1950s reality TV follows new parents home from hospital | RetroFocus

[@bernices8481]

Apparently baby and domestic chores will mesh together like clockwork! My kids are 13 and 16 so it should be any moment now. I'm so excited!

[@sarahburke1951]

😅

[@jenniferclarke3622]

You have to be patient dear.

[@sarah3796]

😅

[@karenchiavazzo2091]

😂😂

[@mitzinicoleritter211]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@WeComeFromALandDownUnder]

This is gorgeous. It’s what my parents went through in 1958 when my brother was born! Then 1966 68 and. 69 She would’ve loved this if she was alive. She loved her ‘Mother Craft’ classes in high school circa 1955. How things have changed. How you loved being a great Mum to all 4 of us! How I miss you so!, RIP Mum 🌹🌹

[@anarchyREIGNS]

This had me thinking of my parents sentimentally, with misty eyes also. Fascinating look into their experiences as parents. Truly lovely 🌺 Rest In Peace 🙏 to all of our beloved parents.

[@WeComeFromALandDownUnder]

ANARCHY REIGNS #411 Yep, it was definitely a different era and many who were new parents then have since passed (or many are great grand parents!) I do miss my mum terribly though 🌹🌹

[@anarchyREIGNS]

@@WeComeFromALandDownUnder I've watched this a few times/shared it and we are all having a similar sentimental reaction. ❣️ Seeing the clothes worn by our parents/grand parents and how babies/we were dressed, how life was before cell phones etc, the simplicity fills me with awe. They even showed breastfeeding that was wonderful! That's censored more in 2020 ! No father's in the delivery room, but smoking was allowed in the patient bay's. 😁 My children can't wrap their heads around that! Lol. I empathize with you, it hurts immeasurably. I know they are still with us, they never really leave us, they are alive within us and through our sharing of their legacies. Blessings 🙏❣️💞

[@cherylcogan3542]

Yes, I was thinking the same thing.

[@theirmanager5204]

😭

[@theroadlesstraveled3993]

The nurses "check the baby to make sure she's human". 🤣🤣

[@frankiesaysrelax3243]

I'm glad you caught that haha that is why I came to the comments

[@anncarroll7354]

Right! I feel like there needs to be another video on what other kinds of babies come into the nursery at the hospital 😂

[@shessnow9192]

Like what else are you expecting

[@Donnasherwani]

Did she just say the father standing by is quite useless 🤣

[@anii221]

They were savage back then 🤣😂

[@cherylcogan3542]

@@anii221 I don't know that they're much better nowadays. But it was pretty brutal. My dad wanted to be in the delivery room for all four of us, the closest he got was when my youngest brother was born. The head doctor said okay, but the head nurse who was in charge of delivery said no. 😢

[@9481xyz]

''Thank Heaven for father''... 10 seconds later: ''he's probably quite useless''

[@sarah3796]

😳😅

[@anii221]

They were savage back then🤣😂

[@saintessa]

Lmao omg these 50's psa's hey

[@saintessa]

I dunno, when mentioning my Dad, my mum often mentions how helpful he was when I was a baby and how she wouldn't have been able to do it. Thanks Dad.

[@homeschoolingmysuper7884]

Hilarious! 😂

[@KandeShack]

The Mom leaves the hospital with her beautiful, size 2, belted dress😂 and no car seats!

[@joko09010]

😂🤦🏻‍♀️

[@constitutionalrepublic1966]

Leave it to beaver

[@greypossum1]

This baby was 13 when seat belts became compulsory. I can't remember when car seats were mandatory.

[@deer105]

@@greypossum1 I think you're dates are a little off. Seat belts weren't mandatory *in cars* until 1968, after Ralph Nadar produced Unsafe at Any Speed. Wearing them was made compulsory on a state by state basis in the mid 80s. Car seats because compulsory at the same time, mid 80s.

[@greypossum1]

@@deer105 Rear seat belts in Australian cars became compulsory in 1970-73 depending on the state.

[@kippen64]

Having someone to help during the first few weeks would be appreciated by modern parents.

[@anarchyREIGNS]

I was thinking the exact same thing 😅 I would have loved that with my 3 boys. You really don't know what you're in for until you bring your bundle(s) home! The stress/worry and sleep deprivation are merely the beginning. 😁

[@Thindorama]

The parents in the video are modern. It's from the 50s, if that's not modern I don't know what is.

[@eletemmorzsaiblog]

I was born in 88 in Hungary. My grandma was there to help my mum in the first few weeks. Back in the past you had an older female relative who was helping you with your newborn - household task - cooking etc. Nowadays people work much longer and simple no-one is there to help

[@naomiwilliams8850]

Everyone I know was helped by their mother or their partners mother for the first few weeks. You must be an outlier.

