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2bmumof3 
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Posted: 05 August 2008 at 4:39pm |
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So what are some of the different/funny things your parents/grandparents did for their babys that are now frowned upon, I'll start with a couple of obvious ones (and one not so)
Sleeping on tummys vs on backs
Solids at 6wks vs 4-6mnths
Dipping dummy in whiskey vs NOT!!
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Roksana
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Posted: 05 August 2008 at 5:25pm |
WOW...The third one is a bit scary.... 
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Posted: 05 August 2008 at 5:33pm |
Not really - you would be surprised at how many of us have had it done - just like rubbing whiskey on the gums for teething - they didn't have bonjela etc or couldn't afford it.
No carseats vs. such strict guidelines today. Mum informed me the other day that I was 'lucky' when I was born because they splashed out for capsules and carseats, most kids were just strapped in to the car in their carry cots then just chucked in booster seats
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Posted: 05 August 2008 at 5:51pm |
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Wow, Emz you were lucky!
I was stressing the other day about having to wake my little guy up to strap him in his car seat - my mum suggested I just hold him on my lap in the car....
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Posted: 05 August 2008 at 5:53pm |
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Forget carseats, we didn't even have seat belts in the back seats.
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2bmumof3
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Posted: 05 August 2008 at 5:54pm |
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Yeah my parents said they splashed out and got a carry cot, it didn't strap in, that they put us kids in and slung in on the back seat.
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Posted: 05 August 2008 at 5:55pm |
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According to my plunket book I was put on cows milk at 6 months of age, and penicillin was the standard remedy for a cold.
These days antibiotics are avoided for viruses.
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Posted: 05 August 2008 at 6:00pm |
Ahhh maybe it was only when I was in the front then cos we didn't have seat belts either lol
Also we were given fenergan quite often   when our parents wanted us to go to sleep like New Years etc. Hehe bad parents! Quite common though.
Another one is juice - DH was put on juice at 2 weeks which was apparently common. Can't remember if I was as I only have his plunket book with me.
Another one is just the amount of safety standards - we had a cot that the bars could be taken out of so we would just pull them and escape all the time!
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Posted: 05 August 2008 at 6:03pm |
 fleury wrote:
Forget carseats, we didn't even have seat belts in the back seats. |
half the time we didn't have seats at all. I remember driving round in the old commer van and then the escort sitting on the floor cos there were no seats. At least in the escort it was all cushioned in the back.
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Posted: 05 August 2008 at 6:24pm |
I have my child clinic book (I wasn't a Plunket baby as I wasn't born in NZ), and at 6 weeks old I was having 2.5mls of freshly sqeezed orange juice in 10mls of colled boiled water. To increase the juice till it is 10mls of each. At 8 weeks I was having vegemite mixed in boiling water . 3 months I was having vege puree. I also had different jabs as a baby at 2, 4, 5, 7 12x2 13 and 18 months.
My MIL tells me about putting DH in the boot was a station wagon) in the bassinette as there was more space for him in there.
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I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived!
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Posted: 05 August 2008 at 6:41pm |
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Oh and we got given cod liver oil urgh! Glad that ones gone out of fashion.
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Posted: 05 August 2008 at 7:09pm |
fleury wrote:
Forget carseats, we didn't even have seat belts in the back seats. |
I was just thinking the same thing. My mum and dad spent a fair amount putting seat belts in the family car because my dad was an ambulance officer and far too often saw the result of kids without seat belts
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Posted: 05 August 2008 at 7:11pm |
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Snap on the carry cot on the back seat 2bmumof3!
And snap on the OJ Becks!
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Posted: 05 August 2008 at 7:12pm |
Also cows milk..... my DH went onto cows milk at 3mo (plus the formula in those days probably wasn't any better than powdered milk).
He was on solids really early too.
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Posted: 05 August 2008 at 7:14pm |
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Hehe just remembered another one one of my parents friends told me. They had twins and to contain them they used to turn the cot upside down and put them under it OMG. Apparently as they got older they firgured out that one could hold up the side and the other one could get out....but they never stopped long enough to let the other on out of the cot.
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Posted: 05 August 2008 at 7:18pm |
My mum was telling me that we (my sisters and i) all had carry cots that just got put on the back seat of the car with NO seat belts on (not that we ever had them in the back seats)
We also had a Ford Panel Van with wood trim on the outside... yeah baby LOL
I was eating egg at 4 months
Snap on the Vaccines & OJ too 
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Posted: 05 August 2008 at 7:46pm |
fleury wrote:
Forget carseats, we didn't even have seat belts in the back seats. |
forget seats , we didnt even have cars .....
(no ,im kidding, we struggled, but still had a car)
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Posted: 05 August 2008 at 7:53pm |
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Yup, I was given whiskey when teething and overdosed on phenergan (no baby panadol) to go to sleep! Was given rusks with vegemite on them when I was about 3 months i think and bones to suck on. (yup you heard, mum made sure there was not pointy bits and then would let me suck on them, for iron apparently).
Mum was solo when I was born and didnt have a car...
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Posted: 05 August 2008 at 8:10pm |
No straps in prams/strollers/etc
Introducing dairy products (custard, yoghurt, etc) oh so young!
We had a Comma van too - when I was a bit older
We also had some sort of bassinette on the back seat of the car - it took up more than half of it and then there were 2 or 3 of us kids squished into the rest of the back seat
Sharing seat belts
We had a harness (after the baby seat stage) which was apparently suitable for up to 7 years, it seems my parents figured that was good enough and booster seats weren't necessary. Not sure how common that was because my cousins had booster seats.
What about those booster seats made out of foam?
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Posted: 05 August 2008 at 8:15pm |
we would quite often ride in the back of my dad's ute under the cover thingee
we'd also hang out at the pub alot cos my dad worked behind the bar
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