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You have to be patient dear.

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I'm glad you caught that haha that is why I came to the comments

Right! I feel like there needs to be another video on what other kinds of babies come into the nursery at the hospital 😂

Like what else are you expecting

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Leave it to beaver

This baby was 13 when seat belts became compulsory. I can't remember when car seats were mandatory.

@@greypossum1 I think you're dates are a little off. Seat belts weren't mandatory *in cars* until 1968, after Ralph Nadar produced Unsafe at Any Speed. Wearing them was made compulsory on a state by state basis in the mid 80s. Car seats because compulsory at the same time, mid 80s.

@@deer105 Rear seat belts in Australian cars became compulsory in 1970-73 depending on the state.

I was thinking the exact same thing 😅 I would have loved that with my 3 boys. You really don't know what you're in for until you bring your bundle(s) home! The stress/worry and sleep deprivation are merely the beginning. 😁

The parents in the video are modern. It's from the 50s, if that's not modern I don't know what is.

I was born in 88 in Hungary. My grandma was there to help my mum in the first few weeks. Back in the past you had an older female relative who was helping you with your newborn - household task - cooking etc. Nowadays people work much longer and simple no-one is there to help

Everyone I know was helped by their mother or their partners mother for the first few weeks. You must be an outlier.

@@naomiwilliams8850 ?? You must be very lucky to live around people that all have a nice mother/ godmother, or just a free or close one. The first 2 years of my son I was completely on my own, except for my partner. And I wished I was living back in those days when everything was harder but at least you knew your neighbors and you were never on your own.

Not a peep....i guess not they've mother's her cries.

On the trip home from hospital, it's got to be a doll - it's so rigid, and no-one is supporting the 'baby's' head.

@@redlandorganicgrowersinc1535 exactly what I thought

and then all of that clothing on top of it!!!

They were savage back then 🤣😂

@@anii221 I don't know that they're much better nowadays. But it was pretty brutal. My dad wanted to be in the delivery room for all four of us, the closest he got was when my youngest brother was born. The head doctor said okay, but the head nurse who was in charge of delivery said no. 😢

Yes I was like aaahhhh

@@sarah3796 EXACTLY

Most newborns were in a little crib beside the mother at night, it was much easier to reassure yourself that all was well and easier to feed and change if needs be.

Ha! My mom and dad always told me that the first night home, I slept through the night and they thought it would be easy. Mom says that after that first night, I screamed my head off every night thereafter. Must have just been tired from the birth :-)

The baby was also two weeks old on it's first night home since they stayed for that long in the hospital unlike now where it's 24hours and a boot in the tush lol

That's because we know better now. SIDS deaths have declined because we've learned this and many other hard lessons, when little lives were lost. It's NOT "ok" to make fun of infant-care progress. You should be 100% ASHAMED of what you commented up there!

@@justrosy5 Yes, I'm well aware of that. 😉

​@@justrosy5🤨🙄

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They were savage back then🤣😂

Lmao omg these 50's psa's hey

I dunno, when mentioning my Dad, my mum often mentions how helpful he was when I was a baby and how she wouldn't have been able to do it. Thanks Dad.

Hilarious! 😂

Ik its completely natural

It’s Reverse everything nowadays

@Vanik Ghosh what are you talking about, feminism isn't the reason women are shamed for breastfeeding in public. Quite the opposite

Not every thing that's natural needs to be done in public. If it involves your private parts, it should be done privately. I always did.

@@cherylwebb8340 That’s great for you Cheryl. However, some babies need to eat in public.

This had me thinking of my parents sentimentally, with misty eyes also. Fascinating look into their experiences as parents. Truly lovely 🌺 Rest In Peace 🙏 to all of our beloved parents.

ANARCHY REIGNS #411 Yep, it was definitely a different era and many who were new parents then have since passed (or many are great grand parents!) I do miss my mum terribly though 🌹🌹

@@WeComeFromALandDownUnder I've watched this a few times/shared it and we are all having a similar sentimental reaction. ❣️ Seeing the clothes worn by our parents/grand parents and how babies/we were dressed, how life was before cell phones etc, the simplicity fills me with awe. They even showed breastfeeding that was wonderful! That's censored more in 2020 ! No father's in the delivery room, but smoking was allowed in the patient bay's. 😁 My children can't wrap their heads around that! Lol. I empathize with you, it hurts immeasurably. I know they are still with us, they never really leave us, they are alive within us and through our sharing of their legacies. Blessings 🙏❣️💞

Yes, I was thinking the same thing.

