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Silkie chicken loves being swaddled like a baby so much that she starts to 'purr'

Just ignore her little face plant.

Silkie chicken starts purring from happiness after being swaddled

Did you know that chickens purr? Well, maybe not all chickens but this silkie chicken is certainly trying to give cats a little competition on the most adorable imitation of a car motor. Usually when people think of a chicken they think one of three things, dinner, eggs or they envision an actual chicken that's running around in an outside pen seemingly confused with life.

Chickens typically serve some sort of purpose for their owners, even if it's just to prevent them from weekly trips to the grocery store for eggs. But some chickens are simply there to be pets and sometimes entertainment. Have you ever seen a chicken wear clothes? Well, they make them.

And since people have taken to having chickens hang out as pets, they behave like pets. Jen Hamilton has a silkie chicken named, Grits, who loves nothing more than taking a bath and being swaddled like an infant.

Recently the nurse re-uploaded a video to her social media of Grits after her bath, explaining how much the silkie loves to be swaddled as she dries.

"I had to give Grits a bath, but did you know that she loves to be swaddled," Hamilton says. "So, context. Chickens purr when they're happy. So, watch this."

The labor and deliver nurse then demonstrates how she swaddles Grits with a minor mishap in the middle of her execution of the perfect chicken swaddle. As Hamilton was swooping a piece of the towel around, Grits quickly face planted with a tiny little "thud." Don't worry though, her mom's an actual nurse. No silkie chickens were harmed in the process of making the video, Hamilton quickly sat Grits upright again and continued the mission of the perfect chicken swaddle. People couldn't get enough of Grits' little tumble or her interesting happy chicken purr.

"I LOST IT WHEN SHE FELL & the 'Whoops' was so calm and collected," someone writes with two rolling on the floor laughing emojis.

"I will never not laugh hysterically at the *thud* 'whoops...sorry,'" a commenter says.

"She sounds like a printer from the '80s when she purrs and I love it," another person writes.

Get to know Grits and her happy chicken noises in the video below. You won't regret it, promise.

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Nurse explains how babies breathe in utero and the internet is amazed

A new mom asked how babies practice breathing, and Nurse Jen delivered an answer that's blowing people's minds.

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Nurse explains how babies breathe in utero.

There are so many questions out there that we don't realize we want to know the answers to until someone else asks. Once the question is in the vicinity of our ear holes, suddenly we're like, "Oh, yeah. How does that work?" That's pretty much how this TikTok video went for a lot of viewers, myself included.

I have had four (yes, four) children exit my body, and it never dawned on me to ask further than the initial question of how babies breathe in there. It's a question that most new moms either don't think to ask or ask only once and get a similar answer to the one I received, which is that they take in oxygen via their umbilical cord connected to the placenta, so they don't need to breathe in the traditional way we think of until after birth.

But when a new mom asked the people of the internet how her unborn baby was able to practice breathing without drowning, Jen Hamilton, an OB nurse, decided to answer in a video.

Hamilton starts off her response by guaranteeing she's about to blow the mom's "motherforking mind," and I can tell you from reading the comments, she's a promise keeper. Minds were blown. She explains that babies are covered in a thick waxy substance called vernix that protects their, "skin from falling off," while they hang out in amniotic fluid for months. But it's her explanation of how hiccups help babies practice breathing and how babies know it's time to breathe air that makes you appreciate how amazing the process is.

"Under your baby's lungs are a muscle called the diaphragm. Hiccups are a spasm of the diaphragm," the OB nurse explains. "Whenever we get hiccups it sucks air into our lungs really quickly, which is what makes that sound when air passes through our vocal cords." She goes on to explain that when babies get hiccups the spasm is expanding their lungs by filling with amniotic fluid, which is how babies practice breathing.

Hamilton continues her explanation of how babies know when to breathe on the outside while not needing to breathe on the inside.

"While your baby is inside of you, there are two vessels. These vessels bypass the lungs cause it's getting all of its oxygen from you," Hamilton says.

She isn't done leaving the internet with its collective mouth agape. Hamilton tells the mom about a nerve in the face of babies that helps them to know when to breathe. That is the most fascinating part, but you have to see her explain it because writing it out just wouldn't do it justice. Watch her brilliant explanation below.

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