Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-10-15 | Page 4 | Your Baby and Mine

I YOUR BABY LAND I AND MINE MIN WEANING SHOULD SHOULD BE BEGUN BEGUN rAi INE MONTHS IF NOT NOT- SOONER Mrs fr n. n M. M S. S writes X You Ou IH have been een a a 11 great help elp to so many mothers tl that t I feet co confident In coming to you for d My My- baby hv 10 2 1 1 months old ld and iid breast fed lIe He doe doesn't nt care to nurse during u the day but ho wakens ott often n at and wont won't go to 81 sleep P until nursed I feed fee 1 him some Borne cereals and vegetables and I dont don't believe ho needs to nurse so often olten I 1 tried to tc hint but without success n as he lie would not go goto to sleep sheep Please offer a few suggestions RH an to how V h he should huld bo be o ted fed after weaning I I Tou You know Imo the Answer bab baby must bo be I i weaned so 0 It is Js useless to say you you him Nursing should end cna at ae nine nino months in ln many cases cases' much uch sooner sooner and and the longer the time b baty baly is Is' nursed the moro more Inclined he heIs Is I. to demand to bo be nursed instead o of bottle boUle fed d. d an and 1 tho more likely h he ho Ja Is la to b be wakeful anti and fall to teethe teethe- all Indications of tho the undernourishment und meat ment of ot prolonged nursing and t them the o. o tenacity with which which- ho he Js Is holding t to tho tIme habit The Fhe rh reason ho lie wakes often at night Is entirely tho the result of or his poor diet and you cannot exp expect ct that his lila night habits will Improve e until you ou Improve o his diet Ho now should bo ho on milk feedings entirely our Jour our meals only In la daytime with orange Juice Juice- well cooked cereals dod liver r oil and vegetable soup or strained v vegetables c constituting tIle the remainder of ot tho timo diet diet- Our feeding leaflet cov covers rs this subject in such d detail that I always ask mothers to send cna me inc a n. self addressed and stamped envelope so no io that I ma may eh end it to them If It the tho boy refuses to accept a n. bottle bot bot- tle the or cup from you let Jet someone else offer otter him these feedings and you ou stay out of ot sight until he ho has laS b become come thoroughly ned accustomed to time the change A As he lie Is Js older than the usual baby who is Js weaned his first bottle feedings m may milY ly be strong strong- er cr Tho steps suggested in tho the heaL heaL- le let can thus UIUS be passed over o twice I as rapidly as with 10 a ft baby two or I three months month Though the thc question of or undernourishment under under- nourishment wh when n nn n nursing Is prolonged pro pre J I longed Jong-cd Is a a. serious one there l is I another pha phase e of ot this which many I mothers overlook or of which they aro nrc entirely unaware Growth Is h accompanied by constant change change- tIme the first y year al' al First from six to five meals dally daily From t tl five e to four and then to three From rom om breast to bottle bolt and then to cup Each period should he bo definitely broken off oCt and pass Irrevocably Inc into tho time next If the time child is to develop from infancy to childhood as he lie le should When a a. baby who should be boo sleeping all night and broken of ot nursing and arid be learning how to drink from a acup cup I Is still at the tho stage equivalent to that of or tho thio average six month old old child hUd you OU Can can easily see h how w you are hampering him physically mentally and emotionally Tomorrow Deficiencies of Breast BreastFeeding Feeding Often Result of f Poor Nursing Nurs I ing ng Technique I