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From: "Ken & Betty Rowland" <>
Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV-L] Re: TXREDRIV-D Digest V01 #13
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 23:37:46 -0600


I do recall those belly bands. I think the idea was their navel's might
rupture if they weren't used. I believe my first child got that
treatment in 1955 but not the others.

Ken & Betty Rowland

http://freeweb.pdq.net/kenrow/

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> From: Sharon Black <>
> To:
> Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV-L] Re: TXREDRIV-D Digest V01 #13
> Date: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 10:53 PM
>
> Does anybody remember putting "belly bands" on newborn babies. And
> giving them catnip tea to make them break out in hives, the theory
being
> that if the hives "went in on them" it would make them sick. I did
the
> belly band thing but refused the catnip tea that my old aunt brewed
up.
> It sure hurt her feelings because I wouldn't let her give it to my
baby.
> She said later, "You shore are lucky that thar chile ain't dead, the
way
> you wont listen to nobody".
> Sharon
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Becky Wolfington" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 12:41 AM
> Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV-L] Re: TXREDRIV-D Digest V01 #13
>
>
> MY GRANNY SLATON ALWAYS RUBBED MENTHOLATUM ON MY CHEST THEN PINNED A
> SMALL
> HAND TOWEL INSIDE MY FLANNEL PAJAMA'S TOP(THAT SHE HAD MADE) WHEN I
> SPENT
> THE NIGHT IF I HAD A COLD.
> BECKY MITCHELL WOLFINGTON
>
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