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2 weeks?! I missed that part. 2 weeks would have been awesome! I had c sections so I was in for four days. 2 weeks is just enough time for the hospital nurses to get your baby on a sleeping and feeding schedule

I wanted to go home so bad!

My mum had her babies in the 60s and early 70s and always spent a week resting in hospital afterwards.

We were in for a full week in the 70s and very strict were tge matrons back then too .. two to a bed and no more . Lol visiting I mean 😆

@@kpace985 what? A fortnight? In some Indian countries they have the c section and they leave the next morning

Diaper service? How does that work?

My mother hated the disposable pamper diapers. So, when my second daughter was born my mother paid for diaper service when my second child was born!

@@Celisar1 a service that delivers clean washed diapers to your house and removed the dirty ones to wash so you don't have to wash them yourself. Diaper services still exist today!

@mental case I think they're bots. Posting all over youtube.

@mental case they’re useless scammers or bots.

Australia must have cooler weather at times. I didn't know that.

The father couldn't possibly keep the house himself!

to many parents now day to offer this kind of luxury

Lol....yep...naptime 🙃

Most of us still have a relative we can relate this time period to, as well. This video was interesting and well written too.

Same🙌🏽🙌🏽the retro accent is just gold man

Ikr

I know right. That's why I tuned in

I came home with my babies like that 14 and 12 yrs ago...but I live in Romania,Europe,we don't use car seats if there are 2 people in the car and one can hold the baby in the back

More simple times in many aspects. I get jealous sometimes

@@badassmomofteens4611 oh Mann that would make me so nervous! People cannot drive here in the states, no fault of your own accidents happen so much. Even if it was an option, I'd still use one. Lol

I am from a little village in lebanon and barely anyone has a car seats hahaha

That’s how it was when I was growing up in the U.S. I remember when seatbelt laws came into effect.

Had me paranoid lol

In the Nordic countries, we still do so. I'm from Finland and babies take naps outside even in the winter. They sleep longer and better and it's apparently good for the lungs too. Winter babies start napping outside later (at a few weeks old) but I as a summer baby was napping outside by the time I was a week old. Most common "cold limit" is -10°C, but some place theirs at -15°C. It's not dangerous when the baby is dressed properly and monitored. If their neck is cold, too little clothes. If their neck is hot and sweaty, too much clothes.

It happens in the UK. Leave babies in the “pram” outside stores. Except they have been taken, so would never. If u want your child to get fresh air, u need to be with them

@@mustangnawt1 London, 1960s, it was then common to leave babies in prams outside shops - one day my mother saw (through the shop window) a woman put something into my 6/7 month old brother's mouth. Needless to say, she rushed out but couldn't find anything in his mouth, woman had rushed off but that evening my brother was violently unwell, vomiting. Mum never left a baby outside a shop, alone, after that.

@@lindal3966 That must have been absolutely terrifying for your poor mother! It’s horrible that there are so many awful people in this world doing harm to even the most vulnerable and innocent, making us unable to trust anyone. No parent should have to worry about someone doing harm to their child. I’m so glad it seems your brother turned out to be alright. It’s scary to think what that woman’s intentions were and exactly what it was she gave your brother, and even scarier to think that it probably wasn’t an isolated incident and that she did it to others as well. People who do sick things like that typically don’t just do something like that once and never do it again.

In my case I was at home the entire time with 2 of my kids as they were born at home.

Now we have drive thru deliveries because of insurance companies.

I took my 2nd home within hours of having him. The hospital staff weren't happy but I just picked him up and said thanks, seeya 😂

I thought laying in bed made the risk for blood clots worse?

@@sbabywhine I thought that's what Kathleen meant in her original comment, that blot clots were common because they were kept in bed. Maybe she can clarify

What a neat birthday ‘gift’ 😁.

Pin this comment ffs

@@vm99125 ikr

Wonderful! Thanks for the update.

That’s so awesome! Wendy is now a grandmother wow!! How time flies by!!

Wow 😍😍😍👏🏻

And people wonder why 60% of women didn't want to right to vote.

@@cutiecupcake4150 Oh, ffs.

They did it to get the other half of the tax base and get kids away from their parents. Nothing to do with helping women.

