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What year do you think this baby safety advice is from?

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RubyDarke · 30/05/2023 19:15

I found this in some family documents. Anybody want to guess what year this advice comes from? I will come back later....

Text on image:

MY SAFETY IS IMPORTANT TOO

Give me my own place to sleep in.
I must never share your bed.

A hard flat pillow is the only safe kind,
a soft one may suffocate me.

Please don't leave me alone with my bottle,
hold me safe in your arms to feed me.

Put me over your shoulder when meal time is
done. Rub my back gently and firmly from
bottom to top, till I bring up my wind.

(At the bottom of the leaflet is the address of RoSPA)

On the front of the document is a genuinely terrifying picture of a baby I may also share later.

What year do you think this baby safety advice is from?
OP posts:
TheOtherHotstepper · 30/05/2023 20:44

No postcode, so pre about 1965

Findyourneutralspace · 30/05/2023 20:46

Im going 1980s?

Lasouthpaw · 30/05/2023 20:56
  1. I feel like I recognise the image of the baby!

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OttoGraph · 30/05/2023 21:12

I had a pillow set for my pram, I was born pre 1969

Muncha · 31/05/2023 08:50

1992

RubyDarke · 31/05/2023 17:35

This is the picture on the front (edited to remove personal details)
I guess the 1969 version of photoshop made it difficult to get a natural looking picture rather than this alarmed/alarming baby! The hair is something.

What year do you think this baby safety advice is from?
OP posts:
User18538754 · 31/05/2023 18:24

That front picture looks very 60s

musixa · 31/05/2023 18:26

Baby with stalk growing out of his head 😂

ALongHardWinter · 31/05/2023 18:28

Are you going to enlighten us?!

Daffodilsandtuplips · 31/05/2023 18:36
Daffodilsandtuplips · 31/05/2023 18:39

Oops. 1960.’sThe baby has a quiff, very popular with babies in the 60’s. The hair was brushed up at the sides to the centre and then the little quiff was shaped over mums finger.

Theoldcuriosityshop · 31/05/2023 18:59

I've got photos of me with a quiff. I was born in the 1940s, I look ridiculousGrin

ALongHardWinter · 31/05/2023 19:14

Oops sorry you have enlightened us.

LIZS · 31/05/2023 19:17

1975

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