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

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.

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?

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!

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!

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.

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.

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!

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

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!

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

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

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 !

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.

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.

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.

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

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!

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 !