Start potty training your baby at six months! And don't forget to wear your best dress and curl your hair!A few weeks ago, I wrote about how the scheduled-ness of my life was wearing me out. Then, I read a few excerpts from a baby book (Better Homes and Gardens Baby Book, published first in 1943) and I felt a lot better about my life.
Schedule for Baby Two Months Old
6:00 am to 7:00 am Feeding. Afterwards, Baby may lie in his bassinet in the living room, and may or may not nap.
9:00 am Wheel into bedroom for short nap.
9:30 am Concentrate or one teaspoon fish-liver oil as prescribed. Two to three ounces orange juice.
10:00 am Sun bath on the porch or before an open window. Then Baby sleeps, either on the porch or indoors, depending upon the weather.
1:30 pm to 2:00 pm Feeding. Will probably nap after this.
4:00 pm Outdoors on the porch, in bassinet or in buggy.
5:00 pm Exercise on the big bed.
5:30 pm Can be held or carried about house.
6:00 pm Feeding, followed by bed.
10:00 pm Feeding.
Discuss amongst yourselves.
10 comments:
This is what I have done will all my children.
They hate me.
and there's some kind of disconnect that picture that makes the mom look like she just found a little alien and put it on the potty--and did up the seat belt, just in case the alien tries to escape.
I don't know but there is just something creepy about the picture and the schedule. Feels very Stepford Wivesish!
What I would like to know is what does "exercise on the big bed" involve? What is the "big bed?" :)
My only question is whether the exercise at 5 pm is for the baby or the mother...or maybe the mother and her significant other??? MMmmmm...the 50s were an interesting time. :)
this is just bizarre. i would prefer that i be "wheeled" into the bedroom for a short nap at 9am.
Yeah, very weird. So, the Mom can't carry baby into the bedroom for nap at 9am? Baby must be "wheeled" into the room? Bizarro.
what i don't get is, why is the baby only eating 4 times a day? and with a 7.5 hour gap between the first and second feeding. weird.
It seems to provide little actual contact with the baby, but I guess it didn't mess up the mother's dress! No wonder these women of the 50s rebelled and started the feminist movement. It's sheer nuttiness.
I think there might be a total of 30 minutes of actual interaction with the baby in this scenario. And it seems in the 50s they thought women were stupid enough to need a minute by minute play-by-play with what to do with this creature. I wonder if there's a schedule for a marriage out there somewhere?
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