Raising baby the old-fashioned way (those were the days)

[Aunt Marg]

Remember the days?

How many applied in your home back in the day?

Drop-side baby crib

Vinyl/plastic bumper pads

Wobbly baby changing tables

Glass and plastic bottles

Vinyl bibs

Steel-tubing highchair with vinyl-padded seat

Mesh playpen

Plastic baby bathtub

Johnson's Baby Powder

Cloth diapers... diaper pins... rubber pants... plastic diaper pail

Thermal waffle-knit training pants

Wooden baby potty

Clothesline drying all those diapers...

Vinyl-padded nursery print baby hamper

Baby buggy/carriage & stroller

Changing table was only thing void in our house, everything else applied.

* As a babysitter, all applied - changing table included.

 

[Autumn]

My sister is 6 1/2 years younger than me, and I remember all those things, except we didn't have the baby tub, she was bathed in the kitchen sink, and we didn't have a separate hamper for baby, her clothes went into the communal hamper.

 

[jujube]

Only thing I didn't have was a changing table and the special hamper. Oh, and I dried the diapers in the dryer.

 

[Aunt Marg]

My sister is 6 1/2 years younger than me, and I remember all those things, except we didn't have the baby tub, she was bathed in the kitchen sink, and we didn't have a separate hamper for baby, her clothes went into the communal hamper.

My mom and I also bathed my baby siblings in the kitchen sink, but we also had a baby bath as well.

I'm convinced it was tradition in those days.

 

[Aunt Marg]

Only thing I didn't have was a changing table and the special hamper. Oh, and I dried the diapers in the dryer.

I loved the hamper for dry things such as pyjama bottoms, crib sheets, etc.

Was so nice not having to run to the basement laundry every time something needed changed.

 

[Lewkat]

I finally had to buy a wooden playpen as the mesh ones did not work. My son would chew his way out just like a dog. Very disconcerting. He hated playpens, felt like they were jails.

 

[Aunt Marg]

I finally had to buy a wooden playpen as the mesh ones did not work. My son would chew his way out just like a dog. Very disconcerting. He hated playpens, felt like they were jails.

ROFLMAO!

Thanks for the laugh, Lew!

My kids didn't do that, but my youngest was the crib Houdini in the family. I'd tuck him into his baby crib at bedtime, he'd fall asleep, and a few hours off to bed I'd go, and you know that feeling you get that someone is watching you? Well, there dear son would be, at my bedside just standing there looking at me, his little teddy under one arm, him sporting his fluffy soft flannel pyjamas. I'd pull him into bed with me and he was asleep in seconds.

Then there were the occasions when I would be awoken by an odd sound in the night, a creek, a crack, the sounds of little feet padding away, and sure enough I'd get up and it was my little stinker gallivanting around the house.

I took to using a spare crib mattress under the railing of his crib, so in the event he miscalculated and took a tumble when climbing over the crib railing, at least he had a soft landing.