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I spent a good hour today leafing through old photo albums for the sake of finding some baby pictures of me so I can figure out what traits Ellorie has of mine. If you colored a beard on her, she's look exactly like a tiny version of my husband. She looks not a thing like me..which I personally think is a little unfair considering I did most of the work with the gestating and all of that.
I found a myriad of photos of things that would just NOT be done these days. (at least, I hope that they wouldn't). Keep in mind, it's the 70s, so I guess they didn't know ANYTHING. Though, I have a sneaking suspicion that it was my parents who were daft.
1. A good number of photos with me as an infant and sleeping on my stomach. The crib sheets had what looks like a plastic covering on them and the rudimentary bumper-like things things on the bars of the crib were plastic or vinyl or something weird with a horrible flowery 60s/70s pattern. I'm actually amazed there were bars on the crib.
2. A few photos with my dad holding me and a cigarette dangling out of his mouth and / or hand.
3. Me at age 2 or 3 with what looks like a cup full of wine on Passover.
4. Estimating my age to be about three or four in this picture: Riding in the front seat of my dad's very large car. Front seat...no carseat...and probably no seatbelt either. And he smoked in the car. Sometimes with the windows up. I also have memories of being rather young and riding in the back of my neighbor's pick-up truck to the beach.
It's ruddy amazing that I'm not dead!
5. Me with a plastic grocery bag tied around my head. Okay, okay. There's no picture of that. But I suppose they might as well have done that considering all the other parental decisions that could have killed me.
And she has my nose, by the way. That's it. Nine months of puking, largeness, and discomfort and she has my nose.
I found a myriad of photos of things that would just NOT be done these days. (at least, I hope that they wouldn't). Keep in mind, it's the 70s, so I guess they didn't know ANYTHING. Though, I have a sneaking suspicion that it was my parents who were daft.
1. A good number of photos with me as an infant and sleeping on my stomach. The crib sheets had what looks like a plastic covering on them and the rudimentary bumper-like things things on the bars of the crib were plastic or vinyl or something weird with a horrible flowery 60s/70s pattern. I'm actually amazed there were bars on the crib.
2. A few photos with my dad holding me and a cigarette dangling out of his mouth and / or hand.
3. Me at age 2 or 3 with what looks like a cup full of wine on Passover.
4. Estimating my age to be about three or four in this picture: Riding in the front seat of my dad's very large car. Front seat...no carseat...and probably no seatbelt either. And he smoked in the car. Sometimes with the windows up. I also have memories of being rather young and riding in the back of my neighbor's pick-up truck to the beach.
It's ruddy amazing that I'm not dead!
5. Me with a plastic grocery bag tied around my head. Okay, okay. There's no picture of that. But I suppose they might as well have done that considering all the other parental decisions that could have killed me.
And she has my nose, by the way. That's it. Nine months of puking, largeness, and discomfort and she has my nose.
I do have to say and please don't smack me, but Lillie has ALWAYS slept on her tummy! I know I know, but she never slept thru the night if she was not, and she has slept for at least 10 hrs straight that way since she was 2 months!!!! Congrats on the nose!!!!! :)
Grocery bags were still brown paper bags back then also.
Just wait, your daughter will wonder what planet you were from when she is your age.
I am doing this the second time around and even though at times it seems like all the rules have changed, I know I did not kill my grown children, and not all things that I did were so bad!
I Know how you feel about yoru baby looking like your husband and not you... My baby looks NOTHING like me either!!.. Looks EXACTLy like my husband... baby didi however get my ears (which stick out majorly !!!! so husband always jokes... oh he got your ears.) :)
And I do agree that by the time ours are older, the rules might change yet again.
Babies will have to be put to sleep suspended from the ceiling by wires or something. (That actually sounds quite fun.)
I think every friend of mine born in the sixties and seventies has a picture in the family photo box of themselves as a baby on a blanket, on the floor next to some sort of spirit. Mine is a bottle of Budweiser and I'm bloody buck naked :) Nowadays you could literally be arrested for taking a photo like that but back then it was a right of passage....baby meets daddy's "other" love. The way my mom tells it, her OB smoked during their routine check-ups when she was pregnant with me & I very clearly remember riding squelched up in the hatch of my Mom's powder blue pinto on the ride to school, for fun of course :)
I agree, sleeping suspended by wires from the ceiling does sound like fun. Personally, I think I'd wake up with a lot less backaches and stiff necks sleeping that way.