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Royal Babies, Surrogacy, Memories, Gutherie Cards, Demons, Madam Iowa, and American Childhood | Rabbit Holes Ep5
This is Rabbit Holes, a semi-regular reaction-style series about the baby-related stories I’ve found interesting and think you’ll find interesting too. Let’s get started! Reminder: if there are sources you would like to read, for example, NYTs, but get stopped by a paywall, I encourage you to contact your local public library to see if…
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Aussie Baby Farmer, Stonehenge Baby, Medieval Birth, Stolen Newborn, Unregulated Sperms, Liquid Ventilation | Rabbit Holes ep 4
Rabbit Holes is a semi-regular reaction-style series about the baby-related stories I’ve found interesting and think you’ll find interesting too. Let’s get to them! Table of Contents Perth’s Baby Farmer In Perth, Australia in 1909, Alice Mitchell was on trial for the death of one baby but during the proceedings, it was discovered that thirty-seven…
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Breathing Monitors as Criminal Deterrents | SIDS Series Pt3
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 serial murder. This post will…
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Baby-Eating Witches, Surrogacy, Fertility, Baby Scoop, Old West Midwife, #moms | Rabbit Holes Ep 3
This is Rabbit Holes, a semi-regular reaction-style series about the baby-related stories I’ve found interesting and think you’ll find interesting too. Let’s get started! Table of Contents Baby Eating Witches Archaeologists in Poland have been excavating the town square of Bochnia, where in 1679, three women accused of being baby-eating witches were burnt at the…
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2000 yo baby grave, Covid’s baby bust, car seats as contraception, fetus-thieves | Rabbit Holes Ep 2
Rabbit Holes is a semi-regular reaction-style series of baby-related news or topics that I find tempting to follow down a research rabbit hole, but must resist, for the time being. I think you’ll find them interesting too, so let’s get started! Table of Contents Ancient Roman Baby’s Grave The 2000-year-old grave of a one-year-old was…
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Cradle Board Mystery, Mother and Baby Homes, Rubella, and Bouncing Back | Rabbit Holes Ep 1
The Rabbit Holes series will be all about the baby history I find throughout the week, those tempting research rabbit holes I have to resist following. I may follow up on some of them in the future but for the time being, I’d just like to briefly share interesting finds with you. Let’s get started!…
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The Needham Ghost Baby of Cook’s Bridge
It’s not often that we hear about ghost stories with infants as the protagonists, I’ve heard a couple (the disembodied crying baby or weirdness with baby monitors), but usually, if it’s a halfling ghost, it’ll be a child. But that wasn’t the case in Needham, Massachusetts in 1839. Just past Cook’s Bridge over the Charles…
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ICBW Archives: Babywearing & Cerebral Palsy
I wrote this article for the Iowa City Babywearers group blog, published on February 18th, 2018. We decided to retire the group in March of this year and our website will be expiring in November, so I thought I would salvage a few of the most popular articles and share them with TBH readers. At…
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Stop that Carriage! | Runaway Stroller Trope
The runaway baby carriage is a classic film trope but does it really happen in real life? where did the trope get started?
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How Sick Babies Led to the Discovery of Sunless Tanner
Did they really feed sick babies sunless tanner in the 1950’s?
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