Mashed potato in babies bottle at 2 weeks!!!

[JaniceT]

LOL about the condensed milk, it was used all over the world in the previous generation instead of formula. I still can't get pass it. Yucks!

 

[flubdub]

It baffles me that these doctors in the 40s/50s (that was about the right time right?) couldnt put 2 and 2 together.

They told women to BF on a 4 hourly schedule only and to pretty much ignore baby between those times yet didnt it occur to them that when the milk was drying up at 3/4 months taht this could have something to do with it?

So they introduced formula more....which made babies sick.....so they thought hey screw it lets give them pureed food/rusks etc..

Didnt they realise what a cock up they were making

Yep, the same ones who looked down on "primitive" cultures, ya know the ones that actually fed their hungry babies with their milk and held them close at night????

I remember watching a show where they used 50's parenting techniques and these poor babies were just left to cry until their next feed was due so 4 hours. From birth! They wernt held close when feeding so they didnt get used to the comfort of it and were left in the garden for 30 minutes a day regardless of whether they were crying.

It seems the general consenus was you had a baby but your life didnt need to change in any way.

I think I saw that. Was it where she wouldnt let any relatives hold the baby when it came home from hospital? And wrapped the baby up and put it outside when it was freezing? Even when the baby was crying, she wouldnt let the mum go and get it, she just gave the pram a bit of a wobble, then left it again. Poor LO

 

[special_kala]

I cant remember. They had another couple using more natural techniques that some anthropologist bought back from her studies.

I think in recent years we have just started to really move away from the mistakes that they started making in the 50's and are edging back towards the more "natural" styles of parenting which is good

 

[fifie123]

My friends baby has a milk allergy and is on special formula called neocate and that has potato in and it stinks of potato!!

 

[Faerie]

I don't know how any Dr could've prescribed morphine for a colicy baby, how sad I had to watch my DS being dosed up with morphine for 6 days when he was 3 months old (whilst he was in NICU), even worse was when they were weaning him off it.

In mainland Europe (well, France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland anyway) it is normal to put ground cereal in the baby's bottle. Not sure what age people do it from, but just read the back of a box I have and it says from 6 months. This is to be mixed with half water half full milk. We have speacial teats in our bottles with a cross.

The only reason I ever gave it to Sofia was at 13 months she went on both a bf and vegetable strike and I was worried about her vitiman and mineral intake, and this fortifies the milk.

 

[Bartness]

My friends baby has a milk allergy and is on special formula called neocate and that has potato in and it stinks of potato!!

My nephew was on this formula also...I think his milk allergy is genetic though...his mom has it too.

 

[flubdub]

My friends baby has a milk allergy and is on special formula called neocate and that has potato in and it stinks of potato!!

My nephew was on this formula also...I think his milk allergy is genetic though...his mom has it too.

Wow! /that must be really hard with a milk allergy!

 

[bbyno1]

Mash and formula-sounds discusting to me!
No wonder our grandparents,mums etc all advice us on so many wrong things.
I guess they don't know any better

 

[annawrigley]

It baffles me that these doctors in the 40s/50s (that was about the right time right?) couldnt put 2 and 2 together.

They told women to BF on a 4 hourly schedule only and to pretty much ignore baby between those times yet didnt it occur to them that when the milk was drying up at 3/4 months taht this could have something to do with it?

So they introduced formula more....which made babies sick.....so they thought hey screw it lets give them pureed food/rusks etc..

Didnt they realise what a cock up they were making

Yep, the same ones who looked down on "primitive" cultures, ya know the ones that actually fed their hungry babies with their milk and held them close at night????

I remember watching a show where they used 50's parenting techniques and these poor babies were just left to cry until their next feed was due so 4 hours. From birth! They wernt held close when feeding so they didnt get used to the comfort of it and were left in the garden for 30 minutes a day regardless of whether they were crying.

It seems the general consenus was you had a baby but your life didnt need to change in any way.

I watched that, really sad. They wouldnt make eye contact while feeding and had allotted 'cuddle time' which was something pitiful like 10-15 mins per day

 

[Natsku]

hehe apparently my dh never crawled.. just did that commando drag on his elbow. he left a trail of sick where ever he went!

mils advice was a rusk in his bottle.

my mum is obsessed...OBSESSED with me putting him in his pram in the garden. crows on about it all the time!

They used to do it a lot didnt they. Said it helped them sleep. I can imagine it did to an extent, but even when its cold? No thanks

Its still recommended here, so long as its above -10

 

[Noodles]

My nan used to out Brandy in my mum's bottle when she was teething as it helped her to sleep though! I decided not to carry on that family tradition.

 

[emmi26]

slightly off topic but my nan sent my grandad into town for my dads formula he took my dad in the pram and in those days if baby was asleep it was common to leave baby outside the shop in the pram. so grandad left the baby and pram outside woolworths went in came out went home when he got home my nan said is he asleep ? it was then my grandad realised he'd left the baby outside the shop !!!! it was also then that my nan smacked him round the head with a wooden spon several times !!!!!
luckily he was fine a neighbour had spotted him and waited when she saw he was still there !!!!
sorry ot but all these old stories of what used to be made me remember, my nan died 14 yrs ago grandad when i was 6 always loved their stories xx

 

[flubdub]

slightly off topic but my nan sent my grandad into town for my dads formula he took my dad in the pram and in those days if baby was asleep it was common to leave baby outside the shop in the pram. so grandad left the baby and pram outside woolworths went in came out went home when he got home my nan said is he asleep ? it was then my grandad realised he'd left the baby outside the shop !!!! it was also then that my nan smacked him round the head with a wooden spon several times !!!!!
luckily he was fine a neighbour had spotted him and waited when she saw he was still there !!!!
sorry ot but all these old stories of what used to be made me remember, my nan died 14 yrs ago grandad when i was 6 always loved their stories xx

omg!

 

[xnmd1]

slightly off topic but my nan sent my grandad into town for my dads formula he took my dad in the pram and in those days if baby was asleep it was common to leave baby outside the shop in the pram. so grandad left the baby and pram outside woolworths went in came out went home when he got home my nan said is he asleep ? it was then my grandad realised he'd left the baby outside the shop !!!! it was also then that my nan smacked him round the head with a wooden spon several times !!!!!
luckily he was fine a neighbour had spotted him and waited when she saw he was still there !!!!
sorry ot but all these old stories of what used to be made me remember, my nan died 14 yrs ago grandad when i was 6 always loved their stories xx

wow
times sure have changed, havn't they?!

 

[emmi26]

lol i know i could never figure out how u manage to forget yr baby !!!!

 

[Natsku]

I see people leave their babies outside shops here but I'm pretty sure they don't forget them!

 

[xnmd1]

i wouldn't leave a dog outside a shop let alone a baby!

 

[Natsku]

I don't think I'll be leaving baby outside the shop either...

 

[Faerie]

I would leave my baby outside my village shop, no problem. Something I would never have done in the UK. I see people leaving them outside shops here in the Swiss cities, I wouldn't do it but I kinda of think it's nice people feel they can.

 

[summer rain]

My dad left one of us outside a shop once, he swears he didn't do it on purpose . My dad used to always leave the pram outside because it was too mahoosive to get into anywhere (it was one of those massive silver cross ones; we weren't rich but my mum would always get them second hand because she really liked them)....