Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-12-10 | Page 10 | Your Baby and Mine

BA y uy ED USE OF MILK BOTTLE AS AS' A PACIFIER IS BAD HABIT How very cany It Is to lead baby Into tho the habit of oC usIng of-usIng using his hH bottle bottlo of oC milk as aa a a. pacifier This habit gets a a. start when the mother tucks the baby Into bed bell with T a bottle buttle of or milk and allows 8 him to hang bang onto It whether empty or not until ho lie has s fatten fallen asleep This Is really just Junt na ns nabad bad a habit and just as difficult to cure ns os If Ie baby had hail tho the habit of go going going go- go ing to sleep with a blanket or I gO-I a a. thumb or a L rubber pacifier In his mouth Some mothers have been been known to uso use water In bottles In Inthis inthis this fashion ending up Ul each meal with a bottle of ot water ater with ith which tho the child was allotted cd to go bO to sleep bleep Botti Bottle feeding has a technique which would do n away with this h habit Hold tho the small baby while feeding reedIng him Hold him In a comfortable com corn tenable position and tip Up tho tue bottle so 80 that tho the nipple i la Is always alwayn full fun of oC milk Stop frequently and let baby rest If It the nipple collapses lift It a a. moment and let tho the air fill till It again This prevents baby from on a a. nipple that Is 19 only partly filled with milk and the rest rent with air thus causing him to swallow swallow low air Mrs L. L R. R S. S Is now overwhelmed by tho the Inability to get her baby of or 14 months old to sleep without the time bottle Her letter follows Ms My 1 bab baby weighs twenty four pounds has twelve te teeth th has been walking since she he was wn 10 1 2 1 months old and has sixteen ounces of oC milk dally daily by cup Sho She cats eats cereals vegetables toast eggs cottage and stewed fruit She Sho also takes takee ten drons of or I But But my tr trouble Is that sho she wongo wont won't go to sl sleep p at night without he her bottle regardless res of oC whether It 1 Is empty or not I have o let het her Cr cry but she wakes In an hour again ngali and cries more mOr She wakes at nt least leas seven or eight times at nt night Is very trying on us Sho She started d this about three mo months ago SOMETHING ELSE WRONG Undoubtedly the bottle Is used a aa ana as an a 8 pacifier but this would hardly account for tor her waking seven seven o or eight times at night after atter ah she he had once gong gone on to sleep There must bo be boother boother other factors factor at fault tault Sho She really should have tour four cups of ot milk dolly daily no o b bottles tUes with her meals Her night meal may bo be unsatisfactory un on- satisfactory so 80 that hunger or discomfort die dis c comfort from overfeeding arc ara making mak mak- lag ing her bet restless I First of or all have o a a. thorough h ph physical examination to rulo rub out all an physical h steal handicaps ti to good Jool sleep sleep- Ins ing ng Send me a addressed self and stamped tamped envelope with your r requests requests' re- re q quests quests' t for r the the leaflets on Weeks We ks k's Menu for tho tIme Child From 1 12 to 13 8 Months and Reasons for Wake Wake- ulness Insufficient tr fresh sh air too heavy heavy- and nd too constricting conflicting covers CO sleeping sleep sleep- ing In T K with parents use usa of or too small a a. bed too much or too too- little food and nil adenoidal growths arc are all causes t for sleeplessness le End tho bottle hn habit bit Immediately you donot donot do donot not help by continuing It ft Be certain fain tain her night meal is just right and then stop the bottles abruptly Tomorrow Tomorrow Plain Plain Cod Liver Oil as 31 Good as s s More Powerful Va Vs