This baby is something special. She just learned to take her dummy out of her mouth with her hand and put it back in. It is very hard and she struggles because both the mouth and the dummy are tiny but she’s persevering. I’m not helping because she needs to figure it out on her own.
Oh God, she just did it again. Wow. Four and a half months old.
Americans are probably more familiar with the word ‘pacifier’
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I knew it was something that made me think of the Green Berets.
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I’m interested to see that you use the term “dummy”, yet live in North America. When our children were born we read child-rearing books, and one American one has a discussion on whether a good idea to give a child a pacifier. I wondered if it was some kind of drug to make it sleep through the night, and it was some years before I learned that a “pacifier” was actually a dummy.
I thought “baby carriage” was strictly a marketing term. When I was in the UK (50 years ago), everyone talked about “prams”, but TV advertisements called them “baby coaches”.
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“Pram” is strictly British. “Baby carriage” is the nation-wide word in both the U.S. and even in the Commonwealth’s Canada for the baby-transporting equipment in which the baby is lying on its back.. Usage of the term “pram” in America/Canada is as foreign as calling a car hood a “bonnet,” or the car trunk a “boot.”
Even in the US, the term “baby carriage” refers to a near-obsolete piece of equipment. I haven’t seen a horizontal baby carriage (where the baby lies on its back) in the US for many years. For the past several decades, the vast majority of American mothers have pushed their children about in a “stroller,” a device in which the infant sits in an upright position, rather close to the ground, while the mother pushes the device from a much-higher handle. A modern stroller looks like this:
Since Klara is such a fast learner, shouldn’t you teach her the American English that she’ll need to communicate in the American world in which you plan to raise her? 🙂
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I know, people around here are going nuts over my pram. Its purpose is to be used on long, luxurious strolls that allow the baby to sleep comfortably or move her legs and arms freely when she’s awake instead of being squished into those horrible contraptions that can only serve to get from the car to the store. There are way too many products that aim to prevent infants from moving. And then everybody wonders why child obesity is on the rise.
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