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Post by Lexica on Sept 19, 2020 16:35:10 GMT
This link leads to an article on some of the products sold for babies many years ago. From morphine-based Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup to dangerous choking hazards and just plain weird ideas. I am in my 60s and fortunately none of this stuff was still around during my childhood. We did ride in the back of my parent's station wagon completely loose because seat belts were not a thing yet. We even had a game we would play with my dad, standing up in the back seat of his car as he drove slowly down the street. He would suddenly slam the brakes, causing us to topple all over each other into a pile of giggles and shouts of "Again, again!" to poor Dad. I wonder how many babies lost fingers and toes or even their lives due to these products. Vintage Baby Gear That Would Horrify Us Now |
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Post by peabay on Sept 19, 2020 16:40:11 GMT
I've seen the window cage in other pictures. OMG - it's terrifying.
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Post by femalebusiness on Sept 19, 2020 16:41:18 GMT
I still have a Simon game. My daughter rode standing up in the passenger seat a lot of times in the early 70s.
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Post by fredfreddy44 on Sept 19, 2020 17:19:29 GMT
I had the rocking horse with the exposed springs. That one was fun!
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Post by librarylady on Sept 19, 2020 17:35:48 GMT
I am a bit amused that the plastic headed diaper pins are considering horrifying--those were an improvement over the basic all metal pins!
That breast washing machine!....and the breast pumps!
Rocking horse with exposed springs--I think there was a horse passed around the family with bare springs and I do not recall ever hearing
a story of someone getting pinched (child or adult). I can name 6 kids in our family that survived that.
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Post by LeaP on Sept 19, 2020 17:44:26 GMT
The baby cage doesn't look to bad to me. When I grew up in NYC the windows were single pane glass and it was just at the beginning of safety bars. Falling out the window was definitely a regular occurrence in the city. Baby cage is probably bad because back then the air was bad.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Sept 19, 2020 17:44:36 GMT
I had the rocking horse with the exposed springs. That one was fun! We had one of those too. My brother LOVED that thing so much he would fall it asleep on it! He would really get going on it and rock it so hard that the front and back would almost hit the ground. |
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Post by whipea on Sept 19, 2020 19:07:41 GMT
I remember the diaper pins and the rocking horse with springs. It only took one time to get pinched by those springs and you learned fast to keep your hands away.
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Post by Linda on Sept 19, 2020 19:19:23 GMT
my younger sister had a car seat similar to that one when we visited my grandparents in the States - it hooked over the back of the front seat. I have a photo somewhere. She was born 1974
We had the rocking horses with exposed springs also.
As for the diaper pins - I used them on my older two children (b. 1991 and 2000) by my youngest, I made cloth diapers with velcro/aplix fasteners. I still have a couple of the pins in my sewing box - they are good for threading elastic.
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Post by PLurker on Sept 19, 2020 19:33:30 GMT
I had the rocking horse with the exposed springs. That one was fun! My kids had one, too. (probably vintage) Although after a bit I guess it became "boring" to my DS as he started calling it his "roller-coaster" and, as you can imagine, the riding became a bit more "energetic."  |
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Post by Lexica on Sept 19, 2020 20:05:50 GMT
My sister gave us her kid's rocking horse because her son, a year older than mine, was afraid of it. My son, aged 3, played on it a bit, but not that much. Then I was in the shower one morning and I heard a terrific noise. I grabbed a towel, still covered in soap, I ran out into his room to find the horse halfway hanging off the frame and my son sitting there with a screwdriver! He was always a very curious kid and wanted to know about how everything worked. I guess he got curious as to how the springs worked. He was unhurt and I began locking up all tools. Oh, and I passed the rocking horse on to my younger sister's kids - with a warning.
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Post by refugeepea on Sept 19, 2020 20:11:39 GMT
OMG, that creeping baby doll! I'd like that as one of my Halloween decorations.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2020 20:17:54 GMT
I also had the rocking horse with the exposed springs, it made it around 4 kids without issue, but I think my brother broke it. It reminds me of the "johnny jump up" someone gave me for my daughter-don't know when that was made, but it had exposed springs too. Nope!
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Post by kernriver on Sept 20, 2020 0:51:31 GMT
I had a rocking horse with exposed springs. I don’t remember any accidents but I do remember that I rode that thing on the back porch from sun up to sun down. The back door neighbors asked for the springs to be oiled because they couldn’t stand the squeaking.
Also it also gives me the shivers when I see babies left in their carriages outside, like they always do on Call The Midwife. Can you imagine doing that today?
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Post by shaniam on Sept 20, 2020 1:17:28 GMT
I did use cloth diapers and had pins like that. I think I still have a few of them around somewhere!
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Post by AussieMeg on Sept 20, 2020 2:04:34 GMT
I've seen the baby cage hanging out of the window before, and it makes my feet tingle in fear.  I am a bit amused that the plastic headed diaper pins are considering horrifying--those were an improvement over the basic all metal pins! Right?! I used those pins on my daughter's nappies only 23 years ago, for the three whole weeks that I used cloth nappies!  I am in my 60s and fortunately none of this stuff was still around during my childhood. We did ride in the back of my parent's station wagon completely loose because seat belts were not a thing yet. We even had a game we would play with my dad, standing up in the back seat of his car as he drove slowly down the street. He would suddenly slam the brakes, causing us to topple all over each other into a pile of giggles and shouts of "Again, again!" to poor Dad. Ah, memories! Seatbelts only became compulsory by law in Australia in 1971, when I was 4 years old. (I think we were the first county to make them compulsory?) So when mum and dad brought me home from the hospital after being born, mum had me in a bassinet on the front bench seat of the car. I also remember going to my grandparents' farm and dad taking us for a drive up the hills in our Ford Cortina station wagon. We three kids would get in the back and dad would drive along the country road, swerving from side to side, and we would roll around the back over the top of each other, laughing hysterically. |
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