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mostly fed on the mother’s lap. When they could sit good, they’d sit on stools at the table. When they stopped nursing, they’d eat whatever the family ate, except it was ground or mashed. Older women used to tell us that the safest way was to chew the food first and then give it to the baby. They also told us to bite the baby’s fingernails for luck, instead of using scissors. Parents would tie a lump of sugar up in a napking foh a child to suck on, kind of like a pacifier today.
“For fun, children had woollen spools and blocks of wood. We used to have a
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