On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, MomtoLJ 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.

OTOH, how could anyone think cereal would be good for a 3 week old (me) in
1955?  Or that a concoction of Pet milk, Karo syrup and Polyvisol drops
would be good for newborns in 1955, 1956, 1958, 1960 and 1962?  Because
*the doctor* said so.  :/

Cee

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