So as I get ready for this LO and learn about the way things are done now, and I keep thinking about how different things were when I was a kid!

I was chatting with my mom this week about the things she did with my brother and me, and all of the things she was told or thought were the safest things to do-- and how crazy dangerous those things would be considered now! So, here's a list of things my brother and I "survived"… share your own!

1) I had a foreword facing car seat (1984) and my brother didn't even have a car seat (1977)! My mom said when he was born people just didn't usually use them, and they only had a 2 seat truck so she would just hold him in her lap and that was the norm.

2) No booster seats. Once I outgrew my car seat, by the time I was 2 or so, I just sat in the car like a normal person. Same with my brother. My mom said if my parents were driving together she'd have us on her lap, but otherwise we just sat there and she put the lap belt over us.

3) She put me to sleep from the night I came home from the hospital face down in an infant sling over my crib. She said it was like a sheep's wool hammock thing, and she was told putting me face down in that was the best way to prevent choking.

4) She made all my brother's baby food from scratch because she couldn't afford store bought--- but canned veggies were the cheapest so that is what she used (cans lined with what we now know are harmful chemicals).

5) Neither of us ever had a helmet for a bike. Also my friend's dad used to take me 4-wheeling starting when I was about 6. No helmet, obviously.

6) We were allowed to run around outside unsupervised with my cousins who lived next door from the time we were 3 or so. We lived in a rural area and ran through the fields, woods, jumped into the neighbor's lake, etc. They had a blow horn they would blow when they wanted us to come home (this was the norm in our area!)

7) She put us both in the same drop-side crib. She still doesn't understand why these are now illegal because she said they were way more convenient.

That's all I can think of for now but I'll post more if I think of them! It was such a funny conversation though-- my mom was a SAHM and was absolutely devoted to our health or safety, none of these things were unusual or risky for the times, but now they would be considered downright negligent. Amazing we all survived eh?