https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:54:13 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/childcare-manual-from-1929#post-2127097 Mon, 30 Mar 2015 15:29:34 +0000 theotherstark 2127097@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>They had nipple shields?? Ha I had no idea. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/childcare-manual-from-1929#post-2126501 Mon, 30 Mar 2015 09:04:15 +0000 californiadreams 2126501@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>baby is supposed to sleep 21-22 hours out of 24 for the first month? something was definitely wrong with my baby then! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/childcare-manual-from-1929#post-2126480 Mon, 30 Mar 2015 08:51:54 +0000 T.H.O.U. 2126480@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Wow, double birth weight by 4 months? Triple birth weight at a year? Maybe it was the doses of cod-liver oil and orange juice! </p> <p>At 8 months - baby will be able to pick up smaller things like buttons and safety pins</p> <p>At a year, only occasionally small wiry type babies can walk? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/childcare-manual-from-1929#post-2126456 Mon, 30 Mar 2015 08:31:19 +0000 jape14 2126456@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/childcare-manual-from-1929#post-2126445 Mon, 30 Mar 2015 08:24:31 +0000 blackbird 2126445@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>lol pacifiers are disfiguring to the baby's appearance. </p> <p>mom-ing in the 20's feels like a lot of damn work, LOL</p> <p>And a breastfeeding mom is supposed to drink a QUART of milk a day?! BLech! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/childcare-manual-from-1929#post-2126350 Mon, 30 Mar 2015 07:22:16 +0000 Anagram 2126350@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@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.</p> <p>And both grandparents had gardens (which most families did outside of cities), and sewed clothes and cooked 3 meals a day from scratch.</p> <p>Doing all that, who has TIME for enrichment/stimulation of kiddos? Kids had to be helping around the house very early on. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/childcare-manual-from-1929#post-2126339 Mon, 30 Mar 2015 07:01:45 +0000 looch 2126339@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Cole: They might not have been working outside the home, but when you think back to the amount of homekeeping they had to do...they didn't have the modern conveniences of all the appliances we have today. It takes my washing machine an hour to wash a load of clothes, it would have taken me all day in 1929! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/childcare-manual-from-1929#post-2126183 Sun, 29 Mar 2015 21:38:50 +0000 ALV91711 2126183@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I skimmed through some of it and it is really interesting. Even more interesting is things that we still do that they did then. </p> <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/childcare-manual-from-1929#post-2126164 Sun, 29 Mar 2015 20:57:20 +0000 jedeve 2126164@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LML: I guess they didn't have Cheerios! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/childcare-manual-from-1929#post-2126158 Sun, 29 Mar 2015 20:50:29 +0000 matador84 2126158@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I could only read a little on my phone, but soooo interesting! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/childcare-manual-from-1929#post-2126151 Sun, 29 Mar 2015 20:39:28 +0000 LML 2126151@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Crazy that the section on 8-month-old development talks about the baby's ability to pick up small items like buttons and safety pins. Not as a baby-proofing warning, but just as a reference to fine motor skills! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/childcare-manual-from-1929#post-2126142 Sun, 29 Mar 2015 20:19:28 +0000 raintreebee 2126142@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Bathing in 105 degree water for newborns??? That is hotter than the legal limit for hot tubs! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/childcare-manual-from-1929#post-2126128 Sun, 29 Mar 2015 19:53:06 +0000 SleepyMonkey 2126128@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I thought this was fascinating! A lot of the same advice pertains today. ..feeding on a 3 hr schedule, not responding to every peep out of the baby. The cod liver oil and juice for a newborn is crazy tho! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/childcare-manual-from-1929#post-2126108 Sun, 29 Mar 2015 19:25:19 +0000 artsyfartsy 2126108@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Wow. This is intriguing. Also sad. The habits and "training" portion is awful. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/childcare-manual-from-1929#post-2126042 Sun, 29 Mar 2015 17:17:26 +0000 hellobeeboston 2126042@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This is great. I also love reading this stuff. Did you see the lengthy section on sun bathing and how important it was (rickets prevention).... Starting at 3 weeks they say to "tan" the baby in steps! I think that's why they mention so much cod liver oil too??</p> <p>Thanks for sharing. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/childcare-manual-from-1929#post-2126037 Sun, 29 Mar 2015 17:06:19 +0000 Cole 2126037@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>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. </p> <p>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...</p> <p>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. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/childcare-manual-from-1929#post-2125997 Sun, 29 Mar 2015 15:50:34 +0000 Beehive 2125997@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This is so fascinating - a parenting manual from 1929 (an article mentions it's the first American parenting book), Infant Care:</p> <p><a href="https://archive.org/stream/infantcare00unit#page/n5/mode/2up" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/stream/infantcare00unit#page/n5/mode/2up</a> </p>