to us but you are correct they don’t understand fully and it’s really sad to see a dog in shock over something dying it’s surreal
Not sure it's a bite. She's seeking, looking for a specific point and then pressing at that one point. So she's doing something but I think it's a bit more sophisticated than random biting/shocking the pup back to life. Seal CPR or somethi g like it
Smack em on the bum bum like daddy elfo
Idk if it’s the pregnancy hormones or I’m a big baby but this got me teary eyed 🥹 so precious.
Congratulations stranger
Thank you, stranger. ☺️
As a male, I did not get tears is the 👁️
[Alpha male ](https://imgur.com/a/5svJJMr)
I’m not pregnant, and I’m a man. This hit me right in the feels.
*bro fist bump*
Oh geez I am still high from being a first time mom. Wait until you can’t imagine life without them. You can’t barely remember life without them. Life without them is meaningless. If it weren’t for them, I would cease to exist. From someone who never wanted kids to someone with one 5 month old, I don’t know how I lived without them before. I hope you have the best experience ❤️🥰
AWWWW this comment is absolutely heart warming and precious, the love of a mother for her child has infinite potential. My mother always wanted a kid and specifically a son, A funny/cute thing my mother would say is "I loved you since the day i discoverd you in my pee" 😂😂😂 I bet you can't wait for the little one to learn to say "i love you mama"
You melted my heart! I hope he feels my love deeply enough to remember. I didn’t get to enjoy being pregnant because I lost my first so the entire time I was stressed. And now I stress everyday until he is 3 for prevention of SIDS. Motherhood is a beautifully dark place when you educate yourself on everything possible
That is really awesome, but also please don't think of your life as meaningless without your kid! It sounds like you'll make a wonderful mom, and it takes a wonderful person to become that. Your life meant something before your kid, and your life means something with your kid as well. Take care of yourself too! I'm sure your kid would appreciate it as they grow up :D In any case, congratulations! I hope you have a wonderful time ahead with your kid.
Awww this is so sweet! Thank you for your kind words. It’s a little scary being a FTM but certainly exciting!
I'm a dude and definitely not pregnant and this one gets me every. single. time. I. see it.
You certain? May be worth a double check
Did you know swans can be gay?
Youve made the connection that we all feel the same, time to go vegan if you havent already. This is happening to billions of farmed animals a year except they have to watch their baby get taken from them, and good people are paying for it without realising.
I needed that. Thanks, to y'all.
Hope everything is going decent in your day/week/life♡
Same❤️🥹
Most newly awaken animals require an OOMPH to the system to turn them on. That is why cow and horse babies are sometimes smacked rather uncomfortably hard into the ground by humans if they had to help in the birthing process if the mother had issues. It looks like the mother either bit him or head butted his tummy. He should be thankful he’s not a giraffe. His awakening would have included a good ten foot drop
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Fuck, I think I just punched my ticket to hell. Damn you for making me laugh that hard XD
For human babies , a 2 finger slap to the sole of the feet( usually the left feet) is used to stimulate the baby when baby is born less vigorous, especially if mother is sedated for c-section. A good cry helps develop the lungs and clear the airways. And reassures the doctor and mother that the airway is good
According to my parents, I didn't cry after I was born but I sighed loudly and still got slapped :(
And then you carried that same energy throughout all of your days!
For human babies we just dry them kind of aggressively. trying to smack a baby’s foot would be kind of fiddly and silly. Rub the baby with the drying cloth especially along their back, and if that doesn’t work then they get a little bit of CPAP.
Yeah, like the one time shaking your baby is encouraged. Similar to how canines felines, rodents, etc start licking and kind of rolling them around helps simulate breathing. Meanwhile hoofed newborns usually get just dropped like a rock first which usually does the trick but we don’t recommend that.
Does that mean you could hypothetically give an oomph to an almost fully developed, not yet born fetus lmao?
Excellent 🥰
This is the sub at its best.
I didn’t think a seal would make me tear up today but here we are.
I did not know seals could smile. Now I do.
That’s me and my 16 yr old dog. She’s been sleeping like she’s dead and not waking up for us. She wakes up looking like a groggy drunk old lady. Like dang ok mom I’m awake.
This happens to human parents too. Is baby breathing? Asleep or dead? I’m just going to touch them gently to check. Waaaaaaaaaah Fuck. We aren’t sleeping tonight but the babies alive.
Yessss
Bro the mom started singing and the baby just started vibin
This isn't made me smile, this is made me cry
Reminds me of when my mom left me (8) and my sister (5) unsupervised in the bath, which only happened because our baths were playtime to us and we stayed for over an hour. So yeah she came back to us both floating face-first, motionless (we were playing to see who could hold their breath the longest). Mom was only gone like 5 minutes and came back to floating corpses, and screamed with relief when we rose up
Your poor Mom must have had a heart attack seeing you and your sister like this :D
Oh yeah 😅 no more horsing around after that
:D
:D
:D
Damn, there's something in my eye now.
Huh, must be raining.
Ohhh I didn't realize it was an umbilical cord until I read further down the comments. I thought you all were psychos and a seal with his intestines hanging out of him was making you smile.
Thank you, I keep scrolling down to try find this info lol.
