‘Baby yoga:’ Safe and beneficial or possibly child abuse?
(Please do NOT try this at home!)
My friend shared this You Tube video of a trend called “Baby Yoga,” where a baby is swung all around a woman’s body by its arms. It is so shocking that is looks like it’s a doll and not a real baby. I can’t imagine doing this to a real baby.
You MUST watch the video to discuss.
The caption with the video describes “baby yoga” as:
“DAHAB, EGYPT – UNDATED: MILLIONS of people around the world were left stunned when a video of Lena Fokina doing ‘baby yoga’ broke on the internet. The 51-year-old Russian was filmed spinning and flipping babies above her head and behind her back in such an outlandish fashion that several websites banned the footage for glorifying what to many would be considered child abuse. In fact, the moves were so shocking that most conceded they were being performed on a doll as no sane person would consider them acceptable. However, we tracked Lena down to a seminar called “Parenting the Deliberate Way” in Dahab, Egypt, where parents from across Europe were paying her to perform the same moves on their infants, some just a few months old. But Lena, who is a qualified PE teacher in her native Russia, insists the practice is totally safe and actually beneficial to children.”
I have a hard time believing it is safe, much less beneficial. First off it looks like the poor baby’s arms would be pulled out of their sockets and second off I would be worried about the baby’s brain getting swung around so much. Holy cow.
What do you think of the baby yoga? Is there a cultural divide on this — why the Europeans may get it and we don’t (or at least I don’t)?
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March 6th, 2012
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Augusta
March 6th, 2012
12:22 pm
That has to be the dumbest thing I have ever seen. What mother would do that to her BABY? I’m appalled.
RJ
March 6th, 2012
12:24 pm
WTH?! You can see the baby crying as he/she is being tossed and turned in the air. This is most definitely abuse. Everyone is not cut out to be a parent. This baby should be taken away from her. This isn’t about cultural differences, this is about a child’s safety. Wow! Just wow!
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March 6th, 2012
12:29 pm
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Denise
March 6th, 2012
12:33 pm
What could possibly be the benefit? All I can envision is a baby throwing up all over the place during or after “exercising” as well as arms torn out of sockets.
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March 6th, 2012
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Cammi317
March 6th, 2012
12:56 pm
Wow! I would definitely call this abuse.
Soccer Milf
March 6th, 2012
1:00 pm
Its funny how Rush limbaugh is getting media scorn for doing doing something libtards do everyday and this moron can swing her baby around like a Knumchuck and this blog asks silly questions like “DUhhhhh is this safe?”
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Techmom
March 6th, 2012
1:49 pm
What benefits does this women say throwing a baby around has?
It’s been awhile since I’ve had an infant but if I’m not mistaken, babies only have like 3 ingrained fears and one of them is falling. Seems all you’re doing is scaring them crap out of them.
Peachy
March 6th, 2012
1:59 pm
The baby is crying…you can hear it. This was painful to watch; I can only imagine how painful it was for the baby.
Yes there is a cultural divide on this – those with common sense and those without it…
Bob
March 6th, 2012
2:09 pm
i can only tell after watching this video is that – If the baby is capable to go away from her then she would have done and slapped on the yoga teacher first. For me, This is a child abuse for sure.
Char
March 6th, 2012
2:53 pm
WTH!!!! When a baby cries…they are usually in distress. Just because a woman has the capability to carry and birth a baby does not mean that they should be parents….This is just as bad as driving a baby around in a car without a car seat or letting the baby play with matches!!! WTH!!!!! Somebody arrest her please!!!!!
Augusta
March 6th, 2012
2:59 pm
I’m guessing this is over in Europe, not here in the States.
Betty
March 6th, 2012
3:00 pm
Can you imagine what happens when her “followers” try to do this themselves? One false move and……
shaggy
March 6th, 2012
3:07 pm
That kid is going to grow up to be one helluva fighter pilot…if it sticks the landing and survives.
A
March 6th, 2012
3:28 pm
I don’t need to watch this video (and won’t) to know this is abuse. You don’t fling a baby around like that. Their necks don’t even work at such a young age!
Scotty lady
March 6th, 2012
3:37 pm
…Did I seriously just watch a baby getting waterboarded in a kiddie pool?
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LM
March 6th, 2012
3:44 pm
Hurts to watch, who would let this lady do this to their child? She is not the mother of the child I guess since she is 51 y/o. To think this is “good for the baby” is so at odds to everything we are taught as new parents.
Mike Hunt
March 6th, 2012
3:46 pm
On tommorrowa momania…video of pregnant woman smoking crack…is this bad? You decide.
JATL
March 6th, 2012
4:46 pm
And what on earth is supposed to be the benefit? Arms twisted out of socket? Brain injury when you drop your baby? I swear, this reeks of a very realistic-looking hoax. I cannot imagine idiots would actually do this. I also think when the baby is really being swung around, it looks fake. If it’s not fake, these people are all morons.
jarvis
March 6th, 2012
4:53 pm
Am I the only one that laughed? I feel a little guilty.
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K's Mom
March 6th, 2012
9:53 pm
That is awful. I have been around 2 kids with nursemaid’s elbow and their elbows pop out easily and it is terribly painful and their parents have not tried anything that DUMB. I would hate to find out what issues this foolishness might cause.
Fred ™
March 7th, 2012
12:06 am
Mike Hunt
March 6th, 2012
3:46 pm
On tommorrowa momania…video of pregnant woman smoking crack…is this bad? You decide.
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i’m pretty blunt and your comment was pretty crude but……… I had to agree with it.
Just damn Theresa, REALLY?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Yawf7im88Q&list=PL7B626D544F671E2C&index=9&feature=plpp_video
catlady
March 7th, 2012
3:15 pm
Oh, My Goodness! That is all I can say.
catlady
March 7th, 2012
3:17 pm
It looks like there is some kind of neck brace on the baby?
“Quit coddling that baby. Send it out to get work as a doorstop!”
FCM
March 7th, 2012
4:39 pm
@ Mike Hunt, I spilled my Diet Coke laughing at your comment!
Fresh Spring
March 7th, 2012
6:12 pm
Absolutely frightening ! Arrest the women and take away their children. Pure child abuse.
Anj
March 8th, 2012
1:33 pm
http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/magazine/water-babies-1.216283
This is who Lena claims to have learned from…
If it seems remotely plausible to you, be sure to read further down the article where Boris gives his opinion of mothers and woman in general.