Susan Burger wrote:
> My mother is no longer around to reconfirm this, but I do remember her telling me that I was fed Karo syrup and evaporated milk.  Its about as good an excuse for any of my failings that I can come up with! <

OOOOH!
I have a MUCH better excuse than that !
I was fed a mixture of National Dried Milk, sugar and water. I
remember my mother making up a similar formula for my baby sister. The
4% fat dried milk came in a tall blue can. Funny the things we
remember, isn't it?
My mother did try to nurse us, but the information she was given was
woefully inaccurate. She was kept in the hospital for 10 days, babies
were only brought out of the nursery for 30 mins every four hours, and
after being allowed to nurse for five minutes each side were *topped
up* by the nursery staff. No wonder she didn't have enough milk. Both
my sister and I suffered through many ear infections at a time when
penicillin was in short supply in England, the late 1940s, when we
still had food rationing too, and my sister became partially deaf.

sign me old as dirt :)
norma, the expat Brit.

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