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Show Follow Advice Of Doctor, Not - Of Relatives- By MYRTLE MEVER ELDRED One wonders how young mothers manage to keep their wits about them, targets as they are for all the diversified advice from every possible source. Mothers and mothers-in-law add their quota to that of books, mag- Your Baby asmee, doctors and neighbors, the impact of which drives the young mother to ask one boon only, and that is to be "let alone." Advice Galore Mrs. H. comments: "Why won't my relatives let me do as I please with my baby? I take him to a baby doctor each month for an examination. ex-amination. I read all the good literature lit-erature on baby care I can get bold of. But, because I am young and this is my first baby, anyone who has or has not borne a child thinks she must tell me what to do, how to act, how to feed the baby. Most of the things I hear are in direct di-rect contradiction to what I read or am told. "My mother has had six children, my grandmother had 10, my mother-in-law had four, and therefore there-fore they uuinldei tlieiiistlns past-masters past-masters in the art of rearing children. chil-dren. Every child In my grand- Would you like my leaflet on "Advice to Relatives" to hang in some conspicuous place T It ' may be had for sending a J-cent J stamped, self-addressed en- velope with your request for the :' leaflet to Myrtle Meyer Eldred, your baby and mine department, in care of The Salt Lake Tele-gram, Tele-gram, mother's family she says so herself her-self had to be walked or rocked to sleep nightly. She'd adore doing it for my lone lamb, who never has been rocked or walked in his nine months of life. . Profit by Example "My sisters and brothers. Including Includ-ing myself, all have awful teeth. They are crooked, decay easily, give us no end of grief. Yet my mother insists upon telling me how I shall feed my baby, and turns up her nose at cod liver oil because none of us ever had it. She thinks I am sillv because I tell her mv babv's well planned diet and cod liver oil will prevent him from having auch poor teeth. "My mother-in-law only had four children, two of whom died In infancy. in-fancy. Whether because of this, or because of my husband's and his brother's frequent illnesses, she is a calamity howler. 'Bundle him up good, the little dear, or he'll catch pneumonia.' She wants me to give the baby catnip tea heavens knows what for! And once, believe it or not, she put some rock candy in whisky and adviaed it aa a preventive pre-ventive of colds. "I'm fed up with it all. All I ask is that they let me make my own mistakes instesd of repeating theirs. Haven't I that right?" Without question. Stick to your doctor's advice. |