I know I know...just saying....
The recipe calls for 13 ounces of evaporated milk, 20 ounces of water, and 2 level teaspoons of Karo syrup to be heated together and divided into 6 bottles. The “special instructions” also say to give the baby water twice a day, to give 2 ounces of tea per day, to give vitamins starting at 10 days old, and to give orange juice diluted with water after only 3 weeks!
Similar recipes were given out in 1952 and another in 1945 (seen below).
Link for recipe from years ago. https://dustyoldthing.com/1950s-homemade-formula-recipes/
According to the MSM it is "not safe". If you do a search you will see that for the last few days they are going hard after homemade formula.
I likely would nix the artificial sweetener......Also I wouldnt use true cow milk either. Too much hormones get stores in animal fats. Phyto-estrogen being the main one. Goats milk seems to be less of this, because goats eat like anything and everything. So they get different nutrients, and are not fed soys and grains which contain the estrogens. I can see using the Karo, because the babies need the sugars. Maybe there is something natural to use here? Agave? maybe? Maple syrup?? Just some thought. Not a "diss" at all.
When formula babies got constipated we were told to add Dark Karo syrup to the bottle. Did the trick.
We used /2 strength chamomile tea for constipation.
Sorry - typo =- 1/2 strength
That is an old timey recipe - newer ones that are more healthy are goat's milk powder and baby vitamin supplementation and filtered water. Important to get a good water filter.
Here is one I came across today ...https://nourishingjoy.com/homemade-emergency-baby-formula-recipe/#recipe
Plenty of baby formula at my local grocery store. It’s the Costcos and Walmarts (corporate behemoths) that are creating artificial shortages.
People calmly using common sense approaches (like these recipes) to feed their infants if breast feeding is not possible would be a big F U to the FDA who thinks they have parents over a barrel AGAIN in trying to force us to feed and raise our children their way.
Many mothers in the 50's to the 70's used condensed milk recipes and even fed babies bottles of very thin rice cereal added to their milk at night to help with sleeping through the night. Bottles and nipples were always sterilized before use. I dont recall a lot of allergies, lactose intolerance or gut problems like 'modern babies' seem to have. Mashed potatoes from the dinner table was a first food staple too.
Plastic bottles and bottle liners - formula full of ingredients you can't pronounce - and "enriched" vitamins as well as using water from "treated" systems were always red flags to me.
I've been trying to share this recipe as well. We need to put it up there every day if it doesn't get stickied by the mods.
They don't want folks to know this recipe because it could bring down the formula industry if it were to be used by more and more mothers. I never gave my baby formula because it stunk to high heavens and tasted even worse. It is easy to believe that shit can harm babies more than help them.
Fed a baby this in 1988. He grew up healthy and lean .
People should stockpile these ingredients to help out children.
BTW, there's not anything wrong with that low dose of Karo syrup. Fructose is fruit sugar, the same sugar that's found in grapes. Too much might not be healthy, but 2 teaspoons in a whole quart of formula is not enough to worry about.
A midwife with some big knockers?
It’s sad we are conditioned to believe a powder based on cows milk, combined with unpronounceable ingredients is a suitable substitute for mother’s milk. And, it is superior to something we can make.