# Bootle fed Baby milk formula **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 19, 2012, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bootle-fed-baby-milk-formula/610002 "2012-01-19T13:07:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bardos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bardos/32/1069_2.png) [@bardos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bardos)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bootle-fed-baby-milk-formula/610002/21 "2012-01-21T22:08:48Z")
> [@VOW](#): > > IIRC, Similac was the one of the first formulas for sale in the supermarket. It came in a can and was a powder that had to be mixed with water. The stuff was damned near impossible to dissolve, and only a blender could accomplish the task. This was late 'fifties. > > ~VOW 1946 is what i am looking at… ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bootle-fed-baby-milk-formula/610002/22 "2012-01-21T23:01:45Z")
When I was born in 1970, my mother said she was the only one among the 6 or so in the maternity ward that breastfed. She says she also had the following conversation with the doctor late in her pregnancy: “Now, you’re going to have to get some bottles and formula ready soon, in case the baby comes early. I recommend…” “Actually, I plan to breast feed.” “Oh.” … No further help from the doctor on the topic whatsoever. ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2012, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bootle-fed-baby-milk-formula/610002/23 "2012-01-22T00:03:44Z")
My mother, born in 1940, was breastfed (“nursed” was the term my grandmother, and actually many of her generation, used), but it was seen as something the poor/lower class did. My sisters, born in the 60s, and myself, born in the early 70s, all were bottle-babies as that was just what was done, according to my mother. The conversation **Maggie the Ocelot’s** mother had with her doc was much in keeping with that same kind of thought process. FTR, I breastfed my two boys. One exclusively for 4mos (he then went to 50/50 formula/BM), the other for 6mos. With my second, I never actually had to buy formula; he went straight from the boob to table foods. I nursed both for the last time around age 13-15mos. I received a ton of encouragement and support from my OBs and pediatricians. ---
**Author:** ![Snnipe\_70E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5a626/32.png) [@Snnipe\_70E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snnipe_70E)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2012, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bootle-fed-baby-milk-formula/610002/24 "2012-01-22T03:39:50Z")
My wife donated milk to the Mother’s Milk Bank. Some thing to consider. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2012, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bootle-fed-baby-milk-formula/610002/25 "2012-01-22T06:20:01Z")
I am too lazy to dig out the book, but my mother’s Better Homes & Gardens Baby Book had not only typical formulas, but my specific formula, which was evaporated milk and Karo white syrup (i.e., high-fructose corn syrup, I think). Yum! Also when I had colic? They gave me paregoric. Yes, I did grow up to be a soda pop-swilling drug addict! ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2012, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bootle-fed-baby-milk-formula/610002/26 "2012-01-22T20:05:19Z")
Love that Wiki: > **[Infant formula](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_formula)** > > Infant formula, also called baby formula, simply formula (American English), formula milk, baby milk, or infant milk (British English), is a manufactured food designed and marketed for feeding babies and infants under 12 months of age, usually prepared for bottle-feeding or cup-feeding from powder (mixed with water) or liquid (with or without additional water). The U.S. Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) defines infant formula as "a food which purports to be or is represented for spec... > [@](#): > > In the late 1920s, Alfred Bosworth released Similac (for “similar to lactation”), and Mead Johnson released Sobee. Several other formulas were released over the next few decades, but commercial formulas did not begin to seriously compete with evaporated milk formulas until the 1950s. The reformulation and concentration of Similac in 1951, and the introduction (by Mead Johnson) of Enfamil in 1959 were accompanied by marketing campaigns that provided inexpensive formula to hospitals and pediatricians. By the early 1960s, commercial formulas were more commonly used than evaporated milk formulas in the United States, which all but vanished in the 1970s. By the early 1970s, over 75% of American babies were fed on formulas, almost entirely commercially produced. ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2012, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bootle-fed-baby-milk-formula/610002/27 "2012-01-22T20:42:35Z")
And tying together the main thrust of the thread with the typo-inspired hijack, I can report that in 2005, the most famous Bootle native singer, Billy J. Kramer, recorded a song entitled “Cow Planet.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![bardos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bardos/32/1069_2.png) [@bardos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bardos)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bootle-fed-baby-milk-formula/610002/28 "2012-01-31T05:24:12Z")
Just found this quote: "… In the 1940s and 1950s, it was common to feed infants a fat-free milk formula – skim milk with sugar. After some months, these infants developed eczema which could be cured by providing lard, which is about 10% PUFA. " on this page > **[Perfect Health Diet - A diet for healing chronic disease, restoring youthful...](http://perfecthealthdiet.com/)** > > A diet for healing chronic disease, restoring youthful vitality, and achieving long life ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bootle-fed-baby-milk-formula/610002/29 "2012-01-31T05:27:19Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > I have a huge cookbook from 1959 called [Mary Margaret McBride Encyclopedia Of Cooking](http://www.amazon.com/Mary-Margaret-McBride-Encyclopedia-Cooking/dp/B000ILKX7G). OK, this is the wrong forum, but is that a great book or what? ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bootle-fed-baby-milk-formula/610002/30 "2012-01-31T05:30:36Z")
I wouldn’t mind being fed by [these Bootles](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8l5JO5L6Bw). After all they triggered one of the great headlines of all time: **Bootles Eye Beatles’ Boodle** ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bootle-fed-baby-milk-formula/610002/31 "2012-01-31T13:31:31Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > OK, this is the wrong forum, but is that a great book or what? It’s a freaking \*awesome \*book! There’s a reason it’s out and used, rather than stuck in a box somewhere. Which I still have not located (the correct box with all my other old cookbooks/health manuals). :smack: ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bootle-fed-baby-milk-formula/610002/32 "2012-01-31T16:34:31Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > Karo white syrup (i.e., high-fructose corn syrup, I think). Karo is just regular ol’ corn syrup, not high-fructose. (I am not part of the anti-HFCS hysteria, but did want to clarify this.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bootle-fed-baby-milk-formula/610002.md?page=1)