Things the older and maybe younger grandparents may find confusing. :-)

I used 'real nappies' om my DD who is now 24, and people thought I was odd, but we didn't have much money ( we had 5 children between us ) and I couldn't, and still cant , see wasting money on disposables - they worked out that even if you bought a washing machine new it was still cheaper to use real nappies-my kids never had nappy rash, first sign and I dolloped on egg white ( it worked ! )

Pushchairs have got more complicated instead of easier ! We had a choice of maclaren or cindico !

My DGS2 can soak through 4 or 5 dribble bibs in a day. I don't remember my children being quite so dribbly, but they must have been drenched without them!

Yes Maryjane those dribblebusters are very useful and so many cute designs.

Never mind baby care classes, I need a degree in engineering. The buggy, the car seat even the toys seem so difficult. What about the thermometer. At the risk of sounding like my mother, who thought sterilising was unnecessary, I never once took my children's' temperature. Getting the thing to work then translating the reading. Oh my.

Travel cots are the worst - even SiL had to cut a hole in the cloth to find the workings so he could collapse it. Perhaps James Dyson should take on the challenge.

I remember the constant soaking in Napisan too. Mums today don't realise how lucky they are with disposables! Another useful bonus now is the many Dribblebuster bibs that are around. They really stop the yellow stain around the neck spoiling clothes from all the dribble as these bibs are great the way they come close up on the neck.

Just finished grappling with travel cot, learnt something new- you have to put up frame before inserting mattress, would have been helpful to have read the instructions first !

Gripe water, which I now believe had alcohol in it. No wonder my DSs liked it so much.

The mind boggles! New type of contraception- keep rinsing nappies in cold water!

Best advice from mother in law when she caught me rinsing terry nappies in cold water when we lived with her -"Your womb will never go back to shape" - No more nappy rinsing for me! I subsequently had 2 more children!

By the time little DGS is strapped in I'm knackered! Like the pushchair it seems to be gran-proof as well as childproof!

I can manage most things but can't for the life of me tighten the straps in the car seat! The high chair clips bite!

After I bathed our DS (now40) I would give him a light sprinkling of Johnson's talcum powder and he smelt lovely. Sadly we are not allowed to use talc with our two young GSs.

My dad used to take huge amounts of Collis Brown's in the 1950s. I used to buy it for him when I was only about 9 or 10!!!

I think it contained opium but it my have been morphine. I can't find pure Rosehip Syrup anymore. I was thinking of taking it myself because it is a gentle source of vitamin C.

Remember Milton Solution in the 1970s. I had a small plastic box full of the solution to sterilise the bottles. It was a fiddly process.

In the 170s if you didn't have a car you were confined to your own area for ages because you couldn't get the big prams onto a bus.

We went into restaurants with our babies and always asked for a highchair which was usually found in a cupboard and brought out reluctantly.

The view back then was that mothers and babies should stay at home until the child was at least 3 and could sit properly at a table.

Baby changing rooms, highchairs, big pushchairs on buses all still fill me with amazement.

National Dried Milk, Malt extract, Farley's Rusks, J Collis Brown's Chlorodyne, Gee's Linctus, Fussell's Sweetened condensed milk, Friar's Balsam, Vick Vaporub, Rosehip syrup, California Syrup of figs, Terry nappies, Milton fluid, and a proper pram with four wheels - those were the things that made us what we are!

Don't know, but sounds yummy to me! Remember being told by Health Visitor to add brown sugar to bottle for baby's constipation, would probably get ostracised if did it today!

Heinz used to make a tin of pureed prunes and custard - ideal if you had a baby who may have got constipated occasionally. Impossible to find nowadays - do they still make it?

Paddie pads - we discovered them when DD1 was about 15 months (she is 40) and I decided they would be ideal to take on a camping holiday. I took just seven terry nappies for night-time.
The Paddie Pads were hopeless and leaked so I spent a good part of the holiday washing the towelling nappies every day.

I can cope with most things on the list except for the pushchair ( our cots have sides that go down).

The car sear is the bane of our lives.

My younger sister had Virol. I had cod-liver-oil-and-malt. also very sticky

Does anyone else remember Virol malt extract? Came in a big brown jar, as sticky as anything else I can think of too!
And Dr. Collies Brown's which was rapidly re formulated when found to contain opium - marvellous for tummy aches! And Gripe Water that then contained alcohol! Not surprised it work, probably addictive too!

(No, not ME)

As I remember Bikkipegs they were good to bite on when teething......

My cousin was the Farley's rusks baby in the 1940s/1950s - hers were the (very) chubby little rosy cheeks on all the advertising of the time. Looking at photos of her now, her weight would certainly be giving cause for concern! At the time, she was just admired as a bonny, bouncing baby, bless her.

The DSs didn't take to Farley's rusks or Farex, but their father ate the lot. I used Farlene for weaning, along with liquidised fruit and veg.

Farleys Rusk were delicious they did put on the weight - but quite good nourishment for a new mum.

Not a fan of Rice Cakes but they don't make the same mess as the rusks did.!!!