Show I Your 00 Baby Eaby And nd Mine ine ne neBy By Myrtle Meyer Eldred VOMITING VOl DEMANDS ATTENTION The tendency of or mothers to experiment ment with an Infants Infant's feeding ceding is always al ways terrifying It takes so little to upset a a. tiny baby and many mothers even those who ho have fed other babies bables are woefully Ignorant of what a a child chUd needs for perfect growth The most frightening tendency Is Isto Isto Isto to experiment when the baby Is vomiting vom vorn constantly If it were not so commonplace for mothers to Jump wildly from one type of food to an another other while the bab baby grows progressively progressively more undernourished and less I able to stand up under these changes these constant constan Up warnings would be unnecessary The baby who vomits breast milk and ever every type of or formula for mula may not be unable to dl digest est his food because the food Itself Is indigestible but because his stomach is so formed that it will not allow an any food to pass from the thc stomach into the intestine or to be distributed throughout the body There are harmless types of vomIting vomiting vom vom- such as any well wen fed or overfed baby Is Ukel likely to exhibit One bothers very little about this If It the baby is happy and gaining provided he does docs not spit up too much Excessive spitting spitting spit spit- ting up means that he is fed led too often that his food foed Is too rich or there is too much of it and we go o about makI making g the thc cham changes cs that will end the vomiting But mothers should take notice when vomiting ceases to be Just this overflow of a full tummy when It is constant and is present regardless of the food Then the vomiting is serious and the mother should take the baby to a n doctor doc doe tor who knows why he is giving a formula and what it is expected to accomplish M My leaflet on Vomiting describes the various types so o that a mother may recognize recognise them This serious type of or vomiting is called a stricture of the pylorus a defect In the formation forma forma- tion of the thc stomach This type has very little relation to the digestibility of food We Ve knew of one such case caseIn caseIn caseIn In which the mother persistently nursed her baby even though five minutes afterward he vomited with witha a a. gush all that she had fed him Clinging stubbornly to breast feedIng feed feed- in lag Ing and refusing to look beyond the end of her nose she allowed the baby to starve to death all because she Insisted that breast milk was the perfect perfect per per- feet food and if he could not take that he could not take anything The point I want to impress upon mothers In tr trying ing to correct the serious serious se se- se rious type of vomiting Is that the food Is not at fault but the malformation tion of the stomach and such persistent per per- vomiting needs c expert not amateur experimentation to decide what type of food thick or concentrated concentrated concen concen- or what form of medical or even surgical aid may mav be necessary to enlarge this constricted and allow the bab bab to get the benefit of or the food he Is taking Tomorrow Tomorrow Ve Tomorrow and Cereals Cereals Ce Ce- reals May 1 Be Used Second Day |