It's my kid in a box, baby! From the 1946 advice book, Mother and Baby Care In Pictures, comes this cardboard box done up as a crib:
An improvised bed made from a corrugated carton by an ingenious father. Not ventilators for air and high points to permit use of a netting during insect season.Is it just me, or does that bed look kind of like a warthog?
My parents love to tell the story about how they had just moved (via the Army) to Germany before I was born, so all they had to use for a travel bed for me was a wooden Michelob beer crate.
Nice, huh? Can you believe they were drinking Michelob in Germany? Cretins.
It does look much like a warthog, or some other pork-related animal. I'm sure inspired parents can branch out into butterfly wings and so on, in a pinch.
My twins arrived early, before we'd gotten the crib set up, so they slept in an open dresser drawer for the first two nights.
I'm achin' for some bacon.