The baby seats were like that in the early 1950s possibly even earlier.
Many families used their wicker clothes basket as a bassinet, including in their cara.
In the 1950s my Uncle made my cousin’s crib timber base with wooden upright slats and horizontal wooden frame at the top. Back to 1930s baby’s prams were huge. My Auntie used hers as a crib / bassinet as well as a pram – my Mum did the same in the early 1950s

Glad for so many reasons that times have changed!

I’m glad times have changed!

Times may have changed but we seemed to be a lot healthier back then.

These pictures are fantastic !! the times sure have changed.
I’m from ’63, I have to ask my mum if we had a car seat like that 🙂

Wow, how amazing. Times have certainly changed. We all managed to survive!

Wow how amazing and I WILL BET THAT BABY GREW UP HEALTHY

Desperate times call for desperate measures. At least they have a goat to supply the milk. What if there’s absolutely nothing handy? The poor baby will starve to death for dure! Thank God for His small miracle.

Wow it’s amazing to see how times have changed!

My oh My, times have changed alright!

Ooh yes, how times have changed. My son laughs when I talk about a cassette tape, old-style phone where you turned the dial, etc. Many, many things that come from times of old. It’s great to reflect and look back and see how far we’ve come.

I do not know why we can not drink raw milk anymore. There is nothing like drinking milk straight from the teat or milking pail. I loved doing that as a child. Some children I was a governess to in 1981 used to drink from the milking pail that came from the house cow.

love it lol I expected it to be a pictuure of a human wet nurse

Wow, that’s a great shot !
Goat’s milk is a beautiful liquid.
When this picture would be taken today, many would object or even protest against the raw milk !

Keeping infants alive during those times was difficult – I wonder what the success rate was?

Guess you had to do whatever was necessary to keep the child alive and goat’s milk would have been so much better than cow’s milk.

I guess desperate times call for desperate measures.

An interesting photo and concept for feeding a baby.

Mums and nurses etc. used their initiative in that era or a lot of babies would have starved to death. Living on a homestead – possibly in a fairly remote area you couldn’t just go to a shop and buy a baby’s bottle. They may have been using horses and drays as their only means of transport too.

hahaha… seriously… ??