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There is no doubt that things were more cruel in earlier times than they are today. But we seldom ask ourselves what this meant for everyday things and how they were handled.<\/p>\n
There is no doubt that things were more cruel in earlier times than they are today. But we seldom ask ourselves what this meant for everyday things and how they were handled.<\/p>\n
An example of this is nappies, which all mothers today use in some form or fashion as a matter of course, because they are taken for granted.
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Bought at the supermarket, always at hand at home and on the go, and no problem disposing of them, most parents swear by one brand of disposable nappies or another.<\/p>\n
Although there are always tendencies and fads calling for \"back to nature\" and denouncing disposable nappies as being less \"natural\", most mothers are not caught up in these claims, because in practice what is more practical and can save time and work is usually convincing after all.<\/p>\n
So not all progress has to be bad, and what does \"natural\" actually mean in this context?<\/p>\n
If one were to actually go back to the customs and traditions of earlier, supposedly more \"natural\" times, one would find above all specifications that are more likely to make one's hair stand on end than to convey a sense of nature and an ideal world.<\/p>\n
In the Middle Ages and up to modern times, and even to some extent until the end of the 18th century, it was common to wrap babies tightly in cloths like mummies and hang them somewhere on a nail. They then spent most of their babyhood there.<\/p>\n
These \"nappies\" were changed very rarely, which put the baby's environment to a hard nose test. So there was no question of naturalness here and certainly not of hygiene.<\/p>\n
Towards the end of the 19th century, people had at least realised that hygiene was an important factor in child rearing and started to relax swaddling techniques and use softer materials, which were also changed more and more often, but parents were still not really satisfied with the swaddling methods available to them.<\/p>\n
For more hygiene, however, raised the problem that these nappies also had to be cleaned in order to be able to use them again. Moreover, in some circles it was even insisted on cleaning the babies up to 50 times a day, because progress in medicine and research had also raised a - partly - justified fear of bacteria and viruses.<\/p>\n
So now one had to fight above all against mountains of laundry and only gradually got them under control with the invention of disinfectants and detergents - the amount of laundry remained and was only somewhat decimated by relativising the concept of hygiene.<\/p>\n
In the 1950s, a resourceful American employed by Procter & Gamble finally invented the first disposable nappies, initially on his own initiative.<\/p>\n
Those who don't know the company, however, will at the latest know the name Pampers, because that is exactly what this company still produces today.<\/p>\n
It still took some time before the product could be made available to and accepted by a broad public, because a stubbornly negative attitude persisted in some cases, especially on the part of the hospitals, which saw their pennies dwindling here.<\/p>\n
But when it could be said with certainty that it was not only easier, quicker, more hygienic and more practical to use disposable nappies, but in the end just as cheap, as conventional washing of cloth nappies also cost money, disposable nappies finally really started to boom.<\/p>\n
Of course, parents should be allowed to choose which products they let their babies use, but they should also not fall for all the fads unchecked, but try things out for themselves.<\/p>\n
In our case, this means trying out cloth and disposable nappies before deciding to use the former permanently, because even if \"back to nature\" does appeal to new parents, in this specific case it might make more sense to simply spend the time saved on nappy washing with the child directly in nature.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dass es in fr\u00fcheren Zeiten grausamer zuging als heutzutage, daran besteht kein Zweifel.\u00a0 Selten fragen wir uns aber, was das f\u00fcr uns allt\u00e4gliche Dinge wohl bedeutete und wie sie gehandhabt wurden. Ein Beispiel daf\u00fcr sind die Windeln, die heute alle M\u00fctter in irgendeiner Form und Weise wie selbstverst\u00e4ndlich benutzen, weil sie selbstverst\u00e4ndlich sind.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_thumbnail_id":["475"],"_fgj2wp_old_id":["218"],"rank_math_focus_keyword":["wie babys fr\u00fcher gewickelt wurden"],"rank_math_analytic_object_id":["3266"],"_trp_automatically_translated_slug_en_GB":["how-babies-were-wrapped-earlier"],"rank_math_internal_links_processed":["1"]},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-familie-und-kinder","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}