31 Of The Most Bizarre Trends Of The 50s And 60s

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Feeding your baby solid food at nine weeks old

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The same doctor, Walter W. Sackett Jr., also had a mouthful to say about feeding habits for infants. He encouraged feeding a baby cereal at two days old, strained fruits and veggies at ten days old, and whatever solid food the entire family would normally eat at the age of nine weeks old. How’s that for starting them young? Apart from dietary suggestions, Sackett strongly urged parents not to soothe a crying child, as that would be tantamount to “sowing the seeds of socialism” in them. Whew. We’ll leave it there.