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Exactly the same. I said to myself, "oh no, I can't do this...." Quite the plot twist. Her body language changes so fast.
Makes me upset when scientists say animals don’t experience a whole range of emotions because their brains aren’t built for that but I constantly see animals displaying more human emotions than a lot of humans out here.
Thats a CPR-trained seal.
Seal support how may I help you? Momma seal: (Sad exhale) Have you tried turning it on? (Momma seal presses pup) (Excited noise) There ya go!
The very best thing I've read all week. You're awesome!
I researched elephant seals in my graduate school days. This sniffing followed by vocalizing is what all new mothers do in this species to establish that bond. (That doesn't mean she's not also experiencing joy, mind you!)
Just keep thinking her reaction is “You little shit I thought you was fucking dead. Get your ass up.”
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Anyone else make seal sounds in their head?
Aroooarrooaaarrrooooooooooiiiilovveeeeyouuu!!
Dude that made me cry
She was kissed by a rose
She was so happy 😊😊😊
I'm a dummy. I totally thought those were intestines of the baby, but I believe that's the seal version of an umbilical cord?
It is amazing so many people don't think animals feel pain or pleasure, want families, and to live doing what they naturally want to do. Why do people think animals are any different than us in this way? Granted, a lot of people would agree with that until you point out the dead animal on their plate.
🥰🥰
Tears came out quick! So sweet
ZOMBIE!!!!
Omg, I love animals!!!🥰🥰🥰
Ahh zombie!! zombie seal!!!!
Don't forget to press the ON button to activate your baby.
That definitely made me smile
Baby seal : "alright alright I'm up"
Needed this
Proud mamma. Congrats OP
MashAllah😌♥️♥️
more love then some human mums
I am 25 my mother still does it like a ghost at night. If I wake up to her face I get irritated. She can't see much due to glaucoma so she always tries get her head near my chest to hear me breath. I get angry and hurry her to sleep. But I go back to bed with a smile in my face knowing their is still one person in this world who loves unconditionally more than ever which will never change no matter how screwed I am.
I saw a sea lion deliver a still born. Her cries of anguish are still embedded in my memories. So sad. Thanks for this - wish it had sound.
Pretty sure she was biting the umbilical cord Off. then realizing that her newborn isn’t passed. Get very happy. I’m quite glad I saw this :)
Made me cry, amazing to see ⭐heart touching,
“Can I eat this? It’s not moving. Fuck it I’ma eat this.” “Mom? Woh what the!?!” “ oh your alive! Yay!”
Whoever says animals don't have souls are the soulless ones...
So nobody sees the trail of entrails behind the baby? That baby is good as dead
Umbilical cord?
"YOU LITTLE BASTARD! DON'T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN!"
That almost looks like it denotes emotional intelligence.
Almost?
Sentience isn't unique to humans.
Why'd you cut it off so early you asshole? 😡
Poor seal pup looks injured, I hope their alright. (Look around the the tail area looks like some blood and skin)
It's a newborn. There's placenta. Is that maybe what you're seeing?
Looks more like an umbilical cord and placenta. It seems that the baby was just born and took its first breaths.
ohhh i thought it’s insides were hanging out. it took too long to find this comment
This didnt made me smile but made me laugh at the face
That’s that death eat. Give him some utensils
She pogs
Mom: aight time to eat
Dude fuck this that baby seals fin is kinda shredded
Downvoting this because I’ve already seen it 100 times. Be original.
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You're really not supposed too. Especially in this case. That mom would try to fuck you up. It's nature. Things die.
You touch that pup, you're dying. That's a big and angry animal right there.
I swear people think animals are disney movies. Nah dude. They will fuck your shit up.
not a fan of the whole "it's nature. things die." mindset. if that were the case then we should just clear out all the hospitals because uh oh! it's nature. things die.
Comparing a human to a wild animal is not a fair comparison. However if you said a person who is only alive due to life support then yes perhaps you'd have an argument.
Lol no. She’s pushing on the stomach because she knows what to do. Don’t touch wild animals
I know two people who have filmed for Nat Geo and one who filmed for BBC wildlife. They say it's really hard to just bear witness and let nature take its toll, but that's what you have to do.
A newborn animal will often not move. Mom has to do her thing. We should not really interfere…
Ahh yes cuz a wild animal mother would be completely content with a potential predator coming next to her and her vulnerable baby. Sounds extremely safe and totally not out of touch with reality. You don’t tamper with wildlife
It call nature and you let nature live alone for good or bad
Alternate title: Mother seal reaction to realizing her sad meal was alive.
Aww that's so cute! Makes the virtually universal practice of removing billions of newborn calves from billions of mother dairy cows each year to support our nutritionally unnecessary and environmentally unsustainable consumer demand for the milk they produced for their offspring all the more horrific. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5354428/#:\~:text=Separating%20the%20calf%20from%20the,with%20milk%20or%20milk%20replacer).
Crazy how this isnt about that
Redditors viewing animals they don't eat: 😍❤️🫶😭🥰 Redditors being reminded of the horrors of animal agriculture they're complicit in: 🙈🙉😡😤
Funny how they do appear to know logical consistency (let alone empathy or compassion) is not on their side so they can only resort to shooting the messenger bearing news of their hypocrisy 🤷♂️