[@SuperLn1991]

@@naomiwilliams8850 ?? You must be very lucky to live around people that all have a nice mother/ godmother, or just a free or close one. The first 2 years of my son I was completely on my own, except for my partner. And I wished I was living back in those days when everything was harder but at least you knew your neighbors and you were never on your own.

[@joeymarie72]

1958: "Get the baby another blanket for the crib dear." 2021: "Wth do you think you're doing?! Get that blanket out of that crib!"

[@justrosy5]

That's because we know better now. SIDS deaths have declined because we've learned this and many other hard lessons, when little lives were lost. It's NOT "ok" to make fun of infant-care progress. You should be 100% ASHAMED of what you commented up there!

[@joeymarie72]

@@justrosy5 Yes, I'm well aware of that. 😉

[@that.ll_do_pig]

​@@justrosy5🤨🙄

[@joshjames31]

I love how sassy the narrator is, the deadpan nature of her delivery is a good laugh 😂

[@_kim123]

"Not a peep out of Wendy Allison all night." Dude they had like 3 blankets wrapped on newborn in a shallow crib!! I'm just glad she's alive.

[@jbb729]

Not a peep....i guess not they've mother's her cries.

[@redlandorganicgrowersinc1535]

On the trip home from hospital, it's got to be a doll - it's so rigid, and no-one is supporting the 'baby's' head.

[@reginagilby1101]

@@redlandorganicgrowersinc1535 exactly what I thought

[@myamarie9666]

and then all of that clothing on top of it!!!

[@ABCNewsIndepth]

And guess what? We found the baby! ab.co/3bEilvx

[@VedantMishra55]

Pin this comment ffs

[@OnlineDisguise]

@@VedantMishra55 ikr

[@Aritul]

Wonderful! Thanks for the update.

[@disneydame7850]

That’s so awesome! Wendy is now a grandmother wow!! How time flies by!!

[@bintlooda]

Wow 😍😍😍👏🏻

[@dinda7056]

I love these videos, the audio is so soothing

[@tandiparent1949]

Lol....yep...naptime 🙃

[@venusmarieanderson6963]

Most of us still have a relative we can relate this time period to, as well. This video was interesting and well written too.

[@zandiviljoen146]

Same🙌🏽🙌🏽the retro accent is just gold man

[@maxcaulfield5736]

Ikr

[@jbb729]

I know right. That's why I tuned in

[@seewhaticcurious1]

Uh, if your newborn baby straight home from the hospital doesn't make a peep all night. . .CHECK THAT THEY'RE STILL ALIVE

[@sarah3796]

Yes I was like aaahhhh

[@seewhaticcurious1]

@@sarah3796 EXACTLY

[@Timetangle100]

Most newborns were in a little crib beside the mother at night, it was much easier to reassure yourself that all was well and easier to feed and change if needs be.

[@debt4717]

Ha! My mom and dad always told me that the first night home, I slept through the night and they thought it would be easy. Mom says that after that first night, I screamed my head off every night thereafter. Must have just been tired from the birth :-)

[@TypoHaven]

The baby was also two weeks old on it's first night home since they stayed for that long in the hospital unlike now where it's 24hours and a boot in the tush lol

[@Willsy]

People have issues with breastfeeding in public in 2020, yet in the 50’s they were airing it on TV 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@MagicallyElena]

Ik its completely natural

[@Donnasherwani]

It’s Reverse everything nowadays

[@naomiwilliams8850]

@Vanik Ghosh what are you talking about, feminism isn't the reason women are shamed for breastfeeding in public. Quite the opposite

[@cherylwebb8340]

Not every thing that's natural needs to be done in public. If it involves your private parts, it should be done privately. I always did.

[@dovetwo]

@@cherylwebb8340 That’s great for you Cheryl. However, some babies need to eat in public.

[@YT4Me57]

These were my parents when i was born. Even though my mom was a nurse, with a specialty in the newborn ICU, there's nothing like the first baby! My dad surprised her by providing diaper service. She was so grateful that some 20 years - 30 years later, she still spoke of it. This film made me cry. It was a glimpse at the new family created by my own advent into the world in the 1950s. Thank you for sharing.

[@Celisar1]

Diaper service? How does that work?

[@bweaver760]

My mother hated the disposable pamper diapers. So, when my second daughter was born my mother paid for diaper service when my second child was born!

[@earlyjicama4302]

@@Celisar1 a service that delivers clean washed diapers to your house and removed the dirty ones to wash so you don't have to wash them yourself. Diaper services still exist today!