American society*

And they have to look like they did before they got pregnant or they “let themselves go” or are slobs

Wow. She left the baby outside. A lot of brainwashing back then.

The Pochade but how things have changed hey lol?🌹🌹

Mary Springer Obviously no child snatching then! 🤣🤣🤣

@@WeComeFromALandDownUnder LOL exactly! And the help she had when she got home and "took the baby to welfare" to get checked out. So many hinting messages to the people on this video! It told each person their place and no encouragement that there was any other place for her in life. Everything was PERFECT.

@@WeComeFromALandDownUnder loop

It is recommended in most western country, it was for my son 2 years ago, if you take him properly it's not slippy :)

Well she would be 70 actually. My mom is from 1958 and is 61 now

@@purpdist2355 this documentary was aired on january 1959 , so she would be as old as your mother by now

@@purpdist2355 Someone born in 1958 would be 62 or 63 now. A person who is 70 would have been born in 1950 or 1951.

@@suej9329 I was born in 52 I'm 69 in November SCARY

@@annbeth6730 im 25 at the moment and I feel like if I was in my 60s it would be scary as im getting closer and closer to death.

I went grocery shopping in labor so that my 5 year old would have her favorite foods plus staples. Then the day after I gave birth i went to work for four hours because my infant was in the NICU (as was my oldest when she was born) luckily my younger daughter only had to stay 8 days, when she was released from the NICU I drove straight to work. She didn’t start daycare for a week so I just kept her in my office with the door closed (I was a software engineer). The only time it was an issue was one day she threw like 6 apnea alarms. After repositioning her I heard a quiet knock on the door. One of my coworkers was wondering about the alarm. I let her know all was well. I had three babies and the cumulative time off I had including the day the children were born was 5 days. My full term son was a 12 hour release and he was born on a Sunday so I missed zero hours with him. We think this is odd in the modern era but really it’s consistent with millennia of women before us

@@playnicechannel Dear lord, that sounds horrible! What country is it where you have zero leave after giving birth??

@playnicechannel. That is terrible.

It's called not eating junk food and processed food.

@@bluevictory1010 it's normal to look five months pregnant after delivery because the uterus will be at the level of your belly button and then skin is very stretched. But you're right, many women take pregnancy as an excuse to eat all kinds of junk food and they'll later complain that they gained so much weight.

@@Marie-kv7lb I think most pregnant women want to eat more healthily during pregnancy for the sake of their child to be . Just looking or smelling junk food made me feel sick.

Two kids later and I’m still looking for the “like clockwork” 🤣🙄

Four kids and 30 years later, still waiting....🤣

Yeah that’s pretty much what it’s like at home with my 5 month old. I pop a Tostitos pizza in the oven around 5pm for his brothers, I fall asleep on a heap of laundry during naptime while they play Nintendo switch. I really have it together.

@@MrsKimchula gosh this made me laugh 😆

You win the comments

people did that then, my mum was left outside as a baby in 1967

Animals could easily get a newborn baby

@@ericag5346 that’s just how they did it back then , I’m 58 now and wouldn’t leave my grandchildren out in their prams.

@@jackiewale5206 I find that so interesting, I guess mainly because I've never heard of it until now but once I saw it in the video I didn't think it was as unsafe, just taking a little nap right on the patio or something ☺️ oh it was a different time!

@@jackiewale5206 Because back then there were so many children around that they were sometimes even more of a burden, especially to low income families. Due to the abundance people didn’t make such a fuzz about children. You had some and that’s all there was to it. Nowadays children are treated like VIPs which is the other extreme.

Maybe her full name was Wendy Ann Allison.

I noticed that too . Lol

Her surname is Ann I think

Lived *their* complete lives. 11 years school, please use it.

@@JulieWallis1963 im sorry, this person is trying to make a nice point and you care about there one spelling mistake that really...dose not matter at all.

It is still very common in Scandinavian countries to set the baby outside for sleep. Appropriately dressed and not in the bright sun, of course!

The part where she laid the newborn on her stomach was worrying to watch honestly

They do that in Russia in the winter.

@@TheLeastOfficialOfBros Not at all. You only shouldn’t let your baby sleep in that position.

What? Where did you get this absurd from?

62

You're getting ahead of yourself. She is closed to 60 than 70!

