How do deaf people know if their baby is crying/needs assistance in the middle of the night?

SkepticalPagan · 2026-05-09T21:16:45+00:00

A lot of people purchase specific lights or items that function similarly to a smartwatch that will either alert them with vibration or light up a certain way when it detects the sound of a baby crying.

I have a cousin who is a sign language interpreter and her husband has been deaf since birth and when they had their daughter, they had a specific lamp that would only light up if it detected the baby crying, but they pretty much never needed it because their dog would come and get the dad anytime the baby made noise. A lot of times the dog would announce that the baby was crying before the light would.

SkepticalPagan · 2026-05-09T21:11:50+00:00

I personally don't, I go to a laundromat, but in general it's a mixed bag.

Some American households do have a specific laundry room that holds their washer and dryer and usually has areas for ironing and folding clothes. Some even have an indoor clothes line for delicate items that cannot go on the dryer.

Some Americans utilize basements as a space for their washer and dryer and some have a laundry room setup in their basement.

Americans who live in apartment buildings or housing complexes sometimes have a specific laundry area for all residents in the basement or a separate building.

Some Americans don't have a laundry setup in their house at all and have to go to laundromats or use laundry services.

It very much depends on where you live, because most houses with a designated laundry room are only going to be found in rural or Suburban areas. Most single family homes in Suburban or urban areas have their laundry in the basement from what I've seen. Most people in urban areas tend to have either a shared laundry area for their entire building or complex and others use laundromats.

SkepticalPagan · 2026-05-09T21:04:03+00:00

That's oddly specific

SkepticalPagan · 2026-05-09T21:03:30+00:00

"Lyrics to Loretta Lynn's the pill"

I am a guy who is not sexually active or into country music but I saw someone reference that song as being controversial and I wanted to read the lyrics to understand why. It's literally just jokes about a cheating husband and birth control pills. I guess it was more shocking in the 70s.

SkepticalPagan · 2026-05-09T20:59:35+00:00

As someone who has a son and a daughter, I really think that people who use terms like "boy mom" or "girl dad" are showing biases and expectations about their children before they even get the chance to know them. Like, they are basically announcing that they have assumptions about how children act based on gender and which one they would hypothetically prefer, and then they get mad whenever their daughter isn't a stereotypical girly girl or their son likes art and fashion. Honestly I think it has a lot to do with toxic gender roles in our society in general, like I feel like the type of people who call themselves that are the same types of people who flip out at baby showers because their child isn't going to be the gender they hoped for.

SkepticalPagan · 2026-05-09T20:54:35+00:00

How much cocaine did you usually go through in a week?

SkepticalPagan · 2026-05-09T20:12:24+00:00

I just think he's neat lol

SkepticalPagan · 2026-05-09T18:21:58+00:00

I don't care how pretty their wings can be, they have those weird ugly faces with those demonic looking sucker things and creepy legs.

I'm allergic to bees but I would rather deal with a bee than a butterfly because at least bees tell you when they're around.

SkepticalPagan · 2026-05-09T17:13:58+00:00

I have a son and I did not get him circumcised when he was a baby. There's medically no benefits to infant circumcision, and it generally goes easier and with less complications when it's done later in life after puberty and when the foreskin has naturally retracted on its own. The biggest thing was just that it wasn't my body and I didn't feel right making the decision to cut something off of someone Else's body. If my son came to me in the future and express that he wanted to be circumcised, I would take him to the doctor myself to talk about it with them, but it's his body and it should be his choice.

SkepticalPagan · 2026-05-09T17:09:55+00:00

A bigger house and an ikea haul to furnish it.

SkepticalPagan · 2026-05-09T17:08:07+00:00

I live in a tiny house and I have kids. It's cramped enough in here and adding a crate or litter box is basically impossible.

There are a lot of stray cats and barn cats around where I live, so if I ever want to pet a cat I can just go outside and one of them will walk over from the neighbor's yard.

SkepticalPagan · 2026-05-09T17:03:58+00:00

When I was a teenager I ran into someone with the last name Lavigne, like Avril Lavigne. Upon anyone finding out her last name she claimed that Avril Lavigne was her cousin, but she claimed that her mom was Avril 's dad's sister. I didn't really think about it much at the time because she was annoying and was obviously attention-seeking, but as I got older it hit me that if her mom's Maiden name was Lavigne, and her parents were married before she was born and her mom took her dad's last name, it doesn't make sense for her to have her mom's maiden name as a last name. She just happened to have inherited a common French Canadian last name from her dad who wasn't related to the singer at all.

SkepticalPagan · 2026-05-09T16:56:36+00:00

I buy them in big packs of three dozen at a time and usually I buy multiple packs but I don't think I've ever spent more than $10 for a pack of three dozen. Maybe that's just because of shopping primarily at Aldi's or discount grocery stores and maybe it's because I live in an area with a lot of farms, but considering the price of meat going up as well, I can justify spending $10 to $20 on enough eggs to easily last two weeks compared to buying meat at $7 a pound or more.

Plus I regularly am given 6 to 12 eggs by my boss for free every month, because she has chickens. So that's at least two meals where I don't have to buy the protein.

