Proficient nerd on most things baby/ culture/ history/book related. Disability advocate. Has a penchant for photography, languages, and panics when low on chocolate rations. Will embarrass self in any social situation to point out or pet other people's dogs. Habitual stumbler and tea drinker. People watcher, pizza slayer.
Have you ever seen the cult classic Harold and Maud? How about Rosemary’s Baby? Well, then you’ve seen Ruth Gordon! What does she have to do with baby history? Well, it’s not about the spawn of Satan but its still pretty evil. Ruth Gordon was born in Massachusetts in 1896 […]
Sources Hasch, Brooke. 9 March 2021. “Kentucky could be next stop for Safe Haven Baby Boxes.” ABC: WHASII. History of Yesterday- child abandonment in medieval times Religion Unplugged- the pro-life movement in the 12-13th century Reuters- Italy Reinvents the wheel to save abandoned babies Calameo- 14th cen illuminated manuscript with […]
Transcript (and then some) In March of 1985, Women Against Pornography, eh-hem, WAPs, awarded Kimberly-Clark the makers of Huggies a Plastic Pig aka as a “zap” for their diaper commercials which the WAPs found provocative, even pornographic…. which… says A LOT about their group. Women Against Pornography was founded in […]
Killer Gender Reveal: 23 Feb 2021. “Gender-reveal device explosion kills father-to-be.” BBC World News. Other Parenting Cultures: Oakes, Kelly. 22 Feb 2021. “Is the Western way of raising kids weird?” BBC Future. Hunt Gather Parent- Book Pinsker, Joe. 2 March 2021. “There’s a Better Way to Parent: Less Yelling, Less […]
Sources 1. Meares, Hadley. 10 Feb 2021. “A Brief History of Royal Babies.” Vanity Fair. 2. Crary, David. 14 Feb 2021. “No longer an outlier: New York ends commercial surrogacy ban.” Associated Press. 3. al-Malky, Rania. 11 Feb 2021. “Egypt’s January revolution: Memories of motherhood, guilt and ecstasy.” Middle East […]
Sources: Perth’s Baby Farmer: Budrikis, Stella. 29 Sept 2020. “The Edward Street Baby Farm.” Freemantle Press. Wayne, Emma. 27 Jan 2021. “How dark world of ‘baby farming’ was exposed in sensational trial that brought lasting change.” Australian Broadcasting Company. Stonehenge Beaker Baby Burial: Morris, Steven. 4 Feb 2021. “Archaeologists unearth […]
Today we’re diving into the true-crime angle of baby history with the story of the Van Der Sluys (or Vandersluis, I’ve seen it spelt both ways) family and how an unsubstantiated theory on SIDS from the 1970s started the trend for at-home infant breathing monitors and became a cover for […]
Sources Baby Eating Witches: Stodolny, Tomasz. 16 Dec 2020. “Bochnia. Druga ludzka czaszka na Rynku. Hipoteza o odkryciu miejsca palenia czarownic się umacnia? – WIDEO.” Bochnianin.pl. Surrogacy Stevenson, Alexandra and Cao Li. 20 Jan 2021. “A Chinese Celebrity Scandal Puts Surrogate Births on Trial.” The New York Times. Roache, Madeline. 13 Sep […]
Ancient Roman Grave Freakonomics Podcast, “How much do we really care about children?” ep 447, 13, Jan 2021. Kearney, Melissa and Phillip B. Levine. 17 Dec 2020. “The coming COVID-19 baby bust: Update.” The Brookings Institute. Nickerson, Jordan and David H. Solomon. 22 Sept 2020. “Car Seats as Contraception.” Social […]
Cradle Board Mystery Ireland’s Mother and Baby Homes Commission The report Response to the report Fetal Rubella Syndrome on This Podcast Will Kill You Butterbox Babies on Dark Poutine Ideal Maternity Homes Survivor website Fiji- Weird Explorer Viti, 1860 on The Internet Archive Bouncing Back, Stephanie Lange’s video
