wow!! BF convo with grandma

RosePks

My grandma was asking me questions about Bf and pumping because she never did it. She said she tried for a little with her oldest and it didn't work and the drs. were quick to tell her to give formula.

 Somehow we got talking and she told me what the dr. had her use for formula. She bought cans of carnation condensed milk and mixed it half and half with karo sugar syrup!! Formula has come a long way..and all of her children still grew up healthy (were big and athletic). 

innerpeace

Wow... insane how far all baby-related things have come!  My grandma-in-law told me that she used to make her own babyfood... and put butter in it.  Gross!

MOORENOLES

That's funny you mention this...I JUST talked to my grandma on the 4th of July about BF and she couldn't do it either.  Apparently my dad was so difficult that the Dr. had her use something called "Baby Meat" (some type of liquid meat) and when that didn't work, they just had her feed him solids as an infant....never tried formula.  It's funny how things are different now. 

RosePks

yea my grandma said she was told to feed them "from the table" asap so she would just grind up what they were eating for the baby.

bridz2be

Wow, that is just crazy! Funny how babies were drinking up karo syrup and yet, it seemed that obesity and attention disorders weren't even much of concern! Even the differences from 25 years ago when my mom had me, there are so many more "rules" and guidelines now. We all turned out fine!

KeriMichelle

I remember looking at the back of the similac soy formula and seeing that is nearly 50% "corn syrup solids!" I asked my doctor about it and she mentioned the carnation instant milk and corn syrup "formula" they used back in the day. She said the corn syrup was to keep everything moving along.

Crazy, huh? At least it wasn't Kool-Aid!

Christina617

It is amazing how different things are now.  We were talking about this in a BFing group I attend.  One lady looked at pic of her when she was just 3 weeks old and her mom was feeding her baby food already!  I guess that was possibly the norm then.

beckys96

RosePks:

My grandma was asking me questions about Bf and pumping because she never did it. She said she tried for a little with her oldest and it didn't work and the drs. were quick to tell her to give formula.

 Somehow we got talking and she told me what the dr. had her use for formula. She bought cans of carnation condensed milk and mixed it half and half with karo sugar syrup!! Formula has come a long way..and all of her children still grew up healthy (were big and athletic). 

My DH's mom kept saying about using carnation condensed milk...I guess it was used back in the day.