My great-grandmother fed her children canned reconstituted evaporated milk, starting with my grandmother in 1900. Don't ask me why, but it might have been because she was decended from European aristocrats and it wouldn't have been "proper" for her to breastfeed. She was also raised by people who did not believe in striking children, but married a man who wholeheartedly believed in corporal punishment (not to mention that women should stay at home, not drive, and be compliant...not sure how she stood him. She lived to the age of 95 and never did learn to drive...but I am serously digressing).
I don't believe, for her, that it was any kind of enamorment with technology. She had her babies at home and would not take them to the hospital when they were sick, prefering to care for them at home. She thought hospitals were filthy, dirty places that you go to if you want to die. My Great Aunt Clara got pnemonia and was nursed back to health at home. The girl next door was taken to the hospital and died. That just stregnthen great-grandmas convictions.
My grandmother had her children between 1928-1940, and I believe fed them formula of some kind. My Aunt who had kids starting in 1952 fed them formula and rice cereal from 3 months on (I've seen the home movies...my cousin couldn't even sit up properly in the high chair).
My mother FINALLY saw the light and when my eldest sister was born in 1961, she was breastfed, as were the rest of us, the last having been born in 1976. My two sister and I have breastfed our children, as have my female cousins. So, at least in my family the insanity has ended.
I don't believe, for her, that it was any kind of enamorment with technology. She had her babies at home and would not take them to the hospital when they were sick, prefering to care for them at home. She thought hospitals were filthy, dirty places that you go to if you want to die. My Great Aunt Clara got pnemonia and was nursed back to health at home. The girl next door was taken to the hospital and died. That just stregnthen great-grandmas convictions.
My grandmother had her children between 1928-1940, and I believe fed them formula of some kind. My Aunt who had kids starting in 1952 fed them formula and rice cereal from 3 months on (I've seen the home movies...my cousin couldn't even sit up properly in the high chair).
My mother FINALLY saw the light and when my eldest sister was born in 1961, she was breastfed, as were the rest of us, the last having been born in 1976. My two sister and I have breastfed our children, as have my female cousins. So, at least in my family the insanity has ended.
: and told to start pablum (dry cereal that looked like fish food flakes!) and orange juice at a couple months old, because the formula was so deficient.
