Show I Your Baby and Mine IBy By Myrtle Meyer Meyer Eldred g S Y Mrs Eldred will willbe willbe be glad to answer all aH questions per tuning to babies and children n. n A stamped and self self- addressed c ope forwarded to The T Telegram e legram will bring faring a personal per per- reply MOTHER OFFERS ADVICE ON BABIES WHO SLEEP POORLY Mrs Mis C C. E. E E. E writes At what age should a baby be given crackers to chew on What are the best kinds What is zwei- zwei back Do you recommend it for babies At What ago age may it be given I I have noticed not so many mothers are arc troubled d with their babl babies s be beIng being be- be ing unable to sleep p sometimes they I cr cry other times are hilarious oft often n just simply awake Would you think it presuming i if I told how I overcame this in my children It ItIs Itis is gas in the intestines usually and I give them a n. drink of ot hot water first and then a n. warm enema I place the baby InCa ina sitting position and hold hand firmly und under r and supporting the abdomen This helps raise the gas I have havo never had it fall fail We Ve have all b been en suffering sUffering- from hives from I have lave used more than three pints of milk mille of magnesia and bicarbonate of soda under doctors doctor's orders since December ANSWER Beginning at 9 months the baby cart can have or toast b bOck back cl is a n. German word meaning twice baked It is nicer than toast because it is easier to crumble and is more thoroughly toasted than the average toast Part of a may be crumbled in a baby's soup or with some of ot the tho vegetable puree later It may be offered of offered offered of- of at any time toast would be As it is my opinion that ce cecal cal calis is a n. better form in which to Introduce introduce introduce intro intro- duce starch In the diet there is no real necessity for crackers until the second year After one year the child can have havo two plain crackers of the arrowroot or graham type with the afternoon glass of milk mill Your methods of ot helping the tho child hUd to get rid of the gas are sensible ones If It the child has corte or gas then I would say this was exactly the thing to do I would hesitate to advocate this m method thod as a gen gen- en- en eral oral one to be given all babies who cant can't sleep at night There is some Seine reason for that tha t and an empty baby might go to sleep bleep after warm water vater and an enema but it would b be be- crimInal criminal crim cnn inal not to find out that he was empty Perhaps your family diet contains too many of the ash acid-ash foods and not enough ash alkali ones since you ou are all suffering with hives The foods most often responsible for this condition are pork sometimes some sonic times tines beef wheat reals cl eggs sometimes milk fish especially shellfish shell shellfish shellfish fish and fruits strawberries being a prime offender You ought to be beable beable beable able to tell what foods constantly bring on the hives and eliminate those from the menu |