Loving this thread :)

Aming the gems of my collection of babycare books and leaflets is 
'Common Sense in the Nursery' written by Mrs Sydney Frankenberg (I 
think Sydney was her husband's name - I can't find her name, and 
Sydney is an unusual name for a woman), first published in 1922 and 
clearly very popular as it goes through a few editions until the one 
I have, which is dated 1946.

Mrs F - whose biog tells us she is a midwife, a Matron,  chair of 
various nursing associations, a specialist in child management and 
mothers' welfare, and an Oxford graduate  is no slouch in telling us 
what to do and why.

There are some weird and wonderful things in this book, some of them 
preposterous to us.

She is very censorious about mothers who do not breastfeed (while 
insisting on four hourly feeds and other things we know will not 
help, including a complicated washing of the breasts routine 
involving basins of hot and cold water and much use of white lint, 
which starts in pregnancy).

The breastfeeding-only period lasts for six months.

(The first food is a scraped chicken bone).

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, tutor, UK
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