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[visitkarte]

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mso-fareast-language:DE-CH">Ah......the good old days!!!!

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'Why Our Great-Grandparents Had Fond Memories Of Their Youth...'

(I'm surprised they remember anything!!)

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[damigella_314]

LMAO! You don't even have to go back to grandparents, I guess. My mother (born 1941) still remembers the only medicine that ever worked for her against teenager years period pains: laudanum, as provided by the friendly nuns of her boarding school. Maybe I should find a way to score some before my daughter starts needing it (I expect any day now).

PS If they had sold opium for toddlers, I can tell you one of my kids would have gotten it.

[visitkarte]

My mom was adopted baby because her biological mother died at birth. So she got fed rather inaccurately, considering she was born 1934. No formula back there. But they had Opium tar growing in the field... So for tummy ache and good dreams, she got the medicine available. They obviously knew how to do it, she survive the treatment.

[damigella_314]

she got fed rather inaccurately, considering she was born 1934

My kids' nanny was very sick after an emergency Cesarean and lost her milk; she didn't give formula (too expensive!) to her baby, but home-cooked concoctions of milk, water, and cereals... in 1969.

Otoh, the father of a close friend of mine, less than ten years older than your mother, was breastfed by a wet nurse for a year because his mother didn't have enough milk (also, they were seriously rich).

Italy was definitely behind schedule, but it's impressive how recent the low-tech past is.

[visitkarte]

I remember women feeding self concocted mixtures to their babies in the late sixties. But even then, clean milk was available and the knowledge about the correct mixture was better. Back 1934 no one knew how to do it correctly. And in the tiny village my mother lived in, no other woman was able to breastfeed the baby. My mother did her best to breastfeed both my brother and me for at least 9/13 months. Woman stopped breastfeeding in the autumn, after the big heat, that’s why she did it differently.

[nyannyannayn]

I collect Antique bottles and actually have a pretty old one from somewhere in Europe. but I have no idea whats the medicine on the label. I also got one from an antique shop in New Orleans but the label was no longer on it. Love these old stoner memrobilia :) I really want the Heroin one but they're rare.