The things our Mums did when we were babies.........

[Northerner]

Following on from Coddys boiled egg comment!

According to my Mum I had sugered water as a new born, had a crushed rusk in my bottle from 4 weeks, was put to sleep on my tummy and was potty trained by 12 months and walking at 9 months.

Your turn!

my mate was given half a mars baras her Mum and grandpearents wnet to the pub - she was a lone parent and things were hard
this made us shriek wiht laughter as students

Evening Puff
How are you today?

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Ummmmm...........mind's gone blank,er,er,er......
I do remember being allowed to sizzle in the tropical sun (where we spent most of our childhood) for hours on end,and my mother laughing gaily when we showed her our sunburn at the end of the day.

Bloody hell,forgotten that,I'm going to remind her tomorrow (the woman who never ventures further than the gate without a hat) and watch her squirm!

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rofl Orinoco!

Im proud of my Mum actually, she followed her instinct and put us to sleep on our backs!

we had to drink a pint of cows milk and eat an egg every day despite hating both. We all ended up sick (allergy to the cows milk) and my bro is allergic to eggs.

everything was cooked in lard - didnt see vegetable oil til I was about 10. Didnt know what olive oil was til I was 17 or so.

anyone else remember cold meat and chips? no chance of getting MY children to eat that.

Love this thread.
Had a teaspoon of sugar in my bottles
was on rusks by 8 weeks, went outside every afternoon for "fresh air"
out of nappies by some ridiculous age
brother's dummy was regularly dipped in honey to get him to keep it in his mouth
no seat belts - used to ping around the back of the car, baby sister used to prefer sitting in the footwell!
Stood outside more shops than I can bear to remember. Watched my sister poo on the pavement outside a shop one day, we had been waiting so long!!!!
Had to have a spoon of cod liver oil every day.
Soluble aspirin for every ailment - yuk
Only two pairs of shoes a year, regardless of how much feet grew!
No television allowed at weekends.
Had to play outside unless it was torrential rain or icy cold.

hausfrau
you know I am really beginning to envy you this EMIL. She must be providing you with so much material for writing a novel!

My MIL swears blind her ds climbed out of his pram at 6 weeks and onto bedroom windowsill.

Late 1950s - my baby car seat hooked over back seat and was made of wicker! My dd (born mid-80s) put into carrycot which was strapped securely onto back seat - but dd just laid in it!!! Somehow didn't see anything wrong in that.

My mum say's she used to dip my dummy in paraffin as a cure for croop. I'm now an alcoholic...

I'm not really

My mum used to spit on her (used) handkerchief and wash our faces with it. Yuk. She refuses to accept that there's anything wrong with children having suntans, and will proudly tell everyone that at 6 weeks old I was as brown as a berry due to being smothered in nivea and left in just a nappy outside in my pram. She didn't give me our my sister any solids until we were 3 years old and thinks cows milk is the cure for everything.

Does anyone else remeber Lion's Ointment? We used to get smothered in the stuff regardless of what was wrong with us.

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A nursery school teacher has just been hauled up here for "making the nursery children have their post lunch siesta". She taped their eyes shut, their mouths and tied them to their cots.

Imagine it was most effective and she will make a wonderful mother. I wonder which baby handling manual she follows?

My mum tells the story dropping in on a rural neighbour (this was in the 70s), front door unlocked, no one in -- apart from a baby asleep in a carrycot on the kitchen table

Neighbour rolled up in jodhpurs shortly afterwards, quite unconcerned. She had gone for a long ride while the baby had its nap

My DD has always loved meat and happily ate steak by 9 months too. She didn't like chips until more recenltly though, prefering mash every time.

tpaed thei eyes shut
youa re kidding

My brother and I had so many of the stuff mentioned on here happen too. We all survived though. Apparantly my great grandad used to give us sugar sandwiches!!! How did I ever manage to get to this age without ever having had a filling!?

When i used to wake in the night, my mum used to suck my dummy, then dip it in the sugar bowl, then stick it back in my mouth.
She said i used to wake in the morning with crusty sugar granules all round my face where she was trying to find my mouth in the dark!

My Mum let me have a dummy until I was 5! Also coated it in sugar when I went to bed 'Otherwise I just spat it out'. Potty trained apparently by 13 months. Rusks in bottle. I too remember being left in the car for hours with my bro whilst they went shopping. Duvets in the back seat of the car on long journeys and no seat belts. Beef dripping sandwiches, tongue and chips. Out all day playing until the street lights turned pink .. those were the days

most of the dodgy things my mum did has to do with cars...........i remember long journeys to the seaside in the back of a transit van, with my brother and usually 6-8 cousins, the back of the van was also filled with bikes, picnic stuff, chairs, tools, fishing rods, a whole load of crap, i hate to think of the carnage if there had been a crash!!
my aunt also had an estate car and to fit extra kids in used to sit them in the boot, but pull the cover thingy over to hide the kids from the police!!!

babies were always given to the slightly older kids to hold in the back of the vans though, why it made a difference if a 9 year old or 6 year old held a young baby, im not too sure??