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Don'ts for Mothers

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Don'ts for Mothers is a vintage guide offering traditional advice on child-rearing, spanning the stages from birth to weaning, through young childhood, and into boyhood and girlhood. It provides period-specific instructions such as the appropriate water temperature for washing babies, criteria for selecting a wet nurse, caution against rocking infants to sleep, and warnings against harmful practices like adding gin or peppermint oil to babies' food or purging infants during teething.
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This book will appeal to readers interested in historical perspectives on parenting and family life, as well as those curious about early childcare practices and vintage advice literature.

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Don'ts for Mothers is full of entertaining tips on on how to look after and raise a child - if you'd like a little Victorian master or miss...

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Following the success of Don'ts for Husbands and Don'ts for Wives, a brand new old collection of advice:

- From Birth to Weaning
- The care of Young Children
- Boyhood and Girlhood

"Don't wash the baby in hot water, it would weaken and enervate the babe, and thus predispose him to disease. Luke warm rain water will be the best to wash him with."

"Don't choose a wet nurse of a consumptive habit. Check if she or any of her family have laboured under 'king's evil' by ascertaining if there be any seams or swellings about her neck."

"Don't rock an infant to sleep, it might cause him to fall into a feverish, disturbed slumber, but not into a refreshing, calm sleep. Besides, if you once take to that habit, he will not go to sleep without it."

"Don't add either gin or oil of peppermint to the babe's food. It is a murderous practice."

"Don't purge an infant during teething or any other time. IF WE LOCK UP THE BOWELS, WE CONFINE THE ENEMY, AND THUS PRODUCE MISCHIEF."

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781408152232

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 17 October 2011

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: A & C Black Publishers Ltd

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 12.0mm

Width: 68.0mm

Height: 122.0mm

Weight: 49g

Pages: 80

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