Show BA y Y ED I OLD MONTH BABY DOES NOT SIT UP Mrs J. J B. B writes My Iy baby who weighed hed five pounds at birth bhUl is now 10 old and weighs eighteen pounds I give him plain pasteurized milk and anda a little sugar besides cereal soup e vegetables and so on This is what puzzles me He does not try to sit alone he Is strong strong in his back and legs When I take his hands he pulls pulls pulls' himself t to his feet and Is happy when he Is standing but hOeS loes not want to sit up Sometimes Sometimes Some Some- times X I support his back and try to make bins sit up but he comes right light up tip on his feet Vill vanilla ice cream hurt him How flow can I him ot of tIme the 2 0 clock bottle boWe Some nights he walt walt- ens and sometimes not Answer Have the Die baby examined by a doctor for possible rickets ot Of course the smaller the tite baby's weight at birth the longer it tales takes him to reach normal d stand stand- ards Meanwhile I would not try to force him to sit up un Keen hint him on a wide bed and oc occasionally ly on the floor where he ha can have perfect freedom to wriggle and I would use some dilution in his milk five ounces to seven twenty ounces of is for four bottles It If lie he t takes les five bottles add eight ounces more ot of vate Water lIe JIe also needs a definite amount of sugar and that would be One and one halt ounces in the whole days day's formulA A baby or of 10 months needs his formula cereal fruit juices and Vegetable purees lie He do does s not need ice cream for it lie he gets enough milk this Would just make an extra amount anti and nIl all unnecessary foods are taboo for babies no matter malter what they are arc made Home ice cream is it t heavy y food for any bab baby good as it is for adults Time The first rule lule in summer is to be careful ot of I Mrs Eldred's WEANING AND FEEDING leaflet covers the problem of food from six weeks the I to six years This information may be obtained for only a self self- addressed and stamped envelope the baby's diet offering him a food tood for Cor which Ito he has no need is not belag being be be- lag ing careful is it It If the baby is fed five times in the tho daytime that is every three hours he ought to be 1 to sleep front from 6 to 6 or 7 to 7 feed feed- ing It If he Is fed only fOUL fout times In the daytime then lie ma may have la e either a 10 10 o'clock bottle or 2 a o'clock one If he wakens twice for a feeding sUbstitute a bottle o of plain water ater for fer the second and I feel feci Sure lie he will learn to back to sleep with just this go The solar planetary consists consists con con- or of the sun with with- eight con planets planets and and a thousand minor minol major Hearing as a rule Is more with acute the right ht ear titan than with time the left |