![]() ![]() ![]() While passionate about women's birthing choices and informed consent, she is also slightly obsessed with city living, genealogy and cooking. She cut the only career cord she'd ever known and spontaneously changed gears, and she hasn't looked back since, contributing to several online publications, such as BabyGaga, Hot Moms Club, and the Organic Daily Post. But her true love-the world of mothers and babies-was lying in wait. References: Automatic Baby Feeder Patent, The Washington Post, Green Mountain Diaper, Zepp.io, The Telegraph, FDA, Ebay, Bexfield Antiques, Science History Institute, The Smithsonian Institute, Delphos Bending Company, All About Cloth Diapers, TradeMarkia,, American Libraries Magazine, Dirty Diaper Laundry, Period Paper, Good Housekeeping, The Henry Ford Foundation, BBC, Baby Bottle Museum, Popular Science Archives, Pinterest, PopSciĭanielle Lasher is a writer, mother, and women's health advocate living in Western Maryland-just outside of Washington DC-with her fiance, their four kids and two dogs.Īfter earning her bachelor's degree in Psychology at Penn State, Danielle made good use of her writing talent and went on to work as a copywriter, providing marketing content on healthcare and drug research to facilities around the globe. Once the Lindbergh fervor died down, then so did the desire for alarm-rigged baby cribs. The 1934 Lindbergh baby kidnapping brought on a temporary wave of fear for parents who worried that if a famous baby could be taken without a trace, then there was nothing stopping their own babies from being stolen in the night. The advertisement doesn’t say if the bell rings only once or continues to ring until pressure was put down. When the weight of the baby was lifted off the crib, a bell rang. A futuristic design sent rays of black light across a sensor. Seemingly out of a science fiction novel comes the Black Light Baby Guard of the 1930s. Here are 20 pictures of vintage baby products from the past. It’s pretty incredible that so many babies did survive these vintage baby products. Some practices weren’t changed until they were proved too dangerous. Some products are still in use, while others have been rendered obsolete through improved technology. In some cases, science led the way in the development.īut more often, manufacturers sold fads and fashions to parents eager to either add convenience to the experience of raising children or hoping to add to the social status of the family.įortunately, the past century or so produced a wealth of photographs and documentation of the good, the bad, and the truly weird baby products. Still, more baby gear was downright dangerous and even led to illness, injury or fatal outcomes. While some past inventions were phased out as new and better improvements came along, others were quick baby fads that fizzled. But a quick look into the not-so-distant past reveals that today’s babies are leading quite different childhoods than the babies of yesteryear. Since women have been birthing their little babies for thousands of years, a number of practices and inventions have come along over time that have greatly improved the safety and well-being of the tiniest members of the human race. ![]()
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