[@katiebrent3332]

A fortnight in hospital after having a baby! Sheesh, what a luxury, I was kicked out the next day LOL

[@kpace985]

2 weeks?! I missed that part. 2 weeks would have been awesome! I had c sections so I was in for four days. 2 weeks is just enough time for the hospital nurses to get your baby on a sleeping and feeding schedule

[@monicafiore20]

I wanted to go home so bad!

[@deborahgate965]

My mum had her babies in the 60s and early 70s and always spent a week resting in hospital afterwards.

[@sandramullen7804]

We were in for a full week in the 70s and very strict were tge matrons back then too .. two to a bed and no more . Lol visiting I mean 😆

[@jbb729]

@@kpace985 what? A fortnight? In some Indian countries they have the c section and they leave the next morning

[@Heather-xz3eo]

This is the era in Australia I was born in and so much of this looks familiar to me, even as a small child in 1960 I was two when this was filmed They were carefree days and I miss that ☹️

[@KiwiInOz01]

These days society expects the mother to get get behind straight back to work or she's lazy how times have got so cruel!

[@cutiecupcake4150]

And people wonder why 60% of women didn't want to right to vote.

[@JeantheSecond]

@@cutiecupcake4150 Oh, ffs.

[@babylonisfallen5142]

They did it to get the other half of the tax base and get kids away from their parents. Nothing to do with helping women.

[@jordanaguon1]

American society*

[@Noonecares3203]

And they have to look like they did before they got pregnant or they “let themselves go” or are slobs

[@mandamorris7934]

Well, you won't believe this but I've come upon this video on my 64th birthday. I was born in 1957... and flashing through my mind are old black and white photographs that are stunningly like this video! I love it!!

[@anncarroll7354]

What a neat birthday ‘gift’ 😁.

[@sazzorakskills1614]

WAIT??? There were government funded housekeepers for new parents??? That’s awesome!

[@alphabet_soup123]

@mental case I think they're bots. Posting all over youtube.

[@omomeidontaya3143]

@mental case they’re useless scammers or bots.

[@susanbrogan2517]

Australia must have cooler weather at times. I didn't know that.

[@GG-yb3gs]

The father couldn't possibly keep the house himself!

[@vidananovazelandia]

to many parents now day to offer this kind of luxury

[@amberlyne331]

So crazy they just drove home holding the baby. I find the old days to be so fascinating.

[@badassmomofteens4611]

I came home with my babies like that 14 and 12 yrs ago...but I live in Romania,Europe,we don't use car seats if there are 2 people in the car and one can hold the baby in the back

[@ninapagonakis4628]

More simple times in many aspects. I get jealous sometimes

[@amberlyne331]

@@badassmomofteens4611 oh Mann that would make me so nervous! People cannot drive here in the states, no fault of your own accidents happen so much. Even if it was an option, I'd still use one. Lol

[@cass3561]

I am from a little village in lebanon and barely anyone has a car seats hahaha

[@JennyLouRN]

That’s how it was when I was growing up in the U.S. I remember when seatbelt laws came into effect.

[@thepochade5992]

Wow.. and to think, this wasn't really that long ago in the big scheme of things.

[@SmallTNHomestead]

Wow. She left the baby outside. A lot of brainwashing back then.

[@WeComeFromALandDownUnder]

The Pochade but how things have changed hey lol?🌹🌹

[@WeComeFromALandDownUnder]

Mary Springer Obviously no child snatching then! 🤣🤣🤣

[@SmallTNHomestead]

@@WeComeFromALandDownUnder LOL exactly! And the help she had when she got home and "took the baby to welfare" to get checked out. So many hinting messages to the people on this video! It told each person their place and no encouragement that there was any other place for her in life. Everything was PERFECT.

[@nancydambrot5941]

@@WeComeFromALandDownUnder loop

[@kathleensomerville3319]

Notice the mother's in bed. That was where they stayed for 14 days after birth, not a foot to the floor. Blood clots were a big problem for the new mum's. Practices changed over time, now you are home hours after giving birth.

[@dawn5227]

In my case I was at home the entire time with 2 of my kids as they were born at home.

[@mindysr]

Now we have drive thru deliveries because of insurance companies.

[@CovidConQuitTheCensorship]

I took my 2nd home within hours of having him. The hospital staff weren't happy but I just picked him up and said thanks, seeya 😂

[@Forever-And.Ever-Amen]

I thought laying in bed made the risk for blood clots worse?

