Baby's Log Book

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Really! What were the people of the good old days thinking? Is it really appropriate to advertise  books on "Modern Views on Sex", "Planned Parenthood" and "Youth, Sex and Life" on the back of a Babys Log Book?

Here we have a yummy (and unused) baby book, littered with gorgeous navy blue line drawings of babbas playing and the kind of advice likely to have you marched away by the Mummy police in this day and age (Dab pure orange juice onto teething babys gums?) and the publishers in their infinite wisdom, saw  fit to advertise a little collection of books designed to prevent the birth of anymore of the teeny little mites…

It’s a open and shut case of vintage madness if ever there was one. Madness. Madness I tell you!

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  1. My mother still has my plunket baby book and it looks similar to that with the same sort of tips in it 🙂

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