Mashed potato in babies bottle at 2 weeks!!!

[flubdub]

This is what my nanna just told me was the recommandation when she was bringing my mum up 40 years ago!
The advice was "wean at two weeks with mash potato or baby rice." She said it was like a competition to see whos babies were on solids and sleeping through first! (not much changed there then )
We got onto the topic after she said to put some honey in my LO's bottle to help his cough
She took it all very light hearted when I said we wernt allowed to do that anymore

 

[Pixxie]

woah!

My nan told me she used to put a bit of brandy in my dads bottle to help him sleep and it was the norm Shes been trying to get me to give Lyra a rusk since she was 6 weeks old

 

[beatnick]

my mum was allergic to the one formula choice available so had condensed milk!!!!!!!!!

 

[peanut56]

Wow! It's crazy how things have changed. Apparently my mother couldn't BF, and I had some sort of reaction to formula, so the doctor's told my mom to put me on cow's milk when I was only a couple of weeks old, so she did! Now they say not to give cow's milk until the age of 1!

 

[Mum2b_Claire]

Is it just me, or is the idea of mashed potato mixed with formula really revolting anyway?? (I've tasted formula and it is the most excruciatingly sweet thing ever!)

 

[flubdub]

formula tastes

 

[Surprise]

Wow no wonder so many people have digestive problems nowadays! And brandy??

 

[charlotte-xo]

my mum gave me a rusk at 6 weeks and she put whisky in my bottle when i had a cold. i dont know how im still alive to be honets half of the things shes admitted to doing

 

[baby.love]

Eeewwww mash and formula =

My mum told me about putting rusks in my milk, and having to cut the top off the teat so it would come out the bottle!!!!! Scary stuff

 

[sapphire1]

my mum was allergic to the one formula choice available so had condensed milk!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, my MIL told me that everyone used it. I believe that's what they gave babies before formula was widely available. Apparently, my DH was eating baby rice by 3 weeks as he was very 'hungry'!

One thing that puzzles me though - early weaning is thought to increase allergies etc. But, allergies seem to be a really modern phenomenon. In our grannies day early weaning was commonplace, but you don't hear of many of that generation suffering from allergies or stuff like that. I'm not advocating early weaning, it's just something I've wondered about - I'm sick of older people trying to make LO eat proper food already (she's 3 months ffs!).

 

[flubdub]

I think allergies like dust, pollen are more common now, but I think that is because of pollution, and houses being bleached to within an inch of their lives.

 

[special_kala]

Its the last 50/60 years allergys have shot up which oddly coincides with very early weaning

 

[Emzywemzy]

Apparently my granddad gave me a whole sausage when I was about 12 weeks old. My Mum said she went mad and he just said "well she was hungry!!" LOL x

 

[krissy1984]

Eww mash in formula, I don't think I'll be trying that hehe

 

[summer rain]

Sadly some people do the mash in formula thing even now; a few years ago (and I am talking only about 7 years here) when my older sis had her kids a lot of mums she knew were doing it, the HVs at her clinic turned a blind eye but in a way they were encouraging it as they really praised mums whose babies were on the uppermost centiles. My mum said in the 70s you were expected to put your babies onto weetabix at six weeks. My mum herself was raised on normal sterilised cows milk because her mum couldn't afford formula and breastfeeding was unheard of in those days, my mum has had serious blood pressure problems since the age of 19 and normal cows milk is very salty.

 

[smokey]

Is it just me, or is the idea of mashed potato mixed with formula really revolting anyway?? (I've tasted formula and it is the most excruciatingly sweet thing ever!)

Back then mash potatoe was powdered flakes like what smash is.
For some strange reason formula tastes of peanuts to me

 

[ilvmylbug]

Eeewwww mash and formula =

My mum told me about putting rusks in my milk, and having to cut the top off the teat so it would come out the bottle!!!!! Scary stuff

Honestly, anything would taste horrible with formula!

Honey is a huge no no before 1 year, isn't it? I can't believe it was recommended then!

I still see moms mixing baby food with formula though, and just sticking it in the bottle. I would never take the choking chance, I'd rather spoon feed and bottle afterwards!

 

[sept2010]

Allergies have increased nw because the quality of food has deteriorated.. Bak in the grannies day weaning foods didnt come in a jar! Also allergies to foods increase with generations.. Like our mums could have been weaned at 3 weeks n the affects are felt by the following generation! Its a complicated explanation so i wont get into it here lol x

 

[WannabemomV]

I am stalking from First Tri section. I have been a nanny for years. The last set of twins I helped take care of weren't sleeping through the night at almost 3 months (normal). So the mother took them to the doctor and the DOCTOR told her to put rice cereal in their bottles at night, make the nipples holes Bigger so it will come out!! I almost Died. The same doctor told her to start feeding them fruit at 3 -4 months. She was feeding them apple, blueberry, pear, sweet potato, TURNIP at 4 months of age!! I would dump it down the sink and just give them a bottle (without rice cereal )instead. I would try and tell her this was Not a good idea but her response was- My Doctor told me to...The Poor Darlings!!
Oh this was just this Past year!

 

[missVN]

Wow! It's crazy how things have changed. Apparently my mother couldn't BF, and I had some sort of reaction to formula, so the doctor's told my mom to put me on cow's milk when I was only a couple of weeks old, so she did! Now they say not to give cow's milk until the age of 1!

My mother in law says she was allergic to formula so was brought up on cows milk. Except she could only have it from one particular cow and would react otherwise! Her dad used to go up to the local farm every morning for her milk!