[@CovidConQuitTheCensorship]

@@Forever-And.Ever-Amen I thought that's what Kathleen meant in her original comment, that blot clots were common because they were kept in bed. Maybe she can clarify

[@laurenaw810]

Imagine being able to keep your baby out like that, with out having to worry about creeps

[@Jurmyus]

Had me paranoid lol

[@sonjah2750]

In the Nordic countries, we still do so. I'm from Finland and babies take naps outside even in the winter. They sleep longer and better and it's apparently good for the lungs too. Winter babies start napping outside later (at a few weeks old) but I as a summer baby was napping outside by the time I was a week old. Most common "cold limit" is -10°C, but some place theirs at -15°C. It's not dangerous when the baby is dressed properly and monitored. If their neck is cold, too little clothes. If their neck is hot and sweaty, too much clothes.

[@mustangnawt1]

It happens in the UK. Leave babies in the “pram” outside stores. Except they have been taken, so would never. If u want your child to get fresh air, u need to be with them

[@lindal3966]

@@mustangnawt1 London, 1960s, it was then common to leave babies in prams outside shops - one day my mother saw (through the shop window) a woman put something into my 6/7 month old brother's mouth. Needless to say, she rushed out but couldn't find anything in his mouth, woman had rushed off but that evening my brother was violently unwell, vomiting. Mum never left a baby outside a shop, alone, after that.

[@BhappyD]

@@lindal3966 That must have been absolutely terrifying for your poor mother! It’s horrible that there are so many awful people in this world doing harm to even the most vulnerable and innocent, making us unable to trust anyone. No parent should have to worry about someone doing harm to their child. I’m so glad it seems your brother turned out to be alright. It’s scary to think what that woman’s intentions were and exactly what it was she gave your brother, and even scarier to think that it probably wasn’t an isolated incident and that she did it to others as well. People who do sick things like that typically don’t just do something like that once and never do it again.

[@5mashton]

Wendy is now 61 years old🙂

[@purpdist2355]

Well she would be 70 actually. My mom is from 1958 and is 61 now

[@karimamery1835]

@@purpdist2355 this documentary was aired on january 1959 , so she would be as old as your mother by now

[@suej9329]

@@purpdist2355 Someone born in 1958 would be 62 or 63 now. A person who is 70 would have been born in 1950 or 1951.

[@annbeth6730]

@@suej9329 I was born in 52 I'm 69 in November SCARY

[@xUzi786]

@@annbeth6730 im 25 at the moment and I feel like if I was in my 60s it would be scary as im getting closer and closer to death.

[@jemmajames6719]

Soaping a baby before putting in the bath, a very slippy baby, not to be recommended

[@lulla-bybenoit5777]

It is recommended in most western country, it was for my son 2 years ago, if you take him properly it's not slippy :)

[@itskindofemily]

She's so tiny even after having a baby! And seeing these old suburbs is soo cute

[@bluevictory1010]

It's called not eating junk food and processed food.

[@Marie-kv7lb]

@@bluevictory1010 it's normal to look five months pregnant after delivery because the uterus will be at the level of your belly button and then skin is very stretched. But you're right, many women take pregnancy as an excuse to eat all kinds of junk food and they'll later complain that they gained so much weight.

[@annieridesagain3867]

@@Marie-kv7lb I think most pregnant women want to eat more healthily during pregnancy for the sake of their child to be . Just looking or smelling junk food made me feel sick.

[@shellos8]

How times have changed. I went to the grocery store the day after I got out of the hospital and back to work in 6 weeks. Nobody helped me much at all and I certainly didn't have a housekeeper.

[@playnicechannel]

I went grocery shopping in labor so that my 5 year old would have her favorite foods plus staples. Then the day after I gave birth i went to work for four hours because my infant was in the NICU (as was my oldest when she was born) luckily my younger daughter only had to stay 8 days, when she was released from the NICU I drove straight to work. She didn’t start daycare for a week so I just kept her in my office with the door closed (I was a software engineer). The only time it was an issue was one day she threw like 6 apnea alarms. After repositioning her I heard a quiet knock on the door. One of my coworkers was wondering about the alarm. I let her know all was well. I had three babies and the cumulative time off I had including the day the children were born was 5 days. My full term son was a 12 hour release and he was born on a Sunday so I missed zero hours with him. We think this is odd in the modern era but really it’s consistent with millennia of women before us

[@Celisar1]

@@playnicechannel Dear lord, that sounds horrible! What country is it where you have zero leave after giving birth??

[@bcosican2694]

@playnicechannel. That is terrible.

