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• jenndub member

  October 2013

  I love the one with the woman holding a baby under a sun lamp. We don't want any pasty white babies around here, that's why I spray tan Sawyer.
  

  
  

  
    Emma Rose - 9.14.05    Beckett - 5.26.07    Sawyer - 9.22.12    Lennon Mae - 9.26.14

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• Hyaline member

  October 2013

  Have you seen the book "Mommy Knows Worst" by James Lileks?  It's this hilarious compilation of ads and advice columns about child rearing and babies and stuff--hilarity.  Like how they thought you shouldn't give babies too much affection and how to make sure your baby gets enough fresh air.  By using a baby cage suspended from your window.  It's awesome.

  
  

  
  

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• danabsd member

  October 2013

  Those are great.  My fav:
  
  Before you scold me, Mom... maybe you'd better light up a Marlboro.
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• watercolor5 member

  October 2013

  Hyaline said:

  Have you seen the book "Mommy Knows Worst" by James Lileks?  It's this hilarious compilation of ads and advice columns about child rearing and babies and stuff--hilarity.  Like how they thought you shouldn't give babies too much affection and how to make sure your baby gets enough fresh air.  By using a baby cage suspended from your window.  It's awesome.

  Never heard of it, but it sounds crazy.  My mom gave me her old prenatal book from when she was pregnant with me in the '80s, and it had a chapter on exercises you should start doing in the hospital to stay attractive to your husband, and it also included a calorie counter in the back with the number of calories in alcoholic cocktails in it...  apparently the danger of cocktails was the calorie content, not the alcohol !?! 
  
  Anyway, the "literature" we get from our OBs has changed a lot in thirty years...
  

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