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Syrian Baby Carriers in Ancient Egypt

September 24, 2019October 7, 2019

The Beng Babies of the Côte d’Ivoire

February 19, 2015September 19, 2019

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#Repost @newyorkercartoons (@get_repost) ・・・ This week’s sketchbook drawing by @lianafinck is a collaboration with her mother, @harfinn. #TNYcartoons . . #grandparents #parents #kids #family #aging #wisdom

There's no shortage of topics I can nerd out about but I want to know what ya'll are most curious about. Let me know in the comments, or if you're shy, send me a PM. 🤓 (My background is history and anthropology, so bring on the baby related culture and evolution queries too. 😊) . . #babyhistory #history #historynerd #moms #moms #dads #nanny #culture #anthropology

How long before something becomes traditional? This method of baby transport could only be a few hundred years old. Horses were introduced to Central America by Europeans (along with smallpox) in the 15-16th centuries- both spread farther than anyone could have imagined. . . Prior to the introduction of the horse, dogs may have been used to pull loads in a similar fashion (without wheels). . . "Native American baby transport; A curious 'Baby-carriage' A prixe-winning travois at Lake Windemere in British Columbia." No date, Wellcome. . . . #firstnations #canada #britishcolumbia #baby #babygear #travelsystem #horse #historical #earlyphotography #nativeamerican #babytravel #blackandwhitephotography #lakewindermere

HUMANIZED MILK for INFANT FEEDING: liquid "meh". 🙄😒 . . Advertisement, c1910-1920. Wellcome Collection. . . #bottlefeeding #formulafeeding #history #oldadvertising #lithography #20thcentury #babyfood #soylentgreen #humanized #babynutrition #nanny #antiquebottles

This is one of my favorite 16th century sketches. The older kids' different personalities, the swaddled baby in arms, and mom looking at the artist. It's a scene most of us can imagine today in a waiting room or at the park, along with a chorus of "mom-mom-mom-mom". . . "A woman seated on a settle with four children." Hans Holbein the Younger, c1540. British Library. . . #momsbelike #momoffour #tudor #16thcentury #hansholbein #sketch #history #motherhood #baby #swaddle #toddler #historicalfashion #children

Self-feeder bottles were popular throughout the 19th century but they were associated with infant death not only for the substitution of breast milk but for the bottle style itself. The tubing was impossible to properly clean and the nature of a self-feeder bottle meant that unpasteurized dairy milk sat in unclean, unrefrigerated bottles for long periods. Ethical pediatricians strongly warned against their use and some tried to make their sale illegal. . . . "An opening bud." Design of Antikamnia Chemical Co. St. Louis, MO, printed by G.H. Bush & Co., Luth, NY. 1897. Wellcome. . . #history #baby #bottlefeeding #pacifier #babygear #breastmilk #breastfeeding #infantcare #momguilt #infantmortality #feedingbaby #babyfood #arthistory #oldadvertising #lithography #skull #skeleton #anatomy #18thcentury #propoganda #nutrition

Here's an odd one: police officer takes a baby for violating local curfew... Or at least that's what the Wellcome collection listing says, here's a rough translation: . . <<Ah mon dieu ! Vous confisquez mon nouveau nè ?>> . << Vous êtes accouchée le soir, et il est venu au monde sans lanterne.>> . . ---------- . . "Oh my God! Why are you taking my baby?" . "You've given birth at night and he's come into the world without a lantern." . . 🤔🤔🤔 Francophones, please explain. . . . . #history #satire #birth #curfew #français #french #napoleonic #regency #cradle #newborn #mother #statepolice #19thcentury #france #babysleep #francophile #francophone

Queen Vicky and Prince Albert walk in on a drunken wet nurse feeding baby Prince Eddy VII from a bottle of booze. 1843. Wet nurse: "What do you want a drop? Hic- why you little Topper! Hic- I wonder who do you take after? Hic- not your hic- daddy, I'm sure! Hic- I'll make you a Spirited Heir Apparent. Hic- Ha! Ha! Ha!" . Queen: "Teaching his Royal Highness to drink as I'm alive!" . Prince: "Ah my Loaf I was mean him to be one temperance Prince of de Wales." . . Source: Welcome Collection. #victorian #wetnurse #baby #bottlefeeding #liquor #spirited #queenvictoria #prince #heir #childcare #drunk #drunkmemes #satire #politicalcartoons #history #historical #alcohol #temperance #19thcentury #19thcenturyfashion #england #british

When your SWOL toddler's new pretend friend is a terrible influence. 😆 #medievalmemes #baby #death #bedtime #party

1951: Natural Birth, Breastfeeding, Babywearing

1961: Before “Babywearing” there was “Baby Toting”

1960’s “Are You An Indian” Ivory Snow Ad

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