[@thehousespouse]

"Then gradually she'll work her way into a new routine where baby and domestic chores mesh together like clockwork.".... Yeah... Okay.... 😆

[@calicocritterscrafts886]

Two kids later and I’m still looking for the “like clockwork” 🤣🙄

[@carmarasmussen8118]

Four kids and 30 years later, still waiting....🤣

[@MrsKimchula]

Yeah that’s pretty much what it’s like at home with my 5 month old. I pop a Tostitos pizza in the oven around 5pm for his brothers, I fall asleep on a heap of laundry during naptime while they play Nintendo switch. I really have it together.

[@amor2874]

@@MrsKimchula gosh this made me laugh 😆

[@missmoxie9188]

You win the comments

[@Aritul]

This video is a treasure.

[@deer105]

I can smell the interiors of these amazing 1950s model cars. My parents had a vintage one in the 70s.

[@RiverDanube]

Two weeks in hospital then a domestic helper for a few weeks, what a great idea.

[@jackiewale5206]

Babies were always left outside to sleep even back in the 60s when I was born , and left outside shops in prams . We were left outside but mum left the sheep dogs beside the pram lol .

[@ericag5346]

Animals could easily get a newborn baby

[@jackiewale5206]

@@ericag5346 that’s just how they did it back then , I’m 58 now and wouldn’t leave my grandchildren out in their prams.

[@ericag5346]

@@jackiewale5206 I find that so interesting, I guess mainly because I've never heard of it until now but once I saw it in the video I didn't think it was as unsafe, just taking a little nap right on the patio or something ☺️ oh it was a different time!

[@Celisar1]

@@jackiewale5206 Because back then there were so many children around that they were sometimes even more of a burden, especially to low income families. Due to the abundance people didn’t make such a fuzz about children. You had some and that’s all there was to it. Nowadays children are treated like VIPs which is the other extreme.

[@louisedebusk6009]

Lol, she became Wendy Anne at the end whilst Mother reassured Father 🤣

[@FionaEm]

OMG the narration is just as sexist towards the husband as it is towards the wife 😂 Gotta love the 50s.

[@dawn5227]

Mother and father are both going to be quite confused when they realise Wendy Allison turned into Wendy Ann by the end of the film.. oh how useless they will both feel I'm sure.

[@EYE_GOTCHA]

Maybe her full name was Wendy Ann Allison.

[@sandramullen7804]

I noticed that too . Lol

[@wendymclean49]

Her surname is Ann I think

[@johnmartin3735]

We need to remember ppl lived there complete lives from birth to the end before we were even thought of yet we reap the benefits and at the very least we owe each and every person the time to get to know them the best we can and see the beauty in them and how fascinating and special they are

[@JulieWallis1963]

Lived *their* complete lives. 11 years school, please use it.

[@yogurtz6676]

@@JulieWallis1963 im sorry, this person is trying to make a nice point and you care about there one spelling mistake that really...dose not matter at all.

[@gmanpboy]

I love how they sheeit on the dad in the beginning

[@ZoeThomson00]

Lmao he's *useless*

[@KathyY1948]

I can remember my mother leaving my sister outside she was born in 1951. I was born in 1948 and Mom stayed in the hospital for 10 days.

[@mootpoint7053]

Crazy part is that dear old Wendy Allison is nearly 70 now!

[@VedantMishra55]

62

[@alphabet_soup123]

You're getting ahead of yourself. She is closed to 60 than 70!

[@shanenanigans27]

The paper said 1958 so she would be 62 now.

[@theresad3931]

Oh my, she left the baby buggy outside while making a phone call at a pay phone lol

[@tealwashablemarker8886]

people did that then, my mum was left outside as a baby in 1967

[@mariapoulos767]

I loved this ... I was born in 67 my name was recorded as Maria Elena Giavanipoulos ... I remember asking my Daddy if he could please shorten my name to just what my friends called me when I started school because my name took up three sticky notes. My Daddy said ... "Your Name Is The First Gift Given To You By Your Parents " ... he told me to always be proud of the name you were born with. I have remembered this little message he shared with me.

[@glendalanden2916]

Thats a Beautiful sentiment. What a sweet thing for a parent to tell their child.

[@Celisar1]

And yet you go by Maria Poulos these days 😄

[@rommelbillman2872]

As a nurse I had to chuckle a bit, you’d think nobody had ever had a kid before and we were all ignorant. However, I love the fact the pointed out that breastfeeding is the best for the baby, not necessarily the easiest at first for mom. There’s a lot to be said for the bonding that takes place while breastfeeding as well as both the short and long term health benefits.

