15 Crazy Things People Used To Do To Babies

9. Forcing solid foods on them

Today we try to avoid feeding babies solid foods until about six months. For one thing, they’re not ready to digest it, for another they can’t really chew and it’s a choking hazard. But in the 1950s there was a trend suggesting that babies start on solid food as early as two days, and that that was a better idea for them than breastfeeding.