weaning advice from 1939

[Danae]

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Fascinating. And not bad advice either!

Do you know what, that sounds closer to a good idea that alot of the shite that is spouted today

Thanks for posting, very interesting

Charming. And quite sensible. (Although why 'half the yolk'? what would have happened if you gave a baby a whole yolk?)

Mmmm, dripping anyone???

interesting!

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The doctor advised my MIL to give baby dh the bones from the Sunday dinner to gnaw on to 'develop his teeth'. In the immortal words of mad people from the dawn of time, it never did him no harm.

That's better advice than throughout the whole of the 80s

Danae, presumably the ingredients in formula were very basic back then. After all, there are plenty of people on here who say they were weaned on watered down condensed milk!

There are approximately 40 milligrams (mg) of Vitamin C per liter of mature mothers' milk. The Vitamin C content of mother's milk increases with maternal levels, though studies strongly suggest that a regulatory mechanism is present.

In one study, Vitamin C leveled off at 50 to 60 mg per liter of milk once maternal intake reached OR exceeded the Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) for this vitamin (Bates, 1983). Another study also found the levels plateaued, to between 44 and 158 mg per liter of milk, even if the mother had been given 10 times the RDA for Vitamin C (Byerley, 1985).

Vitamin C levels in breastfed babies between the ages of 6 and 9 months were found to be the same or higher than in artificially fed controls (Salmenpera, 1984).

In colostrum, there is a slightly higher amount of Vitamin C than in mature breastmilk, averaging around 44 mg per liter of milk.

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see.......even then they didn;t advise food before the age of 6mths!!!

my aunt is a liar then, as she always spouted off at me that they were told to wean as baby hit 15lb or 15wks, whichever was sooner......and really looked down on me for doing it all my way for my children!

as for the 'ingredients' of breastmilk, I always assumed it would have all the same type of vitamins and minerals that you put into your own body, seeing as it came from your body.

Googled Groats. It is hard to find anything that is not about John O'Groats, but I did find this so maybe some form of oats?

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lol danae.

mine was full of chocolaty goodness for my gilrs, and then caffiene for the boys as it was then I got my addiction for coffee (which says something about raising boys really)

That's really interesting - thanks Danae!

You can make porridge from groats - and thats as much as I know too.

fascinating advice.

In my collection of household books, it is interesting to note that the older the book, the later weaning is advised - up to 9 months before solids are introduced. Until the 1940's (when formula became popular), it was always 6 months or older. Presumably because formula just wasn't sufficient for that long.
A bone with a little meat clinging to it seems to be recommended to give to encourage the teeth to come through.

my teething was done on the bones of lamb chops given to me by my great-grandma, apparently. not chicken bones, they're not hard enough, not pig, that's dirty meat for babies... gotta be lamb.

have you all seen the clara m davis stuff? she was a not terribly ethical doctor in canada in the 20s. anyhoo, as an aside, on the papers it mentions that weaning from bfing was begun between eight and eleven months.

I too was teethed on lamb bones . And given a mustard spoon to whittle the marrow out with!

i loved the marrow! we used to sook it out, it was delicious.

Groats