Show Your Y Baby And Mine By 1 MEYER ELDRED WALKING NEEDS NO FRANTIC ENCOURAGEMENT The bab baby first shows evidences of his strength when turned over his mothers mother's knee he rears his heavy I head and surveys the universe This ability progresses rapidly with the healthy child until at 4 5 or 6 months he can sit for tor a few moments with his back like a ramrod visibly overjoyed overjoyed over over- joyed at his new experience Of course this ability is not the same for every baby but it crops up very ear early in the strong child and appears appears ap ap- ap- ap pears much later with the baby whose bony bony strength is imperfectly devel devel- TWO FINGERS The only encouragement any baby needs to sit sll erect is that given by his hi parents parent's two fingers Hitched firmly to these the baby pulls and hauls until until until un un- un- un til he has succeeded in pulling himself himself him him- self up and there he hits swaying but smugly satisfied with himself This little ceremony can be repeated two ho or three times a da day and is althe al all the exercise in sitting up that he hc needs The old time lime custom of or hoisting the baby up and then propping him hirr against pillows so he had to sit whether or no is never to be commended commended com corn mended or recommended Such t a method does docs not in any way develop strength in the baby or make it easier for tor him to sit up And it is obviously a strain upon his back The bab baby who is s ready to sit up can hardly be kept kepi down he Is straining red i-ed faced to tc find something upon which to hang so that he can get up The baby who is ic content to lie quietly or roll about should be allowed to do so When nature has given his backbone the strength to support his head hell he'll show that strength in inno no o uncertain wa way URGING NATURE One of the great mistakes into which all mothers stumble is the practice practice practice tice of anticipating and urging nature on The mother believes that i if baby has arrived ed at the age of sitting then sit up he must whether his head tumbles over on his chest from sheer fatigue and weakness or his back slumps into a n letter S. S She loses no notime notime notime time when the baby has arrived at athe atthe atthe the he age for walking in putting him Into some silly contrivance supposedly supposedly edly designed to promote that ty ity or else holding him on his feet teet to encourage him to take stepping I movements It is helpful of course for the mother to know at what ages she may expect baby's various physical physical physical cal activities My leaflet Normal Development Up to One Year is available to an any reader who will vIli send senda i n self addressed stamped envelope with her request to me in care of this newspaper Give the baby an opportunity to move his body freely by keeping him himon himon himon on the floor in iii a playpen or in m in his crib where he can walk about but do not harness him into his high highchair highchair highchair chair or into any other contraption where natural activity is inhibited NATURES NATURE'S METHOD The baby who lies on the floor will vIll learn earn to turn over and if one of his toys is beyond his reach will eventually eventually even- even stretch and hitch until he reaches caches it In whatever method he manages to get about by his own efort ef- ef lort ort and not on wheels hell he'll learn the he art of creeping From this the next step is pulling himself up by means mean of some support and about on his own feet until he learns balance From this it is a short leap to o walking Nature has its own method of encouraging encouraging en- en activity when the child has arrived at the proper age and has attained at- at tamed amed the requisite strength All the artificial methods we use to spur on such uch activities are wasted and harm harm- fut ful ul Let the mother look to baby's diet let let her afford him the opportunity opportunity to move about without hindrance and nd she can rely upon nature to do dohe dothe dothe the he rest Tomorrow Dissatisfied Baby Needs Stron Stronger er Milk Formula S. S I |