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I love reading stuff like this! I was browsing the section on habits while breaking just about all of them. I always wondered how people could leave babies in prams outside and none would be crying- it's sad but basically they did CIO for good behavior as well as sleep.

I had mentioned to my husband earlier today that we unfortunately got one of the breastfed babies who poops all the time and this manual tells you how to train your baby to go once a day at the same time daily. However, they have you use a suppository every day at the same time...

It is interesting that the expectations of mothers weren't as intense as they can be today. The manual points out that certain things can interfere with the mother's rest and must be avoided. Certainly, it wasn't suggesting you feed or play with your child frequently and in 1929 most women weren't working.

Wow. This is intriguing. Also sad. The habits and "training" portion is awful.

Bathing in 105 degree water for newborns??? That is hotter than the legal limit for hot tubs!

I could only read a little on my phone, but soooo interesting!

I skimmed through some of it and it is really interesting. Even more interesting is things that we still do that they did then.

My Grandma always told me that the babies best naps are outside. I found it funny how this book basically tells you to put your baby outside all the time.

@looch: yeah, both of my grandparents (and even my MIL when my husband was growing up!) had to do all their washing by hand until the 1960's or so when they got washing machines. But my parents were both born in 1945, so that's a loooong time of handwashing the whole family's clothes. Then there's line drying everything and ironing everything, since poly blends weren't really a thing yet and cotton needs to be ironed.

And both grandparents had gardens (which most families did outside of cities), and sewed clothes and cooked 3 meals a day from scratch.

Doing all that, who has TIME for enrichment/stimulation of kiddos? Kids had to be helping around the house very early on.

I found this really interesting! Especially the recommended early bedtime - my ILs act like I'm a barbarian for putting my 7 month old to bed by 7pm at the latest, but that's probably when their parents put them to bed!

baby is supposed to sleep 21-22 hours out of 24 for the first month? something was definitely wrong with my baby then!