Any mw from 30 yrs ago?

[BettyBoo246]

I'm just intrigued really..... My dm and many other woman of her age (65ish) often tell me when they had their dc's they stayed in hospital for a week and the midwives would have their dc's on a routine of 4 hourly feeding within that week??? How on earth did they do this!
My dm tells me they that they would bring me or my db to her every four hours for a feed, change, cuddle etc and then take us away and bring is back 4 hours later, what did these midwives do with the babies inbetween is what I want to know?!
My ds would certainly not have waited 4 hours in his first week :)

CityDweller .....yes but, but, but.....the Victorians (to take just one example) were HORRIBLE to their babies and children. This was across all social classes. Breastfeeding rates were high in all but the upper classes and aristocracy, and very few births of any kind were medicalised.

Emotional and psychological issues were HUGE, probably higher than now (guessing of course, because diagnosis was not what it is today).