[@spiraling299]

Yes, breastfeeding is obviously great, and I agree that if you are able to breastfeed and it doesn't affect your health to breastfeed whether that be mental or physical, it is perfect to use formula too. My milk supply ran out after 2 months and I tried for an extra month to get it back, but it just wouldn't and my baby wasn't getting enough milk. So formula it was, and he's perfect.

[@clo1720]

This is a beatiful video, such a natural mother! Very sad to read the father in this video died at a young age and never got to meet Wendys children :(

[@loratommy8670]

How come everything seems so sweet and innocent and simple?

[@Girlgonewise]

It was.....Feminism ruined in.

[@elizabethsessions4486]

@@Girlgonewise Indeed it did!

[@Zoe-dr5ps]

@@Girlgonewise agree

[@JusticeForWilmien]

@@Girlgonewise now we have to work like men while still being women and mothers and the government is laughing at us. Thanks feminism

[@Girlgonewise]

@@JusticeForWilmien not me lol. I’m a housewife, happily at home raising our kids. I thank God I didn’t fall for the lies of feminism.

[@susanyates4233]

Delightful. I love the hand knitted jacket and bootees. My children all had handmade clothes, little nighties fastening with tapes down the back, and an embroidered panel at the front, plus terry towelling nappies.

[@moonrox4481]

What a cutie! This was so wholesome💗

[@kreeves122]

The bath and the leaving the newborn baby outside in the sun all by herself was a little shocking lol

[@jgr_lilli_]

It is still very common in Scandinavian countries to set the baby outside for sleep. Appropriately dressed and not in the bright sun, of course!

[@TheLeastOfficialOfBros]

The part where she laid the newborn on her stomach was worrying to watch honestly

[@mindysr]

They do that in Russia in the winter.

[@Celisar1]

@@TheLeastOfficialOfBros Not at all. You only shouldn’t let your baby sleep in that position.

[@dianadoraen7864]

What? Where did you get this absurd from?

[@teresamuriniti5026]

Wish life was that simple now,,, I was born 1960 , great memories🥰

[@Celisar1]

Life wasn’t simple. It’s just that you don’t know these times as an adult.

[@teresamuriniti5026]

@@Celisar1 i get what your saying but we weren't bombarded with sooooo much at once like we are today, 😊

[@nan639hildonen]

That was so fun to watch! Thanks for linking the update on this family.

[@Ctmorgans]

How nice it would be if Wendy Allison came on and make a comment about how lovely mother and father took care of her and how she passed it on to her children and grandchildren

[@eleanorrigby7914]

See the description

[@Ctmorgans]

@@eleanorrigby7914 oh thank you!

[@camresearch5120]

My wife was kicked out of hospital within a couple of days. We carried the baby out. I drove us the hour or so home. We had no housekeeping service. My wife had issues and I looked after them both and the house and 8 cats. Cooking, cleaning, bottles, nappies, baths etc. Yes I was only slightly useless...That was 2014 and I would have not a clue how much work it was for the older generation....😮 My parents were dead and my wife's family live in the USA. I would have never left the baby outside while I chilled inside. I kept a detailed feeding and 💩 logging on spreadsheets. Hmmmm

[@shojinryori]

16:20 ish - “Wendy Ann”? She’s been Wendy Alison up until now!

[@HeyItsBrittWithaB]

Might be short for Allison, like Rick for Richard/Ted-Edward/Liz-Elizabeth?

[@Nessa___]

I thought Ellison referred to her last name She might be Wendy Ann Ellison

[@LaLaLianna1]

@@Nessa___ Her last name is Schumer. Wendy Allison Schumer.

[@ariellapansinoneelefkovits2701]

I was shocked to see her breastfeeding and hear what they had to say about it! Wasn't expecting that at all! Nice 👍

[@gage4g]

My sister was born in 1958. It's a wonder we all survived without car seats.

[@joycohen938]

Classic!!! Definitely a by gone era I feel strangely nostalgic for!

[@jessthep1rate]

Good lord why can’t they just feed the damn kid before the bath

[@julieholland9639]

I was born a year after this child, slightly different because my mother was ignored when she tried to tell nurses she was in labour and she delivered me herself in the ward 😄 pretty sure in our state (WA) there was no help for mums when they came home as well. They make it seem like it was all roses but it was not really, I recall my Mother telling me she was often depressed and tired as I was her third child and dad was away all day and we didn't have the mod cons we ladies today have. I guess there are pros and cons to the decades you have a child in. my children were born in the 1980s ,in some ways harder than Mums era and in some ways easier

[@mikayla7260]

1:25-1:34 chaos...check if she is human lol what

[@TheEarthHistorysConfusing]

Strangely we always seem to count the fingers and toes, people were always worried about 6 on each limb. My mother certainly did, grandma too.

