Bassinet

As the home is called a mostly wooden bobbing bed for babies and toddlers. It is characteristic that you can rock this bed from the outside and it is also moved by the natural movements of the child. It is generally assumed that the rocking motion soothes the child.

Certain forms of weighing are already occupied from pre-modern cultures, which is usually is wearing weighing. Portable Weighing ( eg roller weighing) were already used in ancient times. Many medieval and early modern figures show that the babies wrapped, ie, tightly constricted, were placed in this weighing. In addition, they were often held in place with straps that were conducted over the cradle, as described by the physician Felix Würtz in the 16th century. Zglinicki shows in his monograph on the cradle numerous illustrations that have appropriate devices for tying the babies. The bands to tie the baby in the cradle are centralLatin called cunarum Vincula, so as weighing shackles. In 1800 began a controversy about the health pros and cons of swinging and with the advent of Rollbettchen and strollers disappeared the cradle of the Civil House, on the land, they remained in use. As doll furniture were weighing popular until the 20th century.

There are numerous forms of the cradle in the sense of a support device. This carrying weighing, for example, in the indigenous peoples of America as cradleboard ( German: Weighing board ) designated. The cradleboard has some correlation among Asian groups and also in the seeds, where this device is referred to as Komse.

A special form of weighing represents the Japanese Ejiko, a basket-like container in which the infant was placed into bonded. The Ejiko contains several layers of material to absorb urine and feces of the child. Some European and Middle Eastern Weigh had runoff and drainage devices, which ensured that the baby's urine could flow.

In many European weighing pentagrams or religious signs were installed, as well as other frequently occurred to the Demon defense of beds, doors, windows, buildings, etc..

A modern design weighing developed the Bauhaus student Peter Keler 1922, when he designed a bed with a round steel tube frame. From the middle of the 20th century were weighing a time as old-fashioned and outdated, in recent years, however, they are experiencing a renaissance.

A spring Cradle is a cradle that is suspended from a steel spring and bobs up and down, in contrast to classical weighing or bassinet not back and forth, but up and down.

In a figurative sense, it refers to the suspected area of ​​origin of modern humans in Africa or even the supposed origin of civilization in the Middle East as the "cradle of mankind".