Re:How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from Ame...
by em-bee on Sunday March 08, 2026 @11:34AM
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the amount of extra effort required to constantly be observing the baby [...] makes [...] caring for a baby just more difficult
you learn a lot more about your baby than just elimination cues by observing it. i'd argue that that effort is not difficult at all and has a lot of other benefits. see attachment parenting.
you are right about "you must do it this way or else" producing unnecessary stress though.
My observation is that there is limited research showing that this actually works and that the amount of extra effort required to constantly be observing the baby for these cues makes the already extremely difficult task of caring for a baby just more difficult, even if it did work.