[@karinkruger5551]

Lol, also thought that was hilarious!

[@toadsoup2962]

The moment I saw them holding the baby without a car seat in the car I think I had a heart attack lol

[@sandramullen7804]

😆 we had a car when my son was born in 75 and used to put his carry cot on the back seat when I went to visit my mum ,no seat belts , or any safety harness either lol we'd never dream of it today. 😂

[@katiemartin6991]

Same. They were throwing that baby around so haphazardly I thought it was a doll until about halfway through. When I realized it was real the whole time I had so much anxiety.

[@mandemarso]

That baby really wasn’t crying 😂

[@billmcpherson2126]

due to the styles of the time these parents look more like grandparents !!

[@agsrd4496]

Everybody looks older back then. How bizarre .

[@kreeves122]

People seemed so much more confident and sure of themselves back then.

[@gardenplots283]

According to the article the video description links to in this case it's because baby Wendy was actually the couple's second child and the mother had even more experience due to helping care for her younger siblings including for 6 months when her parents were out of the country when she was only 14.

[@Liitebulb]

People romanticize the 50s too much. It is tv, it is staged, and the 50s had a lot of turmoil for anyone who was not a rich white man.

[@kreeves122]

@@Liitebulb Well makes sense since clearly this family fits into that stereotype.

[@51Saffron]

I use to catch my train from Flinders Train Station. So she wasn't a first time mother and dad never smoked. Regardless it is still a wonderful and beautiful memory.

[@youngyearslearningwithmrsw9505]

Dad has to budget now and there’s little left over for smokes 😂

[@natalieshort5768]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@reverie4949]

he actually did not smoke, the TV made it up, many did back in the day though

[@rrr441]

My mom was born in 1958 and my grandma rode her bike 9km while in labour to go to the hospital... I could barely get to the car when I had contractions 😅 also there is no way the lady in the video actually just gave birth... where is the big postpartum belly? 😄

[@familyislife36]

They didn't leave straight away, were in hospital for at least 2 weeks. Many womens uterus shrink down by then :) especially when breastfeeding.

[@UtahTabby]

Girdles. Big heavy super-strong girdles. Every woman wore one from teenagers on up. They also held up your stockings.

[@debmorton3310]

Doctors in those days only wanted you to gain 10 pounds.

[@pomfret0804]

This is so cute ❤

[@americandevo]

What a beautiful little baby ❤

[@november132]

how beautiful the world, the people, the clothing, the speech used to be.

[@vidananovazelandia]

No disposable diapers, no baby monitors,olive oil insteadof brand expensive oil... so nice

[@bethgramkow5225]

I used olive oil on my kids for years on thier haor,scalp.. I never used baby powder . I used corn starch but it was the late 70s

[@toplobster1040]

What did they used to use before disposable diapers?

[@Lolaleeeelalol]

@@toplobster1040 cloth diapers and safety pins

[@RosesandBlingPapercrafts]

I use modern cloth nappies for my baby born in 2019, also don’t have a baby monitor and use basic sensitive skin lotion. But I have a 15 year age gap between my 2 children so I was used to doing terry cloth nappies with my first born😆

[@dovetwo]

What’s wrong with baby monitors?

[@lucyterrier7905]

I wish things today were like it used to be. Today, most mothers allow total strangers in day orphanages raise their young children. How incredibly sad.

[@Nurse3811]

I am also named Wendy , and born one year later than Wendy Alison in 1959. I asked my Mom where they got my name, and she said it was from some debutante in the society section of the Philadelphia Enquirer. I believe it was from Disney’s Peter Pan which came out February 1953. There were a lot of Wendys in my school!

[@flapdoodlecacklberry]

This was so interesting to me! I was born in 1954, in the USA. I have always thought that it was a very unenlightened time and place to be born ! What a surprise for me to hear this film recommending breastfeeding as a healthier alternative to bottle feeding. As well as many other ideas that I thought were not used back then. And a housekeeper paid for by the government! It seems like Australia was a lot more enlightened! Such is a sweet simple and very informative film for a new parents!

[@playmygames]

Anyone lose it when she had the baby face down for 2 seconds?

[@Timetangle100]

No

[@angelaparsons200]

Yes 😳

[@TawnyC_]

Yes

[@Timetangle100]

During that time it was considered the best way to put a baby down, the reason being if the baby regurgitated feed then it would flow out of the mouth and not run back in. Believe it or not there was logic to the procedures back then. Mothers would never have left babies unattended during this time anyway. Don’t you give ‘tummy time’ to babies these days? I think you do!

