Now maternity hospitals are not at all like those they were even 20 years ago. Well, at least in big cities. Here you have the opportunity to give birth in the company of a husband or mother, and a joint stay with a child. But before the baby was carried away almost immediately, and was brought only for feeding strictly according to the clock.
Well, recently on Facebook, a photo went viral, in which hospital recommendations for women who had just become mothers were printed. These rules were formulated in 1968, and the memo was issued to all women in labor. Incidentally, this is the first difference between American houses and Soviet ones: no one issued any memos in our country. And the most shocking point, perhaps, is the request not to smoke in the same room with the child. First, the very possibility of smoking right in the hospital causes bewilderment. Secondly, did someone else then think that this should not be done?
We have translated the rest of the rules, some of them are simply amazing.
1. Children lie in front of the window to the newborn ward from 2.30 to 3.30 and from 7.00 to 7.45. Please do not ask to show you the child at any other time.
2. Children are brought for feeding from 9 am to 10 am, from 13 pm to 14 pm, from 17.30 pm to 18.30 pm, and also from 21 pm to 22 pm. During feeding, there should be no visitors in the department or in the ward, including the child’s father.
3. Do not smoke while the child is in the ward.
4. Don’t let visitors sit on your bed. The sheets must be clean for the baby.
5. Do not cover the baby with your sheet (underlined).
6. During the first day, breastfeed the baby for only five minutes.
7. On the second and third day, it is permissible to breastfeed the baby for seven minutes.
8. On the fourth and fifth days, it is allowed to breastfeed for 10 to 15 minutes.
Breastfeeding for longer can cause nipple soreness! (Let’s remind, for feeding they bring four times a day. – Approx. Auth.)
Do not eat chocolates, sliced apples, cabbage, nuts, strawberries, cherries, onions, or green coconut cake. (And how did the pie go wrong? – Approx. Auth.)