Oh, hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast

this week coming to you from the Brighton Dome. My name is Dan Schreiber and I'm sitting

here with Anna Chazinski, Andrew Hunter, Murray and James Harkin and once again we have gathered

around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in no particular

order, here we go. Starting with you, Chazinski. My fact this week is that until the 17th century,

mothers hung their babies up on hooks while they worked. That's amazing. You just hung them up

like a coat. Yeah, is it like everyone who works at the same place has a number above their

hook? Oh, they look at the club crew. Yeah, if you go to the restaurant, do you just leave your

baby in the club crew? Yeah, and if you lose your ticket, you're absolutely pockets.

Can you describe it? Well, it is small, it's not got much hair and it's like Winston Churchill.

This is genuinely true. So this baby needs to be swaddled for long periods of history. It was

thought that it was good for them to be very tightly swaddled, wrapped up in material so that

their limbs could grow straight. That was the belief. And once they were swaddled, then they would

just be latched onto a hook that was maybe in your house if you were doing the house work or

sometimes mothers would be working out in the field, doing agricultural work and you could hook

them onto a tree, like a bit of twig. That was how they did it. Wow. Is that where the rocker-by-baby

kind of thing comes from? You're not rocking them really. You're swinging them if you're doing

anything. Because he's on a tree top, right? He's definitely in a vessel lying down comfortably,

not just like... Just for a baby from the tree side. Yeah, keep. All the your ticket or baby will

disappear. It doesn't work. So you're tapping all over the place. In Sweden, women would carry their

children in what was called a bog. Just put your baby in the bog. Baby bog. What was it?

What was it? It was a bag. Sounds like a typo. Yeah, it's where we get the word bag from.

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