Newborn Baby Care Time Travels
Newborn baby care has changed radically over the past centuries. Strangely enough, it's not the babies that have changed!
I find it very interesting to explore the mindset of past generations in regard to newborn baby care. Sometimes they had it right, and sometimes....not so much. Click here to share your "times have changed" story from the past. "Time travel" is defined as: "hypothetical transport through time into the past or the future" Let's go back in time to when infant care was done with a different mindset: When my grandmother was born at home in 1910, her mother was not allowed out of bed (or even to dangle her legs over the side of the bed) for 2 weeks! They hired a nursemaid to stay with them and take care of mother and baby for the first 6 weeks. Most likely my great-grandmother would have NEEDED a nurse after being confined to bed for 2 weeks, but... My! How times have changed! Today's medical personnel want a new mother up and moving within an hour or two after her baby's birth. With most of my babies, I was home within 24 hours. While I wouldn't want to be confined to bed for 2 weeks, having that nursemaid around to help with the housework wouldn't be too bad! Share a story from the past...
Now it's your turn to share stories about the evolution of caring for newborn babies. Do you have stories passed-on from years gone by? Share them with us! It will help us better appreciate the time in which our babies were born (except it still might be nice to have that nursemaid). What Other Visitors Have SaidClick below to see contributions from other visitors to this page...
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