Child of the 50s..raised on this formula. My mom tried to breast feed me and I was crying all the time. A family friend and a mother herself, said "that baby is hungry". She sent my dad to the store with this list. She made the formula
I sucked it down and I slept for 4 hours.
When my last child was born in the 80s my husband had just started his own business and money was tight. Our pediatrician gave me this exact recipe and he thrived on it.
I fail to understand the reasoning for putting corn syrup in baby formula. This has to just be because it was the early 60s and back then people believed that shit was somehow good for you. Please do not feed your baby corn syrup lol.
Because they didn't know any better and were trying to discourage the "modern" woman from breast feeding. When that took off, then they knew they had a market for baby formula.
I know a farmer who grew non gmo oats for General Mills.
He had to grow the oats on a field where another small grain wasn't planted on it the year before or it would be counted as gmo.
The reason they use gmo crops is it makes them pest and disease resistant. I guess I would take a hybrid crop over something sprayed down with pesticides.
GMO isn't always the big meany everyone thinks it is. Sometimes it really is that simple.
Unfortunately, GMO corn is that bad and that is what Karo syrup is made from. It is modified to have a gene that codes for a pesticide type compound that the plant produces. It is great for fending off pests - but not good when people and animals eat the corn. Then there is the whole glyphosate issue. Giving anything like that to infants is really going to mess them up gut wise. That will lead to a whole lifetime of issues.
I absolutely agree. Organic is the only way to go - and even that one has to be careful. Just because something is organic does not mean it belongs in infant formula.
The waiter at a restaurant asks Benny Hill for his order. Benny sees a woman breast-feeding her baby at the table across the aisle and says,
"I'll have what he's having".
Me, I breastfed until my feet touched the ground, so i'm a liberal.
Child of the 50s..raised on this formula. My mom tried to breast feed me and I was crying all the time. A family friend and a mother herself, said "that baby is hungry". She sent my dad to the store with this list. She made the formula I sucked it down and I slept for 4 hours.
When my last child was born in the 80s my husband had just started his own business and money was tight. Our pediatrician gave me this exact recipe and he thrived on it.
The problem with this formula now is that the Karo syrup is made from GMO corn guaranteed to screw up an infant's gut and God knows what else.
I fail to understand the reasoning for putting corn syrup in baby formula. This has to just be because it was the early 60s and back then people believed that shit was somehow good for you. Please do not feed your baby corn syrup lol.
Because they didn't know any better and were trying to discourage the "modern" woman from breast feeding. When that took off, then they knew they had a market for baby formula.
Man that’s so sad. I hate modernity so much.
It is now, but not when that recipe was hatched. However, I think the extra water is a good idea because of the extra sugar.
I know a farmer who grew non gmo oats for General Mills.
He had to grow the oats on a field where another small grain wasn't planted on it the year before or it would be counted as gmo.
The reason they use gmo crops is it makes them pest and disease resistant. I guess I would take a hybrid crop over something sprayed down with pesticides.
GMO isn't always the big meany everyone thinks it is. Sometimes it really is that simple.
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/gmo-pros-and-cons#pros
Unfortunately, GMO corn is that bad and that is what Karo syrup is made from. It is modified to have a gene that codes for a pesticide type compound that the plant produces. It is great for fending off pests - but not good when people and animals eat the corn. Then there is the whole glyphosate issue. Giving anything like that to infants is really going to mess them up gut wise. That will lead to a whole lifetime of issues.
Ok thank you for the information I will have to do some checking into it thank you.
I absolutely agree. Organic is the only way to go - and even that one has to be careful. Just because something is organic does not mean it belongs in infant formula.
Joke alert:
The waiter at a restaurant asks Benny Hill for his order. Benny sees a woman breast-feeding her baby at the table across the aisle and says, "I'll have what he's having".
Me, I breastfed until my feet touched the ground, so i'm a liberal.