to ask the older parents on MN

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what you did in your day that would have got you sacked from MN today and potentially a visit from ss

I slept on my tummy, mother smoked when pregnant. .. and my nan thinks asprin is the best thing to give a baby for teething. And rice in my bottle from probably day one to get me off to sleep

So many posts bring back memories - yes, we had to learn the Nunc Dimitis and the Magnificat in infants, also be able to define the five parts of prayer ( c of E school)

DH had poliio when he was a child and spent weeks straped in a cot with no visits allowed at all. Crying in his hospital cot is his first memory from age about 2.

I'm pleased that co- sleeping was supposed to be a good thing when my two were born, it was so lovely to have them sleeping in betwen us in out big bed on a lambskin.

Port rubbed into the gums for teething, passive smoking, no seatbelts, no sunscreen in Hong Kong, beatings. Ah, the 60s.

When DD came along: BF on demand, co-sleeping, the odd sips of Marstons, Factor 50 when it stopped raining, no beatings.

She is a vast improvement on her parents.

Marking place

Not everyone survived:

Helen, who fell off her bike under a car - maybe a cycle helmet would have saved her.

Our doctor's little girl, killed in an accident while sitting on her mother's lap in the front seat, crushed by her mother's own body. (Months later, we were shocked to see our doctor and his wife out in the car, with their other child on her lap in the front seat.....)

Clare, driving an open tractor on the family farm, rolled it into a ditch. I think she was 15.
Clare's brother, did the same , aged 12.

I also knew 2 people about my age with terrible scars from being thrown through car windscreens in accidents.

You were threatened with the children's home? Wow, you were lucky. We were threatened with being sold to the gypsies.

my parents used to pretend to call the police

Apparently the local cops were very interested in little girls stealing biscuits...

Apparently the local cops were very interested in little girls stealing biscuits...

I do think our parents approach to discipline was far more imaginative than ours.

Taken back to the little boy shop and swapped for another one in this house. Now they have cottoned on and laugh in my face - it's boarding school.

My Nan used to threaten us with being sold to the Ship Ka-lyo. Later, I chortled to myself about this weird thing she'd made up, I only recently found out it's an actual thing! The Ship Clion was our local one

Ship Clio, not Clion.

it's funny how so many people think guidelines change all the time. I can't think of many changes - obviously there have been some but 'all the time'?

I don't think so.

The big ones were 1992 (back to sleep), 1994 (wean at 4-6 months) and 2000ish (wean at 6 months).

I think car seat laws came in in 1993 (for children up to 3) and 2006 (extended to children up to 12/135cm).

I reckon the one area where guidelines do change all the time is what you can eat in pregnancy though - peanuts, rare steak and stilton has all changed from one pregnancy to the next for me!

the pregnancy ones definitely change more than can possibly be right

Also what you wean your baby on to has changed pretty frequently I think. And Baby led weaning is fairly new

I was born in 1969 and I'm a twin.

My mum smoked throughput her pregnancy.

Had an xray to determine it was twins.

Both parents smoked in the car with windows shut.

My brother has asthma but I'm ok

I did not know that used to xray pregnant women!

When I was expecting my first (1982) I had trouble with the baby not growing. When I was 9months pregnant I had to drink ywo jugs of water then was strapped on my tummy to have the baby x rayed. They decided my dates were wrong as she didn't have knee caps yet and sent me home after being there for a month telling me she wasn't getting fed, need to come out and would only be 2lb. Two weeks later she was born very overdue ( they said 42++) and 6lb 9oz. I cried when strapped to that table on my 9month pregnant tummy wanting the loo!!!

Also my MIL had her 2nd baby at home and complained she still wanted to push. the midwife had a feel and said 'oh yes there is another one in there'!!!!!!

That's awful! I can barely roll on to my stomach now cjel let alone be strapped down on it :(

To be fair the advice on weaning is still 'not before four months and not later than six months so not really that much different to when I weaned my babies.

www.bda.uk.com/policies/WeaningPolicyStatement.pdf

1. The introduction of solid food should commence ‘at around six months of age’ in line with DH guidance. The

DH guidelines acknowledge that babies’ individual development varies widely and that some babies may be ready for solid food before, or after, this time. The introduction of solid food should commence no later than six months (26 weeks) of age, but not before four months (17 weeks).

it's funny how so many people think guidelines change all the time

I was shaved and enema ed when I arrived at hospital to have my first, that was done away with (thank God) when I had my second 15 months later.

Not read the whole thread but op asked if anyone used slings in ye olden days... I was born in early 80s and was carried in a 'snugli' carrier very fetching brown corduroy. Last year with my newborn in sling an older lady (60s?) told me about wrapping her baby in her shawl in the house, to get chores done, but it was thought too lower class to go out carrying baby.
Also, have the photo of mum carrying me home from hospital sitting in front seat of car with me in her arms.
My mum was born at home and her grandmother whisked her off down stairs almost immediately and fed her a teaspoon of tea. To warm her up, apparently.