Posted on 05/09/2022 6:49:48 PM PDT by cotton1706
Before the introduction of commercial baby formula, most mothers who could not breastfeed, or who chose not to, would make formula for their child at home. The recipes for homemade baby formula almost always included Karo syrup as an ingredient. While the syrup is not approved for feeding babies today, it's interesting to know how such a common ingredient was used to feed infants in the past.
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With the formula shortages lately I thought it might be helpful for people out there to know they can make their own.
Can’t you just give them Pepsi?
Just bust out the boobs. Better than anything man can make.
Women have breasts for a reason ....Have they forgotten?
Sometimes it’s rough trying to read titles, at first I thought this one said, “How to make a baby formula.”
Tang. Add less water over time to transition to solid foods.
The formula includes evaporated milk.
When I was born in the early ‘50s, straight evaporated milk as baby formula was in vogue.
The doctor put me on it because I was underweight.
I wasn’t underweight a year later. 🤡
My aunt always recommended whiskey to teething or colicey children.
Come to think of it, she herself always would have a few highballs whenever she visited our house.
Some babies are allergic to milk, in those cases they are fed a special formula.
When my two sons were born, neither of them were satisfied with formula. I tried breast feeding my youngest son, but he wasn’t satisfied with that either. My pediatrician told me to give them both regular milk with Karo syrup. The syrup was to keep their stools soft. They were also started on Rice cereal and fruit within three weeks of their birth. They’re 56 and 51 now. My mother also told me that to get rid of their hiccups, to boil water, and add sugar to the bottle.
My nephew (30 years ago) had failure to thrive and could not hold anything down - or in. He just wasn’t digesting any formula. I can’t recall the nursing situation. My mom recommended evaporated milk. It saved his life. While it wasn’t the most nutritious, it certainly gave him the much needed calories to get thru that critical point in his life as an infant.
I would be very careful making your own stuff without knowing exactly how your infant is going to respond. This isn’t the time to be playing little house on the prairie. This is when you gather your forces and get everyone buying formula whenever they see it.
Kind of hard to get them flowing after drying up for three or four months.
When I was a kid Karo syrup meant that dark brown molasses-ish stuff in a gallon can.
I assume this is talking about the light corn syrup version readily available in stores today.
Yes the milk was a can of carnation milk brand with K syrup!
Some women are UNABLE to breast feed.
But, parents also dosed their children with iron drops (tasted ucky) and other vitamin or minerals recommended for children, in addition to the home-made milk formula. Parents are going to do whatever they need to in order to put some type of milk in their infants’ tummy.
Rather than tell parents not to do use homemade formula (as if parents who can’t find formula are just going to let their child go hungry), physicians should recommend SOMETHING until the supply chain catches up. Isn’t there anything they can recommend? Nothing at all? This mantra of don’t give your child anything but formula if you can’t breast-feed is foolish. A child has to eat something.
So, if a doctor is telling a parent not to feed their child any substitute, but instead let their child starve, is either in on some scam and being paid by formula companies,or part of some evil plot. A child HAS to eat to grow.
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