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Joylyn wrote:>
> And you made me think about how my grandmother told me she gave my
> mother tomato juice when she was just two weeks old. I guess the doctor
> thought she needed it for C or something, so she had to drink so much a
> day. My grandmother said "she spit it up all the time, would not take
> it, seemed to have stomach problems, and you have no idea how much
> tomato juice stains baby clothes, and mine." I was just sitting there
> dumbstruck--even in 1942, how could anyone think that tomato juice would
> be OK for a newborn? And my mother was a tiny, premature newborn.
>
When I had my eldest son in 1977, in hospital, I shared a room with another
mother who'd given birth a couple of days earlier. She was formula-feeding,
and was instructed by her doctor to give the baby a bottle of orange juice
once a day for the vitamin C. I have a photo of her with her baby, three or
four days old, getting his daily bottle of orange juice. I met that mother
again when our babies were around a year and she was telling me about all
the stomach problems her baby had. Amazing.
Teresa Pitman
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