70′s Baby Literature
And so, as the eventual February delivery date looms ever larger in the distance, my parents are ramping up their excitement of the addition of a grand(whatever) to the family. My mom has now gotten to the point of surreptitiously leaving behind choice reading material whenever she stops by for a visit. At last count we’re been the lucky recipients of The Mayo Clinic Guide To A Healthy Pregnancy, Does This Baby Make Me Look Fat, The Complete Pregnancy, Your Pregnancy Week By Week, and these two well-preserved pamphlets from the 70′s:
Nothing like a little light reading, no?
Oddly enough, this is *exactly* how I got this third degree burn on my upper arm (sans the doll and ponytails). I wonder if my mother ever read this darn thing…
BTW: Was there some sort of legal obligation for women in the early 70′s to wear their hair like this?
Just curious 
