Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-11-18 | Page 5 | Your Baby and Mine

y THE CORRECT WAY TO GIVE COMPLEMENTARY FEEDINGS There seems to be a genel general 1 misconception misconception misconception mis mis- conception about complementary feedings If the baby is not fining gaining gain fin ing well and tho mother wants to give him more mOle nourishment she sheo o often on n resorts to lo a iL bottle I r t feedings which i is I. y vf-y very yer bad baJ The baby un hI r those circuit circuit- stances instead of or being heing fed red e a rory n three so hours Is really being ted led every hour and one half lik Ia i ia is isa a complete food not a drink of water and food should not bo ho given givena a baby oftener than once In three hours The complementary bottle I should come immediately following the nursing tire the bunch and then he ha had a better better better bet bet- ter hunch Said he Ill ask asle the giant g If its it's safe for tor us us up here Ho climbed out quiet as could be and quickly slid right down the tree And when ho he reached the ground round he saw a sight that brought hini fe fear r Tho rho giant lay upon tire ground with little black men all- all around Wee Vee he lie was asleep and nd bein being tied with avith rope lIe He quickly hid behind a tree and thought I Iguess Iguess Iguess guess Ill I'll wait and see what hap hap- pens I may have ha a chance to rescue him I J hope hopp The rescue the giant in the next story I Copyright Cop 1427 1 NEA EA Service p Tn Inc 1 It is difficult for the mother to decide how much a baby of or any age should have hae in these feedings The hungry little baby may gobble up twice as much as he should have and tho mother should act as the restraining agent for tor the sake of his digestion If It tho the baby Is not gaining and the mother moth r e cannot succeed in secreting se- se se secreting sufficient milk to keep him happy and contented she make use of oC these general rules In preparIng preparing preparing pre pre- paring a complementary bottle Nurse urse tho the baby for tor ten minutes using both breasts Weigh the baby before and after nursing nursing- His gain In weight will indicate the number of or ounces he has Just re received re- re Be sure euro his diaper isn't wet when weighing For the tho baby from flom two to six months of or age the formula can be of the same tion One-half One boiled milk one- one half hall boiled water and one level ta tablespoon tablespoon tablespoon ta- ta of sugar ugar for every eight ounces of this mixture At first just eight ounces of this mixture can be prepared and l kept kepton ept epton on on ice In a sterilized glass jar cov cov- ered At each feeding period having havIng having hav hav- ing made sure baby needs at that period put the amount in a sterilized nursing bottle and give gi it to the baby After a day or two of weighing the he mother will know fan fallI fairly ly Drell w about what the baby gets n at t each pach nursing a and nd she h can prepare t the right number of bottles bot bot- bottle tle and d the hp l Ir number of ounces to complement ea them When she finds the baby eal and refusing to part with will empty bottle she can be bo sur he ho needs more at that fc she need not deny this to tiny safe sare general rule as to his capa caps for Cor each feeding feeding- is t two VO ounces than his age in months Thu old months baby will will- get 1 ounces at a n. feeding altogether breast st and bottle a and nd so on ounces though is the moe baby needs at any on one meal Jj maximum is reached d at six no and tho the amount does docs not In inch after that Other foods make tho the nourishment m Nursing the baby regularly giving a complementary botts the best method of which w know of keeping up a babY's m t tion and still sUII giving him fits tits which are nrc only to be d cl from his mothers mother's milk mill