Born in 1945, I was a bottle baby. There were no commercial formula products.

[txwhitedove]

52. Thank you for this post. That is the tried and true recipe I helped my mother

make in the 1950's. She worked outside the home, but it was something you did in life to feed babies. A recipe is basically like other cooking. Even today's formula often has to be mixed with clean water. I was told that the lady who watched me during the day, once fed me a small jar of chopped black olives. I was only 6 months old, apparently loved them and still do. Just a note about doctors. I called mine in the middle of the night because 1st baby had screaming fits every night for hours, exhausting both of us. Doctor actually wailed, "I don't know what to do!" That kind of left it up to me, right? Finally hit on Colic, gave her watered down 7-Up. She burped profusely, really smiled and we were happy from there on. A little something out of the norm at a tender age and we both thrived.