Kewl
What is the most absurd/useless baby gadget, toy or piece of equipment that some one gave you or convinced you to buy when you were pregnant?
My father-in-law thought I should get a baby-cam. It was a video version of a baby monitor.
Some one else bought me a basinet that we used for 3 weeks tops.
Everyime I turned around someone was trying to sell me something that I could not live without. It started to make me wonder how babies ever survived when there were not baby wipe warmers:)
Answer
hahaha some of my favorites were: The baby "leash" yeah that got thrown away immediately. 2 ounce bottles (good for a week I guess) The wipe warmer as you mentioned was never used because I change my kids all over the house, the wipes travel. Thus the changing table is pretty useless other than it's nice to stack things on such as spare diapers, wipes, burp rags and bibs.
Of all of the "useless" things I recieved here's the topper: The dr. spock book. I haven't looked twice at it.
hahaha some of my favorites were: The baby "leash" yeah that got thrown away immediately. 2 ounce bottles (good for a week I guess) The wipe warmer as you mentioned was never used because I change my kids all over the house, the wipes travel. Thus the changing table is pretty useless other than it's nice to stack things on such as spare diapers, wipes, burp rags and bibs.
Of all of the "useless" things I recieved here's the topper: The dr. spock book. I haven't looked twice at it.
what did people do before we hand fancy baby soothing gadgets?
JD
before there were bouncy chairs and swings and all the other hundreds of devices designed to calm the crying baby. What did people do when their babies got upset? Did they let them cry all day or hold them all day? Any thoughts?
Answer
For the working class, babies were carried, usually in some kind of sling. Wealthy people had nannies or nurses who cared for their babies.
A paper was published recently that points out that when infants were carried more, they grew up to be empathetic and caring, and that parents wold do well to emulate (very) old style parenting.
We seem to live in an age when many parents want to handle their babies as little as possible. Instead of being carried from place to place, they are carried in infant seats. There are bouncers and swings, gadgets to prop bottles, and chairs in which to prop babies so they can sit with assistance but no one has to hold them. Perhaps less developed cultures had the right idea.
For the working class, babies were carried, usually in some kind of sling. Wealthy people had nannies or nurses who cared for their babies.
A paper was published recently that points out that when infants were carried more, they grew up to be empathetic and caring, and that parents wold do well to emulate (very) old style parenting.
We seem to live in an age when many parents want to handle their babies as little as possible. Instead of being carried from place to place, they are carried in infant seats. There are bouncers and swings, gadgets to prop bottles, and chairs in which to prop babies so they can sit with assistance but no one has to hold them. Perhaps less developed cultures had the right idea.
Powered by Yahoo! Answers
0 comments:
Post a Comment