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I’m open to nuance here, but there were actually an extremely wide range of baby care practices among our ancestors… some of which were fine and some of which are clearly not appropriate for modern life - like keeping children in cradleboards almost constantly during the early months, sometimes resulting in hip dysplasia and permanent flat heads. Or feeding babies “pap” (a mix of flour and water) almost immediately after birth, often because Mom could not initiate breastfeeding well or for other cultural reasons, frequently resulting in illness (like botulism) and malnutrition. Or exposing babies with birth defects as undesirable, resulting in death by starvation, cold, or wild animal. I am always suspicious of people who are very confident about replicating what our ancestors did, because almost certainly they are picking and choosing the practices they like best, and labeling it “traditional” when actually what they are doing is “neo trad” at best.