Infant Care

The most popular childcare manual of the early twentieth century, written as questions and answers for mothers and nurses. A fascinating record of how babies were fed, bathed and raised more than a century ago.

L. Emmett Holt

A 1916 illustrated manual from the School of Mothercraft covering hygiene, feeding, clothing, play and early education. It shows how childcare was first taught as a practical discipline.

Mary L. Read

A nineteenth-century manual for mothers and monthly nurses on pregnancy, childbirth and the care of newborns. Read it as history: its medical advice belongs to another era.

S. P. Sackett