5 Terrifying Pieces Of Vintage Parenting Advice

Parents have to sift through tons of advice concerning the best way to raise their child. Parenting trends are often spurred by scientific studies showing this or that about what you should feed your child or how you should put them to sleep. Luckily, though, medical science is getting pretty good and doctors are able to back up parenting advice with research. This wasn’t always the case. In fact, the world of parenting advice used to be troubling, to say the least. Some of these pieces of vintage parenting advice would be considered downright criminal these days!

You have to check out this list of 5 terrifying examples of vintage parenting advice.

Leave a COMMENT on Facebook letting us known which of these horrified you the most. #5 still gets me when I think about it. 

Day in and day out, parents are trying really hard to incorporate all the of parenting advice they hear on a constant basis. 

Crib bumpers, no bumpers. Swaddle them, don’t swaddle them. It’s literally endless. If you think parenting advice these days is ridiculous, you need to hear about some of the crazy advice that has been given out in the past. Wow, just wow. 

1. In medieval times, some women were encouraged to drink wine and sometimes were told that cold water can be dangerous of the fetus. Large quantities of wine were preferred. 

While a debate exists concerning whether small amounts of wine can even be helpful for a child, in no way is replacing water with, in some case “large quantities” of wine, a good idea. 

2. One era with questionable pregnancy advice/items was the Victorian era. Yep, that’s a pregnancy corset. 

A slim waist was so coveted and admired during this period that maternity corsets were made to push some of that baby belly in. 

You have to see another one of these corsets…