The paper said 1958 so she would be 62 now.

Lmao he's *useless*

Thats a Beautiful sentiment. What a sweet thing for a parent to tell their child.

And yet you go by Maria Poulos these days 😄

Life wasn’t simple. It’s just that you don’t know these times as an adult.

@@Celisar1 i get what your saying but we weren't bombarded with sooooo much at once like we are today, 😊

Yes, breastfeeding is obviously great, and I agree that if you are able to breastfeed and it doesn't affect your health to breastfeed whether that be mental or physical, it is perfect to use formula too. My milk supply ran out after 2 months and I tried for an extra month to get it back, but it just wouldn't and my baby wasn't getting enough milk. So formula it was, and he's perfect.

They didn't leave straight away, were in hospital for at least 2 weeks. Many womens uterus shrink down by then :) especially when breastfeeding.

Girdles. Big heavy super-strong girdles. Every woman wore one from teenagers on up. They also held up your stockings.

Doctors in those days only wanted you to gain 10 pounds.

It was.....Feminism ruined in.

@@Girlgonewise Indeed it did!

@@Girlgonewise agree

@@Girlgonewise now we have to work like men while still being women and mothers and the government is laughing at us. Thanks feminism

@@JusticeForWilmien not me lol. I’m a housewife, happily at home raising our kids. I thank God I didn’t fall for the lies of feminism.

See the description

@@eleanorrigby7914 oh thank you!

😆 we had a car when my son was born in 75 and used to put his carry cot on the back seat when I went to visit my mum ,no seat belts , or any safety harness either lol we'd never dream of it today. 😂

Same. They were throwing that baby around so haphazardly I thought it was a doll until about halfway through. When I realized it was real the whole time I had so much anxiety.

Might be short for Allison, like Rick for Richard/Ted-Edward/Liz-Elizabeth?

I thought Ellison referred to her last name She might be Wendy Ann Ellison

@@Nessa___ Her last name is Schumer. Wendy Allison Schumer.

Everybody looks older back then. How bizarre .

Strangely we always seem to count the fingers and toes, people were always worried about 6 on each limb. My mother certainly did, grandma too.

Lol, also thought that was hilarious!

I used olive oil on my kids for years on thier haor,scalp.. I never used baby powder . I used corn starch but it was the late 70s

What did they used to use before disposable diapers?

@@toplobster1040 cloth diapers and safety pins

I use modern cloth nappies for my baby born in 2019, also don’t have a baby monitor and use basic sensitive skin lotion. But I have a 15 year age gap between my 2 children so I was used to doing terry cloth nappies with my first born😆

What’s wrong with baby monitors?

According to the article the video description links to in this case it's because baby Wendy was actually the couple's second child and the mother had even more experience due to helping care for her younger siblings including for 6 months when her parents were out of the country when she was only 14.

People romanticize the 50s too much. It is tv, it is staged, and the 50s had a lot of turmoil for anyone who was not a rich white man.

@@FC-hj9ub Well makes sense since clearly this family fits into that stereotype.

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he actually did not smoke, the TV made it up, many did back in the day though

No

Yes 😳

Yes

During that time it was considered the best way to put a baby down, the reason being if the baby regurgitated feed then it would flow out of the mouth and not run back in. Believe it or not there was logic to the procedures back then. Mothers would never have left babies unattended during this time anyway. Don’t you give ‘tummy time’ to babies these days? I think you do!

@@serenitybay5544 My daughter hated being on her stomach so she rarely did tummy time. I think it’s stupid anyway. Put the baby in a safe spot on the floor and let them look around. They usually don’t get a flat spot if they aren’t strapped into a swing or other container.

Lol same! I could barely walk from having my almost 9 lb baby (born two weeks early).

Maria Colls that’s what I was thinking

Probably on account of the furiously offended bloke at the end. Lol. 🤣

@@steenystuff1075 What was up with that?

@@susanbrogan2517 What was up with what? The original commenter wondered why comments were disabled. I suggested it might be on acc of the guy at the end who was offended.

It was safe to do that back then

I live in Finland, and both here and in other Nordic countires almost everyone leaves their babies sleeping outside, even when it’s cold. So, still a thing here 😂

That’s still a thing in Germany too😊

Paregoric. I was one of those lactose intolerant babies of the late 50s. Mulsoy was what was given to me and from what I understand it stunk like a mother!