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Wow! Some of those are crazy! But today's breastfeeding mothers are often told that a cup of beer will help with letdown and increase milk production, so that one isn't off-the-wall.
In 1935, a U.S. Department of Labor “Infant Care” pamphlet called an infant’s regulation of his bowels and bladder a key part of his “character building.” Mothers were instructed to start bowel training their babies at 2 months of age, holding the baby over the “chamber” at the precise same time each day, and “using a soap stick, if necessary” to provoke a movement. By 6 to 8 months, the pamphlet predicted, the baby would be trained, and by 10 months, parents could start in on bladder training.
In 1935, a U.S. Department of Labor “Infant Care” pamphlet called an infant’s regulation of his bowels and bladder a key part of his “character building.” Mothers were instructed to start bowel training their babies at 2 months of age, holding the baby over the “chamber” at the precise same time each day, and “using a soap stick, if necessary” to provoke a movement. By 6 to 8 months, the pamphlet predicted, the baby would be trained, and by 10 months, parents could start in on bladder training.
My mother told me that she had a huge fight with her MIL because she refused to do this when my older siblings were babies in the mid 1940s. Mom also said that "The babies weren't 'trained' their mothers were 'trained'."
I was born in the early '70s, and my mother was told to drink beer to nurse me. She hated beer, but drank it for my sake
My husband was born in the late '50s, and his mother "potty trained" him by 8 months of age. Basically, she put him on the pot at regular intervals. I think she was the trained one
Wow! Some of those are crazy! But today's breastfeeding mothers are often told that a cup of beer will help with letdown and increase milk production, so that one isn't off-the-wall.
Yes, I remember hearing that. Funny thing is when I was born (in the 1960s) breastfeeding was not really advocated much at all. My mother tried, really wanted to, but she had no support. I was a fussy baby and everyone including her doctor said I needed to be on soy formula. When I had my child I was successfully breastfeeding and I'll never forget my mother watching (she was ill, dying at the time) and saying "you're doing it, really doing it.".
Yes, I remember hearing that. Funny thing is when I was born (in the 1960s) breastfeeding was not really advocated much at all. My mother tried, really wanted to, but she had no support. I was a fussy baby and everyone including her doctor said I needed to be on soy formula. When I had my child I was successfully breastfeeding and I'll never forget my mother watching (she was ill, dying at the time) and saying "you're doing it, really doing it.".
I had my first two babies in the 60s and not one mother in the ward of about 16 women breastfed... we were all supplied each day with our small bottles..in fact even as a child I never saw anyone breastfeed... Only in the 80s when I had my last son I saw women in hospital breast feeding... I didnt..
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