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How To Do Everything

Babies vs. Winter

How To Do Everything

NPR

4.21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2015

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

How to beat the winter, find love, and make the Olympic team.

Transcript

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0:00.0

No matter where you live, it's miserable outside.

0:04.0

That's not true. There are some places that are actually quite nice, but most places are cold and miserable.

0:10.0

And when it's like this, I think we are always looking for reasons to hold on,

0:16.4

reasons to believe that we can make it through.

0:19.3

And the thing you should know is babies in Iceland are taking naps outside in weather like this.

0:25.8

If babies can do it, you can do it.

0:28.0

Hotla Oscars Dottish is a reporter in Iceland and she says it's totally normal to see baby carriages out in the cold in front of cafes and coffee shops.

0:38.0

Well, it's not going to be crowded with baby carriages, but in a sunny day, it's not going to be crowded with baby carriages but in a sunny day it'll you'll see a couple of them and inside those carriages you'll find sleeping rosy cheeks

0:50.9

checked babies.

0:53.0

And this is in the winter there will be baby carriages outside with babies in them.

0:59.2

Yes.

1:00.2

What's the idea behind that?

1:02.4

Well, um,, basically it's just a tradition here.

1:06.0

And it all started in the beginning of the 20th century,

1:10.0

because there was a tuberculosis epidemic.

1:13.4

So people were kind of just trying to save their babies from getting this horrible disease.

1:19.1

So they made them nap outside instead of in the crowded houses.

1:23.6

So this is like when it's time for a baby's nap, parents will put the baby in the carriage

1:30.3

and wheel them outside for a little bit.

1:35.0

Yeah, and that's also a part of it that it seems like babies fall asleep faster if you will

1:42.0

them around. Like, kind of like if you take a baby driving then they tend to

1:46.8

fall asleep quickly and then they stay there until they wake up again.

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