Show 4 I I. I Daily ail I H Health Service E te L r Fed Breast Bab Baby Healthier ie By DR MORRIS 1 1 Editor Journal of the American Medical Med 1 ical leal Association and of the Health Magazine 1 Most authorities in diseases of children children chil dill dren then are convinced that the tho best possible food for the lI infant ant Is Its mothers mother's milk particularly during the early years of life lite The problems of modern civilization civilization tion the increased responsibilities of women In public life have e caused more resentment against this task of the mother than was formerly the I case Most specialists In infant feeding have come to believe that It Is possible possible possible pos pos- sible to feed a baby artificially and to produce just about as healthful a achild achild child chUd as can be produced by breast feeding It seems likely from recent recen Investigation of at the subject that under under un un- der den the best possible conditions conditions' this is true at least for the thc period after the tho first three months Thus two California physicians compared the rates of growth of or breast fed babi babies with those artificially artificially daily fed and found that the artificially anti arti fed led infants had greater rate of gain after the first three months of or lie lIc than did the breast fed In in- in rants It should be pointed out that all aU of the thc conditions favorable to ar artificial nr- nr feeding were available including in including in- in eluding the provision of at a reliable pure milk an even climate regular medical supervision and the routine giving of cod liver oil aU orange juice and green vegetables The babl babies s were also given regular exposures of or fresh air and arid sun baths which are arc certainly helpful in aiding infant growth I Even with the demonstrated evidence evi evl- dence the California doctors felt that thai in the vast majority of cases breast milk is the thc best food fo for Infants during during dur dur- I. dur-I. ing the first three months of life provided the supply is satisfactory I and the infant gains weight as It should I In many c caSes es mothers mother's milk continues con eon to tobe be the ideal food up to 6 or 9 months However after this time conditions arc such that the vast vast majority majority ma ma- of babies will d do quite well with complete weaning and in cases in which the breast milk is not suitable the babl babies s will do well weli even en if H weaned between the tl third rd and six months Drs Faber and Sutton say We believe that when the baby cannot S IL get et at least h half of ot Its tat fo fOOd from the maternal be weaned I at once and be his mother the annoyances spared certainty of combined bret bread east t feeding I |