Baby carriages, bottles, pacifiers, intercoms, many are the gadgets that a baby brings to our lives. We have gotten used to being there, to see them almost daily, not only in our house, but anywhere we go, but since when have they been there? Some of them already existed at the time of our grandparents, but when did they begin to be used?
Today we will get on the time machine and travel back, towards the moments when all that dare that surrounds the baby today was invented, a reviewThose wonderful years: bottles and formula milk.
Formula milk
For centuries, the only way is that a baby could be fed when their mothers couldn't breastfeed was the Cow milk, very difficult to digest by infants, or rent or receive the services of a brood that nursed the baby replacing the mother. With the industrial revolution and a booming food industry began to emerge artificial milks of those said they had a higher nutritional value.
One of the most successful entrepreneurs was Henri Nestlé. A German pharmacist based in Switzerland and one day he had revolutionized the chocolate market. He used wheat flour, milk and sugar for his Farine Lactée Henri Nestlé. Ran the year 1867 and the formula milk was born.
While most formula milks were very difficult for babies to digest, Nestlé managed to eliminate starch and acid from flour, making it more digestible for its small stomachs.
Baby bottles
It is not much use to solve the problem with breast milk, but we are looking for a method by which our little infants could ingest it.
The first bottle appears in the Middle Ages in the form of a pierced cow horn and covered with cow udder or a piece of rolled fabric.
The first "manufactured" bottles date from 1797 and they were simple ceramic bottles like this:
The bottle was filled through the circular hole in the center, which was then closed with a cork stopper, a rag, or the hand of the person feeding the baby.
Unfortunately, due to the poor sanitary conditions of the time, bottle-fed babies frequently died after becoming ill with the bacteria accumulated inside bottles.
The appearance of the crystal
The first glass bottle in the US was patented by Charles Windship of Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1841. Its design resembled a teardrop-shaped bottle with a glass tube that came out of the neck as a straw. A rubber band could be attached to the neck, along with a mouth guard and a rubber nipple.
The invention soon set among the busy mothers of the time, since the baby could sit with the bottle between his legs and suck on the nipple without the intervention of an adult. However, the rubber tube was almost impossible to clean and ended up accumulating bacteria inside, causing babies to get sick. The design caused so many infant deaths that he earned the nickname of "the killer bottle." Despite its terrible reputation, and the insistence of doctors not to use that type of bottle, it was very popular until well into the 1920s.
Subsequently, double-pointed bottles appeared on the market, such as Allenbury The flow of food was safely improved, by using a rubber valve on one end and another rubber nipple on the other. They were also easier to clean because when the valve and the nipple were removed, the bottle could be washed under the tap.
50s
In the early 50s, the model "Bib49" introduced the innovative system of the screwed ring. The bottle remained glass and cylindrical in shape, but provided with a screwed neck to which a ring that held the nipple was fixed. At that time the bottle was not yet wearing a cap and the ring, initially made of Bakelite, quickly became plastic. The Mont Blanc and Remond brands were the first to use this system.
And here we have arrived, and of course if not because the system developed by nature itself, that is the TETA, it gives me that we had arrived very badly.
