Life threatening allergies

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At the same time formula didn't have vitamins and iron added. So once your natural stores you were born with were gone - between 2-4 months old it was time to add iron fortified pablum to the diet. Now just like adults make a smoothy or drink a carnation breakfast we do the same to kids - it is faster just to toss them a bottle while still in the crib in the morning than to actually get them up and feed them. It is also about the me generation that made the switch cause it was easier on them - so what if it did the child a disservice it was all about what was important for the parent.

And yes things like a hunk of steak or a cold celery rib were great teething "toys" because they couldn't be bit till child actually had some teeth. There weren't a lot of plastic stuff for them to chew on. Remember at that time bottles would all have been glass and soothers more or less unheard of.