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Minds are blowing at how hospitals x-ray small children

Oonagh Keating. Updated April 27th, 2023

During an x-ray procedure, it’s vital to stay still, but babies and toddlers either won’t or can’t do that – and some are so little they can’t support themselves. That’s why a baby-holding gadget is necessary, but we didn’t expect it to look like this – not that we’d actually thought about it in the first place.

Twitter user @mowziii posted:

I just found out this is how they X-ray small children and I can’t stop laughing

Those babies look a lot more stoical than we would, under the same circumstances. The gadget is practical, necessary, but oh, so very, very funny. This is how people reacted.

 

https://twitter.com/BethuneTheory/status/1122285192553664512

Doctor Tressie McMillan Cottom gave us a piece of information that just ramped up the hilarity.

https://twitter.com/tressiemcphd/status/1122235233481445376

Aaaand we’re done.