Anyone remember National Dried Milk?

@Greyduster

I was born in 1955 and couldn’t tolerate the powdered milk. It seemed to upset my stomach and I cried all the time. In desperation my mother wrote to a Matron who gave baby advice, in a magazine. She advised my mother to give me diluted evaporated milk too! I thrived on that and apparently was like a different baby immediately!

Definitely NDM, orange juice and cod liver oil.

Weaty

Does anyone remember Rose Hip Syrup? We used to collect the rose hips as children, some one collected them in a lorry from which we earned pocket money.

Yes, lovely tasting Rose Hip syrup. Unfortunately, Mum always made me swallow two tablespoons of California Syrup of Figs at the same time.

Vile stuff!

Mine too!

I used to sneak into kitchen and help myself to spoonfuls of the dried milk. It stuck to the teeth but I loved it.

midgley Syrup of Figs ? I liked that too

Yes, I was fed with this as a baby and like many of you remember the tins in the shed filled with screws etc.
About 10 years ago I went to a childhood museum and took this photo

Scott’s Emulsion was delicious! So was malt, I can’t remember what the one we had was called it came in a squarish brown bottle. I frequently had pneumonia as a child and so was always being ‘built up’. They succeeded now I’m just fat!

My daughter bought me an empty tin at an antique fair!
I remember it well and I remember my mum making peppermint lumps with it which we (in a sweet deprived world) thought gorgeous. I made some many years later when my daughter was a baby and thought they were horrible!
I loved the orange juice and the malt but Scott’s Emulsion was disgusting!

My sister was adopted and fed on National Dried Milk because for some odd reason the Scottish adoption authorities demanded it. Cow & Gate wasn't good enough apparently, although I had thrived on it when mummy's milk, not plentiful, ran out.

And yes, as I was nearly four, II clearly remember the drab greyish-fawn paper with blue lettering on the tin. I wondered, being four, why anyone would prefer that to the scarlet Cow & Gate tin with the smiling baby.

I think I must have had NDM, as my mum had to stop breastfeeding me because she had an abscess, this in 1940.

I remember the orange juice later, lovely, but the only way I would take the cod liver oil was if it was on top of the orange juice!
Then I got malt stuff but my sister (b 1949) had Virol.

Allira

My older DD had National Dried milk, she had dreadful colic even when breastfed and it was the only milk which suited her.

The orange juice was lovely.
I had Sister Laura's, apparently.

I remember Sister Laura's as a first cereal you could mix with milk to feed by a bottle or make it thicker for a first spoon food, maybe it was a brand for various baby foods.

Marmite is rich in B vitamins, IIRC. Downside is, it’s very salty.

Allira

Sarnia

I don't want to hijack this topic but another GN has mentioned orange juice, so here goes.
Did anyone out there have a spoonful of Virol every day? I loved the malt flavoured stickiness. It was given to toddlers to build them up. I was very put out when the Virol was replaced by a daily cod liver oil capsule. Yuck!

Yes, I had Virol!

I couldn't remember what it was called. My sister, one year older than me, loved it so used to pinch my share.

SueDoku

Greyduster

I had my first child in the Far East and National Dried milk was the only baby milk available to us. Problem was, he wouldn’t take it. Our health visitor, in desperation, suggested I try him with Ideal milk, which was then deemed suitable for feeding to babies. When I mentioned this in a letter to my mother she was mortified - had never heard of such a thing! He never looked back - was always a strong, healthy child.

I had mastitis when my first child was 6 weeks old, and this reduced milk production in one breast. My (wonderful) midwife suggested supplementing with one or two bottles a day, and recommended Carnation evaporated milk, which at that time had ratios of milk to cooled boiled water printed on the label. He thrived on it, and is now 50.
By the time my daughter was born 3 years later, the feeding instructions on Carnation had moved, and were printed on the inside of the label. They later disappeared completely, and now the idea fills people with horror - but my son is proof of how well Carnation nourished babies (and how easy it was to mix - no shaking, no lumps) 😀

Maybe it was your milk that made him the man he is, if you were only supplementing with Carnation you might not be giving yourself the credit you are due.

My primary school used the tins to store things like crayons and pencils. Baby milk is so expensive now, maybe time for a new National Dried so babies don't go without. I've heard a report on TV about families making the formula up too weak to make it go further and babies suffering.

I may be imagining it but I seem to remember mum being given big tins of Marmite at the clinic, along with powdered baby milk.

Does anyone remember a powder which I called MOF , it made up into a very smooth delicious cereal , the MOF just stood for ministry of food!!

I was born prematurely weighing 2lbs. My mum was ill and in fact died when I was two weeks old, I was placed in Bernardo‘s children’s home once I was strong enough to leave hospital and then fostered. My 2nd Mummy, I was told that my 1st Mummy was in heaven with Jesus, used to give me the orange juice and malt and later on mum went on to have a baby girl and she was fed on powdered milk with the banana shaped glass bottles. Fond memories, also tiny jars of Marmite which I loved and still do.

my nan kept buttons in ours, endless hours of fun when i was young

Ailsa43

Oh yes I remember it, and the orange juice. To this day in my mind I've never tasted nicer orange Juice..

Oh me, too!
It was delicious orange juice. The closest thing I've found to the taste (as I remember it) is Waitrose Clementine juice.

I remember the white and blue tins (my dad used to keep nuts and bolts in them).

My mother had one of those blue and white tins on the shelf for ages. I think she kept flour or sugar in it. We were both bottle fed as she was told she didn't have enough breast milk. I put this down to the insistence back then (the 50s) on a "routine". Feeding by the clock - 20 minutes every 4 hours.

I just breast fed mine when they wanted and I always had loads of milk.

Greyduster

I had my first child in the Far East and National Dried milk was the only baby milk available to us. Problem was, he wouldn’t take it. Our health visitor, in desperation, suggested I try him with Ideal milk, which was then deemed suitable for feeding to babies. When I mentioned this in a letter to my mother she was mortified - had never heard of such a thing! He never looked back - was always a strong, healthy child.

I had mastitis when my first child was 6 weeks old, and this reduced milk production in one breast. My (wonderful) midwife suggested supplementing with one or two bottles a day, and recommended Carnation evaporated milk, which at that time had ratios of milk to cooled boiled water printed on the label. He thrived on it, and is now 50.
By the time my daughter was born 3 years later, the feeding instructions on Carnation had moved, and were printed on the inside of the label. They later disappeared completely, and now the idea fills people with horror - but my son is proof of how well Carnation nourished babies (and how easy it was to mix - no shaking, no lumps) 😀

I've still got one of the tins, empty of course
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