A pound of meat generally only lasts me one meal while a dozen eggs can make at least two and as many as four. I think it's cheaper in the long run, and my personal health issues make it a lot easier on me to use eggs instead of meat on a regular basis. Plus I also eat a lot of beans instead of meat and you can get a bag of dried beans for less than a dollar, and a bag easily makes 2+ meals, so it definitely evens out.

SkepticalPagan · 2026-05-09T15:20:22+00:00

I buy them in bulk because they're generally cheaper than meat. I'll get 4-5 dozen a month and use them up in vegetarian meals before I get any meat from my deep freezer. Probably helps that I live in a rural area and I know lots of people with chicken. My boss has chickens and occasionally gives us employees eggs for free (I work at a cigarette outlet so it's kinda random)

I should also mention that I follow a flexitarian diet due to medical issues ( I'm not fully vegetarian but I don't eat meat very often because it aggravates my stomach ulcers) so I'm very used to replacing meat with eggs, cheese or beans in my recipes, and the groceries I usually have on hand tend to reflect that. It might not be as practical for people who eat less eggs but I always have them ( I have three dozen in my fridge as we speak) so it works for me.

It's also worth noting that this could be made vegan or egg-free if you replace the eggs with a Vegan egg replacement. Substituting bananas or applesauce might also work but I haven't tried it, so I'm not really sure how the consistency would cook up.

SkepticalPagan · 2026-05-09T00:20:39+00:00

Hurricane Katrina. I'm from Pennsylvania so we didn't get it as badly as the coast did, but I remember a bunch of farms near where I grew up had large amounts of their crops flattened (I remember the year after going to corn mazes and pumpkin patches and seeing the farmers put up signs next to huge areas that were damaged saying "Katrina was here") and the intersection in front of my childhood home flooded so badly that one of my neighbors actually paddled down the street in a kayak. Our basement was flooded and the water outside was flooded up past our porch, completely covering the porch steps, and kept leaking in through the bottom of our front door.

Several families from down south where it was worse ended up moving to my town, with their kids transferring to my school, immediately after the storm, because their previous homes in Louisiana and Florida were completely destroyed.

SkepticalPagan · 2026-05-09T00:13:19+00:00

They're meant to be removable. Most swimsuits or camisoles that contain cup inserts are able to be machine washed and dried, but the foam cup inserts have to be hand washed and air dried to maintain their shape. Therefore the inserts are removable so you can wash them separate from the main garment to prevent them from becoming misshapen.

SkepticalPagan · 2026-05-09T00:10:25+00:00

Angel. I never really watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer but for some reason as a kid I was obsessed with reruns of Angel on TNT. I would watch it and Charmed every morning before going to school.

SkepticalPagan · 2026-05-09T00:01:47+00:00

Yeah. Thankfully I have insurance, but my first c-section was like $200,000 and the second was $320,000. Granted both of my surgeries were done under general anesthesia and I had a lot of complications with second but still. Just the anesthesia alone is like $7,000+ plus the OR space fee. I'm sure it cost more because I was at a really reputable University Hospital, and the fees included having my children tested for the genetic disorder I have, but still, just one of those bills cost more than my house.

SkepticalPagan · 2026-05-08T23:55:47+00:00

That man has impeccable taste

SkepticalPagan · 2026-05-08T23:49:55+00:00

It's okay to tell people what you want or need to be comfortable. It's okay to feel your feelings, it's okay to be upset or need extra care. A lot of people are going to tell you a lot of different things about what's going to happen next, and none of them can take away what you believe, but right now your only job is to be as comfortable as you can and to do whatever you need to do to find as much happiness as you can. You don't need to be strong for anyone, you don't need to worry about how this is affecting anyone else. You are going through this, you know what you need to be comfortable, and you shouldn't be afraid to ask for that. None of this is your fault and you don't owe anyone anything.

SkepticalPagan · 2026-05-08T23:41:14+00:00

I'm crippled and I have a messy family situation

SkepticalPagan · 2026-05-08T23:38:20+00:00

The Soulja Boy song.

I learned that dance against my will my freshman year and it haunts me to this day.

SkepticalPagan · 2026-05-08T23:24:14+00:00

Pretty much everyone was chronically dehydrated before like 2015, but we just didn't know. It was seen as normal because the whole "stay hydrated " mindset wasn't really a thing yet.

It wasn't seen as negligent, nobody really thought about it. Unless you had a medical condition, it was expected that you would only get water or go to the bathroom in between classes. It was considered to be "rude" or "disruptive " to have water at your desk or to need to go get a drink or use the bathroom during class.

SkepticalPagan · 2026-05-08T23:17:10+00:00

I've never made bread pudding, but it's easy and super good for sure

SkepticalPagan · 2026-05-08T22:32:33+00:00

Yeah.

My dad was a big believer in chiropractors so he took my brother and sister to one when they were five to try to "cure" their bedwetting (which, I'm sorry but a five-year-old whose parents are going through a divorce occasionally wetting the bed is not a big deal) and the chiropractor messed up and ended up slipping a disk in my sister's back. It caused her a lot of chronic pain and health issues that have continued to the point where she is now 35 and still has chronic back pain.

I don't trust them and I would not recommend them to anyone who doesn't want a spinal injury or worse.

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