Butterbaby.

Ann Althouse wades into somewhat controversial waters with a post about working mothers pumping breastmilk.  You can go ahead and read the post here, but it is the comment by "geoduck" that most amused me:

My mother, born in the early 40s, was my grandmother's first child. (Her mother, my great-grandmother passed away in the 1930s, so she was not able to give her daughter advice.)

Anyways, breast-feeding at that time was not promoted. Bottle feeding was seen as more healthy.

Grandmother got confused and thought, for some reason, CREAM was what she was too feed my mother.

At her first doctor's appointment -- the doctor saw a very, very plump little baby. (We have pictures.)

Poor baby!  But perhaps real cream is better than that old standby, canned Carnation evaporated milk and Karo syrup.

Comments

[ambrose]

My mother and her twin sister remember vividly and fondly their nightly warm bottles of canned milk and caro syrup. They laugh at me when I gag at the very thought of it.

[Valerie]

I shuddered when I saw my MIL feed this to my preemie niece for the first time. I never realized it was such an old time practice. yuck.

[bearing]

People still feed babies Karo syrup and condensed milk?!? I thought that was, like, child abuse by now.