Does anybody remember their sibling being wrapped in a "binder"?

Well I never.........Binders. My mum is now 87yrs old and has, in a drawer, a binder that she used on my brother and me. They were aimed at pushing in the belly button. She also has a little woollen blanket with the old 'utility' mark. Those were the days, eh?

Belly binders were an option when my oldest was born in 1963, by the time my 2nd was born a year later, they were gone.

When my 3rd was born in July, 1970, I just loosely covered her with a receiving blanket while she slept in her bassinette. But when she was about 4 days old, she cried and cried, nothing would soothe her. It was about 100 degrees that day and I hadn't put a blanket on her. After everything else failed, I wrapped her in an unfolded diaper. Bingo! She was happy and slept several hours.

Remember cloth diapers that went in the diaper pail then after being washed had to be hung on the clothesline to dry??? That was about the only way I got to spend time outside! LOL

I remember tying a belly band around newborns when I worked at a hospital. And then, swaddling them tightly in receiving blankets.

When I had my own, I didn't use the belly band, but did swaddle them in receiving blankets. It seemed to comfort them. Maybe because they were used to tight quarters in the womb.

I wasn't born till the seventies . But when i had my son he cried. Yet when he was wrapped tightly in a shawl he didnt. Some thing to do with feeling of being wrapped up.

I remember them, my mom put my baby Brother in one. I also remember how new born babies were placed in front of the fire, in a great huge coach built pram. If the midwife came around, and baby wasn't "cooking" in front of the fire, wrapped in half a million blankets, there would be hell up!!!!

Nope, but when I worked in a newborn nursery we used to swaddle the babies in a blanket. I think it was to keep their hands out of their faces and we could see when they throwup and could get to it before they choked.

I don't remember my brother with one, but when I had my son in 1968, I had to talk my mother out of wrapping him in one. Also a wrapping meant to make his navel poke inwards. Any ailment he went down with after that was always because I hadn't wrapped him properly. Happy Days!

when my sister was born in the 50s when she was newborn she had a something like a bandage wrapped around her middle it was to make her belly button heal

Yes I do my mother had twins at 46 and they were wrapped in a binder, mothers don't do that now.

I certainly do, and I remember wearing a liberty bodice and having goose fat on brown paper put on my chest when I had a cold, oh, and hot olive oil in my ears for ear ache,cloves on my tooth for toothache and butter on a burn...that really fried it.