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perilous parenting

HYGIENE The need to keep a newborn clean is a historically contentious topic, if a 1972 issue of Mother & Baby magazine is to be believed. “If you insist that your baby should be always sweet and dry and clean, you are going against nature,” it read. “Babies are easygoing about a little dampness.” They would have no issue, then, with the

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