[HoneysuckleTN]

“ Mother of 8-Month-Old: Baby Formula Shelves Completely Empty…”No Other Options!”

Yes, there is another option! I remember a family member in 1966, before commercial formula, making her own. Baby refused the breast. Evaporated milk (or perhaps powdered milk) and Karo syrup. I was thinking light Karo, but ran across a twttr thread and others mentioned dark Karo. I couldn't remember proportions or whether light or dark. (It was a long time ago and I was pretty young.) Replies on the twttr thread said 8 oz. milk to 1 spoonful of Karo.

[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

This is similar if not the same as the recipe my mom gave me when my oldest was a baby.

[outinyellowdogcountry]

8 month old would likely drink whole milk without Karo. Does the Karo add nutrients?

[bitt]

[bitt]

I remember a family member in 1966, before commercial formula, making her own. Evaporated milk (or perhaps powdered milk) and Karo syrup.

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many of us on this thread thrived on home-made baby formula;

now watch Karo and evap milk disappear,..

[17strings]

I remember a family member in 1966, before commercial formula, making her own.

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Hmmm, I was bottle-fed and born in 1954. I don’t ever remember being told I was given homemade formula, and just assumed in my adulthood that it had been commercial.. Maybe I’m wrong. But I don’t remember seeing my mom make formula for my younger brother, either... I know memories can be tricky, and all. I know formula was all the rage in those times in certain areas. Maybe the moms were mixing up batches so quickly that it was second nature to them (no pun intended, although breastfeeding was considered “quaint”, as I recall) and we just didn’t take notice. Pity there’s no one still around to ask.