To wonder what my mum was playing at to give me Ribena as a baby?

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Mum asked me if I gave my 3 month old any Ribena in a comforter type dummy??? She used to do that for me!! Apparently there was baby Ribena about 30 years ago!
What other ideas from the past so you know of that would never be done now?

I remember sitting on phone books in the car as we had no car seats. Or on an adult's lap if the car was full. You could get four adults and three kids in a LADA, sitting on knees.

'You could get four adults and three kids in a LADA, sitting on knees.'

Those were the days. You can't get anyone into a Lada anymore.

Ribena (baby ribena) was marketed for babies in the late 70s early 80s in the days when I drove a lada!

Oh I quite liked milk of magnesia, only if I was feeling really bad though, because I didn't like the way it coated the inside of your mouth in dry white stuff afterwards. Thank god for gaviscon!

omg forgot about milk of magnesia!! vile stuff.

I grew up in the 60s, and remember Ribena being advertised with the slogan "the great natural health drink of our time". Google it and you can see all the old ads.

Who remembers "Lucozade aids recovery"?

My nan used to give me milk of magnesia when I had a belly ache!!! It was disgusting!!
What about Andrews salts??? Never had as a child but always remember seeing it at my Nan's house

I was a weird child. Andrews Liver Salts were a permanent fixture in my house as a child and it was my version of Ribena/lemonade/Coke as we were not allowed sugary drinks. I used to make a glass of Liver salts as a treat.

I also used to drink the water the vegetables were boiled in. Believe me my mother could burn water and the 'food' she did produce was based on a dare. As in my brother and I would 'dare' us to eat it!

We used to call that green water if it had had spring greens , kale or cabbage cooked in it. Not sure how much goodness was left in the veg! 70s spirulina .

Definitely remember lucozade aids recovery and the yellow cellophane wrapped bobbly bottle. Didn't seem appetising for the gtt when pg. We weren't allowed loads of sugar but lucozade was medicine.

We were given Kaolin and Morphine medicine if we had a bug, was guaranteed to make you puke that stuff, it tasted like farts! Gees Linctus if we had coughs, which tasted lovely.

Both have addictive ingredients (no, really?! :o) and you cant get them anymore!

My grandma used to get us a bottle of lucozade if we were ill, no matter what it was (the horrible stuff wrap in orange cellophane not the nice orange flavoured one). I was the sickest I have ever been after my mother gave me some when I had what was clearly Norovirus. She never gave it to me again...funny that!