Tuesday, May 17, 2011

How were babies cared for when they were born?

Babies and Childbirth


When a child was born the mother would wrap the baby tightly in a cloth to keep warm and help the baby’s legs and arms grow straight. Wow today when a baby is born you just put clothes on the thing duh. Babies also wore diapers’ made of rags, undershirts, bonnets, bibs, and booties. Babies bathed in small buckets or pots with water and homemade soap. Now a day’s people just go to the bath and body shop and get smell good show gel and lotion.
This how the mother fed the baby only by breast milk. If you were wealthy you hired a nurse to feed your baby with her own breast milk. Babies were breast fed until two or three. Then when the kids were old enough they were fed table food and the mom would chew the food and fed it to the baby.

2 comments:

  1. Ewww! That is discussing, the mother would chew the food for the baby! Also, I'm not for sure, but I don't think it is normal for a child to be breast fed till they are 2 or 3!

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  2. EW!!!! She chewed the food for the baby! Thats really gross. I liked how much imformation you put into this artical and the format and the way you put the imformation into the post! You did good!!!!

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