[@Pirategirl4nightwish]

@@Timetangle100 My daughter hated being on her stomach so she rarely did tummy time. I think it’s stupid anyway. Put the baby in a safe spot on the floor and let them look around. They usually don’t get a flat spot if they aren’t strapped into a swing or other container.

[@heathertruskinger6214]

Jessie Macpherson Hospital ! I was born there in March 1958 ! It's lovely to see the Melbourne suburbia of old ! 🧡

[@badassmomofteens4611]

Where are the 2021 moms from instagram who would say that this whole video is abuse of a baby? Yet,we were raised just like this and look at us now...

[@itsme2365]

Leaving the baby outside still blows my mind!!!!!!

[@reverie4949]

Ir's done in pretty much all safe countries

[@carolinegodden4364]

Poor Dadio, 'he's probably quite useless'. Oh my. My Dad was awesome, I seem to be in a minority. Go Dads!!! This is so sweet.

[@maggieoakley9020]

Wow the good old days !!❤️❤️🇬🇧

[@Hugginsince79]

So I was wheeled out of the hospital bloated and looking like crap lol .

[@smassey6848]

Lol same! I could barely walk from having my almost 9 lb baby (born two weeks early).

[@AllIsWellaus]

I can't believe you put up post titled, should bikini's be banned and disabled the comments.

[@Its_justlisaa]

Maria Colls that’s what I was thinking

[@steenystuff1075]

Probably on account of the furiously offended bloke at the end. Lol. 🤣

[@susanbrogan2517]

@@steenystuff1075 What was up with that?

[@steenystuff1075]

@@susanbrogan2517 What was up with what? The original commenter wondered why comments were disabled. I suggested it might be on acc of the guy at the end who was offended.

[@danaraed]

My Mom was born in 1942inJanuary in Saskatchewan Canada. Very cold yet she had her afternoon nap on the back porch all bundled up.

[@hygrpfrt]

how does the mother look so slim just a few days after giving birth?? and how is she so put together??

[@reverie4949]

I have no idéa how she is that slim after but it's probably due to diet that they ahd back in the day, they would also use corsets to look slimmer. She is put together because she actually had another child and was the eldest of many siblings

[@intorainbowzOG]

2:18 HOLD WENDY ALLISON'S HEAD!!

[@jobellecollie7139]

After my daughter was born in the UK, my husband and I both active duty Air Force. My Military Bearing made the UK Midwifes worry I was not excited or happy to have my first child. It was just my skills from my day job that had me follow routines, guidelines, etc. Once the Midwife began to understand I could manage a new baby, and my cool, reserved Military Bearing that the Midwife found odd, was just my way.

[@gardenplots283]

I wonder if any other episodes from this series are on KZbin? According to the linked article one episode debates the question "Is education a waste of time for married women?"

[@raaraa8848]

That baby breastfeeding my heart exploded ❤️

[@erin2778]

They just left the baby on the front porch 😂

[@bornstndnupntalknbak]

It was safe to do that back then

[@Livet.enligtlina]

I live in Finland, and both here and in other Nordic countires almost everyone leaves their babies sleeping outside, even when it’s cold. So, still a thing here 😂

[@susieklein7461]

That’s still a thing in Germany too😊

[@noodlesderose]

Thank heaven for Father

[@6ixConfessions]

Good 1950's mothers leave the baby outside the front of the house & go back inside. From the 1980s onwards, good mothers wouldn't dream of doing that. Today, it's called child neglect.

[@catherinewilson1079]

Omg breastfeeding in the 1950’s!!! And it was recommended! Where was this?

[@CDubya.82]

That wasn’t a real baby in a lot of the early shots there in the hospital

[@ByeByeBelly]

Me within 5 seconds: ooh cute sofa They're in my state and about 10 minutes from where I was born

[@fmcm7715]

They definitely have learned a lot about having the baby sleeping in the same room as you now.

[@jackiemuir4160]

Father will take a hand in washing up and scrubbing floors!? Yes, yes he will...if they live on Mars. Lmao

[@ramin6306]

This is awesome

[@danielleantony9971]

Will ya stop saying “ Wendy Allison” 😆😆😆😆😆 FML

[@AprilShowers560]

Omg, I grew up in Mt Waverley and my mum took me to the same Infant Welfare Centre, a few decades after Wendy Allison. It looks a little less country and a lot more suburban in my baby photos.

[@Suzumiya-haruhi]

sassy narrator loved it

[@backyardbreeze112]

Less than a fortnight? I had to beg to stay an extra day, because my son had to stay and I wasn't leaving without him. I was home in 48 hours. 24 with my second.