Back in the early 1970's it was normal to leave small baby sleeping in large pram parked up outside of shops. I had a dog, and he would lie down next to pram when I went into shops, Unless people knew him, he was a good method of preventing people touching the pram, - those who did know him also knew that the worst he would do would be jump up and lick strangers!!!
I left my darling first born, outside a shop when he was a few weeks old, as I walked down the High Street I kept trying to hang the pram bag back on his hooks at the front of the pram, then I realised what I had done.
A few years later, when we were being advised locally not to leave prams, babies, etc outside (a baby had been snatched from a pram not too far away), I can remember having a serious row with library staff. Wanted to take my 4 yrs and 5 yrs old children in (during the week, it was not busy), but had a 18 month toddler in an umbrella type pushchair and they told me I had to leave her outside. At the same time they were permitting elderly people take inside their wheeled shopping trolleys. I insisted on taking all three of my children in with me, defying them, telling to call the police (they did not), but also I went to the local newspaper and a photo and an article in there a couple of weeks later, and libraries were instructed not to prevent these small, narrow pushchairs from going inside.
